DOHA (AFP) – The Sudanese government signed a ceasefire agreement with a faction of Darfur’s far-west region rebel group the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), state news agency QNA reported.

Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Burkina Faso return home Monday after an amazing campaign to face the reality that their chances of playing at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil are remote.

CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt’s security forces were on high alert Monday ahead of pro-democracy protests to mark the second anniversary of former president Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, a police official told AFP.

THE Senate has set up a committee to investigate a fresh alert following a motion on the imminent collapse of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos.

PARIS (AFP) – If 2012 African Footballer of the Year Yaya Toure thought a change of scenery would bring a change of luck at the weekend, he was sadly mistaken. A week after his Ivory Coast team were bundled out of the Cup of Nations by Nigeria in South Africa, the English Premier League title hopes […]

Indie pop band fun., rockers The Black Keys and Australian-Belgian singer Gotye shared the top prizes Sunday at the Grammys, in an eclectic year for the music industry’s biggest awards show.

Prof. Promise Okpala, the Registrar of the National Examinations Council (NECO), has urged parents and teachers to build up students’ confidence before examinations.

FEDERAL Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, security officials, have arrested two passengers with firearms at both wings of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.

AFGHANISTAN, Nigeria and Pakistan are the three countries where polio has not been eradicated. The danger they pose to the rest of the world is the source of concern about eradicating the virus that paralyses people within minutes of infection – children are highly at risk.

POLICE in Ondo state weekend said that the 45 year old hunter, Ojo Toki, who shot dead his wife, Adesewa, over a disagreement on his breakfast in Ibule Soro area of the state has been arrested and will soon be charged to court for murder.

IS Goodluck Jonathan responsible for 50 years of decay? Under the Jonathan administration, Nigeria is on the pathway of recovery of wasted years.

The District Head of Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State, Alhaji Abba Ahmed, was, yesterday evening, shot dead by gunmen on his way back to his palace after performing his Magrib prayers in a mosque.

UNIDENTIFIED persons, weekend, kidnapped a three-year-old boy, Ejike Emmanuel, at Akaeze in Ivo Local Government Area of the state.

Former Secretary General of the Nigeria Football Association, Sani Toro has congratulated the Super Eagles and their coach, Stephen Keshi.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Justin Welby on Sunday in London condemned the attack on the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, describing it as “disgraceful” and “atrocious”.