The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday called on workers to vote out `anti-workers’ politicians’ during the 2015 general elections.

Two women identifying themselves as Italian aid workers kidnapped in Syria have appeared in a video urging their government to seek their release.

The Minister of Health, Dr Halliru Alhassan on Thursday says Nigeria will be certified polio-free this January.

A New Year’s stampede on Shanghai’s historic waterfront killed at least 36 revellers and injured dozens more, mostly women, as one police officer said fewer personnel than previously were securing the area.

Al-Jazeera called for the swift release of three of its journalists detained in Egypt for more than a year, after the top appeal court on Thursday ordered a retrial.

Relatives held the first funeral for a victim of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Thursday as bad weather hampered efforts to locate the wreckage of the plane which crashed in the sea off Borneo with 162 aboard.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has welcomed the stated commitment of President Goodluck Jonathan, in his New Year message, to the conduct of free, fair and violence-free elections this year, but urged the President to match the commitment with action.

Strife-torn northern Nigeria was hit by two deadly attacks on Wednesday, when a female suicide bomber was killed as she tried to enter a military barracks and seven died in a bus explosion.

President Barack Obama — still on vacation in Hawaii — spent New Year’s eve with loved ones at home, the White House said.

AirAsia Indonesia said Thursday it had suspended a pilot after he failed a random drugs test, days after 162 people were killed when one of the airline’s planes crashed into the sea off the island of Borneo.

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside an evangelist church in Gombe on Thursday injuring several people, witnesses and a rescue worker said.

Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential flag-bearer, on Wednesday urged Nigerians to remain hopeful and optimistic in the New Year.

The Senate President, David Mark, on Thursday urged Muslims to reflect and imbibe the true teachings of Prophet Muhammad.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday reassured Nigerians that terrorists operating in the North-East would not get away with their atrocities.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday reassured that his administration would ensure stability in the value of the Naira by striving to take away speculative behaviours that caused market exchange pressures.