Ahead of the June 8 snap elections, a newly-released poll shows that Labour candidate, Jeremy Corbyn is now London’s favourite candidate for Prime Minister. The YouGov survey for the Evening Standard...

A magistrates’ court sitting at Ebute-Metta, Lagos State, has discharged and acquitted Mrs. Taiwo Momoh, the textile dealer who was arrested while attempting to jump into the Lagos Lagoon. After...

  Nigeria’s Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has given the Lagos State Government the nod to embark on total reconstruction of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Road from Oshodi. This...

  The Nigeria Labour Congress has said that the nation’s organized labour will vote out any “unfriendly governor” who has failed to pay workers’ salaries during the 2019 general elections. ...

  The Nigerian Senate on Thursday, confirmed the nomination of 15 out of the 27 Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Following the adoption of...

  The Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has approved the sum of N566 million for the renovation and completion of 189 Juma’at and daily prayer mosques as well as Islamiyya schools inherited...

  Argentina soccer star, Lionel Messi has launched a project to build a soccer theme  park in the city of Nanjing in China. Messi, who is on a four-day visit to China, announced that the project...

Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh has said arrangements have been concluded by his ministry to export its first container load of yams to Europe in June this year. He made the disclosure...

The whistle-blowing policy of the current administration took a wrong turn on Tuesday when 50-year- old Ahmed Echodo was remanded in prison for allegedly giving false information that led to the raid...

Oba of Lagos,  Rilwan Akiolu, who generated a lot of controversy during the 2015 general elections by declaring his political preferences, has sounded a note of advice to Nigerians. He has admonished...

  At least 85 persons have been killed and as many as 400 others injured after a massive explosion rocked the diplomatic area of Kabul, the Afghan capital. Although the target of the deadly attack...

The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on Wednesday said the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has reported three cases of the outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5 bird flu among...

  Social and economic activities were this Tuesday, paralysed in most parts of south-eastern Nigeria as people heeded a sit-at-home call by two pro-Biafra groups to commemorate 50 years of the declaration...

Wife of the Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari today flew out of Abuja for London to be with her husband who has been on medical vacation since May 7. According to a statement from her media aide, Bisi...

  Acting Nigerian President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has said  the greatest challenge facing the current government is how to turn around the economic status of the country. He made the revelation...

The Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) has concluded arrangements to sell a plant belonging to Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN) Ltd worth over N5 billion ($49 million) to Africa’s richest man,...

  United States Senator, John McCain has said that Russian President, Vladmir Putin is a bigger threat to world security than the Islamic State in Iran and Syria (ISIS). Senator McCain, who is the...

As the contest to replace Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as Liberia’s President gathers momentum, a woman with little political experience is jostling to become the fourth elected female head of state in Africa. 40-year...

  Nigeria’s House of Representatives on Wednesday dropped a motion on the need for the Federal Government to present records of the funds and assets it has so far recovered from various individuals...

A United States congressional candidate in the state of Montana, Greg Gianforte has been charged by law enforcement after “body slamming” a reporter to the ground and breaking his eye-glasses at a...