President Muhammadu Buhari has sent former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, as his Special Envoy, to mediate and help find a solution…
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday expressed deep concern over the unfolding political situation in Guinea Bissau. The political crisis came…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has distanced itself from the crisis rocking the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN). This…
The warring factions in the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, sheathe their swords as they met publicly yesterday for the first…
A credibility crisis has hit the Senate over the swearing in of two different persons to represent a single senatorial…
Last season’s Bundesliga runners-up Borussia Dortmund slumped to a 1-0 home defeat by 10-man Augsburg on Wednesday to continue their…
Billionaire Klaus-Michael Kuehne has acquired a 7.5 percent stake at former European champions Hamburg SV after pumping in 18.75 million…
With just one player left on Manchester United’s injury list and a new goalkeeper signed, manager Louis van Gaal is…
PHOTO CREDIT: PUNCH Following the face-off between members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Ekiti State House of…
The Ekiti State Government has announced a dusk to dawn curfew in the State as parts of measures aimed at…
A car bomb attack and a suicide blast Sunday killed 18 people at a Kurdish political party’s office north of Baghdad and 11 others died in other violence in Iraq. Militants have launched major operations in multiple provinces in recent days, killing…
Nigeria’s military on Monday said it had made an arrest in connection with the bombing of a football match that killed at least 40 people. “A key suspect in the terror bomb explosion that rocked Kabang community in Mubi, Adamawa state… has been arrested…
The United States is deploying an amphibious assault ship with about 1,000 marines off the coast of Libya in case the US embassy must be evacuated, a US defense official said Tuesday. The USS Bataan was to be in the area “in a matter of days,” said…
Jordan on Monday expelled Syria’s ambassador over his “repeated insults” to the kingdom, drawing a swift tit-for-tat response from Damascus, which ordered Amman’s top diplomat to leave. On the battlefield, Syrian rebels made advances in the war-torn…
A fierce battle erupted Monday for control of the main airport in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, just hours after president-elect Petro Poroshenko vowed he would not let the country become another Somalia. Ukrainian fighter jets and combat helicopters…
Billionaire oligarch Petro Poroshenko said Monday he would not let rebel-held east Ukraine become another Somalia as he prepared to take over the presidency with a clear signal from Moscow that it is ready to work with his government. Poroshenko has…
Water is the most essential ingredient to life. In the developed industrial world, water is taken for granted; it flows…
Russia said its military is massed on Ukraine’s doorstep and warned against further US sanctions as a deal struck with Washington appeared to stall because of intransigence by Moscow-backed rebels in the former Soviet republic. A threat by US President…
Malaysia’s missing-plane crisis has exposed the shortcomings of a ruling regime already wrestling with a rapidly shrinking support base, fierce racial divisions and international criticism of its tough handling of political opponents. The same government…
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan is facing a crisis within his party centered around his assumed intention to run for another term in the 2015 election. His critics say it would violate an unwritten rule that power should rotate between the largely…