The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday fixed May 17 to 31 for the conduct of 2014 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) through Computer Based Test (CBT).

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged former Commissioner for Youth and Sports in Anambra, Mr Okey Aroh, to court over the alleged theft of N108 million.

Pop singer, Justin Bieber, has been accused of attempted robbery, a Los Angeles Police Department official said on Tuesday, following media reports that he had tried to snatch a young woman’s mobile telephone.

The National Chairman of the Unity Party of Nigeria, Dr Frederic Fasehun, has condemned what he described as the unwarranted politicisation of the current insecurity in Nigeria.

A man, Alhaji Sule Toheeb, told an Ilorin Area Court on Wednesday that his wife, Saidat Toheeb, was always threatening to kill him.

THE Presiding Bishop, Sword of the Spirit Ministries has said unfolding events on the abduction have proved to the whole world that Emirs, Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar and Moslem political leaders in the North are behind the Boko Haram insurgents and that the Boko Haram insurgents have given Islam a bad name

More than 200 schoolgirls on Wednesday began their second month as Boko Haram hostages, with Nigeria’s government indicating it was willing to talk to the militants to secure their release.

“No place for Boko Haram in the 21st century. They do not belong to Nigeria,” said the secretary of the Nigerian Community in Málaga, Edmund Okeke, who insisted that “all Nigerians, Christians and Muslims are united”, and are against the radical Islamic group, who are acting “for their own selfish interests.”

U.S. drone killed three suspected militants in north-western Pakistan on Wednesday, the first such airstrike in nearly five months, officials said.

I AM one of those who have wondered why President Goodluck Jonathan has been unusually slow in taking a decisive action on the ‘kidnap’ of 234 students of the Government Girls’ Secondary school, Chibok in Borno state.

An opinion poll conducted by Nigeria’s foremost polling services company, NOIPolls Ltd., has revealed that 79 per cent of respondents would like the outcome of the conference to be subjected to a referendum.

A bloody clash between supporters of All Progressive Congress and rival Peoples Democratic Party Sunday in Kano claimed the life of middle age man that left scores injured.

A South African judge on Wednesday ordered that Oscar Pistorius undergo psychiatric tests to establish if he has a “general anxiety disorder,” raising the prospect of lengthy delays in his murder trial.

Mr Pablo Segrelles, Chief Economic and Commercial Counsellor of the Embassy of Spain in Nigeria on Wednesday expressed Spanish companies’ interest in the development of Nigeria’s automotive industry.

Lawyer and rights activist, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite yesterday expressed disgust over adjournment of trial by an Ikeja High Court in the N10 billion suit, he filed against Standard Chartered Bank over a building erected by the bank.