The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that while President Goodluck Jonathan’s surprise visit to the Police College in Ikeja last week, to see the decrepit state of the training institution, is commendable, the President again dropped the ball by his comments during the visit.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on FCT, Sen. Smart Adeyemi, has vowed to spearhead nationwide protests to resist moves by State Governors to oppose Local Governments’ autonomy.

Thirty-eight children from northern Chad have been hospitalised after being vaccinated for meningitis in a government campaign, the health minister said Monday.

Rustenburg may be one of the world’s top platinum mining centres, but gold is the precious commodity Ivory Coast are digging for when they take on Togo Tuesday.

Mohamed Chicoto says Niger have been punished again by a refereeing call at the Africa Cup of Nations

Roger Federer thwarted a powerful serving performance from Milos Raonic to advance to the quarter-finals of the Australian Open on Monday.

NIGERIA has reiterated her commitment towards ending the scourge of Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTDs, by developing an integrated multi-year national plan for the control and elimination of the NTDs in the country.

It is now obvious that there are no more underdogs in African football. This was confirmed during the 2012 Afcon which was co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, and won by least expected Zambian team.

Comfort Idika-Ogunye, is a gender activist, social analyst and the Executive Director, Female Leadership Forum (FLF). A professional lawyer who was called to the Nigerian Bar 1999. She was the first female National president of National Association of Nigeria Students (NASS). In this interview, she talks on how the average Nigerian woman has fared so far in politics, factors limiting women’s participation in politics, and why women need to re-strategize and start mobilizing towards 2015 general election. Excerpt:

By Charles Mgbolu It is not strange to find controversial actress Cossy Orjiakor in cloths that lets her breasts almost fallout; in the past, it is either ignored or drooled over by fantasising men. However, in this case, Cossy may have bitten more than she could chew. She had a rough start this year on […]

Genetic differences are significantly associated with the likelihood that people take on managerial responsibilities, according to new research from the University College London, UCL.

A new computer model created by researchers at the U.K-based Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute’s cancer genome project will help researchers to more accurately determine the various causes of cancer development, according to a study published this month in the journal Cell Reports.

NIGERIA has reiterated her commitment towards ending the scourge of Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTDs, by developing an integrated multi-year national plan for the control and elimination of the NTDs in the country.

French and Malian troops on Monday entered the central Malian town of Diabaly, which has been the theatre of airstrikes and fighting since being seized by Islamist fighters a week ago, an AFP journalist witnessed.

A South African court on Monday convicted Nigerian national Henry Okah of 13 terrorism charges, including bombings that killed 12 people in Abuja on independence day 2010.