Ahead of his 80th birthday, Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, who ruled Nigeria as a self-styled military president from 1985 to 1993, spoke at length with ARISE TV in an interview aired on Friday. Answering a number of politically sensitive questions, Read more…
A tiny British bat has made a record-breaking journey, flying more than 2,000km (1,200 miles) from the famous London Zoo to Russia’s northwestern region of Pskov – only to meet its end at the claws of a stray Russian cat. Read more…
One of the Nigerian schoolgirls seized by Islamist militants Boko Haram from the town of Chibok in 2014 has been freed and reunited with her family. Ruth Ngladar Pogu and a man she is said to have married in captivity Read more…
Taliban militants have captured another provincial capital, Sar-e Pul, and most of the fifth-largest city of Kunduz, according to local officials. Afghan special forces have been deployed in a bid to re-take the latter. The militants seized all the key Read more…
The Senate has directed the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading ( NBET), to refund the sum of N132, 066, 948.00million, into the Consolidated Revenue Fund ( CRF). Checks revealed that the Senate’s directive was sequel to queries issued to that effect Read more…
Following the ongoing military operations in Kaduna, four notorious bandits were killed in a valley popularly known as ‘Maikwandaraso’ in the Igabi local government area of the state. The notorious bandits were identified as follows Alili Bandiro, Dayyabu Bala, Bala Read more…
The family of the late Benin billionaire and philanthropist, Captain Idahosa Wells Okunbo, also known as Captain Hosa, has officially announced his demise The family, in a statement issued in Benin late Sunday evening, however, craved the indulgence of all Read more…
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers over the weekend, abducted a Swiss expatriate attached to one of Olabel Farms in Ogun State, Andred Beita, after a gun duel with the police along Ibese – Itori road in the state. Beita was Read more…
By Ifeoma Ejiofor The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has recorded another milestone in its quest to take over Anambra Government House in November with the appointment of Senator Uche Ekwunife, who represents Anambra Central at the National Assembly, as the Read more…
Kanunta Kanu, younger brother of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has suspended the sit-at-home order in the south-east region.Advertisement This is coming a few hours after the secessionist group insisted that it would not go back on Read more…
The Police Command in Delta says it has arrested two suspected female drug peddlers at Ozoro in Isoko North Local Government Area of the state. The acting spokesman of the Command, DSP Edafe Bright, disclosed this in a statement made Read more…
The leader of the umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, Ilana Omo Oodua, Prof. Banji Akintoye, has reacted to media reports that he has left Nigeria to escape the plots of the Nigerian Government to arrest him. Akintoye confirmed to The PUNCH that he Read more…