Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has to be sacked the Brazilian media said on Sunday after the national team’s disastrous World Cup campaign ended in a “knock-out” and “new humiliation.”

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for an international inquiry into the activities of the terror group Boko Haram in order to unravel its modus operandi and sponsors as well as any individual or group that may have links with the insurgents, with a view to ending, once and for all, the debate over who is behind the insurgency and also to facilitate efforts to tackle it decisively

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has voiced support for the extremist Sunni Islamic State (IS) militant group, which has taken over large swathes of Iraq and Syria, in a new video seen Sunday.

The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists has claimed responsibility for a June 25 bombing in the capital Abuja and an attack the same day at a fuel depot in Lagos, in a new video seen by AFP Sunday.

Renowned girls’ education campaigner, Malala Yousafzaiwho , who was shot by the Taliban has joined the Nigeria campaign for the release of schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, as reported by UK Telegraph. Seventeen-year-old Yousafzai, who was an early backer of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, is expected in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on Sunday. In addition to […]

The seven-man panel investigating the “allegation of gross misconduct” levelled against Gov Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State and his deputy, Mr Bala Ngilari, by the state House of Assembly concluded its public sitting, yesterday.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has congratulated Nigeria’s most famous living literary giant and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, as he attains the landmark age of 80 years today.

Argentina and Germany have appeared collectively in nine previous World Cup finals and two against each other. The South Americans beat West Germany to win the 1986 World Cup before the Europeans gained revenge in the final four years later.

It was a gaily evening inside the State House, Marina, Lagos. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, sat in the midst of an expectant Nollywood crowd. It was a rendezvous of everybody that was somebody in Nollywood

“As the end of my term as governor continues to count, I look forward to it with joy and satisfaction. I will leave with peace and utmost satisfaction. A lot of people keep asking me, ‘Oga, are you not going to contest for an election when you leave as governor?’ I tell them that I will leave office with so much peace and satisfaction that I will not contemplate running for another office. It is only those who are insecure and are looking for where to hide that plot for the next office even when they are yet to serve out their current term, ” he stated.