Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Monday sworn-in Mr Osarodion Ogie as the new Secretary to the State Government (SSG).
Obaseki, while administering the oath of office, said both he and Ogie had been an integral part of the Edo Project, which they started together nine years ago.

Congolese Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo resigned Monday to make way for an opposition figure to take his place following talks aimed at averting a political crisis.

A housewife in Abuja, Francisca Okechukwu, on Monday filed for divorce, accusing her husband, Tony Okechukwu, of sexually abusing their six-year old daughter.

A 29-year-old man, Fatai Aliyu, was on Monday sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by an Osogbo Magistrates Court in Osun for stealing 10 bowls of rice and four bottles of wine.

Barack Obama will travel Monday to Greece and Germany in a final official visit designed, in a strange bit of political contortion, at reassuring worried Europeans about a man he once warned was “unfit” for the presidency: Donald Trump.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has had a telephone conversation with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and urged him to cooperate with China.

The leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram has reacted to the election of Donald Trump to the White House with a warning that “the war has just begun” against the West.

Three cows somehow survived an earthquake in New Zealand after their field was destroyed leaving them stranded on a tiny patch of grass.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), as his future chief of staff.

An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude has hit New Zealand’s South Island, hours after an initial quake killed two people.