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The Presidency has announced that another edition of the Presidential Media Chat will be held today at 7pm. The chat,…

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday ordered top security chiefs and officials to secure the safe release of 223 schoolgirls abducted three weeks ago by suspected Islamists, his spokesman said. Gunmen believed to be Boko Haram Islamists stormed…

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said that his government is seeking help from US President Barack Obama to overcome the west African nation’s current security challenges. Africa’s most populous nation has also approached other world powers…

One of the very important questions Nigerians will be eager to ask President Goodluck Jonathan tonight is the whereabouts of…

South Africa’s firebrand politician Julius Malema, held his party’s final election rally on Sunday, hoping to woo disaffected voters from the ruling ANC party with just three days until polling. Thousands of supporters of the Economic Freedom Fighters…

Thousands of pro-Russian protesters assaulted Odessa’s police headquarters Sunday, days after deadly clashes and a fire there killed dozens of their comrades in what Kiev charged was a Russian plot to “destroy Ukraine”. The unrest in the southern port…

Governors Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta and Babangida Aliyu of Niger have restated their faith in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),…

Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State has advised those criticising his Adamawa State counterpart, Murtala Nyako, over his memo addressed…

The women wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State has called on women in the country to…

The sole-financier of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South West, Prince Buruji Kashamu has vowed that the party would ‘chase…

Governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have expressed concern over incessant killings of Nigerians by Boko Haram insurgents. The governors,…

President Goodluck Jonathan has given a marching order to all the security agencies and Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima,…

Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam has slashed his salary by 25 percent and also proposed a five percent cut in…

Rivers State COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, TUNDE OGUNSAKIN The general state of insecurity in the country was again brought to the…

Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are rising significantly among young people in the United States, according to new research that warns of a growing epidemic in American youth. Type 1 diabetes rose 21 percent among children and teenagers from between…

More than 2,000 pro-Russian militants on Sunday stormed the police headquarters in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, where 42 people died in clashes two days ago. An AFP reporter on the scene said the crowd shouted “fascists, fascists” as they attacked…

South Africa’s ruling ANC swept aside a weak economy, fierce criticism of its president and questions about the party’s future at a massive Soweto rally on Sunday, in a pre-election show of force. More than 90,000 jubilant and defiant ANC cadres packed…

Segun Oyeyiola’s parents were always telling him, “you better find something better to do. Your siblings have completed their first degrees and rather than you do some stupid things.” Those “stupid things”, in Segun’s case, included building…

Despite colossal investment, Angola’s goal of pumping two million barrels of oil a day and even upstaging Nigeria as Africa’s largest producer remains a pipedream. To be sure, Angola’s oil industry is going gang-busters. State-owned oil firm Sonangol…

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday ordered top security chiefs and officials to secure the safe release of 223 schoolgirls abducted three weeks ago by suspected Islamists, his spokesman said. Gunmen believed to be Boko Haram Islamists stormed…