West African nations will seek a UN Security Council mandate for military intervention in Mali where rising Islamist militancy has made the country an international security threat. Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou, who made this known on Monda...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has reiterated the resolve of the electoral commission to conduct more credible elections in 2015, stressing that the commission is fully prepared for the ele...
Super Eagles stand in skipper, Vincent Enyeama, who has been accused of being responsible for the 1-1 draw against Malawi in Blantyre last Saturday, has put up a brave and called on his teammates to forget the encounter and the World Cup qualifi...
President Goodluck Jonathan would declare open a high level Business and Investment Summit on Nigeria on the sidelines of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics’ games in July. The Europe Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) r...
The Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria (MULAN), on Monday advised the Federal Government to dialogue with the Boko Haram sect, to curb the spate of violence in the country. MULAN made the call in a communique issued at the end of its 17th National E...
A landlady, Justina Solomon, who allegedly bathed a man with acid, was on Monday charged before an Ikorodu Magistrates' Court in Lagos State. The accused, 43, who resides at 22, Olopomeji St., Odogunyan in Ikorodu, is facing a charge of assault. Sh...
Alhaji Kawu Baraje, the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has dismissed on going merger talks between the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) as wishful thinking. Baraje in a statemen...
Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos has met behind closed doors with the families of victims of DANA plane crash on ways to fast track the release of the corpses for proper burial. The meeting which lasted for five hours was to address areas of concern ove...
The Peoples` Democratic Party (PDP) has called on security agencies and election observers to proffer ways of ensuring that the forthcoming governorship election in Edo was peaceful and transparent. Mr Olosa Metuh, the party`s National Publicity Secret...
As calm returns to Jos, after Sunday suicide bomb attack on Christ Chosen Church, the state government has cautioned youths against taking the law into their hands after such incidents. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Abraham Yiljap, told the News...
Afghanistan officials said on Monday that some 70 people were trapped in rubble after mud houses collapsed from two strong earthquakes. The earthquakes also triggered a landslide in the mountains of northern Afghanistan, officials added. A remote villa...
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) on Monday called for probe of the alleged $600,000 bribe against a “key member” of the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Regime. This is contained in a statement...
No less than 56 African ministers of tourism and 25 top officials of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) will converge on Nigeria for the ``53rd Session of African Ministers of Tourism’’. Chief Edem Duke, the Minister of C...
Gov. Martin Elechi of Ebonyi has urged the three tiers of government and the traditional institutions to use culture to stabilise the country. Elechi gave the advice on Sunday during a fund raising ceremony for the construction of a...
Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom said on Sunday that he had earlier lodged a complaint with the management of Dana Air before the unfortunate plane crashed at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos on June 3. Akpabio told reporters at the Murtala Muhammed International ...