US neurosurgeon Ben Carson announced Sunday that he is seeking the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

I’m a young man in the University and very good-looking. Eight months ago, I started dating a woman I met in the same University but she is married to an abusive husband.

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday fixed June 18 for judgment in the trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, charged with money laundering.

Saudi Arabia on Monday beheaded five foreigners for murder and robbery, an unusually high number that adds to what Amnesty International has called a “macabre spike” in the kingdom’s executions. Two Yemenis, a Chadian, an Eritrean and a Sudanese were put to death in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency.

An inmate of the Benin Prisons was said to have escaped from the custody of a warder of the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) on Monday in Benin City. Officials of the NPS are now in search of the prisoner, who escaped while carrying out some menial work.

EBONYI State government has called on security agencies to investigate sponsors of fresh hostilities at Ezza-Ezillo in Ishielu Local Government Area of the state.

Nigerian John Obi Mikel and Ivorian legend Didier Drogba helped Chelsea defeat Crystal Palace 1-0 at the weekend and clinch the English Premier League title. Deputising for injured striker Diego Costa, 37-year-old Drogba played the 90 minutes at Stamford Bridge while midfielder Mikel came off the bench for the second half. Senegalese Sadio Mane was the lone African scorer in the Premier League, but his goal could not prevent Southampton losing 2-1 at lowly Sunderland.

At least three women were killed in a landmine explosion and others crushed to death by tanks as Nigeria’s military moved in to rescue them from Boko Haram, one freed hostage said on Sunday.

Some African aviation stakeholders says they have concluded plans to converge in Dubai, United Arab Emirate (UAE), to examine the potentials of the continent’s aviation industry estimated at about 80 billion dollars.

Former President of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Comrade Peter Esele, weekend accused the executive and the legislative arm of government of culpability in the unwholesome practices witnessed in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, stating that both arms of government partook and played a significant role in the rot in the corporation.