President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has alleged plots to implicate him in Tuesday’s blockade of the National Assembly by men of Department of State Services (DSS).

FEW days to the primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has said only popular persons should emerge as candidates of the party to ensure that the party has landslide victory in the 2019 general elections. 

National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole, said President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, never acted in the nation’s interest as he claimed.

ABUJA: The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has expressed confidence in the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara in spite of recent defections in the National Assembly including that of the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki.

A Bolivian soldier who was robbed of a jewel-encrusted presidential medal in his care while visiting a brothel has been discharged, the Armed Services said on Friday.

Strike-hit Ryanair has announced it will refund passengers whose flights are cancelled — as it is obliged to do — but will not pay out compensation, citing “extraordinary circumstances”.

Venezuela said Friday it has asked Interpol to arrest an opposition politician who is exiled in Colombia and has been accused of involvement in an apparent attack against President Nicolas Maduro.

Two Palestinians including a medic were killed by Israeli fire on the Gaza border Friday, but away from protests the calm reached after a deadly flare-up between the enclave’s rulers Hamas and the Israeli army mainly held.

Two police officers were among four people killed Friday in a shooting that sparked panic and a police lockdown in a sleepy town in eastern Canada.

Three Italian climbers were found dead Friday on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, three days after they set out to summit Europe’s highest peak, rescue workers said