Plateau state governor, Simon Lalong has sworn in the Secretary to the State Government, SSG and the Chief of Staff, Government House, Mr. John Dafa’an who are the first set of appointees in the new administration.

Nigeria-based Boko Haram jihadists are behind horrendous violence in neighbouring Cameroon, where they have kidnapped more than 1,000 children and used some youngsters as human shields, a top UN official said.

Football enthusiasts on Thursday praised the Flying Eagles 4-0 victory over North Korea but advised the team to remain focus in their next match at the ongoing FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand.

Vice President Professor Yomi Osinbajo said yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra State that the life of every Nigerian citizen matters to the Federal Government no matter his status or where he resides.

Results from pool matches on day five of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup played in New Zealand on Thursday:

A Kaduna State High Court yesterday threatened to jail the Commandant of Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, Kaduna, Major General Muhammed Inuwa Idris over contempt of court order.

National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Oyegun yesterday revealed that the party’s victory at the last general elections was a product of sacrifice by the members and national leadership of the party.

The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Wednesday intercepted 10 containers of suspected fake baby diapers worth over N200million allegedly imported by hree Chinese nationals.

When a crack unit of Kenyan narco cops raided a Mombasa villa in November, after an eight-month undercover US investigation, it marked a step change in Africa’s fight against drug trafficking.

It is nap-time at Felizia’s daycare centre, a squalid street-level flat in Tel Aviv where loud pop music drowns out the miserable cries of dozens of children and babies cooped up inside.

More than 70 people were killed in a fire at a petrol station in Ghana’s capital, Accra, as they sought shelter from heavy rains that caused widespread flooding, the police and Red Cross said Thursday.

ELEVEN arsonists suspected to be rival youths of Oghara community, Ethiope-West Local Government Area, Delta State, country home of an ex-governor of the state, Chief James Ibori, early hours of Tuesday, set fire to the residence of the youth chair, Mr Ejiro Efetobo.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will be received by Pope Francis on June 10, a Vatican spokesman said on Thursday.

Since the days of Military President, Ibrahim Babangida, when his late wife, Maryan, brought flamboyance and lots of glamour to the office of First Lady with her pet project, “Better Life for Rural Women”, Nigeria has had First Ladies who attempted to complement the efforts of their husbands, sometimes to the point of absurdity and national embarrassment.

MOTHERS who breastfeeding still shy away from breastfeeding their babies because they think their breasts would go flat, need to have a rethink.