The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mal Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has vowed to defend the Naira and was prepared to used the nation’s foreign reserve to ensure the currency’s stability.

Kenya’s president announced Tuesday that a siege of a Nairobi shopping mall was over, but said losses from the attack by Islamist gunmen were “immense” and at least 67 people had died.

The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon has urged Heads of State and Government to respond to the demands of their people for human dignity and sustainable development.

The Police in Zamfara on Tuesday paraded two persons for allegedly raping two girls aged nine and 10.

Mr Bisi Yusuf, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, on Tuesday said the ongoing Police Biometrics Central Motor Registry (BCMR) would curb robbery and kidnapping in the country.

POLICE authorities have dismissed a police Corporal Adegboro Kayode, who shot and killed a truck driver, Friday Igbinedion, at the Benin-Ore road last month.

Kenyan troops were continuing to scour Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall late Tuesday, going shop-to-shop to make sure they had eliminated all the Islamist attackers, sources told AFP at the scene.

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched a blistering attack on the United States Tuesday at the United Nations over America’s widespread spying on her country. “The argument that illegal interception of information is allegedly intended to protect nations against terrorism is untenable,” Rousseff told the opening of the UN General Assembly. “Brazil […]

Louis Crayton, an instructor with the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA), on Tuesday in Abuja rated Super Eagles’ goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama as one of the best goalkeepers Africa has.

The President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr Nasir Fagge, said on Tuesday that the current strike by lecturers of public universities in the country was a sacrifice for better things to come.

The National President of Urhobo National Youth Movement, Comrade Alex Iduh has been commended for his contribution to development of youths in Okuno-Orogun community in Ughelli North Local Government Area in Delta State, as he donated a bore hole estimated at N .5million and also a bus worth N1.6million to the youths movement in Okuno-Orogun community in Ughelli North, Delta State.

DEspite the well lit streets, I lost my belongings to four young hoodlums at Oshodi area sometime ago, who accosted me at gun point. They made away with my hand bag containing various valuables, including my Blackberry mobile phone, ID card, cash among others. I was around 8 pm on my way home from Apapa, after close of work. I was heading towards Egbeda when the incident happened.

The Auyo Local Government in Jigawa said on Tuesday that it distributed 2,520 goats to women in the area.

The Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Alhaji Mu’azu Gangara, has been removed from office by 19 out of the 34-member legislature.

A MEGACITY is usually defined as a metropolitan area with a total population in excess of 10 million people. Some definitions also set a minimum level for population density at least 2,000 persons/square kilometre. A megacity can be a single, metropolitan or two or more converging metropolitan areas.