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Six soldiers, including two officers, who fought to repel a Boko Haram attack on Wednesday were killed by the insurgents. One of the victims was a colonel and another a captain. Several Boko Haram fighters were also killed by the Nigerian soldiers. The attack occurred at about 6:00 p.m. along Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway during a patrol by the […]

A Bangladeshi lawmaker has been slammed online for calling the police on teenage lovers kissing in a park and posting their photos on social media in the socially conservative country. Ekramul Karim Chowdhury posted photos of the 18 teenagers to Facebook, where they quickly garnered thousands of comments. But most users criticised him for his […]

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is currently in the United Kingdom for the graduation of his son, Fiyinfoluwa. Laolu Akande, senior special assistant to the vice-president on media and publicity, made this known on Twitter on Wednesday. “VP Osinbajo is in the UK attending his son’s graduation today. He returns to Abuja tomorrow,” he tweeted. Akande, however, […]

A couple, who was making love on the windowsill of a ninth-floor apartment fell leaving the woman dead, while her partner, who survived returned to the party, that was reportedly holding in the said apartment. It was reported that the incident happened at a block of flats in St Petersburg, Russia. According to Daily Mail, the […]

Bill Gates is no longer the world’s second-richest person. That title now belongs to French billionaire Bernard Arnault. Arnault, the CEO of luxury goods maker LVMH (LVMHF), overtook Gates Tuesday on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. It’s the first time since the index was created seven years ago that Gates has dropped out of the top two. Arnault has a net […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday told herdsmen to disregard the call to vacate the southern part of the country. The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) had asked herders to leave the southern part of the country if their safety is no longer guaranteed. But speaking through Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, the president said no one has the right […]

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo now constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday. “The risk of Ebola spread in DRC and the region remains very high, and the risk of spread outside the region remains low,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of […]

Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen has been elected as the European Commission’s first female president. Her nomination was approved by 383 votes in a secret ballot on Tuesday evening at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. There were 327 votes against her and 22 abstentions. After being elected by a narrow margin of just nine votes over the required […]

Members of the Northern Elders Forum and the Coalition of the Northern Groups have asked Fulani herdsmen to leave the southern part of Nigeria. They said the herdsmen should return to the North where their (herdsmen) safety and that of their property could be guaranteed. The northern elders and the youths said they were worried […]

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Tuesday disowned the purported visit by some of its members to the Common Wealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) where they indicate support for the embattled Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo. The pastors, led by the North Central Chairman of CAN, Revd. Israel Akanji, visited COZA church in Abuja and promised […]

The Buhari Presidency on Monday cautioned leaders in the country to be mindful of their utterances and its potential consequences following the unfortunate killing of the daughter of Afenifere leader, Reuben Fasoranti. Funke Olakunri was killed on Friday on the Kajola-Ore road in Ondo State by those the police described as “armed robbers.” A statement […]

The Presidency Monday turned down every entreaty to respond to the recent letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Muhammadu Buhari to rise up to the occasion and stop the high rate of insecurity with its attendance loss of lives in the country. Former President Obasanjo in an open letter to President Buhari said […]

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has condemned President Muhammadu’s approach in superintending the security of Nigerians by equating it with ‘all talk and no action’. In a series of tweets and Facebook post on Monday, Atiku recalled in nostalgia the calm and security that pervaded the country decades ago, in his growing up years. “We did […]

The Presidency says it is still negotiating with Boko Haram terrorists for the release of the abducted Chibok school girls, Leah Sharibu and other kidnapped Nigerians. It faulted a former CNN anchor, Isha Sesay, for saying in her newly published book that Nigerians and the government had forgotten the kidnapped girls because they were from […]

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says the Federal Government has failed, adding that the government is not capable of solving Nigeria’s problems. Soyinka lamented the violence caused by herdsmen, the indiscriminate grazing of cattle and the destruction of farmlands He, therefore, recommended that a National Conference be convened, adding that the Muhammadu Buhari-led government can […]

The Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that the myriad of crises facing the country is as a result of the know-it-all posture of President Muhammadu Buhari. It claimed that rather than seek help from Nigerians across party lines and beyond the shores of the country, the President had been carrying on as if he could […]

Former Super Eagles captain and coach Christian Chukwu has thanked billionaire businessman Femi Otedola for helping foot his medical bills in a London hospital. Chukwu returned to the country on Friday, after nearly two months in London, where he underwent treatment and surgery at Wellington Hospital. Chukwu, first Nigerian to lift the Africa Cup of […]

Novak Djokovic successfully defended his Wimbledon Open title with a gutsy performance against Rodger Federer — and the crowd, overcoming the Swiss maestro 7-6 (7-5) 1-6 7-6 (7-4) 4-6 13-12 (6-3) in a five-set thriller. The game, which lasted four hours, 57 minutes is the longest singles final in the tournament history. The Serbian World […]