The Nigeria Football and other Sports Supporters Club (NFSSC) said on Friday that its plan to acquire a private jet for its use should not be seen as a misplaced priority.

-South Africa Emergency Service has confirmed the death of 24 people in a vehicle which crashed on the Hex river pass in Western Cape province on Friday.

The Rusal aluminium company of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska on Friday halted production at a disputed Nigerian plant whose ownership was awarded to a US company last year.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday he “respectfully” disagreed with Argentine-born Pope Francis’s assertion that the Falkland Islands belonged to Argentina.

President Goodluck Jonathan has approved that Nigeria be represented by a Federal Government delegation headed by the Senate President, Senator David Mark at the formal installation of Pope Francis on Tuesday, March 19, 2013.

The police on Friday arraigned a security guard, Timothy Akaba, 20, of Gwarimpa Estate, before an Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court for alleged negligence at his duty post.

The Enugu State Government has banned staging of beauty pageants in the state without approval from the government, according to the state’s Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mr Joe Mamel.

UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of United Bank for Africa Plc, is organizing a Mini-Marathon in Lagos to create awareness on Prostate Cancer.

KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency said Friday that it had foiled a massive truck bomb plot in which 7,800 kilogrammes of explosives could have wiped out an area of Kabul. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the attack had been planned by the Pakistan-based Haqqani network and the Taliban leadership, though it offered […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday commended Kanu Heart Foundation’s plan to establish a Cardiac Hospital in Nigeria.