Nigeria has begun an offensive against Boko Haram Islamists, raiding camps in a remote northeastern park, while more than 2,000 troops have been deployed to retake territory seized by the insurgents, a military source told AFP Thursday.

Bauchi-No fewer than four persons were burnt beyond recognition while five others sustained injuries in a ghastly motor accident in KareKare village,along Darazo road,about 30kilometres from Bauchi metropolis.

A man in his 60s shot himself dead with a sawn-off shotgun Thursday in the hall of a Paris nursery school in front of about a dozen children and an adult, police said.

Former Italy international Attilio Lombardo led an exodus of Italian backroom staff from Manchester City, the club confirmed Thursday.

By Anayo Okoli UMUAHIA – Seven persons were feared dead when a building under construction in Agbama area of Umuahia, the capital of Abia State collapsed yesterday night at about 8 o’clock. It was gathered that an unspecified number of people are still trapped in the rubble as the Red Cross, a construction firm and security […]

Musawa (Katsina State) – The Committee on Prison Inmates Rehabilitation in Katsina State has released no fewer than 40 prison inmates, convicted on minor offences. The Chairman of the committee, Alhaji Abubakar Bindawa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the end of the committee’s visit to Musawa Prison that the committee visited 12 […]

Abuja – Nigeria on Wednesday pledged a donation of two million U.S. dollars (about N320m) in support of agricultural development and conduct of free and fair elections in Mali. Vice-President Namadi Sambo made the pledge in Brussels at the International Donors Conference on the Development of Mali, organised by the EU, a statement by Malam […]

Barely three weeks after the National Judicial Council, NJC, concluded plans to visit a petition seeking his sack over alleged judicial impropriety, the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Lawal Gunmi, has voluntarily resigned from office.

AMSTERDAM, (AFP) – Frank Lampard suggested that he may be close to agreeing a new contract with Chelsea after the London club recorded a dramatic 2-1 win over Benfica in Amsterdam on Wednesday to win the Europa League.

AMSTERDAM (AFP) – A 93rd-minute header from Branislav Ivanovic gave Chelsea a stunning 2-1 victory over Benfica in the Europa League final on Wednesday as the London club claimed the trophy for the first time in heart-stopping fashion.

MADRID AFP) – Real Madrid will hope to end a difficult season on a high when they face Atletico Madrid in Friday’s Copa del Rey final, with Los Blancos aiming to continue their long-running dominance in meetings with their city rivals.

FEW believed the Vision 202020 plan of the Federal Government would be different from earlier development plans. It was. It cost billions of Naira, more than 5000 Nigerians, experts, consultants worked on it over nine months.

The dismissed Divisional Police Officer, DPO, of Yaya-Abatan, Agege Police Station, Lagos, Segun Fabunmi, was yesterday ordered to be remanded in Kirikiri prison by an Ikeja High Court after he was formally arraigned for murder of Adedamola Daramola and causing bodily injury to some protesters against the removal of fuel subsidy in January last year.

A high court sit-ting in Warri, Delta State has sentenced a 32-year-old commercial bus driver, Efe Taire, to death by hanging, having found him guilty of a four-count charge of conspiracy, armed robbery, kidnapping and demanding N30 million ransom.

MEN of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Ondo State have arrested one Arowolo Femi for duping a girl he met on the Facebook of N850,000 and a Reverend Father.