An NGO, United Nigerians in the Diaspora (UNID), says the Federal Government and the National Assembly have yet to meet their responsibilities to Nigerians facing prison sentences on trumped-up charges abroad.

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) said on Sunday that it would soon approve new allowances it pays to examiners toward fulfilment of the council’s mandate.

Members of defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on Sunday in Yenagoa, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently intervene in the Amnesty programme.

United Arab Emirates police have busted a cell of three Nigerian hackers who targeted US bank accounts, the interior ministry said Sunday.

By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North & Abdulsalam Muhammad Kano – The application for the admittance of former Jigawa governor, Sule Lamido and his two sons-Mustapha and Aminu- to bail, is to be determined on Tuesday by an Abuja Federal High Court. This is because the judge who heard the money laundering case being preferred […]

‎ONDO state Government weekend debunked insinuations that it received a bail out from the Federal government to pay outstanding  workers salary.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to commence immediate investigation into the alleged corruption rocking the Niger Delta Presidential Amnesty Programme, which led to alleged denial of entitlement and allowances of the beneficiaries.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the Federal Government to urgently unravel what happened to the past Company Income Tax/Education tax as well as dividends paid to the Nigerian government by the NLNG, against the background of published reports that the funds were never paid into the Federation Account as they should have been.

A week after twin bomb blasts erupted in Jos, the Plateau state capital, another explosion occurred Sunday morning in the premised of Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA in Tudun Wada area of Jos North Local Government Council.

Malala Yousafzai told world leaders they were failing Syria’s children, as the Nobel Peace Prize winner spent her 18th birthday Sunday on the Syrian border. As she became an adult, the teenager, who was shot by militants in her native Pakistan for campaigning for girls’ rights, opened a school for more than 200 Syrian girls […]

Pope Francis decried the scourge of corruption as the “gangrene of a people” on Saturday in Paraguay, one of the poorest countries in South America and where graft is rampant.

Residents of the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah are slowly returning to its historic centre, where a Ramadan cultural festival and UN heritage status are giving new life to the old quarter.

A Boko Haram suicide bombing in a crowded market in Chad’s capital killed 15 people on Saturday, just days after the militant group claimed a previous bombing in the city that left 38 people dead.

Boko Haram on Saturday claimed responsibility for attacks in Chad’s capital N’Djamena and the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the SITE Intelligence Group said.

Since Potpourri broke the story of Cossy meeting bigger boobs in Saraphina Amaechi on set of a yet-to-be released movie, ‘Ara Saraphina’, blogging hounds have been feeding off it like it was a feast of some sort. But all of them have been clueless as to the real story behind the tango. Some went with the flow that the boobs contest took place in the film, ‘Ara Saraphina’, but none could proffer the real story.