Nigeria made history, yesterday, with the commissioning of the first Presidential Library in the African continent. The multi-billion naira Library read more »

The police high command has arrested the most trusted herbalist of the late kidnap-for-ransom kingpin, Henry Chibueze, popularly known as Vampire, read more »

PSG coach Unai Emery was fighting for survival Thursday after his side were swept away 6-1 by Barcelona in a Champions League rout described as a read more »

Healthy living isn’t easy. For some, it comes naturally, but for those folks who are already overweight, large enough that it’s difficult or even read more »

Some 8,000 people were evacuated Thursday from homes, shops and offices in the western German city of Duesseldorf after an unexploded World War II read more »

cientists have made major progress in efforts to effectively cleanup the environment following oil spills in producing areas such as the Niger Delta read more »

Glaxosmithkline has appointed Omongiade Ehighebolo as its new Communications and Government Affairs Director (Pharmaceuticals) for West and Central read more »

No fewer than 10 persons were feared killed and scores injured yesterday in violent clashes that erupted between Hausa and Yoruba communities in Ile read more »

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has identified obesity as a potent risk factor for the development of kidney disease even as it said that read more »

Cyber security in Nigeria is becoming an increasingly pertinent topic as it poses a growing threat to the country’s security. Cyber threats and read more »

As part of efforts to improve academic performance and raise the standard of living of students, Igbobi College Old Boys Association and the Parent read more »

A young girl seeking admission into any of the country’s 104 Federal Government Colleges (Unity Schools) from Anambra State must score 139 points read more »

Veteran French rocker Johnny Hallyday announced Wednesday that he is being treated for cancer, but added in a Twitter message that his life was not read more »

The Federal Government has announced that it is currently implementing measures and accelerating actions, geared towards delivering on policies that read more »

The Federal Government has unveiled plans to restore crude oil production to 2. 2 million barrels per day (mbpd) and increase its revenues by read more »

The Federal Government spent N2. 4 trillion on the importation of fuels and lubricants in 2016, according to the National Bureau of Statistics read more »

The last time governors of the South East geo-political zone met on the aegis of the regional Governors’ Forum, was in October 2014, at Enugu few read more »

The anti-corruption crusade in Nigeria is getting “curiouser and curiouser” by the day as combined efforts of anti-corruption and intelligence read more »

Indian doctors said Thursday that an Egyptian who was believed to be the world’s heaviest woman had successfully undergone weight-loss surgery read more »

The immediate past government in Ondo State led by Dr. Olusegun Mimiko said it left N20 billion in the state coffers, refuting allegations by the read more »

The UN’s World Food Programme said two of its Malaysian staff left North Korea Thursday after Kuala Lumpur and Pyongyang banned each other’s read more »

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) may not meet its N1. 1trillion revenue target for 2017 as smuggling continues at the nation’s points of entry. The read more »

Ghanaian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. William Awinador-Kanyirige, has saluted Nigerians for their role in the actualization of the country’s read more »

Jigawa State governor, Muhammed Badaru, on Wednesday said only civil servants with 95 per cent attendance at work in a month would receive read more »

With #IStandWithNigeria now in the past and Social Media Week ending last week, I have been thinking a lot about uses and effectiveness of social read more »

Many animal species are known to give off chemical signals to attract sexual partners, but scientists still debate whether pheromones used in read more »

One of the biggest issues affecting most people that very few talk about in African tech is the problem of corruption. It exists, and we cannot wish read more »

In a report done for BloombergMarkets by BaileyLipschultz on the 17th of February, 2017 (last week), the online media submitted that Shale drilling read more »

Despite losing $15. 2 million or N4. 724 billion monthly, the management of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC), covering Oyo, Ogun, read more »

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has stated that its upcoming Nigerian Manufacturing and Equipment Expo would boost activities in the read more »

When the United Nations raised the alarm that Nigeria accounts for about 350 million of the 500 million illegal small arms circulating in the West read more »

The Main Organising Committee of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon yesterday commenced the disbursement of prize money to foreign athletes after read more »

Super Eagles’ former assistant coach, Joseph Erico, has described as unfortunate the exclusion of players from the Nigeria Professional Football read more »

China on Wednesday called on North Korea to suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for the US and South Korea halting annual military read more »

Mexico has objected to the United States about a potential plan to separate immigrant children from their parents if they try to illegally enter the read more »

US President Donald Trump faced mounting concern from fellow Republicans Tuesday over their party's plan to replace Obamacare, with conservatives read more »

A combination of external factors should help Nigeria maintain elevated oil production over the shortterm, with the governmenthoping to further read more »

The statement credited to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, urging Nigerians to disregard another presidential directive to read more »

Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, on Tuesday adjourned till April 6 further hearing in the case of seizure of the read more »

A teachers’ strike for higher pay in Argentina forced the suspension of classes Monday at the start of the new school term, in a challenge to read more »

GoPro Inc. fell to a record low Monday after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. became the second firm in two days to recommend selling the stock, highlighting read more »

Online luxury retailer Yoox Net-a-Porter said it’s developing technology to allow well-to-do customers to buy products directly through WhatsApp as read more »

Fast-rising star Chance the Rapper on Monday donated $1 million to Chicago’s schools as he waded into the middle of a political feud that threatens read more »

Umaru Ibrahim, managing director of Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) ripped open the state of the Nigerian banking industry to members of read more »

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in Somalia Tuesday to discuss a hunger crisis which has pushed the country to the verge of famine with read more »

President Donald Trump’s housing secretary provoked a firestorm Monday by saying slaves brought from Africa were “immigrants” who dreamed of read more »

Malaysia will wait to question suspects in the Kim Jong-Nam killing believed to be holed up in Kuala Lumpur’s North Korean embassy “even if it read more »

Within a few months after its introduction as a temporary means of livelihood for the unemployed persons, the NPower job initiative of the Federal read more »

International boxing champion, Bash Ali has filed a N1 billion suit against the minister of sports before a High Court of Abuja, over the alleged read more »

What causes malaria in children? Malaria is caused by the malaria parasite, known as Plasmodium falciparum, which is usually injected into the blood read more »

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has vowed to deal with any Boko Haram member who might be hiding in the state. Bello, who made the pledge in Kastina read more »

Israeli archeologists have unearthed a “rare and mysterious” Bronze Age dolmen in the Galilee hills, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on read more »

A new co-operation deal between Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company Plc (NMRC) and Kaduna State government will soon deepen mortgage penetration and read more »

More than a decade after Lagos authorities restored sanity to the changing commercial real estate values in the heart of the Lagos Island business read more »

The award-winning children’s novelist Paula Fox, known for frankly exploring abandonment and loss, has died in New York. She was 93. Fox died at a read more »

The rapper Future made history on Sunday by debuting at number one on the US chart in back-to-back weeks with different albums. The Atlanta rapper read more »

Globalisation is a phenomenon embedded in bio-cultural flows and interconnections. It is not innocent and this underscores the reason emotions as read more »

When President Muhammadu Buhari made a habit of cancelling his public engagements at very short notice, last year and rumours became rife about his read more »

The Bank of Industry (BoI) has reiterated that its Youth Entrepreneurship Support (YES) programme is unlike the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment read more »

The Value Added Tax Act (VATA or the Law), 2007 governs the administration of VAT in Nigeria. VAT is levied at each stage of the production chain at read more »

A Niger Delta Ex-Militant on Monday applauded Acting President Yemi Osinbajo for directing oil firms to relocate their headquarters to the oil read more »

The Bauchi State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps impounded 238 vehicles from Feb. 1 to March 5, for failure to install speed limiter. The read more »

Nuclear-armed North Korea fired four ballistic missiles east of the peninsula on Monday, with Japan saying three of them landed in its read more »

A pending proposal to adopt a private sector-led ‘bad debt’ company is raising concerns on sustainability, cost management and social concerns. read more »

A former governor of Adamawa State, Bala Ngilari, has been handed a five-year jail term without an option of fine by an Adamawa high court on read more »

FBI Director James Comey has asked the Justice Department to publicly refute President Donald Trump's explosive, unsubstantiated accusation that read more »

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger’s seemingly extraordinary decision to drop Alexis Sanchez before Saturday’s defeat at Liverpool was the result of a read more »

Police armed with assault rifles cordoned off the entrance to North Korea’s embassy in the Malaysian capital Monday, as speculation mounted that read more »

Malaysia issued an arrest warrant for a North Korean airline employee Friday over the assassination of the half-brother of Pyongyang’s leader, read more »

The Emir of Bukkuyum in Zamfara, Alhaji Muhammadu Usman, has said that over 300 children died as a result of lead poisoning at Yar-Galma village of read more »

Malaysia issued an arrest warrant for a North Korean airline employee Friday over the assassination of the half-brother of Pyongyang’s leader, read more »

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, says Nigeria has the potential to become the world’s defence systems solution hub given its read more »

The Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu, on Friday expressed concern over some abandoned water and irrigation projects in Anambra. The read more »

Infertility has many causes but one that has been overlooked for a so long is Vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that exists in read more »

Chairman, Senate Committee on Privatization, Senator Ben Murray Bruce and the Chairman of Nigeria Automotive Manufacturers Association (NAMA), who is read more »

After days of frantic search for dreaded 36-year-old kidnap kingpin, Henry Chibueze, popularly known as Vampire, the end came in the early hours of read more »

We are all enamoured with life-altering impacts technology has in our lives: even the littlest of tech innovation has a way of conditioning the way read more »

Nintendo’s Switch console went on sale Friday in a global launch seen as key to the Japanese videogame giant reversing flagging sales and moving read more »

The five principles of progress Progress doesn’t exist in a vacuum; it involves certain elements or factors within which it must operate. These read more »

Housing is an essential component of our existence and that was why successive administrations have repeatedly said they the need of about millions read more »

The law of the first statement – This law states that, in a busy world, your first statement must grab the prospect’s attention, then elicit the read more »

The veteran US radio personality Elvis Duran got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday surrounded by family and friends as well as a read more »

NAMA installs navigational aids After much hues and cries, all appears set for traffic diversion to Kaduna airport beginning from Wednesday, when read more »

The time is 2:10pm. There is a flurry of activities at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, Ogun State. As guests hurried read more »

FIFA have stated that fans at next year’s World Cup and this year’s Confederations Cup in Russia will need special identity cards before they can read more »

Nigeria’s anti-graft agency on Thursday filed corruption charges against oil majors Shell and Eni over a $1. 3 billion offshore block deal. The read more »

The UN said on Friday that it has not received a letter reportedly written by a former President of the Nigerian Senate, Sen. Ameh Ebute. Ebute’s read more »

Soccer fans willing to watch Super Eagles’ international friendly games against Senegal and Burkina Faso in London should be ready to pay £10. The read more »

Cybersecurity stakeholders have urged relevant organisations to ensure that the cybersecurity framework, focuses on the global security standards to read more »

The trial of Olisa Metuh, a former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was stalled again on Thursday in an FCT High Court, Maitama, due read more »

A self-confessed leader of Eiye confraternity in Shomolu area of Lagos State, Ibrahim Balogun, also known as ‘Jpron’ has been re-arrested after read more »

Non-stop vomiting, a puffy face and the constant need to pee: Volunteers for a week-long loop around the Moon may be in for a rough ride even if all read more »

Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer lost an annual bonus and the company counsel his job after an investigation showed the company mishandled an epic read more »

Smartphones have become a mine of personal information, holding bank data, credit card information and addresses, making them the preferred target read more »

Rio de Janeiro’s carnival crowned a champion of its elite samba school parade on Wednesday, capping festivities marred by two accidents that read more »

First it was John Odigie Oyegun, national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, who voiced concern. He was followed closely by read more »

Bimpe Adesanya has lived in England all her life. A nurse by profession, but her over three decades in the UK has not offered much in terms of read more »

The Federal Government has borrowed US$1 billion via a Global Medium Term Note or 15-year Eurobond that became effective on February 14, 2017. It was read more »

Following advances in medical science and investments in health care, a new study has predicted that most humans will live up to 120 years by 2030 read more »

World number two Novak Djokovic battled into the quarter-finals of the ATP Acapulco event on Wednesday, rallying for a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 triumph over read more »

South African telecoms giant MTN said Thursday that it made a $200 million loss in 2016 — the company’s first — after suffering a huge fine in read more »

Photos showing hundreds of prisoners in a Philippine jail sitting naked while being searched for contraband have triggered accusations of further read more »

Rihanna never went to college but the R&B superstar voiced delight as she was presented an award by Harvard University for her humanitarian read more »

The Federal Government has approved N701 billion as Power Assurance Guarantee for the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) Company. NBET is the read more »

A fifty-four-year-old businessman, Ibrahim Ibuoye, has narrated how he escaped the assassin’s bullet a few minutes after he was released from read more »

Amid raging controversy over the death of two students of Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos State, parents have blamed the government and management of read more »

Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr has listed goalkeeper Carl Ikeme, midfielder Ogenyi Onazi and forwards Ahmed Musa and Kelechi read more »

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a turn for the worse yesterday as the two factions battled for the control of the read more »

Nigeria has a penal code and yet there are incessant cases of violence against women and children. How does she react to this? She said our problem read more »

Top Democrats warned Republicans Monday not to stymie investigations into contacts between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, as the White read more »

Botswana’s Central Bank left its benchmark lending rate unchanged at 5. 5 per cent on Tuesday, saying the inflation forecast will remain low and read more »

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker will on Wednesday unveil his plan for the EU’s future after Britain’s departure, his spokesman read more »

An air strike has killed an Afghan Taliban commander who twice oversaw the capture of a strategic northern city, officials said Monday, in a major read more »

To facilitate government policies and accelerate development of Edo State, Governor Godwin Obaseki must appoint members of his cabinet urgently. A read more »

Finnish brand Nokia, a former mobile star, on Sunday launched three new Android smartphones and unveiled a revamped version of its iconic 3310 model read more »

Mr Emeka Ihedioha, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, has kicked against recognising Alhaji Modu Sheriff as the Peoples read more »

The desire to give Lagos a world-class transportation system apparently informed the recent disclosure by Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode that read more »

Perhaps, the Nigeria Football Federation’s (NFF) President, Amaju Pinnick, was too hasty in announcing the federation’s decision to team up with read more »

Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika is “doing well” despite a health scare last week which forced him to postpone a meeting with the German read more »

Britain’s House of Lords will Monday begin detailed scrutiny of the bill empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to kickstart Brexit, with the fate read more »

Attackers opened fire on a prison bus outside Colombo on Monday, killing five prisoners and two armed guards in the worst gang-related violence to read more »

South Korea’s president expressed “belated regret” Monday over the scandal that triggered her impeachment, as the Constitutional Court wrapped read more »

Mauricio Pochettino believes Harry Kane is on course to becoming a Tottenham Hotspur great after the striker scored the 100th club goal of his read more »

"Moonlight," a poignant story of human connection and self-discovery in the tough projects of southern Florida, won the best picture Oscar on Sunday, read more »

Viola Davis won an Oscar on her third try on Sunday, for her acclaimed supporting role in Denzel Washington’s big screen adaptation of August read more »

Donald Trump will have a chance to breathe new momentum into his month-old presidency in an address to Congress Tuesday night, but he will need to read more »

The Federal Government has streamlined visa and immigration processes to spur inflow of foreign direct investments in a bid to hasten the recovery of read more »

Three weeks after Prof. Maduike Ezeibe of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Abia State claimed to have discovered a cure for Human read more »

At least seven soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram attack on military positions in northeast Nigeria, a civilian vigilante and a security source read more »

A Saudi minister held talks with an Iranian delegation about the possibility of Iranian pilgrims rejoining the annual hajj despite ruptured ties read more »

President Donald Trump declared China the “grand champions” of currency manipulation, just hours after his new Treasury secretary pledged a more read more »

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has thrown its weight behind the planned legislation by the Emir of Kano on second wife, describing it as a read more »

Authorised distributor of Mercedes-Benz in Nigeria, Weststar Associates Limited, on Wednesday, in Lagos, unveiled about four brand new Mercedes Benz read more »

The Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL), a non-profit organisation founded to complement government’s efforts in youths’ empowerment, has begun read more »

Taking popular heartburn drugs for prolonged periods has been linked to serious kidney problems, including kidney failure. The sudden onset of kidney read more »

Last Christmas, I decided to prepare stuffing from scratch to take along with my turkey to our family Christmas dinner. I went ahead to buy four read more »

There is currently no cure for the group of eye diseases that make up glaucoma. However, new research points to a way of preventing the disease, as read more »

Despite the grim challenges arising from the N330 billion fine imposed on it by telecommunication regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) read more »

An unmanned cargo ship packed with food and supplies for astronauts arrived safely Thursday at the International Space Station, a day after SpaceX read more »

Alphabet on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing Uber and its self-driving vehicle unit Otto of stealing technology from Waymo, a subsidiary of the read more »

Two Croatian men have been charged with violating public order, a judge said Thursday, after they allegedly racially insulted Oscar-winning US actor read more »

The Nigeria, Sovereign Investment Agency (NSIA), operators of the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), has disclosed that this year alone, a read more »

The dollar came under more pressure Friday and Asian markets saw fresh losses after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin lowered US growth expectations read more »

Analyzing Nigeria is arduous if you seek to speak truth to power. Many Nigerians, mostly the leaders and elite make speeches unceasingly. Such read more »

A novel but controversial technique known as gene-editing has produced pigs that could be resilient to an often fatal virus that costs European read more »

Ordinarily, the interception and seizure of a truckload of pump action rifles by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) should be a cause read more »

Eden Hazard has warned Chelsea not to lose their focus as the runaway Premier League leaders approach the final furlong in the title race, while read more »

Former Green Eagles winger, Adegoke Adelabu believes the time to ‘force’ the long-serving president of the Confederation of African Football read more »

Romelu Lukaku’s return to fitness has given Everton extra reason for optimism as they prepare to welcome their former manager David Moyes back to read more »

More than 300 million people of all ages suffer from depression, which is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and is a major contributor to read more »

An alleged imposter who claimed to be Ernest Erowo with a facebook account opened in the name of Prophet Ernest Erowo Untouchable of City of Faith read more »

Again, more studies are linking crude oil products to cancer. A study suggests that with the rising cases of oil spills, pipeline destruction and gas read more »

US Democrats, licking their wounds from last year’s election debacle, will pick a new leader Saturday to take the fight to President Donald Trump read more »

The bodies of 13 migrants, including two teenagers, who died of suffocation in a shipping container bound for Europe have been found in Libya and 56 read more »

Though the defense of the 2017 budget estimates are still ongoing at the National Assembly, the Budget Office of the Federation has declared that the read more »

To curtail cybercrime in Nigeria and other parts of Africa, experts have canvassed a stricter and multi- pronged approach. The cost of cybercrime read more »

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, was yesterday re-arraigned at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), on an 18-count further amended charge. He read more »

The Central Bank of Nigeria, following the meeting of the National Economic Council held on Thursday February 16, 2017 during which the Bank was read more »

Most of the time, one cannot but wonder if something is uniquely wrong with Nigeria’s destiny, considering that any forward step she takes is read more »

Youths and members of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) yesterday protested in Abuja against the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians read more »

Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has announced a minor cabinet reshuffle involving three commissioners. A statement issued in Asaba on Thursday by the read more »

Scientists have made two major breakthroughs with the discovery that two faraway objects may once have made up a binary asteroid in Earth’s solar read more »

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) have urged government to create people’s oriented policies in order to read more »

For several hours, human and vehicular traffic along Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway was yesterday paralysed as rioting youths and rice sellers in read more »

Australia could save AUD $3. 4 billion (USD $2. 3 billion) in healthcare costs over the remaining lifetimes of all Australians alive in 2010 by read more »

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has said that the implementation of 20 per cent duty on imported medicines and the sourcing of drugs at a read more »

A decoction from the leaves of Neem tops the list of herbal remedies for Chicken pox and other skin diseases. Other herbal remedies include Allium read more »

A performance by Katy Perry at the Brit Awards on Wednesday saw skeletons wearing outfits matching those of US President Donald Trump and his British read more »

A report titled: “JAMB Admitted Candidates by State and Gender Within Faculty Report (2010-2016),” made available to The Guardian on Monday read more »

For President Donald Trump, the battle against the press is a battle that he must win. He thinks this particular battle is greater than the one in read more »

At least five people were killed and 30 injured after a blast ripped through a building in an upscale shopping area of Pakistan’s Lahore Thursday, read more »

Ten-year-old Musa Muhammed has a face that should be on a billboard – a billboard bearing a message about endangered children. Aisha, his mother read more »

An Argentine volcanologist and a Nicaraguan guide who fell into an active volcano were in good health Wednesday after being rescued by firemen, read more »

The Federal Government’s target of 80 per cent Internet and 30 per cent broadband penetration by 2018 may become elusive as about five million read more »

There is no doubt that the renewed hostilities between Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima and his predecessor, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff over who read more »

Kelechi Iheanacho’s lack of game time at Manchester City is a form of betrayal by manager, Pep Guardiola, according to coach Manu Garba, the former read more »

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has withheld assent to four bills passed by the National Assembly last year. The four proposed laws are National read more »

By 2030 life expectancy for South Korean women could top nine decades, an average lifespan long thought to be out of reach, researchers said read more »

Troubled singer Chris Brown has been ordered to stay away from an ex-girlfriend, model Karrueche Tran, after she said he punched her and threatened read more »

As trading on bond commences on LSE platform The International Markets Unit – Head of Middle East, Africa and South Asia, London Stock Exchange, read more »

His audience was not gathered to hear him narrate some policy initiatives of the Federal Government in which some technical anecdotes would be spewed read more »

Five new US clinical studies on testosterone treatments for older men showed mixed results on whether the male hormone therapy carries cardiovascular read more »

Cameroun may meet Nigeria in their back-to-back Russia 2018 World Cup qualifiers without their African Nations Cup winning coach, Hugo read more »

Ecuadoran officials denied claims of attempted fraud in a tightly fought election as the last votes were counted Tuesday with the ruling socialists read more »

Traders increased bets that Nigeria will allow the naira to weaken after the central bank eased some capital controls and President Muhammadu Buhari, read more »

Detectives probing the assassination of Kim Jong-Un’s half-brother want to question a North Korean diplomat, Malaysia’s top policeman said read more »

The Nigeria’s Football Federation (NFF) is backing a challenge to the long-serving president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Issa read more »

Kaduna State Government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on troubled southern communities following the escalation of violence as a result of alleged read more »

Exports 597. 207m barrels of crude oil in 11 months Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC) realised ?N160. 76 billion from the sale of read more »

Scientists claim that chewing gum and bread could be bad for your health, a new study reveals. Long-term exposure to a popular food additive leaves read more »

A light aircraft exploded Tuesday in a "massive fireball" with police saying none of the five people aboard survived as it smashed into a shopping read more »

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, the world’s oldest national ruler, turns 93 on Tuesday, defiantly vowing to remain in power despite growing read more »

Globe-trotting pollutants increase chances of developing some malignant growths four times higher than predicted Invisible particles in the air we read more »

Hundreds of Epe farmers and community leaders yesterday stormed the office of the Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, to protest against the read more »

Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS), still smarting from criticisms of its controversial visibility in routine internal security read more »

Overland routes to Thailand’s flood-hit south were severed on Tuesday after two bridges collapsed following days of torrential rain that has killed read more »

Industrial action brought fresh disruption for travellers in Britain on Tuesday as rail workers and airline cabin crew walked off the job, the day read more »

The US Senate begins confirmation hearings for key nominees to Donald Trump’s cabinet Tuesday, amid concerns many of the president-elect’s picks read more »

FIFA’s ruling council on Tuesday unanimously approved an expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams in 2026, with a format of 16 groups of three read more »

Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt, once Hollywood’s most celebrated couple, have reached an agreement to keep details of their high-profile divorce read more »

German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel has decided to challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel in this year’s election, the top-selling Bild newspaper read more »

Malaysian football fans were elated Tuesday to wake up to the news that their countryman had won FIFA’s goal of the year award for his read more »

FIFA’s governing council is set to decide on Tuesday whether to expand the World Cup, a controversial idea that has created deep divisions among read more »

Hosting the Euro 2016 football tournament cost France less than 200 million euros ($211 million) but brought some 1. 22 billion euros into the read more »

President Xi Jinping will become the first Chinese president to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, as the read more »

An angry housewife, identified as Mrs. Favour Parker, has allegedly clubbed her 67-year-old husband, Leo Obriwonsi Parker, to death following an read more »

Tens of thousands of mourners led by Iran’s supreme leader gathered at Tehran University early on Tuesday for the funeral of former president Akbar read more »

Speculation surrounding Chilean forward, Alexis Sanchez’s future continues to rise as the north London club continue their quest to tie him to a read more »

Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday passed the Lagos State Sports Commission and Lagos State Sport Trust Fund Bills with the aim of ensuring an read more »

Jurgen Klopp has urged Liverpool to make amends for their FA Cup flop by delivering a dominant display in Wednesday’s League Cup semi-final first read more »

Manchester United and Liverpool have each lost an important player, but in the Premier League it is Leicester City for whom the Africa Cup of Nations read more »

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has stated that the state government was committed to a prudent management of resources as well as fiscal read more »

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has fired 12 ambassadors after they called for him to step aside and allow opposition leader Adama Barrow to take read more »

Angolan health officials said Monday they had recorded the country’s first two cases of the Zika virus, a French tourist and a resident in the read more »

Chad’s former president Hissene Habre began an appeal Monday against his life sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity after a read more »

Two major bus crashes in Morocco and Algeria killed a total of 19 people early Saturday and injured almost three dozen more, media reported. The read more »

Some electricity firms are at the verge of losing their licences three years after privatisation for failing to comply with the rules and regulations read more »

A South Korean Buddhist monk who set himself on fire during a protest against impeached President Park Geun-Hye has died, hospital officials said read more »

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to retake an area that supplies Damascus with water and rejected any negotiations on his departure at read more »

Reps yet to get copies, says House member The Senate resumes plenary today with the N7. 289 trillion 2017 budget topmost on its agenda. The Upper read more »

Five killed in fresh Borno attacks The Nigerian Army has advised members of the public to be wary of suicide bombers, who have devised a new method read more »

Air travellers to Asaba, the Delta State capital will soon get respite as ongoing work on the Instrument Landing System (ILS), the airfield lighting, read more »

Lagos State Task Force has commenced a move to protect all monumental arcades across the state from abuse by street traders and hawkers. Spokesman of read more »

The Nigeria Police Force said it had on January 1, arrested seven suspected kidnappers of a former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Bagudu read more »

The revenue generated by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) from imports, excise duties and Value Added Tax (VAT) dropped in 2016 as against the read more »

Controversial law was a proxy war to fight cleric’ President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday fired the Executive Secretary of the Financial Reporting read more »

Court grants motion for abridgement of time A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Adewale Oshodi, yesterday told a Lagos read more »

A Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday varied the bail conditions of a former Branch Manager of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Rosemary Usifo, read more »

Africa’s top ranked table tennis stars, Aruna Quadri, Omar Assar among others from Egypt and Nigeria will be representing the continent at this read more »

The Managing Partner of Hybrid Solicitors & Consult, Bimbo Atilola, has said that the Nigerian Labour Act enacted in 1974 has become obsolete, read more »

The inability of petroleum marketers to pay or service banks loans in the last two years is threatening further importation and could worsen the read more »