AFTER 50 years on the drawing board, the Zungeru Hydro-electricity Dam, expected to generate about 700MW of electricity to the national grid, has finally taken off with the ground breaking ceremony by the President Goodluck Jonathan in a colourful...

• Donates fertilizer, yam seedlings, cassava stems, others

The philanthropic and humanitarian gestures of Anambra businessman, Dr. Obinna Uzoh, resonated again recently, when he made donations to farmers in the state as well as promised to...

LAGOS State House of Assembly Thursday questioned Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Obafemi Hamzat and the Special Adviser to Governor on Public Private Partnership (PPP), Ayo Gbeleyi, over the tolling of the newly commissioned...

APPARENTLY responding to agitations and outcry from the public, the police in Edo State Thursday exhumed the body of 22 –year-old Momodu Ibrahim, who was allegedly killed by the police on May 27 and was hurriedly buried the following day for...

TEENAGERS and youths have been enjoined to mind the kind of company they keep at this phase of their lives in order to advance and become successful in the future.

This advice came from a senior pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God...

TURKISH riot police have moved into Istanbul's Taksim Square, which has been occupied by anti-government protesters for close to two weeks.

Officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets, leading many protesters to flee the square into adjoining Gezi...

SECURITY has been stepped up at Mediclinic heart hospital, the South African hospital where Nelson Mandela is receiving intensive care for a fourth day.

According to theguardian,  six uniformed police officers guarding the Mediclinic heart...

• Britain denies using U.S. spy schemes to circumvent law

• ‘Canada eavesdropping on phone, Internet records too’

CONTROVERSIES surrounding America’s intelligence surveillance programmes have also  linked Canadian security...

S’African govt says Madiba remains in serious but stable condition

THE Chairperson, African Union (AU) Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have joined others in sending get well messages and prayers to ailing...

THE Buckingham Palace Monday disclosed that Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip, is in “good spirits” in hospital where he will stay for up to two weeks, but will then require two months of convalescence.

Philip, who spent his 92nd...

THE United States (U.S.) government could make a decision as early as this week on whether to arm Syrian rebels, U.S. officials said Monday, as Secretary of State John Kerry put off a Middle East trip to attend meetings on the subject.

However...

DIRECTOR of United States (U.S.) National Intelligence, James Clapper, has canvassed a criminal probe into bombshell leaks of government monitoring of Internet users and phone records, amid a furor over the secret programmes’ threat to...

AFTER what is seen as months of tensions and threats of nuclear war, North and South Korea Sunday held their first official talks for more than two years with a view to set up a high-level meeting in Seoul.

The working-level discussions –...

ISREALI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed that his country has been the target of a growing number of cyber attacks from Iran and its militant allies Hezbollah and Hamas.

Netanyahu told a cyber security conference at Tel Aviv...

THE Swiss voted overwhelmingly Sunday in favour of a government move to tighten the country’s asylum law amid a spike in refugees, in what opponents of the changes decried as a “disaster”.

A full 78.4 per cent of voters embraced changes...

FORMER President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital in South Africa with a lung infection.

A presidential spokesman said he is in a "serious but stable condition", although he was able to breathe on his own - a "positive sign".

Mr...