Mr Clement Odeh, the Executive Secretary, Nasarawa State Christians Pilgrims Welfare Board, has attributed failure of pilgrims from the state to embark on 2016 pilgrimage to Jerusalem to non-availability of visas.

The Nigeria Army on Monday said it has released 1,250 Boko Haram suspects who have been cleared of no links with insurgency.

Donald Trump hit back at Meryl Streep on Monday, calling her an overrated actress after the three-time Oscar winner condemned the U.S. President-elect’s imitation of a disabled reporter. Streep had turned an acceptance speech at Sunday’s Golden Globe awards into a blistering attack on Trump.

The Kremlin on Monday refuted accusations of Russia’s involvement in hacker attacks during the U.S. 2016 presidential election, saying that it was a “tiresome witch-hunt.’’

The Deputy Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Mustapha Anka, in a rstatement disclosed the new pattern Boko Haram terrorists adopt in carrying out their operations.

Head coach of Katsina United, Bala Nikyu has said the club do not fancy any ambition of emerging champions in their first season in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). He however was quick to assure their fans that the newly-promoted side will play to ensure they are not relegated at the end of the season.

Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, on Monday warned the distribution companies in the country to step up their service delivery or quit.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has written to Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President Amaju Pinnick to commiserate with Nigeria over the killing of former youth international Douglas Uzama.

Pope Francis on Monday described jihadist attacks around the world as “homicidal madness” and urged religious leaders to reassert that “one can never kill in God’s name”. The leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics also called on government leaders to combat the poverty that, he said, could allow fundamentalism to flourish. In a […]

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is to release no fewer than 162 reports on different sectors of the economy this year.

Liverpool and Brazil footballer Roberto Firmino has had his Merseyside home burgled, with jewellery, watches and clothing stolen, according to reports.

Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Monday in Benin inaugurated the Family Court, to exclusively handle matters pertaining to children in both civil and criminal matters.

By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA-The mediatory team mandated by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS to intervene in the political impasse brewing up in The Gambia has again schedule to meet with President Yahya Jammeh. Rising from a high powered meeting presided over by Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, […]

A 21-year-old man, Tolu Olasanoye, was on Monday arraigned in an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing N13,000.

The Cross River State Government lost over N130 million revenue in 2016 due to allocation of cocoa farms to ghost farmers, Mr Oscar Ofuka, Special Adviser to Gov. Ben Ayade on Cocoa Development, has said.