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Willem-Alexander has been sworn in as king of the Netherlands after the abdication of Queen Beatrix. He became the country’s first king since 1890 when his 75-year-old mother signed the abdication deed on Tuesday after 33 years on the seat. Crowds of orange-clad partygoers are in Amsterdam to pay tribute. The...

A 31-year-old Kelvin Ighodalo has been sentenced to 45-year jail time by an Osogbo High Court, for stealing a N50, 000 Sony Ericsson phone belonging to...

Barely a week after a massacre in Baga community of Borno State, a gun battle similar to the Baga massacre occurred on Thursday in Bama Town of the state,...

An angry mob in Abaranje, Ikotun area Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, went on the rampage and attacked the staff of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN,...

If Lagos-based Customs officer, Mr. James Gadzama Pallam had known, he would have thought of another way to honour his brother, Emmanuel, whose wedding...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect has been moved from hospital to prison, United States police claim. The United States Marshals Service...

On Thursday, the Northern Governors’ Forum lamented the effect of the Boko Haram insurgency on the North and pleaded with members of the violent...

On Wednesday in Abuja, President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated the presidential committee on peaceful resolution of securities challenges in the northern...

About 80 people have been killed and many more feared trapped after an eight-storey building collapsed on the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital Dhaka,...

As reported in our first post, A Petrol tanker traveling on narrow road in a residential area in Ibadan caught fire from a local cooking fire place leading...