By Onozure Dania ‪Lagos- A Federal High Court, Judge has ordered the Economic and Finance Crime Commission, EFCC, to release the international travelling passport of Femi Fani-Kayode, the former minister of Aviation and the Chief Media Officer of the Presidential Organisation.‬ ‪Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia gave the order Tuesday while delivering a ruling in the application […]

“When foundations like The Ford Foundation and The Omidyar Network fund a body like saharareporters.com, they really have to ask themselves if it is their intention to fund the subversion of a democratically elected government and the defamation of functionaries of the government.”

Masked gunmen in Kogi State kidnapped an American woman doing missionary work, with ransom the suspected motive for the attack, police told AFP Tuesday.

At least 17 people were killed on Tuesday when a blast ripped through a bus in Potiskum, northeast Nigeria, witnesses and rescue workers said, in the latest violence to hit the troubled region.

Baseline Music act, Skales (Raoul John Njeng-Njeng) and former label mate and current boss of Starboy Records, Wizkid (Ayodeji Balogun) were involved in a twitter spat on Monday, which generated into the use of unprintable words and curses but only a few knew how the war started. Surprisingly, the former boss of the duo and […]

A FIFA World Cup taskforce on Tuesday called for a shortened 2022 World Cup in Qatar to open on November 26 with the final to be played on December 23, a source told AFP.

Ruling party and opposition lawmakers turned the Turkish parliament into a battlefield once again Tuesday during an 18-hour session debating a contentious bill to broaden police powers. Several deputies were injured in a third outbreak of serious fighting within a week in the Turkish parliament, as the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) seeks to push through the contentious homeland security bill.

A blast ripped through a bus in Potiskum, Yobe state, on Tuesday. The explosion happened at the Tashar Dan-Borno motor park, on the outskirts of the city but rescuers could not immediately determine the number of casualties.

English Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said Tuesday that all major European clubs are “very disappointed” by moves to hold the 2022 World Cup in November-December. Scudamore, a member of the FIFA task force that met in Doha to recommend a date for the tournament in Qatar, also said he felt “let down” by UEFA over the dates.

SOMEONE recently placed on the table an impossible proposition. She said to do a comparative analysis of President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari! Among her interlocutors, the suggestion instantly elicited an argument. How does one compare day and night? Is not the former resplendent light and the latter pitch darkness?

A South Korean teenager who went missing last month has joined the Islamic State (IS) group and is receiving training, South Korea’s spy agency said Tuesday.

A Nigerian woman who has campaigned against Islamist extremists Boko Haram was on Tuesday awarded a Japanese peace prize worth $170,000.

Forty illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Syria were injured, five seriously, when their van overturned Tuesday on a Serbian highway, state-run RTS television reported

Tragedy struck at Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital following a fire outbreak at the state House of Assembly in the early hours of Tuesday.

Central African countries are to join their west African counterparts to “collectively utilize all political, military and diplomatic actions and mobilize all actions in all fronts to degrade and eradicate Boko Haram”.