Two medical experts on Tuesday in Lagos urged Nigerians to ensure elimination of rats from their environments to prevent contracting Lassa fever.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday said that three million people were displaced by insurgency in the North-East between January and March.

Mr Bode Towoju, a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that Nigeria will overcome the security challenges posed by insurgents.

Suspected Boko Haram members in Volkswagen Golf cars Tuesday rammed into a patrol vehicle of the Police in Maiduguri,  the Borno state capital, killing five policemen, three civilians and injuring others.

Russia has sent power generators to Crimea, a Russian minister said Tuesday on a visit to the peninsula which broke away from Ukraine but still depends on it for electricity.

A primary school teacher, Abdukadiri Olaitan, on Tuesday appeared before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, charged with defilement of an eight-year-old girl.

An Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court in Karu on Tuesday sentenced one John Osigbembe to 30 days imprisonment for stealing two laptops.

An Arab summit kicked off in Kuwait Tuesday with a call by Syria’s opposition for “sophisticated” arms, while Saudi Arabia stressed the need for a change in military balance to “end the impasse”.

Egypt’s mass sentencing to death of 529 alleged supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi is a breach of international human rights law, the United Nations said Tuesday.

SUSPENDED Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, made an earth-shaking disclosure about the $20 billion he accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of not remitting to the federation account.

Two of English football’s bitterest rivals go head to head at Old Trafford on Tuesday night as Manchester United entertain Manchester City in the Premier League.

WITHIN a week, last week to be precise, the name of the National Security Adviser to President Jonathan suddenly became an item in opinions and features. Most of them actually wanted him to be visible and outspoken on security activities in the country, especially the barbaric atrocities being committed in a section of the country.

SENATE President, David Mark has described terrorists and those behind the violence and killings of innocent Nigerians as beasts and insane as they waste the lives of innocent Nigerians without justification.

Today, in ‘trending’ we bring another controversial issue that has heated social media of late. Leadership speaker and Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, Pastor Sam Adeyemi, while preaching on “Prepaper for the wedding”, on Sunday, March 16th, shared his opinion about women proposing to their men.

The Federal Government was yesterday accused of not presenting the seven billion naira reportedly allocated for the convening of the on-going National Conference in its 2014 Budget proposal presently before the National Assembly and that the Federal Government’s expenditure of a whopping N1.3 trillion on petroleum products subsidy was a serious threat to the economy of the entire nation.