The Anambra State Fire Service said it would charge anyone arrested for setting fire in bushes in the state with arson. A Deputy Director in the read more »

A 19-year-old tricyclist , Ayomide Yakubu, was on Thursday brought to an Ikeja Magistrate’s’ Court in Lagos for allegedly beating up a police read more »

A retired diplomat, Mr Oseloka Obaze, has described late Adinoyi Onukaba, a veteran journalist who died in a car crash recently as ‘a patriotic read more »

The Taliban on Thursday stoned a woman to death and whipped a man on charges of adultery in Afghanistan’s north-eastern Badakhshan province, an read more »

World Bank Group President Jim Yong-Kim on Thursday said the bank was working toward raising 1. 6 billion dollars to build social protection systems read more »

Some residents of Ejigbo in Lagos State have decried what they described as “outrageous bills’’ often issued to them by Ikeja Electricity read more »

”Where in the world are you” Ojo had asked in a text message to me during my recent quick break That set the stage for our meeting the moment I read more »

Contractors likely breached security and handed over documents describing the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of hacking tools to anti-secrecy read more »

Barcelona came from the dead to maul PSG 6-1 to qualify for Champions League Quarter-Finals on a 6-5 aggregate. The great team, thus, made Champions read more »

Land owners in petroleum exploration area of Alkaleri Local Government of Bauchi State have called on oil companies engaged in exploration to pay read more »

The 31 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army (NA), Minna, on Wednesday said that it was collaborating with the Mallam Garba Foundation to train 183 read more »

Female lawyers in Abuja have called on women to resist the temptation to make unrealistic demands compelling their husbands to cut corners. They read more »

The National Association of the Blind (NAB), has expressed displeasure over plans by the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative to construct read more »

An estranged husband, Clifford Monday, on Wednesday admitted in an Akure Customary Court that he only beat his wife, Bukola, whenever she flouted his read more »

The Ogun House of Assembly has expressed concern over the rising cases of land grabbing in the state, in spite of the Anti Land Grabbing Law passed read more »

The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has called on Nigerian women to be “bold for change’’ and work towards redefining opportunities read more »

Former President Obama was reportedly furious after President Trump fired off tweets accusing him of wiretapping Trump Tower before the presidential read more »

An Upper Area Court in Mararaba, Nasarawa State on Wednesday sentenced a vagabond, 27-year-old Usman Audu to six months imprisonment for stealing a read more »

The World Rugby has announced its “Be Bold for Change Initiative” with a renewed commitment to further the profile, development, sustainability read more »

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), says it will not hesitate to shut any fuel station selling above the government’s approved pump price read more »

The Lagos State Government has restated its position that it has not introduced charges for the consumption of water from boreholes neither has it read more »

Afrobeat star, Ayo Balogun popularly known as ‘WizKid’ has bagged an iHeart Radio Award for his collaboration on ‘One dance’ with American read more »

Two Vietnamese children have died after eating poisonous toad eggs in central Vietnam, local media reported on Tuesday. The Tuoi Tre newspaper read more »

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, arrived on Tuesday to an “emergency visit” to drought-stricken Somalia, saying he wanted to “focus on read more »

A nutritionist, Mrs Ngozi Nnam, has advised Nigerians to eat adequate balanced diet to live healthy, saying that adequate diet can prevent read more »

Historical movie “76”, has won five categories out of its fourteen nominations at the fifth edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards read more »

For a while, Nicki Minaj has had a comparatively reserved sense of style compared with some of her older, flashy tactics. But following a bit of read more »

The Tiv traditional council has banished Stephen Nyitse, the prankster from Ushongo local Government Area of Benue State who sat on the revered read more »

…what is wrong with the naira is what is wrong with Nigeria itself. It is quite fundamental and predates most of the leaders that we like to blame read more »

Have you just bought a cell-phone and are wondering how to use it? It is written. Check the manual. Have you just bought a television and you want to read more »

A team of Thai veterinary surgeons on Monday successfully removed nearly a thousand coins from a turtle’s stomach, the world’s first such read more »

A 23-year-old student, Muhammad Sani, was on Friday arraigned in a Kano Magistrates’ Court for allegedly raping a 9-year-old orange seller. Sani, read more »

Mobile phone dealers in the FCT on Friday expressed their readiness to embrace the rebranded Nokia 3310 when re-introduced to the Nigerian read more »

Samsung Group leader Jay Lee will go on trial for bribery and embezzlement on March 9, a court said, amid a corruption scandal that rocked South read more »

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the nomination of Gov. Abubakar Bello Sani as the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate for the read more »

A Nollywood actress, Bukky Wright, on Thursday advised other celebrities to be careful about the personal information they posted on social read more »

King of Fuji music, Chief Wasiu Ayinde is 60 today and many of is fans have been calling to congratulate him. Popularly known as K1 De Ultimate, the read more »

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has alleged that the failure of security agencies to arrest those responsible for the killings in Southern read more »

Ms Teju Ajani, YouTube Partnership Manager, Sub-Saharan African on Thursday disclosed that YouTube mobile watch-time in Nigeria had increased by 150 read more »

Nature and history have their peculiar ways of shaping the destiny of a man or a nation. For Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Grand Commander of the Federal read more »

The Nigerian Association of Women in Agriculture (NAWIA) has called on the three tiers of government to allow women inherit 60 per cent of farmlands read more »

Democratic Republic of Congo’s main opposition coalition said it had named the son of its late leader Etienne Tshisekedi to succeed him, but some read more »

Zimbabwe on Friday appealed to international donors for 100 million dollars aid after floods killed 246 people and left 2,000 homeless since read more »

Maje Ayida, Toke Makinwa’s estranged husband has sued her for a whooping N100m for defamation of character. Makinwa, a TV host had written a read more »

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has appealed to wealthy individuals to marry more than one wife in order to reduce the number of unmarried read more »

The 63-year-old, who has been with her partner, Stedman Graham, since 1986, told Good Housekeeping magazine that she never wanted to be a mom because read more »

The Nigeria Police has deployed surveillance helicopters and Special Police Forces to rescue two German archaeologists abducted in Southern Kaduna on read more »

Three European countries, Germany, Italy and Belgium have deported no fewer than 43 Nigerians for committing various offences. The deportees arrived read more »

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana on Thursday said it is blasphemous and disgusting for former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori who is now an read more »

According to Zanna Ibrahim, the Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, Miss Ewere Samuel had given birth to a baby girl and after two weeks, read more »

Somali President Mohamed Mohamed on Thursday appointed Hassan Khaire as the new prime minister. Khaire, who worked for Norwegian Refugee Council read more »

Some farmers in Aboh-Ogwashi community in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta on Thursday grumbled about the destruction of their farmlands read more »

A twitter user posted this photo of his aunty breastfeeding his puppies after their mother died. read more »

The Canadian Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos, Mr Lajos Arendas, on Wednesday, said that it was imperative for Nigerians to know of the read more »

Mr Abubakar Sadiq-Bello, Commissioner of Police in Nasarawa State, on Wednesday said the command would unravel the circumstances surrounding the read more »

President Ilham Aliyev has appointed his wife, Mehriban Aliyeva, as first vice president, the latest move seen as tightening the family’s grip on read more »

Britain on Wednesday pledged 200 million pounds (250 million dollars) to South Sudan and Somalia where famine has been declared in parts of the read more »

A gun-wielding robber, Gbenga Babatunde, 35, arrested by operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police, Command, has confessed read more »

A Port Harcourt based pastor who allegedly placed a curse on Big Brother Naija show sponsors on his facebook page has been called out by popular read more »

Renowned Nollywood film producer, Kunle Afolanyan, on Wednesday in Lagos advised directors and producers on steps they could take to prevent “Area read more »

A Japanese zoo culled 57 of its 164 monkeys after finding they carried “invasive alien” genes, said a local official said on Wednesday. Tsutomu read more »

As President Muhammadu Buhari continues battles with his health in London by extending his stay, the group behind his predicament has been read more »

Residents of Okitipupa in Ondo State have continued to lament the high cost of kerosene and cooking gas as scarcity of the products bite harder. The read more »

Federal retirees in Ogun on Tuesday lamented the hardships they are facing due to non-payment of their pensions and gratuities. Addressing a news read more »