The Italian navy has rescued 233 mostly African migrants from a boat in Mediterranean waters south of Sicily as the immigration crisis that killed hundreds in shipwrecks in 2013 showed no signs of letting up in the new year.

US actor James Avery, most famous as Uncle Phil in hit 1990s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” died on New Year’s Eve aged 68, his publicist said Wednesday.

The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) says it has not shelved its proposed plans to go on strike over the planned sale of the country’s refineries.

A statement from the President of NUPENG, Igwe Achese, on Wednesday in Lagos, said the union’s position was still that the decision to privatise the four refineries was hastily taken.

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday denied the rumours making the rounds that over 1, 200 of its members, including its executives had defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna.

The Chairman of the party in Kaduna North local government area, Alhaji Abdullahi Babawo disclosed this when he paid a New Year visit to the NUJ secretariat in Kaduna.

The expedition leader said on Thursday a Chinese helicopter had reached Russian ship stranded in Antarctica ice for nine days and started picking up 52 passengers who spent Christmas and New Year trapped in ice. The helicopter from the Chinese icebreaker Snow Dragon would take all the passengers from the ice-bound Akademik Shokalskiy and transfer them to an […]

The Ogun State government said, yesterday, that it had uncovered three fake orphanages in different parts of the state and handed their promoters to the law enforcement agencies for prosecution in accordance with the law.

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, may invite former President Olusegun Obasanjo to shed more light on the allegation that his godson, President Goodluck Jonathan, was training no fewer than 1,000 snipers with a view to using them to perpetuate himself in power.

CELEBRATIONS of the new year turned sour for Assistant Sales Representatives of the Nation Newspapers in Ibadan, and his colleague who works for ThisDay Newspaper as they were involved in a fatal accident.

Anxiety is mounting over the sudden disappearance of the General Overseer of Christ Worshippers Church with headquarters at Osubi, Effurun, Warri, Delta State Prophet Duromola Adedayo Samuel.

Following what is suspected to be a New Year eve’s tragedy, the FCT Police command said, yesterday, that it was investigating an alleged suicide by one Mr. Federick Onigbo of Gwarimpa Estate in the Federal Capital Territory.