The U.S. Special Envoy for the Great Lakes of Africa, Mr Thomas Perriello, would be visiting Burundi as part of his government’s efforts at ending crisis in the country.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the violence and killings in the just-concluded supplementary governorship election in Bayelsa on Saturday

A Mararaba Grade 1 Area Court in Nasarawa State on Tuesday remanded a 37-year-old businessman, Nasiru Alidu, in prison over alleged forgery.

ABUJA-THE House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara Tuesday said the global crash  in oil prices is a wake up call for Nigeria to diversify from a mono-economy that relies only on revenue from oil for survival. 

HUNDREDS of ex-militants under the federal government phase II amnesty programme have accused officials of the amnesty office of allegedly selling slots for educational training of ex-militants to influential Nigerians for N500, 000 per individuals.

Russia could give asylum to Syria’s al-Assad, says Putin

Twenty eight ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive Apapa and Tin-Can Island Ports in Lagos from Jan. 12 to Jan. 31. The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) stated this in its publication – `Shipping Position’,- a copy of which was made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos. […]

OWA-OYIBU — HIS Royal Majesty, Emmanuel Onyeike Efeizomor II, the Obi of Owa Kingdom in Ika North East Local Government Area, Delta State and Vice Chairman of the Delta State Council of Traditional Rulers has had many near death tragedies in his 77-year sojourn on the planet earth. The former sub-editor at the Edo State government- owned The Observer Newspaper, boxer and footballer wanted to be a freedom fighter after his secondary education and was preparing to travel abroad to pursue his mission when his people commandeered him as it were to take over the throne of his fathers.

Finally, a photograph detailing Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote as the one behind the reconciliation of Olamide and Don Jazzy’s following a mega rift which occurred between the two at the 10th Headies awards on January 1, 2016.

The Youth Wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said that the demolition of Oshodi market, Lagos by the Lagos State government was in bad faith and targeted at the Ndigbo doing business in the state.

OGOJA — DEATH is an inevitable journey that every man on the planet earth will undertake and prepare for at any time, but the people of Ogoja, headquarters of Ogoja Local Government Area, located some 320 kilometers in the northern part of Cross River State, are not in a hurry to prepare for the voyage.

ABUJA— The board of inquiry set up by the Nigerian Army to investigate allegations of professional misconduct by some officers in the 2015 elections that pitched President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, against former President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has recommended the compulsory retirement of two senior officers of the Nigerian Army.

The planned prayer, fasting and election into the offices of the Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, has been postponed indefinitely.

The Federal Government disclosed, yesterday, it has recovered $100 million looted funds from Switzerland.

LAGOS — The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has stopped, with immediate effect, the sale of foreign exchange, forex, to Bureaux de Change, BDCs, as part of measures to reduce the pressure on the nation’s foreign reserves.