Ogun State politician, Senator Iyabo Anisulowo, who spent seven days in kidnappers’ den after she was abducted in Ilaro area of the state, narrates her ordeal

Non-Governmental Organisation, Community Watch of Nigeria (CWN), has condemned the May 4 militants’ attack on Chevron’s off shore platform in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta.

There may be much Republican hand-wringing over Donald Trump’s presumptive nomination to face the Democratic candidate for the White House, but the boastful billionaire says he doesn’t care, and it doesn’t matter. A growing chorus of senior Republican leaders have joined the “anyone but Trump movement,” including 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the […]

In a US election that has ripped up, chewed through and spat out conventional wisdom, Hillary Clinton is still prohibitive favorite to beat Donald Trump in November.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un told a rare ruling party congress that his country was a “responsible” nuclear weapons state, with a no first-use policy and a commitment to non-proliferation, state media reported Sunday. Speaking to thousands of delegates gathered for the first Workers’ Party congress in more than 35 years, Kim also announced a […]

Carnicero recalled fearing for her life Friday as she sped to safety through the massive wildfire engulfing the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. “We weren’t sure we’d get through because of the thick smoke,” she told AFP sitting in her dust-covered SUV alongside her teenage daughter Michelle. “It was a terrible experience. I was afraid, […]

The presidents of Afghanistan, Colombia and Nigeria will join US Secretary of State John Kerry at an anti-corruption summit in London next week, which British leader David Cameron said Sunday will make the issue a global priority.

Former Ministers, who served during the various regimes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from 1999 to 2015, have expressed disappointment with former President Goodluck Jonathan for supporting the candidacy of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as National Chairman of the PDP in the face of the opposition from majority of members.

Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Abubakar Sirika, has alerted the public on the activities of scammers who opened 300 emails and 10 Facebook accounts in his name to defraud Nigerians.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State on tour of projects in the state with some Journalists were held up for about half an hour at Amakohia Orlu Road in Owerri the state capital on Saturday between 4 and 4. 30 pm by Fulani herdsmen.

A woman named Ronke Bewaji Shonde was allegedly beaten to death by her husband, Lekan Shonde.

People suspected to be herdsmen, yesterday, attacked Coromo and two other villages in Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State, killing about 12 persons and wounding about 18 others seriously. Local sources said those killed included seven men, two women and children, while 13 houses were burnt.

The incident occurred in 2005, few days after the immediate past Alake of Egbaland, Oba Oyebade Lipede, joined his ancestors, according to the father of a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, Chief Alani Bankole, at a launch of his book, titled, ‘ Alake of Egbaland:The Succession Dynamics’.

With the economic downturn, infrastructural malaise and other challenges facing the country at this material time, religious disharmony has remained a difficult hurdle holding us back from collectively and constructively forging a path out of our unfortunate predicaments.

The fragile peace in the umbrella union of all Igbo cultural organisations, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, following the reconciliation brokered between the two factions of the association by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, has collapsed.