Explosions and gunfire rocked the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday, an official and students trapped inside classrooms told AFP, in the latest militant attack in the Afghan capital.

Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo has admitted he didn’t believe his country could win Euro 2016 and said that last season was probably the best of his glittering career.

A Nigerian jailed in Johannesburg for a series of terror attacks in his homeland on Wednesday appealed his conviction, challenging South Africa’s right to try him, his lawyer said. Henry Okah is serving 24 years behind bars for masterminding a series of terror attacks, including twin bombings which killed 12 people in the Nigerian capital […]

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, pledged that he would continue to support everything that would be in the best interest of Nigeria and Liberia.

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation NNPC Wednesday lamented the growing incidence of pipeline vandalism in the Niger Delta saying uin 2015 alone, there were 3,000 of such incidents translating to over 643 million litres or N51.28 billion.

A welding gas explosion in Damaturu on Wednesday killed one person and caused panic, making people to scamper for safety.

A powerful pre-dawn earthquake devastated mountain villages in central Italy on Wednesday, leaving at least 73 people dead, dozens more injured or trapped under the rubble and thousands temporarily homeless.

THE Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ, Delta State, has said that what the people of Niger Delta require from President Muhammadu Buhari was constructive engagement .

The former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff has dismissed the allegation that he is the sponsor of Boko Haram terrorist Organisation as “rubbish” saying that he is one of the biggest victims of the organization.

Zimbabwean police used teargas, water cannon and batons on Wednesday to disperse opposition youths who were demonstrating in the capital against alleged brutality by security agents.

The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has sealed Protea Hotel, close to Kuramo Waters, over alleged failure to remit N11.07 million personal income taxes deducted from workers’ salaries.

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has decried high rate of street begging among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno and vowed to end it.

Following the poor performance of Team Nigeria at the just-concluded Rio Olympics, the proprietor of Rojenny Stadium, Oba, Anambra, Rommy Ezeonwuka, has urged the Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, to resign.

In his recent article titled ‘This is the Change’, presidential spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu embarked on an arduous but unsuccessful task of attempting to justify the economic hardship, biting hunger, political retrogression, judicial rascality, executive recklessness, electoral inconclusiveness, etc which have all become the indelible insignia of the Buhari-led administration.

The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi, on Wednesday attributed the current economic recession in the country to inability of the past administrations to diversify the economy.