An Indian student from the lowest Dalit caste was hacked to death and his wife critically injured in southern India in a suspected “honour killing” by relatives angered by their marriage, police said Monday.

White House hopefuls hit the ground in a last-minute push for votes Monday ahead of a crucial new election test, with violence marring Donald Trump’s race for the Republican nomination.

Katsina – In their bid to boost internally generated revenue to augment dwindling allocations from the Federal Government, governors from the North-West zone plan massive investment in exploration of their mineral resources and development of agriculture. The governors,’ under the ageis of North-West governors’ forum, made the declaration at the end of their meeting in […]

Human Rights Watch urged Egypt on Monday to annul the jail sentences handed to four Coptic Christian teenagers for contempt of Islam after they were seen in a video mocking Muslim prayers.

The Rector of the Federal polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, Dr Taiwo Akande has raised the alarm over alleged invasion and destruction of the institution’s farmlands by Fulani heardsmen.

The Station Manager of Forte Oil former African Petrol (AP), Alhaji Auwulu Hassan was on Saturday night beaten up by unidentified soldiers in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital for refusing to sale fuel to them in jerry cans.

RECENTLY, President Buhari opined in far away Nairobi, Kenya that Nigeria will not devalue the Naira. No doubt, the president is well intentioned and means well. It is in the “interest” of the masses who have been battered by the prevailing economic circumstance.

The candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Anambra Central senatorial re-run election, Chief Victor Umeh, has threatened to use legal means to stop former governor Peter Obi of the state from participating in the rerun.

In it bid to increase internally generated revenue for Taraba state, the state governor, Darius Ishaku has commissioned new CTC machines (Cut, Tear and Curl) at Mambila Beverages Nigeria Limited the makers of High Land Tea .

THE House of Representatives has adopted a new method to send the amended versions of the 1999 Constitution in different related bills to President Muhammadu Buhari, for assent.

THE Senate has accused the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami,of having ulterior motive in the payment of N50 billion by MTN, as part of fine imposed on it by the Federal Government for failure to deactivate 5.2 million unregistered subscribers on its network.

ABEOKUTA—Scores of traders from the Mile12 Market, Ketu, Lagos have stormed the Kara Cattle Market at Isheri in Ogun State following the continued closure of Mile 12 market after the bloody clash between Hausa and Yoruba traders.

In this column in August last year, I had cause to ask how far President Buhari can go in managing a tough economy. There has been growing concerns about this government’s handling of the economy. At the moment, there seems to be no clear cut economic blueprint for which government policies are framed. It appears to me that every minister is working by intuition without any economic guiding principle.

Ado-Ekiti—Worried by the report that teachers use their students as child labourers in their private farms during school hours, Ekiti state government has ordered a full scale investigation into the situation.

Akure—GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has said that the establishment of the University of Medical Sciences, UNIMED, Ondo was the state’s strategic response to reverse the brain drain in Nigeria’s medical industry.