Pope Francis on Wednesday denounced killing in God’s name as “satanic” as he held a mass to honour Jacques Hamel, the French priest whose throat was slit by jihadists in July.

France will play England in a friendly on June 13, 2017, at Paris’ Stade de France, the French football federation announced Wednesday.

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said Monday his first big challenge would be to look at changes to the Champions League that would give four guaranteed places to England, Germany, Italy and Spain from 2018.

After a dozen novels and 70 million book sales under his belt, British writer Frederick Forsyth told AFP he is giving up on thrillers because his wife told him he can no longer travel to adventurous places.

Seven Niger soldiers were killed and eight others wounded in two separate attacks by Boko Haram Islamists over the past week, the army has said. The two attacks took place in the southeastern Diffa region near the border with Nigeria, according to a military statement released late on Tuesday. Five of them were killed in […]

The jihadist group Boko Haram has released a new video without its embattled leader Abubakar Shekau, lending weight to claims by the Nigerian army he had been gravely wounded in an air strike. The 13-minute video posted on YouTube late Tuesday shows an unidentified man in a flowing white robe and a sword dangling by […]

THE Re-branded Indigenous People of Biafra, TRIPOB, has described as false, an allegation by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB that the Directorate of State Services, DSS and Nigeria Prison Services, NPS, planned to kill its leader, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu in Kuje Prisons, Abuja.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, like every other leader, has a style of governance that is peculiar, and this style is admired by some, while others loathed it. It is the style of talking to Nigerians about national burning issues, more when he travels out of the country than when he is in the country.

Foreign airlines flying to Nigeria have started refueling abroad, to bypass highly priced and increasingly scarce aviation fuel in the country. This is coming on the heels of Arik Air’s suspension of flight operations to all airports across the country due to its inability to secure aviation fuel, also known as JET-A1.

ABUJA—The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, yesterday, reserved it judgment in the appeal by Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress, APC, and its candidate, Mr. Timipre Sylva, seeking to sack Governor Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from office.

Nigerians are outraged over recent comments by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung that athletes don’t need much training to win medals at competitions once they have the winning mentality.

SINCE the eruption of the murderous attacks of the terrorist Boko Haram insurgents in North East Nigeria in 2009, internal security has become a major challenge in the most populous African nation, Nigeria.

By Elizabeth Uwandu UGHELLI—Niger Delta Stakeholders for Change, NDSC, has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the nomination of Samuel Adjogbe as Executive Director Project on the board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, describing it same as a merited decision judging from his experience in project design, planning, monitoring and control. The group in a […]

Hussein, who has been seeking for a job for a long time was deceived by his friend, David Arafat, who connived with an accomplice to perpetrate the dastardly act.

—Hard time awaits foreign fishing trawlers operating illegally on Nigeria territorial waters as the Federal Government has ordered the Nigerian Navy to put a stop to their activities.