Fanta Adamu thinks she’s more than 80 years old but isn’t sure. What she does know is she couldn’t have escaped without help when Boko Haram threatened to overrun her village in northeast Nigeria.

The Federal Government has directed that a verification and revalidation exercise be carried out on all credentials and records of all staff in the Federal Civil Service.

Police found an eight-year-old Ivorian boy hidden in a suitcase that was smuggled across the border into Spanish territory in north Africa, an official said on Friday.

A suicide bomber suspected to be a member of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, armed with Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) and AK47 rifle on Friday launched an attack on the College of Administrative and Business Studies (CABS) Potiskum in Yobe state.

At a time when the alleged acrimonious campaign to Islamise Nigeria by an emerging power bloc is almost gaining currency, few members of the public, the Press, or the political class have never actually presumed- in context or in full- the hidden agenda of the new clique of powerful anti-Christian elements whose ultimate design is to implement the secret accord they had with their sponsors.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to “urgently provide and facilitate access to adequate healthcare for the children and women raped and impregnated by Boko Haram militants.

The 45-year-old commercial driver, Saturday Akpomose, who was attacked by seven dogs at Ajah area of Lagos State, has received N30,000 and a job offer from the owner of the dogs.

AHEAD of the formal handing over to the President- Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, retd, May 29, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday urged the incoming Administration not to abandon the on going projects especially the Light Rail project in the nation’s capital city, Abuja.

London’s stock market surged at the start of trading on Friday as Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives looked set for a surprise victory in Britain’s general election.

Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives looked on course Friday for a surprise victory in Britain’s general election which could redefine the country’s future in Europe and herald more austerity cuts.

Alan Mak, a former corporate lawyer whose parents emigrated to Britain from southern China, became the first ethnic-Chinese person to be elected to the House of Commons on Friday.

The Ebola virus has been detected for the first time in an eye of a patient months after it vanished from his blood, researchers said Thursday.

Ogun State Police Command yesterday uncovered another suspected ritualists’ den in Unity and Peace Estate, along Itele-Lafenwa Road, Ota, Ado Odo-Ota Local Government Area.

For the purpose of this article, it is assumed that Nigeria is a democracy and currently practising one of its cardinal principles – leaving the choice of governance to more than one political association or political party. During the just concluded elections, about fourteen political parties contested for a single position of the President.

A PARTICULAR trend by a section of Nigeria’s public opinion commentators is the easy resort to herd disposition. By this, they easily fall over a particular issue, chorusing the same argument in a manner reminiscent of a flock in dire need of pasture. The engagement, ordinarily, may not give cause for concern. The danger, however, […]