The new Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mustafa Pulat, who recently presented his letters of credence to President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, was in Lagos recently. He attended the Lagos Motor fair and Spare Parts Exhibition at the Federal Palace...

IT is a big annual interface between (first world) Japan and third world, Africa. In a sense, that old Asian tiger is in some kind of alliance with the countries mostly in the south of the hemisphere, to see if there can be some coaching on how to...

EXCESSIVE  police force against demonstrators "has no place" in a democracy, European Union Enlargement Commissioner, Stefan Fule, told Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, urging a probe into a week of violent unrest in Turkey, a...

PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin on Friday proposed that Russian peacekeepers  should replace departing Austrian troops monitoring the Israeli-Syrian ceasefire line in the Golan Heights that has been the scene of an upsurge in fighting in recent...

PARIS, the daughter of late pop icon, Michael Jackson, was reportedly rushed to a California hospital on Wednesday after trying to commit suicide, a family source told Agence France Presse (AFP).

A celebrity website, TMZ, also wrote that the...

UNITED States House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal if.) has asserted that Congress is “rigged” to suppress the interests of women and keep their voices out of the discussion, a day after Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) and an all-male panel...

Austria to quit UN force over Damascus violence

THE rebels  fighting Syrian government Thursday  briefly seized the only crossing along the Israel-Syria ceasefire line on the Golan, before regime forces recaptured it using tanks.

The...

UNITED States (U.S.) government  Thursday explained that a top spy agency was using a “crucial tool” against terrorism by sweeping up domestic telephone records, just as new revelations on the programme sparked a swift...