Ekiti State Government has described as “evil, wicked and insensitive” claim by the All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers in the State that the ‘stop and search’ operation ordered by the State Security Council to stem cases of kidnapping in the State was an orchestrated plot by the governor to track them for kidnap to stall Governor Ayodele Fayose’s impeachment plot.

SUCCOUR came the way of the communities in Idemili LGA, Anambra state and its environs recently as a partnership to provide qualitative and affordable healthcare at Iyi-Enu Mission Hospital was signed between Avon Healthcare Ltd (Avon HMO) Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo.

Bayern Munich’s star-studded squad is set for a shake-up following their Champions League semi-final defeat to Barcelona as Pep Guardiola prepares to fulfil the final year of his contract

THE National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said Wednessday that but for the maturity of President Goodluck Jonathan and the head of the All Progressives Congress, APC’s Transition Committee, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, who cleared the air that the presidency was not frustrating the Committee, APC’s spokesperson, Alhaji. Lai Mohammed would have thrown the country into crisis.

Convicted Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a remorseless terrorist who deserves to die for killing innocent Americans in the name of politics, prosecutors told jurors at the end of his trial Wednesday.

A top Burundian general on Wednesday launched a coup attempt against President Pierre Nkurunziza, following weeks of violent protests against the president’s bid to stand for a third term. Opposition protesters have been seeking to prevent Nkurunziza from standing for re-election, because they see him as a repressive, divisive leader incapable of reducing extreme poverty. […]

Burundi General Godefroid Niyombare, who announced the overthrow of the president Wednesday, is a former spy chief, diplomat and respected army officer.

A former sports teacher, ex-rebel, born-again Christian and football fanatic, Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza, the subject of a coup attempt Wednesday, has divided the nation over his bid to secure a third term in office.

East African leaders condemned an attempted coup in Burundi Wednesday, after a top general said he had deposed President Pierre Nkurunziza while he and regional presidents held talks to end weeks of violent protests.

President Jonathan’s remark last week that his friends had deserted him owing to his electoral loss gathered momentum on Wednesday when his kinsmen representing him at the National and State Assembly left in droves from his party to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

“I order the closure of the airport and border, and I ask every citizen and law enforcement down to the airport to protect it,” General Godefroid Niyombare said in the radio broadcast.

“It is with regret that we have learned that a group from the armed forces mutinied this morning and declared an imaginary coup,” the office of President Pierre Nkurunziza said in its first full statement since the coup attempt was launched.

Rescuers battled Wednesday to reach survivors of a deadly new earthquake in Nepal that triggered landslides and brought down buildings, as hundreds of troops searched for a missing US military helicopter. Thousands of traumatised survivors spent the night outdoors, afraid to return to their houses after Tuesday’s 7.3-magnitude quake hit, less than three weeks after the country was devastated by its deadliest quake in more than 80 years.

A suspected member of the armed robbery gang who invaded a bank in Lekki Lagos killing three policemen and a teenage hawker has been arrested.

Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza was still in Tanzania on Wednesday early evening, hours after a top general staged an attempted coup in his country, Tanzania’s presidency said.