An official of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Dr Emmanuel Adanu, said on Thursday that Nigeria’s existing dams had stored enough sufficient water for 2014 dry season farming.

– Mr David Parradang, the Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service, on Thursday in Abuja said 7,390 Nigerians were repatriated from foreign countries in 2013.

Women groups in Lagos staged a protest today to mourn and the tragic killings and abduction of school children in Yobe and Borno state respectively.

An Egyptian court suspended Thursday the murder trial of Mohamed Morsi after his lawyers requested new judges, sources said, the third such case against the deposed president to be put on hold.

The kidnappers of Chief Inengite Nitabai, cousin to President Goodluck Jonathan have reportedly rejected the N30m offered by his family for his release.

PULI ALAM – A NATO air strike in eastern Afghanistan accidentally killed five Afghan soldiers on Thursday, officials said, the latest incident likely to worsen already fraught relations between Kabul and the US-led coalition. NATO offered its condolences over the deaths and promised action to avoid further such mistakes, while President Hamid Karzai’s spokesman said […]

Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen executed one of their own Thursday after accusing him of spying for the United States, a security official said.

Pop artist KCEE is not losing steam; not even for a minute. His fun-filled single ‘Hakuna Matata’ currently lays siege on Youtube as one of the most sought after trending videos.

In a striking and emotional moment, Abhishek Bachchan, who has been named the first END7 Campaign Ambassador in India by The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (Global Network), poured water over the feet of an elderly man suffering from lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), a debilitating and disfiguring neglected tropical disease (NTD), at the Banamalipur Resource Centre run by Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) just outside of Bhubaneswar in Orissa, India. The eastern state of Orissa has one of the highest burdens of NTDs in the country.

An expert in public health, Mr Monyinoluwa Segun, on Wednesday, said “it is a criminal offence for an individual to build a house without toilet facility.’’

Farida Fasasi, wife of Olanrewaju Fasasi whom we all know as Sound Sultan has given birth to a baby boy and her proud husband has taken to Social media to announce the news.

The Kwara Commissioner for Sports and Youth Development, Saheed Popoola, on Thursday confirmed the stable condition of the three Kwara Falcons basketball players involved in an auto accident on Feb. 27.

Nigeria drew for the third time with Mexico on Thursday as both World Cup-bound teams played out a 0-0 draw in the USA

The United States said Wednesday it had ordered a freeze on $458 million in assets stolen by former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and his accomplices and hidden in European accounts.

Barely two hours when governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state on Wednesday paid a condolence visit to the people of Mafa Local Government Area which came under deadly attacks by suspected Boko Haram terrorists last Monday, another set of terrorists re- invaded the council headquarters at about 4:45 PM and destroyed the remaining structures on ground after killing and injured many people.