In the 80s and 90s, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes the Acquired Immune Deficiency Virus (AIDS) threatened to depopulate the world.

Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi on Tuesday said that following the technical defeat of the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East, its fleeing members had found a haven in his state.

Oil prices rose more than one dollar a barrel on Tuesday after OPEC said it was sticking to its agreement to cut production and hoped compliance with the deal would be even higher.

The National Examination Council NECO has released the results of November/December 2016 Senior School Certificate Examinations, SSCE.

The body, through its Registrar and Chief Executive, Prof. Charles Uwakwe, in Minna, said that 28,550 or 60.55% had five credits including Maths and English out of the 47,118 candidates who sat for the exam.

The Senate Minority Leader, Chief Godswill Akpabio, said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would challenge Sen. Andy Uba’s (PDP-Anambra) defection to All Progressives Congress (APC) in court.

U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has laid off additional 89 workers in a gale of retrenchments that started in the company last year.

The National Agency for Food and drug Administration, NAFDAC has begun investigations into the alleged importation of “Indian garri” in the country even as Nigerians have been cautioned against consumption of the product.

The Office of former President Goodluck Jonathan media has refuted reports that the ex-President on Monday endorsed Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, on Tuesday in Abuja said the results of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s medical tests had suggested a further rest.

THE Senate Tuesday formally confirmed the receipt of letter from Presidenf Muhammadu Buhari, extending his vacation in the far away London as well as the letter from Acting President Yemi Osinbajo appointing Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen as Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN.

A total of 1, 394 out of the 45,974 candidates who sat for the Nov/Dec, 2016 NABTEB-organised examinations were caught over examination malpractice.

The Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty Ooni Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II has said that the ancient city of Ile-Ife has devised cultural tourism revolution as veritable tool in battling recession reducing it’s effects to a minimal lever for his people and Nigerians.

Dr Shola Agboola, the Ondo State Secretary of Alliance for Democracy (AD), on Tuesday said the party was being restructured to win the 2019 general elections in the state.

Chief Ayo Opadokun, Convener, Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reforms (CODER) on Monday, commended Lagos State Government’s plan to ban yellow commercial buses popularly called Danfo from plying roads in the state.

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said Tuesday that he inherited an economy reeling from huge fiscal deficits, rising inflation and high unemployment despite an IMF programme designed to stimulate growth.