The Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said the commission is doing its best to…
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Tens of thousands gathered in Hong Kong on Wednesday to remember the dead on the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, the only major commemoration in China as authorities clamped tight security on Beijing. The White House called for China…
The House of Representatives has maintained that its probe of the Petroleum Resources Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke’s alleged expenditure of N10billion…
President Barack Obama called for more research Thursday into concussions among youth athletes — and admitted he had probably seen stars himself while playing American football as a youngster. Obama called a “summit” at the White House amid a rising…
Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State has described allegations of discrimination against Christians levelled against his government as fictitious, saying he…
Mrs. Mayowa Ikuforiji, the wife of the Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, says she is set to adopt an…
First Lady Michelle Obama is to speak out against the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamic militants when she gives the weekly presidential address instead of her husband, the White House said Friday. White House deputy spokesman…
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky broke her silence Tuesday about her illicit 1990s affair with president Bill Clinton, saying she wants to reclaim the narrative of events that brought her global humiliation. Lewinsky, now 40, was in her early…
President Barack Obama cracked jokes about the government’s disastrous health care policy rollout and mocked political opponents at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The annual event, known informally as the “nerd prom,” brings Washington’s top…
Hundreds of Jewish travellers in Kathmandu attended what organisers claim was the world’s biggest Passover celebration on Monday, as food supplies delayed for weeks due to a diplomats’ strike arrived just hours before the feast. Chabad House Nepal,…
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the 2014 budget of N4.695 trillion. The amount is N53 billion higher than…
The controversy over a “selfie” photo of President Barack Obama and baseball star David Ortiz now is in the hands of attorneys, a White House official said on Sunday. The White House last week warned Samsung against using the president’s likeness for…
Ahead of the June 21 governorship elections in Ekiti State, Governor Kayode Fayemi has said that the civil disposition of…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday described as false reports in some quarters that Ebola fever had been detected…
A man who opened fire on the White House with an assault rifle after telling friends he was on a mission from God to kill President Barack Obama was jailed for 25 years on Monday. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez drove more than 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers…
Fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said Tuesday he sees a “turning point” in the surveillance reform plans unveiled by the White House and Congress. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked documents which…
Scores of rioters went on the rampage on Monday outside an abandoned building in Nigeria dubbed the “House of Horror” after decomposing human remains and skeletons were found there. At least 20 people were injured and 12 vehicles damaged when about…
It is a sad weekend for gospel reggae singer Buchi Atuonwu, whose home, a duplex located at 30b Olufunmilayo Street,…
Nigerian police said Sunday they have opened a murder probe after the discovery of rotting bodies and skeletons in an abandoned building the media has branded a “House of Horror”. Police also rescued several severely malnourished people founded wandering…
Yesterday, National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice welcomed 12 governors and one deputy-governor from Nigeria to the White House to discuss areas of strategic importance to both the United States and Nigeria. Ambassador Rice and the governors discussed…