Twitter announced Monday it was easing its 140-character limit on tweets, in the latest effort to broaden the appeal and boost the user base of the social network. The new policy announced in May and now in effect no longer factors in certain add-ons, including pictures, into a message’s length.

Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is ready for the Sept. 28 gubernatorial elections.

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has started the process of creating incentives for investors across all parts of the gas value chain to ensure maximum use of the nation’s vast resource.

The President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal government has found a willing partner in the publishers of Nigerian Online Newspaper in its quest to change the perception about Nigeria which is in line with the recently launched ‘Change Begins With Me’ campaign.

Olympics champions Mo Farah, Rafael Nadal and Justin Rose were among athletes targeted on Monday in the latest leak of confidential medical documents. The world anti-doping agency (WADA) has said the documents were hacked by a Russian cyber espionage group.

Our attention has been drawn to your publication of 17 September 2016 authored by your Northern Regional Editor, Soni Daniel titled “SPECIAL REPORT: PROFILE OF FRSC’s SPEED LIMITER VENDORS REVEALED”.

The Borno Police Command said on Monday that it had placed the former spokesman of the Boko Haram sect, Ali Konduga, under psychiatric investigation.

From time to time, I spend the holidays with my mum’s elder sister and I used to get on well with my cousins. But early last year, I woke to feel the hand, of my eldest cousin under my nightie.

Gov. Muhammadu Bindow of Adamawa state has personally intervened in situation involving a doctor in a private clinic in Yola who conducted a surgery on Hamman, a 23-year-old herdsman from Fufore Local Government Area of the state where he removed his kidney after mistaken it for tumour.

The chairman of the caretaker committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi has stated that despite the problem being faced by the party, it will come out‎ stronger.

Miss SaHHara was born in the wrong country, and in the wrong body. Repression in her native Nigeria almost drove her to suicide, but this weekend she was cruising down the runway in a cream dress – one of several finalists at the Miss Trans Star International beauty pageant in Barcelona, Europe’s main such event.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday blamed the current economic recession in the country on the militancy in the Niger Delta region.

A Kano Magistrates’ Court sitting in Audu Bako Secretariat on Monday ordered the remand of a 25-year-old man, Mansir Sani, for allegedly defiling a 12 year-old boy.

MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello yesterday summoned the Commissioner of Police, FCT, Mohammed Mustapha to an emergency security meeting as part of moves to nip in the bud, security challenges in the Federal Capital Territory.