Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has said that he believes al-Qaeda was respons...

Fitch, a leading credit ratings agency, has downgraded Greece a notch to a CCC “...

Two NATO soldiers have been killed and six others wounded in a rocket attack on their...

(Reuters) – Leaders of major industrial economies meet this weekend to try to h...

Four attackers, strapped with explosives, have been shot dead in a firefight after s...

Dissident Chen Guangcheng says he and his family have completed passport applications...

(Reuters) – U.S. plans for a possible military strike on Iran are ready and t...

Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a UN Sec...

The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic has resumed, ...

The estranged wife of Robert F Kennedy Jr has been found dead in her home in Bedford,...

A general strike is under way in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, after 33 senior oppo...

(Reuters) – The European Central Bank has stopped offering liquidity to some Gr...

The new French president has to put “everything on the table” to boost g...

(Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed on Tuesday in an attack in northern Syri...

(Reuters) -Russian riot police broke up an Occupy-style protest against President Vla...

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has accused Beijing of a pattern of abuse against h...

Greek President Karolos Papoulias is due to meet party leaders to set up a caretaker ...

Twenty years after the opening shots of the Bosnian War, former Bosnian Serb military...

(Reuters) -Syrian rebels killed 23 government soldiers on Monday, activists said, and...

The anticipated arraignment of two members of the House of Representatives, Herman He...

There is nothing wrong in Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s warning against rigging of the 20...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, renewed the call for the crea...

The Osun State Government has awarded N17.8 billion contracts for dualisation of thre...

Bus exploded yesterday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, killing one person...

Two leading opposition parties queued up behind the Congress for Progressive Change (...

Pascal Bafyau, Former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)  is dead. He di...

Late-night fire incident on Tuesday destroyed a section of the Electoral Institute of...

15 pupils of Summit Comprehensive Secondary College and pupils of Mary Groups of Scho...

Minister of Youth Development, Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi, on Wednesday assured corps membe...

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Profesor Attahiru Je...

Nine armed robbery suspects including a lady were yesterday arrested and brought to t...

The Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria (SOGON), has urged governments t...

The Lagos State Government has said it will start enforcing the Trading on Sunday (Pr...

The Senate yesterday foreclosed further intervention in the case of over 300 Nigerian...

Former Military Head of State  Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari came under attack yesterday...

In 118 attacks, members of the Boko Haram sect killed 308 residents in six northern s...

(Reuters) – Nigeria is losing nearly a fifth of its revenues to oil thieves, Fi...

Nigeria, west Africa’s regional powerhouse, will deploy troops to Guinea-Bissau thi...

Former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Chang...

(Reuters) – Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son has refused to app...

(Reuters) – The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said on W...

At least six policemen and a civilian have been killed and 13 wounded in a suicide at...

(Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund urged new Senegalese President Mack...

(Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million coun...

Fighting between the government and rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ca...

(Reuters) – Gunmen detonated grenades outside a night club in the Kenyan coasta...

(Reuters) – Sudan will not allow South Sudan to export any oil through its terr...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is expected to address the international cou...

EU naval forces have conducted their first raid on pirate bases on the Somali mainlan...

(Reuters) – Nigeria is losing nearly a fifth of its revenues to oil thieves, Fi...

Africa needs to boost agricultural productivity and address the debilitating hunger t...

(Reuters) -Sub-Saharan Africa’s economies will expand at a slower rate in 2012 ...

Ugandan forces have captured one of the Lord’s Resistance Army’s five mos...

Algeria’s National Liberation Front and a sister party have won legislative ele...

(Reuters) – The 15-state ECOWAS group of West African states backed Guinea-Biss...

(Reuters) – Egypt’s presidential election, set to be the freest it has ev...

Algeria’s government says turnout in Thursday’s parliamentary election wa...

South Africa’s main opposition has called for controversial crime intelligence ...

Jermaine Grant, 29, was arrested last December and is standing trial for allegedly pl...

Facebook shares will shortly start trading in one of the largest and most high-profil...

(Reuters) – Even as Facebook fever grips investors ahead of the social networki...

(Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit ...

(Reuters) – Enbridge Inc (ENB.TO) kicked off one of the most sweeping expansion...

(Reuters) – Spain officially slipped in to recession in the first quarter, fina...

(Reuters) – The White House, following a trading loss of more than $2 billion b...

France’s new finance minister has reiterated that the country’s new socia...

Spain’s borrowing costs look set to spike on Thursday when the country’s ...

(Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N) will build the next generation of its Astr...

US car giant General Motors (GM) has said it will stop advertising on Facebook, days ...

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama has $500,001 to $1 million in a JPMorgan Cha...

The euro has hit a fresh four-month low against the dollar as political uncertainty i...

Unemployment declined by 45,000 in the three months to March, raising hopes that Br...

(Reuters) – Sony Corp and Panasonic Corp are in talks to develop the technology...

(Reuters) – Fragrance company Coty Inc withdrew its $10.7 billion takeover bid ...

(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) shares jumped 2 percent in premarket trading on ...

(Reuters) – Spain’s top five lenders will set aside an extra 15 billion e...

(Reuters) – Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Mon...

The European Commission’s spring forecast confirmed its prediction of a 0.3% co...

JP Morgan Chase, America’s biggest bank, issued a surprise trading update afte...

Whether or not Bayern Munich beat Chelsea in Saturday’s Champions League fina...

The Netherlands international has stressed that the Bavarians are determined to win S...

The dethroned European champions have been put off by the age and cost of the striker...

The former England international, 32, made just three starts in all competitions du...

Patrice Evra has admitted the pressure he was under prior to his non-handshake withÂ...

Nigeria skipper Joseph Yobo tasted victory with Fenerbahce on Wednesday when they def...

The former Monaco midfielder is hoping that national team coaches consider him for th...

Liverpool striker Andy Carroll is set to be included in Roy Hodgson’s England s...

Rio Ferdinand’s broken relationship with John Terry may have ended his England...

Manchester City have criticised Carlos Tevez for a “significant error of jud...

Alex McLeish’s 11-month reign as Aston Villa manager looks to be over. The 53-y...

Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand says his team-mates feel pain at losing the...

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has congratulated Manchester City on pipping...

Maybe Arsène Wenger does know after all. An unbalanced, transitional, sometimes li...

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini says his side deserved their Premier League cro...

NFF President Aminu Maigari will be at the head of Nigeria Football Federation’s de...

Harry Redknapp has denied Tottenham have agreed a £32m deal with Spanish giants Barc...

In line with its avowed policy of whittling away age cheats from its under-aged natio...

Barcelona’s Spanish international defender Carles Puyol thinks it will be ̶...

Blackburn’s deputy chief executive Paul Hunt has been sacked after calling for ...

Historic Christian monuments in Iran are being destroyed, or allowed to fall into dis...

Reports of Islamic extremists attacking people of others faiths in India and Pakistan...

The Oxford University and Vatican libraries are to jointly digitise 1.5m pages of ...

The Federal Government has declared April 6 and 9 as public holidays to mark this yea...

Pope Benedict arrives in Cuba on Monday on a three-day visit that has fueled aspira...

Churches in Kano closed services abruptly yesterday, following threats by the fundame...

A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church in the central Nigerian city of Jos o...

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN,Sunday, condemned the latest suicide bombin...

Fear and anxiety gripped churchgoers in Nigeria on Sunday after four people were kill...

US republican Joseph Pitts and seven other members of congress have introduced a reso...

At the age of thirty four, Doctor Nasir Siddiki, a successful businessman, had made h...

A bomb was discovered planted on the street in front of the Christ Embassy church Sul...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that there was no death reco...

Efforts by the popular Nollywood comedian, Mr. Babatunde Omidina,  aka, Baba Suwe, t...

Barclays rowed back from an ambitious profit target for next year and introduced a ca...

China said on Friday it would send a senior official to Tehran to discuss Iran’...

Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman met UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Ne...

Chinese imports fell sharply in January, a sign of sluggish domestic demand that will...

When Internet giant Yahoo bought a 40% piece of Chinese business-to-business online c...

Syrian officials suspected of committing or ordering crimes against humanity should f...

Equipped with heavy weapons from Muammar Gaddafi’s looted arsenals, the Tuareg-...

Anders Behring Breivik, an anti-immigration militant who killed 77 people in a Norweg...

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe could be barred from running for another ter...

Thousands of Egyptians marched to the Defence Ministry on Friday to press demands for...

Malian helicopter gunships bombed rebel positions near the key northern town of Kidal...

Technology is not like wine. Electronics almost never gain value after they’ve ...

Kabiru Sokoto,the Boko Haram strategist  who cost the immediate past Inspector Gener...

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has donated N100 million to the Kano State Government f...

Federal Government  has, warned universities across the country against encroaching ...

The Nigeria Police Force yesterday dismissed the police corporal, Samuel Ojana, who s...

President Goodluck Jonathan has called on his Facebook friends to pray for the succes...

Activists in Egypt have called a strike and day of civil disobedience to mark the fir...

Gunfire wounded at least 26 people during fresh protests in several cities across Afg...

Gunshots and explosions rang out early Wednesday in Nigeria’s biggest northern ...

US President Barack Obama was heckled about Iran during his remarks at a campaign fun...

              The CEO of Yookos, Pastor Tomisan Fa...

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini says he jokingly told Mario Balotelli he migh...

The stage is set for tomorrow’s burial of elder statesman and former Military Admin...

The ABC show, which was dominated by the success of best film The Artist, also beat t...

India batsman Rahul Dravid has retired from international cricket. The 39-year-old ha...

Footage of an Alzheimer’s sufferer being beaten repeatedly by a member of sta...

King George Tupou V of Tonga, who ushered in democracy to the South Pacific archipel...

Ethiopian and Somali troops searched houses for lingering al Shabaab militants in the...

A bomb was discovered planted on the street in front of the Christ Embassy church Sul...

Super Eagles Head Coach Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, has dispelled news making the rounds...

Julius Malema has come out fighting after being expelled from South Africa’s ru...

Equipped with heavy weapons from Muammar Gaddafi’s looted arsenals, the Tuareg-...

Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman met UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Ne...

Lagos State government has taken steps to ensure that reported outbreak of Lassa feve...

Investors have until Thursday evening to sign up to a swap of bonds that is vital to ...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that there was no death reco...

A new posting policy for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme has been rele...