India’s biggest carmaker Tata Motors said Tuesday it would rename its new Zica hatchback as global alarm grows over an outbreak of the identical-sounding Zika virus.

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed one of its citizens for the fatal shooting of another Saudi, bringing to 57 the number of convicts put to death this year.

Six people were reportedly killed while one person sustained gunshot injury when some suspected members of dreaded Boko Haram sect invaded Goniambari village in Kaga Local Government Area of Borno state.

The emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi ll Monday dethroned the younger brother to Kano state Governor Alhaji Sani Umar Ganduje as village head of Ganduje, Dawakin Tofa local government over alleged financial misappropriation.

Presidency has waved off insinuations that the many foreign trips of President Muhammadu Buhari so far were a jamboree.

Following its condemnation of the recall of Major General Ahmed Mohammed, ex-GOC of 7 division, Nigerian Army after he was allegedly accused of human rights abuse, the Nigerian Army has requested Amnesty International to provide evidence with records directly indicting General Mohammed on human rights abuse to enable it (Army) act on it.

Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulkareem, the Chairman of the Gamboru/Ngala Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno, on Tuesday, appealed to the military to re-open the Maiduguri-Gamboru highway to facilitate movement of humanitarian aids to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) returning from Cameroon Republic.

Dutse Emirate council of Jigawa state has suspended the son of immediate past governor, Sule Lamido, Mustapha Sule Lamido as Santurakin Dutse and District head of Bamaina with immediate effect.

THE abducted monarch of Olomoro Kingdom in Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta. State‎ was released about about 9.00pm, Monday.

Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, the present governor of Edo state is one person I have tremendous respect and admiration for;a great orator, cerebral analyst, brilliant administrator and very effective grass roots mobilizer. He is one who rides the opportunities as they come; as a local unionist at the Kaduna textile factory to becoming the head of the Nigerian Labour Congress as President.

The Rivers State Government has approved January 27 every year as a public holiday to mark the survival of the state from the forces of political conspiracy who attempted to subvert the mandate of the people.

Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has ordered sand dredgers operating in waterways in the state to stop their operations and vacate the sites immediately.

Facebook-owned smartphone messaging service WhatsApp has hit the billion-user mark, according to the leading social network’s chief and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. “One billion people now use WhatsApp,” Zuckerberg said in a post on his Facebook page. “There are only a few services that connect more than a billion people.” Google’s free email service, Gmail, is […]

A British tourist has been trampled to death by an elephant on the Thai tourist island of Koh Samui, police said Tuesday, the latest deadly attack by animals used to entertain holidaymakers.

Tens of thousands of Lunar New Year travellers in China were stranded Tuesday at a station in Guangzhou, state media said, after snow and ice elsewhere disrupted the world’s largest annual human migration. Many trains to the capital of the southern province of Guangdong were delayed after north and central China were hit by the […]