Serena Williams has been handed a challenging draw in her quest for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, starting with Germany’s Tatjana Maria in the first round.

Delhi plans to create a special home for both elderly people and some of the Indian megacity’s thousands of cows, in a new animal welfare blitz also aimed at reducing numbers of monkeys and stray dogs.

The Consul-General of Nigeria in New York, Mr Ben Okoyen, says lack of reliable database is one of the factors delaying the implementation of Diaspora Voting by Nigerians outside their homeland.

PRESIDENT General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo has appraised the leadership of the apex Igbo organisation in the past years, noting that it has within the period given modest contribution to the re-jigging of Igbo leadership and leveraging of Igbo issues in Nigeria.

A train, Thurday morning, was reported to have derailed in Agege area of Lagos state.

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has said job creation for Nigeria’s teeming youth populace would help checkmate the security challenges being felt in different parts of the country.

AS at the dawn of the current millennium, if there was any prediction that Nigeria will become the poverty capital of the world in less than 20 years away, such prediction would have been dismissed as arrant nonsense. That is obviously because, according to statistics, Nigeria’s poverty rate was on the decline   during the transition from the last millennium to the current. Presenting a report by the National Bureau of Statistics,   last year, the head of the NBS bureau, Yemi Kale said: “Despite the fact that the Nigerian economy is growing, the proportion of Nigerians living in poverty is increasing every year, although it declined between 1985 and 1992, and between 1996 and 2004.”

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Senator Buruji Kashamuh on Wednesday , kicked against the constitution of a parallel PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation

A few Nigerians imputed extraneous meanings into what many perceived as the “combative” interface between the Nigerian Army and Daily Trust newspaper, a publications outfit based in Abuja. While many Nigerians were fast to take side with the Army without dissecting the issues due to its patriotism, a few persons still unjustifiably bandied all manner […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Udung Uko Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State has lost over 450 of its members to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Democratic Republic of Congo’s electoral commission on Thursday declared opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi the surprise winner of 30 December presidential election, a result that sets the stage for the country’s first democratic transfer of power.

LAGOS—FORMER Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George, yesterday, said that the 2019 general elections in Lagos State will be a contest against the monstrous, dictatorial, reckless, godfatherism that has held the state hostage for the past 20 years.

Many people have been reported trapped as two coaches on a train derailed in Lagos Thursday morning.

More than 1 in 10 children worldwide are affected by armed conflict.

Fulani herders in Taraba State have presented a proposal for the modification of ranching law and other palliatives to Governor Darius Ishaku.