U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday nominated his African-American former campaign rival Dr Ben Carson to become the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

President, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, CIBN, Prof. Segun Ajibola, has said the institute needs an amendment to its enabling Act in order to sanitise the nation’s banking sector. Ajibola said yesterday in Lagos that the Institute would soon propose to the National Assembly an amendment to the CIBN Act of 2007.

Ghana is a resource-rich west African country where worries about the economy are set to dominate a December 7 presidential election.

The US Senate on Monday published the so-called Plum Book, the official list of some 9,000 federal appointments to be made by President-elect Donald Trump.

The federal government Monday said the importation of vehicles into Nigeria through the land borders have been banned

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday renewed Federal Government’s resolve to support farmers and operators of small scale businesses for the development of Nigeria’s economy.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday announced an increment to the death insurance benefit for police officers who die in active service to the State to N10 million, saying that his administration would stop at nothing to ensure the safety of all citizens in the State.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other offences Commission has revealed that it has recovered the sum of N9billion from Ministries, Departments and Agencies following the conduct of a System Study and Review on the utilization of the 2012 Personnel Vote of some Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)

The National Leader of the All Progressive Congress APC, and former governor of Lagos State Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu aka Jagaban has said that he and others will not abandon the APC the party he helped to build.

A British Muslim convert who knocked out a 16-year-old boy for hugging a girl on the street was sentenced to 28 months in jail in London on Monday, Press Association reports. Michael Coe, 35, approached the pair in Newham, East London, and demanded to know if they were Muslims, Southwark Crown Court heard. He then […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called on INEC to demonstrate its independence by ensuring that the forthcoming re-run election in Rivers State is free, fair and credible.

General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis, the famous ex-Marine and the hero of countless conflicts and wars, has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump as his Secretary of Defence.

A former Special Adviser on Media to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Ima Niboro, has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Libyan forces on Monday took control of the final cluster of buildings where Islamic State militants were holding out in their former North African stronghold of Sirte.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Monday urged the public to ignore reports going round that the corps had started distributing and mandating its personnel to carry arms.