Niger on Sunday got a new presidential Boeing 737-700, BBJ (Boeing Business Jet) and which was received by the Defence Minister, Mahamadou Karidjo.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Monday said 271 people suspected to have contracted the Ebola virus were under surveillance in Lagos and Port Harcourt as at Sunday.

International experts in agriculture and food security gathered at the Research to Feed Africa High-Level Policy Dialogue in Ethiopia Monday to track progress and inspire action to address critical food shortages in Africa.

Stakeholders of the Pampaida Millennium Villages project in Kaduna have commended leading telecoms operator, Airtel Nigeria, for its contribution towards the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The development of renewable energy will slow down over the next five years unless policy uncertainty is diminished, the International Energy Agency, IEA, said in its latest third annual Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report.

Enugu State Governor, Sullivan Chime, Monday, sworn in his new Deputy, Reverend Raphael Ifeanyichukwu Nwoye.

Boebie Solomons has become the second South African Premiership coaching casualty of a season that is just 25 days old.

Saudi Arabia has stopped granting visas to workers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the countries worst-hit by the deadly Ebola virus, the labour ministry announced Monday.

The new head of Nigerian football, whose disputed appointment has thrown the domestic game into turmoil, has dismissed the threat of sanctions from world governing body FIFA.

As the North-West PDP caucus meeting ended in Kaduna state with the endorsement of GoodLuck Jonathan to contest in the 2015 presidential election, Jigawa state governor, Sule Lamido and the state’s chapter of the People Democratic Party (PDP) has vehemently kicked against the purported decision.

Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN, Monday, threatened to challenge the a pro-Jonathan group, the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, TAN, in court for canvassing votes for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid ahead of 2015 presidential election.

No fewer than 45 suspected members of Boko Haram sect have been killed in an encounter with military troops when the terrorists attempted to invade and take over Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.

Over 30 of the insurgents were also injured in the fierce battle with security operatives that lasted for over 5 hours.

SISTER of late Dr Iyke Enemuo who died of the Ebola virus in Port Harcourt has been sent to the Ebola quarantine centre in Emohua local government area, Rivers state.

India’s government asked the top court on Monday to safeguard some coal mine concessions deemed to have been illegally awarded as the energy-starved country’s power sector faces fresh turmoil.

Barcelona and Real Madrid face difficult trips in their first away games of the La Liga season on Sunday when they travel to Villarreal and Real Sociedad respectively. Luis Enrique enjoyed a trouble free debut as Barca boss last weekend as the Catalans eased past Elche 3-0 despite having Javier Mascherano sent-off towards the end […]