Gongo Aso crooner, Abolore Akande, known as 9Ice who has somewhat disappeared from the music scene for a while has resurfaced, only this time as a political aspirant, of a yet-to-be declared political party not in the field of music

The American woman who was sickened with the dangerous Ebola virus while working with a Christian aid group in Liberia is getting better and is even smiling, her son said Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday hosted his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for talks about Cairo’s purchase of advanced surface-to-air missiles and membership in a Moscow-led free trade zone.

Leaders of civil society organisations and media editors were united on the need to increase and improve the reportage of girls and women rights as human rights in Nigeria as they gathered on Thursday in Lagos for the Report Women! stakeholders’ inception meeting organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism and the Royal Netherlands Embassy

Mr Hassan Bello, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), on Monday appealed to terminal operators to review their charges to hasten cargo clearance.

Oil prices dropped on Tuesday, with European benchmark Brent falling to a fresh nine-month low point on easing concerns about supply disruptions arising out of conflicts in Ukraine and Iraq.

Saudi authorities beheaded a Syrian national today after he was convicted of trafficking drugs into the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, the interior ministry announced.

Sen. Iyiola Omisore, the candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, (PDP), at the 2014 Osun State gubernatorial election, said his defeat is as a result of the “clearly partisan” acts of the former Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in the state.

IT appears whatever President Goodluck Jonathan does or does not do in relation to the Boko Haram kidnap of many school girls from Chibok in Borno State is bound to elicit palaver from certain quarters.

Northern Elders Forum (NEF) yesterday, said that President Goodluck Jonathan should forget about contesting in 2015 if he fails to produce the Chibok secondary school students kidnapped by the Boko Haram sect in April.

A panel of medical experts has determined it is ethical to provide experimental treatments to patients infected with the deadly Ebola virus, the World Health Organization said Tuesday as the global death toll topped 1,000.

A Spanish missionary who contracted the Ebola virus while working in West Africa has died in hospital in Madrid.

The FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed, has designated the General Hospital, Kuje, in Kuje Area Council, as Isolation Centre in case of Ebola-infected persons. The minister also inaugurated 25-man committee to work out modalities for responding to the threat of Ebola virus and create awareness on the nature and symptoms of the virus. Mohammed made this […]

TWO months to the last Ekiti gubernatorial election, no pundit would have placed a bet against, incumbent Kayode Fayemi; his victory was a foregone conclusion. Ekiti was the bastion of the APC party and the governor’s profile was on the rise.

The Joint Military Task force in Kano, Monday, denied the arrest of 16 suicide bomber in their custody.