Politics

A U.S. service member died on Thursday from wounds sustained in a combat operation in eastern Afghanistan, according to a brief statement from the Department of Defense. Neither the branch of military nor the name of the service member was ...

The House of Representatives has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to adjust dates for presidential and National Assembly primaries ahead of the 2019 elections. The call was sequel to a motion by Balarabe Salame (Sokoto-APC) at plenary in ...

Duduzane Zuma, son of former South African president Jacob Zuma, attends the Randburg Magistrate Court on homicide charges related to a fatal car crash in 2014, in Randburg, near Johannesburg, South Africa July 12, 2018. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko A South African ...

Former Minister of Environment in Bayelsa state, Lionel Jonathan-Omo, has died after he slumped and fell from a balcony in his country home in Ogbolomabiri area of Nembe, Nembe Local Government Area of the state yesterday July 12th.   According to reports,  ...

A police inspector was killed by a herdsman in Bagudo local government area of Kebbi state yesterday July 11th. According to reports, a farmer had reported the herdsman to the police officers at Kaoje police station in the local government. The ...

Chaos, bonfires and teargas on Thursday morning turned parts of the capital Nairobi into no-go zones as traders clashed with police and county askaris. The businesspeople who sell their wares at Wakulima, also known as Marikiti, and Muthurwa markets were ...

Thousands of Zimbabwean opposition supporters took to the streets of Harare on Wednesday demanding fair elections following alleged irregularities in the electoral roll ahead of the July 30 vote. The electoral register has long been a contentious feature of Zimbabwe’s ...

Twenty-six people were killed in two days of violence blamed on cattle thieves in northern Nigeria, the National Emergency Management Agency said on Wednesday. Bandits on motorcycles attacked several villages on both sides of the border between Sokoto and Zamfara ...

The Nigerian Police says all security details attached to prominent personalities including the governorship aspirants in Ekiti State will be withdrawn on Saturday. This is to enhance the credibility of the July 14 governorship election. The Deputy Inspector General of ...

The Nigerian House of representatives has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to implement the Executive Order signed last week to strengthen the government’s fight against corruption. The Order was to give the government power to confiscate stolen assets of suspected ...

Chief William Ibori, the elder brother of former governor of Delta State James Ibori, is dead. The former Unugbrogo of Oghara kingdom in Delta state reportedly passed away very early this morning, according to some online sources. Others say he died late ...

President  Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa today declared that the killing of Nigerians and other foreign nationals in the country was an act of criminality and not specifically targeted at Nigerians.   He gave the explanation while addressing state House ...

President Buhari has appealed to Nigerians to be patient with him as his security chiefs are cracking their brains to come up with a lasting solution to the wanton killings recorded in some parts of the country.   Senior Special Assistant on ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent his condolences to the spouse, family members as well as the government of people of Edo State following the demise of Amb. Queen Worlu, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, who ...

The Nigerian Army has alerted of the emergence of another deadly Islamic sect known as “Hakika Islamic.” The army said the group has strange doctrines similar to that of Boko Haram. The sect, according to the army, is headed by ...

Firdausa Amasa, the Nigerian law graduate who made news last December after the Nigerian law school refused to call her to bar because she was wearing a Hijab, was today allowed to take part in the Call to bar ceremony wearing ...

JUSTICE Sule Hassan of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, ordered that the chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State, Mr. Clement Faboyede and the Director-General of the party’s Campaign Organisation, Modupe Adetokunbo be remanded ...

IBADAN-The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba  Abdulrasheed  Adewale Akanbi, yesterday, debunked a recent statement credited to him that he faulted two apex Yoruba socio-cultural  organisations, Afenifere and Yoruba Council of Elders on their stance against cattle ranches in the South West ...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has affirmed that no gang-up directed against the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration would work as it yesterday called on all those with grievances against the party to retrace their steps while the windows for reconciliation are ...

Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan ushered in the new, executive presidential system he had long campaigned for by putting his son-in-law in charge of the economy and promising greater overhaul of a country he has dominated for 15 years.   Hours after ...

  The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Tor Uja, has said 100 Christian pilgrims absconded during the 2017 pilgrimage to Israel.   He revealed this while receiving security report of the 2017 pilgrimage on Monday in ...

The Philippine president, who recently sparked outrage for calling God stupid, has courted new controversy in his largely Roman Catholic country by saying he will resign if anybody can prove that God exists.   President Rodrigo Duterte, who has had ...

Hundreds of persons from Dutse constituency beat and held hostage Bala Yargaba, the council chairman of Dutse Local Government Area in Jigawa State., according to Premium Times. They accused the council chief of non-payment of polling unit development fund meant ...

EDO State Deputy Governor, Comrade Phillips Shaibu narrowly escaped death by the whiskers on Sunday as his convoy was involved in an auto crash along the Benin- Agbor expressway. Two persons, the personal assistant to the deputy governor and a ...

  At least 183 teenagers, who were previously working with Boko Haram terrorists, have been handed over to the United Nations by the Nigerian Army. They were handed over to officials of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United ...