Former President Goodluck Jonathan, who arrived the United States of America, yesterday, as a guest of the Presidential Precinct, Challotsville Virginia, has assured the international community that African leaders are displaying more commitment to democracy and good governance, as a means of engendering sustainable development and improving the lives of the people.

From soccer pitch to red carpet, FIFA World Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo, premiered his personal portrait film “Ronaldo” in London on Monday. Ronaldo reunited with his former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson on the red carpet, which also saw a late arrival from Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho.

The Abia Police Command, on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of a woman, who allegedly sold her three-year-old grandson to a ritualist. The Command’s spokesman, DSP Udeviotu Onyeke told newsmen that the woman was in the custody of the police in Umuobiakwa, as investigation continues.

The Lagos state police command has confirmed the sudden and unnatural death of Agi Elias, a policeman who was found dead in his V/W Passat Reg.No. 489 AY parked at the entrance gate of High Barracks Ikeja.

Former Miss Delta State and blossoming Nollywood actress Lizzygold Onuwaje has put to bed. The 2008 Information Science graduate of Delta State University was delivered of a bouncing baby boy late Monday November 9th 2015 at Oasim Private Hospital in South Africa.

A gale of retirements may have swept across the federal civil service as president Mohammdu Buhari may have concluded plan to relieve about 17 Permeant Secretaries of their duties.

For peddling illicit drug at a motor park, a Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the remand at the Ikoyi prisons of a 21-year-old commercial vehicles ticket seller, Rilwan Olaleye. Justice John Tsoho ordered the remand of the accused, after he pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of drug trafficking preferred against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

SPECIAL Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Political Matters, Chief Charles Idahosa says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held the instrument of rigging elections in the country since 1999, saying therefore that the party’s persistent attack on the judiciary and the Presidency over tribunal rulings were uncalled for.

By Egufe Yafugborhi WARRI – NIGERIA should expect more hard times and the country will continue to get poorer as long as fuel subsidy persists and crude oil theft proving intractable. Babajide Soyode, an engineer came to this conclusion in a paper he presented at the 45th annual national conference of the Nigerian Society of […]

Head coach of the national under-23 male football team, Samson Siasia, has picked 26 home-based players for the pre-Africa U-23 Cup of Nations’ training camp in Morocco. According to a list released on Tuesday in Abuja by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the 26 players were picked from the 35 players earlier invited to camp.

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote typifies the new “African lions” whose business empires are winning a competitive edge over foreign multinationals because of their better grasp of local markets. “In emerging markets, there is no substitute for on-the-ground experience,” said a report released Tuesday by the US-based Boston Consulting Group, called “Dueling With Lions”.

Two persons on Tuesday appeared before an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court for allegedly beating one Fatai Agbaje to coma. The accused persons are Mukaila Ibrahim, 48, and Azeez Ibrahim, 32. The Prosecutor, Insp. Taiwo Adegoke, told court that the accused persons conspired to commit the offence on Sept. 28 at about 5:00 p.m. along Biket area of Osogbo.

Ongoing Pro-Biafra protest against the arrest of Director of London-based Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, by the Federal Government on Tuesday, spread to Rivers, paralysing socio-economic activities in Port Harcourt.

No fewer than thirty people sustained injuries, Tuesday , while goods worth about ten million and ten vehicles were destroyed, when some traders opposed to imposition of Caretaker Committee at the New Auto Spare Part Market Nkpor clashed with government officials who were said to have been sent by the Anambra State Government to inaugurate a Caretaker Committee appointed to run the market

Bids to help working Journalists maintain physical fitness suffered a set back Tuesday in Kano as only three out of 42 members of the Correspondent chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists turned up for the exercise at Kano Pillars stadium, Sabon Gari, Kano.