Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina was until his appointment the managing director of Sun Newspapers and concurrently, the president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE.

A death row inmate in Oklahoma who unsuccessfully sought to ban a controversial drug used in lethal injections will ask the Supreme Court to consider if capital punishment is constitutional, his lawyer said Friday.

Arsenal’s readiness to mount a sustained title challenge in 2015-16 will be tested at Wembley on Sunday when they face Premier League champions Chelsea in the Community Shield.

Premier League champions Chelsea face FA Cup winners Arsenal in the Community Shield on Sunday. Here AFP Sports looks at five questions to ponder in the traditional curtain raiser to the English season:

A firefighter died while battling one of the 18 large wildfires raging in California, its governor said Friday, declaring a state of emergency.

Members of Osama Bin Laden’s family were among the victims in the crash of a private jet in Britain, the Saudi embassy in London said Saturday in a message of condolences.

Tuesday resumption of the two chambers of the federal legislature resumed after five weeks suspension of plenary. The recess scheduled for July 21 had been postponed by one week, obviously to allow more time for the reconciliatory process going on then among the legislators in both chambers of the National Assembly.

SENATOR Dino Melaye, yesterday, explained that he accompanied Toyin, wife of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, last Tuesday because he wanted to know the level of culpability in the allegation against her by her petitioners.

Igbos will tell you that the taste of the coming faeces can be known from the flavor of the heralding fart.

Cameroon has deported more than 2,000 Nigerians who were living in the country illegally as part of new security measures intended to prevent suicide attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, sources said Friday.

Despite fast erosion of Yoruba traditional beliefs and customs, Ile Ife remains one town that has managed to Spartanly hold on to its past while not completely wishing away civilisation.

TWO months after leaving power, no fewer than 12 close aides of former President Goodluck Jonathan have been stripped of their official passports.

On Saturday, February 16, 2013, Henry Chibueze, a notorious kidnapper terrorizing South East and South South parts of the country, stormed the home of his girlfriend, Sandra Ijedinma, at Igando area of Lagos State, with an AK47 assault rifle and opened fire on everyone present in the apartment, killing his girlfriend, her elder sister Praise Ozor, and her two children.

Prince Dapo Abiodun has continued to receive lots of support from the people of Ogun East, Ogun State and International Community with regards to his case against Mr. Buruji Kashamu

Yenagoa—Former Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, Chief Timi Alaibe, was among the 10 persons that have procured the expression of interest and nomination forms to contest the governorship primaries of the All Progressive Congress, APC in Bayelsa State.