By Ibrahim Lawal For those anxious for James Onanefe Ibori’s touchdown in Nigeria, patience has to be a virtue. For the Ogidigboigboi is not coming home...
Explosive but unsubstantiated allegations suggesting Donald Trump was compromised by Russian agents and in league with Russian hackers appeared in a dossier given to the FBI...
After several weeks of denial over the involvement of Russia in the U.S. presidential election, incoming President Donald Trump has finally conceded that the Russians actually...
The Federal Government on Wednesday said it would no longer recognise Taiwan as a country but rather pledged support for One China. The Minister of Foreign...
A day after the country’s Supreme Court advised an out-of-court settlement, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has appointed a mediator to liaise between him and President-elect Adama...
An explicit hand-written love letter by late African-American rapper and actor Tupac Shakur has been offered for sale at $25,000, 20 years after his death. According...
Oxford University has announced the appointment of a U.S.-based Nigerian, Wale Adebanwi, to the prestigious Rhodes Professorship in Race Relations in the School of African and...
A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots at several patrol boats belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the Gulf, the U.S. Defence Department said on...
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in remarks published Monday that he was prepared “to negotiate everything” at planned talks later this month in Kazakhstan, seeking to...
Pope Francis has condemned militant Islamist violence, describing it as “homicidal madness”. He said this on Monday in Vatican City while delivering the annual papal “state...
Some West African leaders including President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja met behind closed door to discuss the political impasse in The Gambia. The News...
Gambian authorities have closed Paradise FM, the fourth radio station to be shut since last week, one of its presenters said on Monday. Paradise FM was...
New Ghanaian president, Nana Akufo-Addo, has begun his administration on a rather embarrassing note after being caught plagiarising former American presidents during his inaugural speech on...
Nana Akufo-Addo was sworn in on Saturday as Ghana’s new president at a ceremony in Accra, the country’s capital. In a speech as he took office,...
Cuban troops’ bizarre chant: We’ll make Obama ‘a hat out of bullets to the head’ In a particularly absurd display of military might and tropical folklore,...