NEW Delta Avengers, NDA, the militant group that threatened to unleash mayhem in Delta State as from Friday temporarily suspended hostilities, in deference to South- South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, who intervened in the row between the militants and the governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa.

Portugal’s superstar captain Cristiano Ronaldo revealed Thursday he will not play in the Confederations Cup third-place match this weekend as he will finally meet his newborn twin boys. Hours after Wednesday’s 3-0 defeat to Chile in a penalty shoot-out in Kazan, Ronaldo said he had been given permission to miss the play-off in Moscow, against […]

A 28-year-old jobless woman, Temitope Abiodun, who allegedly bathed her neighbour with faeces, was, yesterday, in Lagos released on N100,000 bail.

Let me ask Nigerians these pertinent questions. When security agents arrest suspected Boko Haram terrorists and find in their possession dangerous and high-caliber guns and bombs, does it strike anything in anybody? Or what do people think each time soldiers raid terrorists hideouts /caves and recover materials for the manufacture of lethal explosives   used […]

Football and showbiz stars gather in northern Argentina on Friday for Latin America’s celebrity wedding bash of the decade when Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi marries his childhood sweetheart Antonella Roccuzzo.

Four Nigerian women are taking legal action in the Dutch courts against Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell accusing it of complicity in the 1990s executions of their husbands by the Nigerian military, Amnesty International said Thursday.

Following series of suicide attacks and loss of lives and properties, the Joint Unions of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU; Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU; Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU; National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, and students of University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID, yesterday in Bornu State, threatened industrial unrest.

Four suspected fraudsters, who are Nigerians, are being prosecuted for allegedly using the identities of civil servants to commit a £10 million scam in the United Kingdom, UK.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, sentenced 64-year-old Odeyemi Omolola, who is charged before the court alongside a Lagos socialite, Mrs. Funmilola Ogbuaya, also known as Funmilola Ogundipe, popularly known in social circles as Ariket, to 25 years imprisonment, for attempting to export 1.595 kilogrammes of cocaine to Saudi Arabia.

By Chris Ochayi ABUJA — Residents of AMAC/ACO Housing Estate along the Airport Road, Abuja, yesterday, stormed the premises of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, to protest protracted power outage in the estate. The angry residents, who thronged the AEDC office, located in Wuse Zone 4, Abuja, in the afternoon accused the distribution company […]