A Pennsylvania court on Wednesday unanimously granted rapper Meek Mill a new trail in a drug and gun case from his teenage years that sparked controversy over alleged police corruption and racial prejudice.

Air Peace airline Wednesday, said the airworthiness of their planes has nothing to do with the incidence that involved their plane on a flight from Port Harcourt that had “hard landing” in Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson named former interior minister Sajid Javid to take over from Philip Hammond as finance minister in his first cabinet appointment, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.

ENUGU – NATIONAL Association of Nigerian Students, NANS has condemned the continued xenophobic attacks on Nigerians living in South Africa noting that if such continues, the association will be forced to retaliate.

Former Military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), Wednesday urged Nigerians to be optimistic about the future of the nation, saying the country is moving forward despite its setbacks.

StarTimes Nigeria has announced a one-month promo aimed at rewarding kids and parents during the holiday from August 1 – 31.

Hollywood actor Rutger Hauer, best known for his role in Blade Runner, has died after a brief illness, various Dutch media reported Wednesday, quoting family sources.

US regulators on Wednesday slapped a record $5 billion fine on Facebook for privacy violations in a wide-ranging settlement that calls for revamping privacy controls and oversight at the social network.

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Argentina star Lionel Messi was hit with a one-game suspension by South American football bosses over his dismissal during the Copa America third-place play-off against Chile earlier this month.

National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, on behalf of the leadership of the party, Wednesday, congratulated United Kingdom newly elected Prime Minister , Mr. Boris Johnson.

Two chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, Chief Lanre Rasaq and Mrs Risikat Adegeye, have commended President Muhammadu Buhari over the choice of ministerial nominees from the state.

New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s maiden speech Wednesday outside the premier’s 10 Downing Street office was a statement of intent about his premiership.

The House of Representatives, Wednesday, resolved to investigate circumstances behind the alleged rape of blind students in two schools in Jabi and Kuje areas of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, by their teachers.

Crushed inside disease-ridden cells, with no beds, little food and even less hope, inmates in Cameroon’s prisons were already tense before an influx of political detainees and Anglophone separatists stirred up an explosive mix.