Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief, Rodrigo Rato has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison by a Spanish court for misusing company credit cards while working in two banks...

  About 100 more people have been arrested in Turkey for their alleged involvement  in the foiled coup attempt of  last July. The arrests were made after Turkish police conducted an operation in...

  The United Nations has estimated that about 4.4 billion U.S dollars will be needed before the end of March this year, to avert catastrophic hunger and famine in Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and...

Azerbaijan’s President, Ilham Aliyev, has appointed his wife as First Vice President of the oil-rich Caspian nation. The appointment of Mehriban Aliyeva follows after a tightly-managed referendum that...

  Nadia Ahmed Abdou, yesterday, became the first ever woman to be sworn in as governor in Egypt. As part of a limited cabinet reshuffle, the mother of two was sworn in before President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi...

  Less than a month into the administration of US President Donald Trump, his National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn has resigned. The resignation on Monday night came after reports surfaced that Flynn...

A mother has been charged with raping her four-year-old boy and broadcasting it live on an internet video streaming application. India Kirksey, from West Price Hill area of Cincinnati, Ohio, was arrested...

  Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court has dismissed a case seeking to question the capacity of 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe to rule his country. An activist with the Takamuka Social Movement, Promise...

  Gunmen on Thursday morning, abducted the secretary of Isheri North Estate in Lagos State, Mr. Dayo Adekoya. Adekoya was abducted at about 1.00.a.m by the gunmen who stormed the estate. Channels reports...

Popular Nigerian entertainment personality,Charly Boy has announced his plans to stage another protest with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Lagos tomorrow. The...

 Forty-one Nigerians who were deported from the United Kingdom arrived Lagos this morning. After the plane carrying them, an unmarked Air Bus, touched down at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport...

  An officer of the Western Naval Command, Apapa, Lagos, name withheld, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly killing his wife, Mary Egbailo. The 30-year old suspect is...

The Oba of Benin, by tradition rarely leaves his palace. Indeed, it is largely believed that the Oba does not pay visits to individuals. Friday, January 20, was however an exception. Oba Eware II paid...

The world on social media is expressing a lot of excitement at the photograph of an unusual alligator found at Gatorland in Florida. The alligator has a completely white skin and pink eyes. Authorities...

Yahya Jammeh has finally agreed to step down as President of the Gambia. In a statement released on Gambian State television early Saturday, the now former President said; “I have decided today...

Gambia’s President-elect, Adama Barrow was today sworn into office. Barrow who was inaugurated in the Gambian embassy in Dakar, Senegal amid the political uncertainty back home, took the oath of...

Nigerian Warship, the NSS Unity has departed for the Gambian coast for a joint military operation by the Economic Community of West African States to eject the country’s President whose term expires...

The eight-year-old son of Gambia’s president-elect, Adama Barrow has died after a dog bite. The little Habibu Barrow is said to have died on his way to a hospital near the Gambian capital, Banjul. The...

A Turkish Airlines plane crashed into a village in Kyrgyzstan in the early hours of Monday after missing the runway at the country’s main international airport. The Boeing 747 which was attempting...

President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump has said that he will make Britain’s exit from the European Union a ‘great thing’ within weeks of taking office. Trump who says he...