Christine Lagarde garnered strong backing from Europe Thursday for a second mandate as IMF managing director. With her term coming to an end in July, the International Monetary Fund formally began accepting nominations for who will guide the global crisis lender for the next five years. Lagarde, who has led the IMF through one of […]

Washington’s entire underground railway system will be shut for the weekend along with city bus routes, officials said Thursday, as the US capital braces for a massive snow storm. The city is expecting up to two feet (61 centimeters) of snow from Friday afternoon into Saturday, along with strong winds, and authorities — unused to […]

A political pressure group in Kogi State , Kogi Democratic Initiative (KDI), has called on the All Progressives Congress not to take the laws into their hand by fielding a candidate that emerged through a primary election outside the stipulated time for conducting primary for the purpose of participating in the forthcoming Senatorial election, claiming that will amount to “reckless abuse of constitutionalism and the rule of law”.

Sacked Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho has joined the Portuguese presidential campaign trail, backing conservative candidate Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in a video posted on YouTube.

President Barack Obama’s pick for the next secretary of the US Army said Thursday he is worried about broad cuts to the service, which is set for a dramatic downsizing.

The United States on Thursday began enforcing new visa rules on some travellers who have visited or who have dual nationality with states considered seedbeds of terrorism.

A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone, officials said Thursday, the second since west Africa celebrated the end of the epidemic last week.

Drugmakers from across the world called Thursday for governments and industry to join forces to battle the fast-rising threat of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

Hundreds lined up for hours in frigid weather outside a Montreal church Thursday to pay their respects to Rene Angelil, the husband and longtime manager of Canadian singer Celine Dion who died last week.

Newly crowned Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, served another master stroke with his unscheduled visit to Oyo, last Sunday, to felicitate with Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi on the occasion of his 45th coronation anniversary.

As the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State goes to the polls to elect its new leaders from the wards to local government and state levels, there seems to be unease within the camps of some power blocs in the party.

At least one person was killed Thursday evening as gunfire and explosions rocked several parts of the Burundi capital, a local official and witnesses said, just as a UN Security Council delegation arrived to push for an end to months of political unrest.

Actor Will Smith said Thursday he will not attend next month’s Oscars ceremony, joining his wife Jada Pinkett Smith and director Spike Lee to protest the absence of minorities among the acting nominees.

Yenagoa—As fear heightened in Ijaw communities over possible military expedition in the wake of the bombings and vandalisation of oil pipelines in Delta State by suspected militants, Ijaw elders, under the aegis of Bayelsa Elders Council, BEC, have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the security agencies to go only after the perpetrators of the dastardly act with a view to bringing them to justice under the rule of law.

Lagos—Traders from Ibafon Main Market, Coconut area of Olodi Apapa, Lagos, yesterday, stormed the corporate headquarters of Vanguard Media Ltd., protesting police extortion and harassment.