– Zambia’s ex-leader Rupiah Banda was arrested Monday and charged with abuse of authority over an oil deal struck with a Nigerian firm while he was in power, an investigator said.

President Goodluck Jonathan has tasked the new Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bukar Goni Aji to enhance discipline and curtail corruption in the service.

President Goodluck Jonathan has sworn in Alhaji Bukar Goni Aji as the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation.

China’s new President Xi Jinping hailed Monday the strength of ties with African nations, in a keynote speech on his first trip as head of state to the continent.

The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon on Sunday condemned the unconstitutional seizure of power in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Saturday.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday adjourned the case of the Ànosike brothers – Noel and Fidelis – charged with advanced fee fraud to May 7.

The onslaught from the public came almost as soon as the news broke on social networks and blogs; a metalic orange Ferari sports car pictured at the venue of Tuface and Annie’s wedding in Dubai with words Wedding gift from Senator David Mark to Tuface, Annie scribbled on cardboard paper and stuck to the car, almost ruined the news of Tuface, Annie’s wedding.

Last month, ailing actress Ngozi Nwosu of Fuji House of Commotion fame flew to the United Kingdom to have a much needed heart and kidney transplant, with great relief we can tell you the operation was successful and Ngozi is now out of hospital.

Sixty years after the first successful polio vaccine trial, the disease has been wiped out in much of the world, but violence, conspiracy theories and lack of cash keep it from disappearing.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, like any leader, means different things to different people but there is one view that we all share: He is not a chip off the old block of Nigerian leaders.

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) on Sunday paid tribute to Prof. Chinua Achebe, describing him as a global icon of all time.

Central African rebels seized control of the capital Bangui as the president fled, but promised to respect a January peace deal that provides for elections within three years.

Prince Bola Ajibola (SAN), former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, was livid last December when President Goodluck Jonathan, called his former boss, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha his political benefactor. The retired jurist of the International Court of Justice thought it an insult to Nigeria that the President would call an ex-convict and fugitive his benefactor.

THIEVES have taken over parts of Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara States. The police and governments of those States have conceded that part of the country to marauders and they have no shame in confessing there is no solution to a situation that shows that plays up the insecurity in the country.

POLICE have seized a 36-year-old palace guard and suspected kidnap kingpin, alleged to have facilitated the abduction of Prof. Kamene Okonjo, mother of the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, last December, in Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State by kidnappers.