President Muhammadu Buhari is not returning to Nigeria today as generally expected. He has shifted his return to Sunday, June 19. Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, disclosed this to State House correspondents...

  The Nigerian Army has raised what looks like an alarm. The alarm being that some Nigerians are trying to blow the story about its recent retirements out of proportion. The Army is disturbed that...

Tragedy struck at 2:00 a.m. this morning in Orlando, in the U.S. state of Florida. A gunman now suspected to be a terrorist walked into a gay nightclub named ‘Pulse’ and opened fire on virtually...

The Nigerian Army says some of its generals and senior officers have been retired by the Army Council. The retirements, according to a statement by Colonel Sani Usman, Army Director of Public Relations,...

  Former Super Eagles coach, Amodu Shuaibu has died. Amodu is believed to have died in his sleep this morning in Benin City, Edo State. Amodu had a successful career in managing football clubs such...

Five suspects in the killing of Mrs Bridget Agbaheme, an Igbo trader in Kano, were arraigned before a magistrate court in the ancient city today. Those arraigned, all males, were Dauda Ahmed, Abdullahi...

The Niger Delta Avengers appear to have stepped up their offensive against Nigeria’s oil industry. In the early hours of today, it blew up the Obi Obi Brass Trunk Line. The pipeline belonging to Agip...

President Muhammadu Buhari has made Mr. Ben Akabueze, until now, his Special Adviser on Planning, Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation. The President also announced Mr. Tijani Mohammed...

A day after they declared that they were not in negotiation with the Federal Government, Niger Delta Avengers have issued a statement which tends to justify their reasons for violently attempting to halt...

  Nigerian Militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, appears to have doused the expectation of many Nigerians by revealing that they may not be at the negotiation table with the committee put together by...

  A top-ranking Indian politician and former Chief Minister of the State of Goa has called on the country’s central government to ban Nigerians from entering into their country. Ravi Naik,...

A dire situation is brewing in the Diffa region of Nigeria’s neighbour, Niger. There is a mass exodus of people who are fleeing Boko Haram attacks. The town of Bosso was sacked by the jihadists last...

It was quite an emotional encounter last Wednesday when American President Barack Obama met and shook hands with 108-year-old African American named Lester Townsend at a town hall meeting in Indiana. Townsend,...

Nigeria’s former President, Goodluck Jonathan this morning sat for an interview with Bloomberg in London. Read some of the highlights of the interview. You may also watch the video recording of the...

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari left Nigeria this morning through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The President however cut a straight gait with confident steps which almost belied...

Still a period of reminiscing the ‘greatest’, photographs of Muhammad Ali by sports photographer, Curt Gunther, have just surfaced, these vintage images portray the everyday life of legend...

President Muhammadu Buhari is ill and this is authoritative. He has what his Special Adviser, Media & Publicity, Femi Adesina describes as a “persistent ear infection.” He leaves Nigeria tomorrow...

Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan is a man widely known to be highly reserved and quiet. Even his foray into the noisy world of Nigerian politics and his days in government, it now appears,...

  The Niger Delta Avengers have just released a message in which they implore other militant groups in the Niger Delta to show restraint in the manner they carry out what they call, “the struggle...

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has made what looks like a shocking disclosure. It has 12 million Permanent Voters Cards which are yet to be collected by voters across the...