Greece said on Friday it was running tests on a man suspected of carrying the Ebola virus.

Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Thursday in Abuja said Nigeria would fully utilise its abundant renewable energy resources to enhance electricity supply across the country.

The federal goverment Friday said that two new cases of Ebola infection have been confirmed in Lagos.

Oscar Pistorius’s defence lawyer said Friday the “cold facts” did not prove the star sprinter had intended to kill his model girlfriend, as he launched a final bid to save the “Blade Runner” from life in prison.

Fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine has killed 15 Ukrainian servicemen and injured 79 more over the past 24 hours, a Ukrainian military spokesman said Friday.

The Senate Leader, Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba, has advised his constituency members to participate in the forthcoming distribution of Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) and Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in Cross River.

Arsenal face Turkish side Besiktas and reprieved Celtic meet Slovenian title-holders Maribor in the Champions League play-offs later this month.

IN the days before the Osun gubernatorial elections, the indigenes of the State and other Nigerians were daily greeted by propaganda of the bizarre nature, some bordering on the desire to create fear in voters and prevent them either from turning out or, even if they did, to vote in a particular direction. And if the truth be told, the All Progressives Congress, APC, is roundly guilty of this.

Perhaps the 2015 election will turn out to be the most dramatic in the history of the country as notable Nigerian celebrities are ready to set the political turf ablaze. Matinee has gathered that ace comedian and entrepreneur just declared his intention to run for the governorship position in Rivers state.

BAMIDELE Francis Aturu, who died, July 9, 2014, abandoned a career in the military to train as scientist. Precluded from public service by an audacious act of objection to military dictatorship, he discovered a vocation as arguably the foremost public interest advocate of his generation in Nigeria. A lawyer and a pastor, he was also former student leader and prisoner of conscience. He was 49.

AS the 62nd annual convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, enters its fifth day today, with millions expected to converge at the Redemption Camp for the Holy Ghost service, the leadership of the church has advised motorists to be patient and obedient to the traffic managers on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

The World Health Organisation on Friday declared the killer Ebola epidemic ravaging parts of west Africa an international health emergency and appealed for global aid to help afflicted countries.

The Nigerian Islamist movement Boko Haram has recruited and trained hundreds of young Cameroonians to carry out attacks in their own country, according to the police and civilians.

The Russian government approved Friday rules on subsidising construction of infrastructure for the 2018 football World Cup for a total of over 5.5 billion rubles ($151 million, 113 million euros).

President Barack Obama ordered US warplanes back into the skies over Iraq on Thursday to drop food to refugees and if necessary launch air strikes to halt what he said was a potential “genocide