An Upper Area Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered that an 11-year-old boy of Tipper Garage Nyanya, Abuja, be given 15 strokes of the cane for stealing. Police prosecutor Silas Nanpan had told the court that on July 2, one, Mustapha Haruna, of Area B, Blo...
The NYSC Coordinator in the FCT, Mr Frank Ekpunobi, on Tuesday assured corps members of adequate security in the territory. Ekpunobi gave the assurance when speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) during the second day of registration exercise a...
The Senate has endorsed the removal of Alhaji Muhammadu Gwaska as Commissioner representing Nasarawa State in the Federal Character Commission (FCC). The Senate's approval followed its consideration of the report of the Committee on Federal Charact...
Dr. Jim Yong Kim resumed duties on Monday as the new World Bank President, stressing the role of the 188-member organisation in helping address global growth risks and providing development assistance. "The World Bank has an economic and moral imp...
Jamaul Taylor aka 'Young Krazzle' is a 26-year-old hip-hop artiste from Madison Heights, Virginia, in the United States of America, who has been in the American entertainment industry for over five years. In this exclusive chat with ANTHONY ADA...
The curfew imposed on Kaduna state following the violence that trailed the bombing of three Churches and subsequent reprisal attacks in the state has been further relaxed across the state. A press release issued by the Senior Assistant on Media to the ...
Men of the South African Police Command have arrested a middle-aged Nigerian man (Names withheld) alongside three Zambian nationals for illegally transporting drugs worth R34 million into the country. According to a police source who spoke with our Cor...
Firefighters grappling with the two most destructive wildfires on record in Colorado reported progress on Monday, but were steeling themselves for a long season in what has already been a dangerously active fire year in the western U.S.. The fires, whi...
The eastern third of the US braced for more scorching temperatures on Tuesday as nearly 1.4 million homes and businesses from Illinois to Virginia remained without power heading into the Independence Day holiday. Violent weekend storms and days of oppr...
Mr John Odah, the former General Secretary of NLC, has said that he will not settle out-of-court with his former employers, insisting on his reinstatement without preconditions. Odah had sued the NLC at the National Industrial Court for what he called ...
Sen Gyang Dantong on Tuesday declared that persistent attacks on Plateau rural communities could only be halted if security officers raided settlements believed to have stockpiled arms. ``The victims of the attacks have always claimed that they know th...
Two roadside bombs targeting Shi'ite pilgrims killed four people and wounded 21 on Tuesday near the central Iraqi city of Kerbala, hospital and police sources said. The attack, 80 km southwest of Baghdad, is the latest in a series of bombings in Ir...
The four staff members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) detained in Libya returned to The Hague, an ICC spokesman said on Tuesday. "They are reunited with their families now," ICC spokesman Fadi El Abdallah told Xinhua. "T...
A night fire outbreak has gutted part of Yola Prisons, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The fire, which started around 8 p.m. caused panic in Yola town with major streets leading to the prison, located near the palace of Lamido of Adamawa cord...
Twenty ships carrying various goods are expected to berth at the Port Harcourt port between July 2 and 4. This was contained in the shipping position released by the Nigerian Ports Authority on Monday in Port Harcourt. It said that one other ship would...