May 22Prince Charles’s comparison of Vladimir Putin with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler triggered a diplomatic row on Thursday when Moscow scolded the heir to the British throne.

Super Eagles defender, Azubuike Egwuekwe, has pledged to put up a superlative performance at the 2014 World Cup.

In a bizarre turn of events, Deputy Local Government Minister Godfrey Kamanya shot himself dead early on Thursday after losing Tuesday’s parliamentary elections, police and family members have confirmed.

The coaching crew of the Nigerian under-20 women football team on Thursday in Abuja decamped five players based on their inability to pass fitness test.

An FCT High Court on Thursday set aside a bench warrant for the arrest of an Abuja-based businessman, Chuzi Ozir, due to the accused deteriorating health condition.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop playing politics with the lives of Nigerians, saying it is wrong, irresponsible and uncharitable to seek to make political gains out of the worsening and deadly terror attacks in the country.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, yesterday urged the United Nations, UN Security Council to go beyond mere expression of concern over the plight of school children seized by armed groups, as well as those affected by violence from Boko Haram insurgency.

An attack killed 31 people and injured another 94 in China’s restive north-west province of Xinjiang on Thursday, province authorities said online.

Thailand’s military leaders said Thursday the national constitution had been suspended, after seizing power in a coup they said was aimed at ending months of political turmoil.

Mr Bashir Lawal, the Chairman of Accord Party in Oyo State, says a former governor of the state, Sen. Rashidi Ladoja, remains the party’s flagbearer in the 2015 governorship election in the state.

The National Commission on Museums and Monuments on Thursday said it would play host to 800 students in Lagos during its 12th edition of the Children Day celebration this year.

The National Association of Women Academics (NAWACS), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso branch, has described the continued incarceration of the abducted Chibok school girls as ungodly.

Following the lingering insurgency in the country by members of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boka Haram, former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu yesterday said that if the situation was not put under proper control, President Goodluck Jonathan might be the last president Nigeria will ever have.

Following are the main attacks linked to the Boko Haram group in Nigeria since the extremist Islamists resumed major operations in 2011 after going underground for more than a year. Violence by the group, which is demanding the creation of an Islamic state in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria, has left several thousand dead in the […]

(AFP) – Thai army chief announces military coup on live TV