Hong Kong customs seized an illegal shipment of ivory tusks, rhino horns and leopard skins worth more than $5 million, officials said Wednesday.

The Special Adviser to the President on Ethics and Values, Dr Sarah Jubril, has advocated true Federalism as a panacea to the myriad of problems confronting Nigeria.

A severe drought that sparked a state of emergency in Namibia has left 400,000 people facing hunger, the government said.

The Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has asked Muslims to look out for the new moon on Wednesday nigh

Two persons were feared dead in a ghastly motor accident involving two vehicles in Ijebu-Ode in Ogun late on Tuesday.

PSquare’s Peter Okoye and girlfriend Lola Omotayo have swung their dramatic love story towards a happy ending with the pop twin finally proposing to his girlfriend and mother of his two children.

THE professionals group in All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA Ambassadors, yesterday described as “unfortunate”, the statement credited to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the 72 persons dropped in the wee hours in the commercial city of Onitsha by the agents of Lagos State Government, saying the statement by the spokesman of the newly registered All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Lai Mohammed, was merely a face –saving measure and shows how Igbo are treated.

Reports of Fulani herdsmen attacking members of their host communities with AK 47 rifles and other dangerous weapons have often been treated as a fairy tale by those saddled with the responsibility of protecting lives and property of the citizenry.

Osun State government has declared that it was also a victim of the Lagos State government’s policy on evacuation of destitute to their various states and cautioned the Anambra State government against politicising the issue.

FOUR truck drivers have been arrested over alleged attempt to dump toxic waste within the Kwale axis of Delta State.

Tuesday, July 30th 2013 will go down in the political history of Nigeria as the day three political parties – Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigerian People’s Party (ANPP) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) succeeded in their merger bid as the All People’s Congress (APC) was announced registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Also, Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha’s faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is part of the new political party.

The Aba Police Area Command has arrested a 40-year-old Prophet/Pastor, Benjamin Ndubuisi, for having unlawful carnal knowledge of a 23-year-old man.

Detectives attached to the homicide unit of the Adamawa State police command have commenced investigations to unravel the circumstance that led a 24-year-old man to behead his five-year-old son.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, denied media report that his request to break the Ramadan fast with former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.), was turned down by the latter.

Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, are said to have arrested the mother of a gang member, who also served as the amourer to the group led by the notorious one-eyed robbery kingpin, Abiodun Ogunjobi, aka Godogodo, arrested in Lagos, last week