The BBC has suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack following a campaign by Iranian authorities against its Persian service, director-general Mark Thompson said on Wednesday. Thompson also reported attempts to jam satellite feeds of the British Broadcast...
A bus carrying Belgian children home from a school ski trip crashed into the wall of a tunnel in the Valais region of Switzerland, killing 28 people, 22 of them children, police said on Wednesday. The bus, transporting 52 people, mostly school children...
Neo-crooner Bruno Mars is only the 10th man in the magazine’s history to grace the cover of Playboy. Mars appears on the cover of the April 2012 issue, which celebrates sex and music with Miss April, Raquel Pomplun. She is all...
Chelsea captain John Terry has dismissed claims that player power was to blame for the sacking of Andre Villas-Boas. Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny and former Blues boss Luiz Felipe Scolari have both been critical of the players at S...
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday sealed up the premises of the MTN Call Centre in Jos, citing the ``undue exploitatiion and shortchanging of staff''. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Jibrin Bancir, Chairman, Plate...
The police in Katsina State have confirmed the discovery of two dead bodies in Jibia local government of the state as they make frantic efforts to track their killers The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Shehu Muhammad, told newsmen in...
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, yesterday, announced the arrest of 15 suspected members of various cult groups in allegedly involved in the upsurge of violent clashes in the State owned Niger Delta University (NDU) and some parts of the State....
Prominent chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have endorsed the nomination form of Chief Mrs Remi Adiuku Bakare, who is bidding for the party’s National Auditor position at its forthcoming national convention. Adiuku, a former Commis...
A 65-year old widower has threatened to take legal action to compel the Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC) to pay his late wife’s death benefits. Mr. Abraham Agwo, was the husband of late Mrs. Matilda N Agwo (nee Uzowuru), an FRSC officer who...
Three prominent opposition members resigned from the Syrian National Council on Tuesday, saying they have given up on trying to make the group a more effective. “We are resigning because our effort to make the group a more effective player in the...
Former Ekiti State Governor Segun Oni has filed an appeal before the Supreme Court, asking it to set aside the judgments of the Court of Appeal in Ilorin and Ado Ekiti which nullified his election and upheld the election of Governor Kayode Fayemi. The ...
Imo Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammad Abubakar, has assured that the state police command would arrest the kidnappers of former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Chief Goddy Dikeocha. Abubakar who gave the assurance on Tuesday in Owerri told jo...
As the Osun State congress of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) remains four days away, five of the leading Chairmanship aspirants have stepped down for the consensus candidate, Honourable Kayode Idowu. The aspirants in a joint statement ye...
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market and other Institutions, Herman Hembe, has said the failure of the capital market saw over N20 trillion of investors' funds going down the drain, stressing th...
The naira appreciated from near a month low on speculation it will be supported as stronger oil prices outweighed an increase in petrol import orders. The currency strengthened 0.3 per cent to 157.85 per dollar on the interbank market as of 5:48 ...