Chadian soldiers chases out Boko Haram from Nigerian town

Chadian soldiers have smoked out the Boko Haram insurgents out of Malumfatori town in north-eastern Nigeria, a top security source sai...

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Boko Haram: 14,000 Nigerians flee to Chad

More than 14,000 people fleeing Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria have streamed into Chad since the beginning of 2015, according to a United Nations report on Wednesda...

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More Nigerian micro-finance banks may collapse

The Managing Director of Asha Microfinance Bank, in Nigeria’s western city of Lagos, Mr Aminul Bhuiya, on Thursday raised fears about the possible collapse of more microfinance banks in the country saying this was due to high cost of operatio...

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20 Nigerian Billionaires + Richest People in Nigeria 2015

What is the secret to the success of the top 20+ richest people in Nigeria? Who are the Nigerian billionaires and how did they amass their wealth? What are the business success secrets of the successful entrepreneurs in Nigeria? What does it take to become a billionaire in Nigeria? If the answer to any of these questions interests you, then please read o...

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12-year old Russian girl commits suicide after her parents caught her watching porn

A 12-year-old girl in Russia has committed suicide after her parents banned her from watching porn sent to her by older teenage friends.  The primary school sixth grade pupil Dasha Loginova from the western city of St Petersburg jumped from a 14th floor window after arguing with her parents.  Her parents had reportedly been furious after they found her watching porn sites on the internet...

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Australian of the Year award for campaigner Rosie Batty

A woman who became a campaigner against domestic violence after her son was killed by his father last February has been named Australian of the Yea...

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Ritual killings in Nigeria

Suspected ritualist on parade at Ondo Ahead of the February general elections, ritualists are said to be on the prowl in Ondo State. The gruesome murder of two teenage girls on the farm when they went to gather firewood for their mother to prepare dinner for their different families, recently placed the state on red alert of security authoritie...

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Soldiers open fire on Borno governor’s convoy in error

Troops in Maiduguri, Borno State, ‘mistakenly’ opened fire on the convoy of Governor Kashim Shettima   as it approached a military garrison near the airpor...

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Tougher action awaits Russia from the US

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Wednesday that Washington was ready to increase sanctions on Russia over its actions in war-torn Ukrain...

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Tricks to improve your memory

If I asked you to sit down and remember a list of phone numbers or a series of facts, how would you go about it? There’s a fair chance that you’d be doing it wron...

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Nigerian military disregarded Baga town attack warnings

New evidence shows that the Nigerian military were repeatedly warned of impending Boko Haram attacks on Baga and Monguno which claimed hundreds of lives, and failed to take adequate action to protect civilians, Amnesty International claimed toda...

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Abuja consumers protest high cost of power

Business groups in Abuja, the Nigerian capital on Friday protested the hike in electricity tariff by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Compan...

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Mubarak's sons released from Egyptian prison

The two sons of Hosni Mubarak have been released from jail, a day after the fourth anniversary of the uprising that ousted the former Egyptian presiden...

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Litvinenko 'killed on third attempt'

Two prior attempts to kill ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko may have been made before he died from radiation poisoning in 2006, the BBC has learne...

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African leaders urged to do something about Boko Haram

African states should act quickly and collectively to curb the growing threat posed by Nigeria's militant Islamists, the African Union chief has sai...

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Argentina to dissolve intelligence body after prosecutor death

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has announced plans to disband Argentina's intelligence agenc...

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IS, loses Kobane and Diyala

Kurdish militia drove the Islamic State group from the Syrian town of Kobane and raised their flags on Monday, dealing the jihadists a heavy blow after months of heavy fightin...

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Angola reduces crude price to $40, trims budget

Angola’s cabinet has asked parliament to revise down the oil price assumption in the 2015 budget to $40 per barrel from its earlier projection of $81 per barrel, due to tumbling crude prices, the finance ministry sai...

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Over 5,000 IDPs seek refuge in Maiduguri

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Monday that it had so far registered 5,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) following last Sunday’s insurgents’ attack on Monguno, in Borno state...

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Zambia gets first female vice president

Zambia’s newly-elected President Edgar Lungu on Monday appointed Inonge Wina as the country’s first woman vice presiden...

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More Boko Haram fall to Nigerian Troops

Coordinated ground and air mop up activities by military personnel in the aftermath of diversionary terrorists attacks on Maiduguri and Konduga in Borno led to the destruction of dozens of more terrorists...

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Facebook unveils more apps in Nigerian and other African markets

Facebook said Monday it is testing a lightweight version of its mobile app for mobile phones with poor-quality Internet connections in emerging markets like Nigeria, South Africa, others...

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EU personnel not covering north-east elections

The European Union (EU) Election Observation Mission in Nigeria has said that it will not deploy its personnel to the north-east zone during the February general elections due to the security challenges in the affected state...

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15 killed as clashes mar Egypt revolt anniversary

Clashes between protesters and security forces left at least 15 people dead on Sunday, the anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 revolt that toppled strongman Hosni Mubara...

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A former Golden Eaglets coach, Musa Abdulahi, is dead.

Aged 61, Abdulahi died of malaria-related illness at about 2 p.m. on Sunday in his Lokoja home in Kog...

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Kano as marketers refuse to sell petrol at N87 per litre

Kano – Petrol marketers in Kano are still reluctant to sell the commodity since the reduction in its pump price to N87 per litr...

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One of WWI's bloodiest frontlines

Looking at Slovenia’s Soča Valley today, with its aquamarine river rapids, waterfalls gently tumbling down steep cliffs and dense, overgrown emerald forests, I had a hard time imagining that the area once resembled the barren and grey Soča Valley of Ernest Hemingway's novel, A Farewell to Arm...

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Boko Haram attacks key Nigerian city of Maiduguri

Nigerian Islamist Boko Haram fighters have attacked the strategically important north-eastern city of Maiduguri, with dozens reported dea...

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Australia tasks Nigeria on violence-free poll

Australia’s High Commissioner to Nigeria has appealed to political parties and their candidates to refrain from violent acts and inflammatory speeches ahead of the February general elections. Mr Jonathan Richardson, gave the advice on the occasion of the celebration of Australia Day in Abuj...

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Rockets kill 30 in Mariupol as rebels launch offensive

A series of rocket attacks has left 30 people dead and many more injured in the city of Mariupol in east Ukrain...

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Japan rebuffs IS over $200m ransom for hostages

Japan on Saturday vowed to “never give up” its struggle to save two Japanese hostages held captive by Islamic State militants after the deadline to pay their ransom passed in agonising silenc...

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British nurse now Ebola free

A British nurse who contracted Ebola while working as a volunteer in Sierra Leone said she was “happy to be alive” as she was discharged from hospital on Saturday having made a full recovery...

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My role will be traditional, says wife of Muhammadu Buhari

The wife of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Mrs Aisha Buhari, says her role under her husband’s possible presidency will be limited to traditional functions, such as visiting orphanages and receiving guests...

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Sex secrets of Nigerian wife in the US uploaded to Youtube

When the video was shown to the husband, his initial reaction was to dismiss the whole scene as a concocted fairy-tale- a sick joke that his haters had pulled, to embarrass and diminish hi...

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Grandma in School

Meet madam Priscilla Sitienei aka Gogo, a 90-year-old grand mother learning how to read and write for the very first time in her life....

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Boko Haram frees 192 women

Boko Haram has released nearly 200 hostages, most of them women, who were kidnapped from a village in the northeast Nigerian state of Yobe, a community leader and a military source told AFP Saturda...

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Lungu declared Zambia’s president-elect, after tight poll

Defence Minister Edgar Lungu of Zambia’s ruling Patriotic Front has won the country’s presidential election in a tightly fought race marred by delays, the electoral commission announced Saturday. Lungu won with a slim 48.33 percent majority, closely followed by his rival Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND) with 46.67 percent of the vot...

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APC rally venue bombed in Patience Jonathan’s town

Unidentified gunmen stormed and bombed the site of a planned rally by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Okrika, Rivers state early Saturday, though police said no lives were los...

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Fire razes building in Ibadan army barracks

Properties worth millions of naira were lost in a fire incident at the Supply and Transport Corps Barracks of the Nigerian Army at Eleyele, Ibadan, on Saturda...

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Nigerian linked with South African’s death sentence in Malaysia

A South African has been sentenced to death on drug trafficking charges in Malaysia, the African government said on Friday, citing that it would seek clemency for the accused man should the court of appeal decline to overturn the rulin...

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Court supports stripping Jihadist France citizenship

France’s top legal body ruled Friday that stripping a binational convicted jihadist of his French nationality was lawful, after his lawyer challenged the move just as the country ups its fight against extremis...

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UN condemns Myanmar monk Wirathu's 'sexist' comments

The UN human rights chief has called on Myanmar to condemn a Buddhist nationalist monk for calling a UN special envoy a "bitch" and a "whore...

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Naira in big fall at forex market

The Naira on Friday depreciated against the dollar as it traded at N208 from the N191.50 it sold for on Monday, Jan. 19...

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Ex-president Wade’s son goes on hunger strike

The son of former Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade has gone on hunger strike after being “beaten and injured” in court where he is on trial for corruption during his time as a minister, his lawyers and supporters said Thursda...

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Greek elections: Syriza asks voters to end 'humiliation'

The leader of Greek left-wing party Syriza says an end to "national humiliation" is near, as opinion polls put the party ahead three days before the general electio...

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Living in: 2015’s hottest cities

2015 has no shortage of must-see places. Publications such as the New York Times, Rough Guides and Lonely Planet all put out annual lists of the countries, cities and regions that travellers should see each yea...

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Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah dies at 90

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz died on Friday and was replaced by Crown Prince Salman, the OPEC-kingpin’s royal court said in a statement...

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Ekiti outlaws mandatory HIV test before marriage

Ado Ekiti—It is now an offence in Ekiti State for places of worship like  churches  and mosques to compel prospective couples to take mandatory HIV/AIDS tests before  joining them in marriag...

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Prince Andrew sex claims: Fresh documents filed in US court

The woman who has accused Prince Andrew of sexual misconduct has repeated the claims in fresh US court document...

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Buhari’s Cambridge result released by alma mater

The result of the Cambridge West African School certificate examination taken in 1961 by Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari has been released by his old school...

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NCC blocks APC’s fund raising initiatives

The All Progressives Congress has cried out that an agency of the Federal Government, the National Communications Commission has thwarted three initiatives rolled out by the party to raise funds for the general elections starting 14 Februar...

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Zambian election: Few things you need to know

A presidential by-election will be held in Zambia on 20 January after former leader Michael Sata died in office last year. Here are five things you need to know about the poll...

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