Back to Zimbabwe's political space, there is an overwhelming need to appraising the underlying motives behind the supposed military takeover or threat that led to the voluntary resignation of age-long President Robert Mugabe against the backdrop of turnouts...

Below are the results of Saturday Pemier League matches: Chelsea 5 (Rudiger 3, Drinkwater 9, Pedro 23, Willian 73-pen, Zappacosta 88) Stoke 0 Liverpool 2 (Salah 52, 76) Leicester 1 (Vardy 3) Bournemouth 2 (Fraser 33, 89) Everton 1 (Gueye 57) Huddersfield...

The Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday captured the board appointments as an unpardonable national embarrassment, the appointment of deceased persons as members of various federal boards by President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress administration....

North Korea has eventually agreed to give up its nuclear programme but with a condition that the United States and its allies should stop blackmailing it. The country’s official Korean Central News Agency took the oft-repeated stance on Saturday as it...

The Joint Labour Unions in Osun on Saturday called off their three-day-old strike embarked upon on Wednesday after meeting with the State Government officials. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the labour unions, led by the state Chairman...

A 45-year-old unemployed woman, Olabisi Usman, who allegedly stole church property valued at N154,000, was on Friday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Usman, who resides at Meiran area of Lagos, however, pleaded not guilty and was...

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI} says Nigeria lost N60.99 billion and another 2.27 billion dollars to the Offshore Processing Arrangement (OPA) and crude for product swap arrangement, valuation issues, crude oil and petroleum...

A Mararaba Grade 1 Area Court, Aso Pada in Nasarawa State, on Friday sentenced two labourers to six months imprisonment each for stealing 50 tubers of yam. The judge, Upside Yaqub, however, gave the convicts, Habibu Kabiru, 25; and Salisu Hamidu, 22,...

A 67-year-old American advance fee fraudster Michael Neu posing as a Nigerian prince has been arrested by the police in Louisiana. He was said to have duped hundreds of people across America using emails. Police in Slidell, Louisiana, say they finally...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday appointed a roll of 209 board chairmen and 1,258 members of government owned agencies and parastatals, in consonance to the pledge he made 31 October at the National Executive Committee meeting of his All Progressives...

Israel has formally notified the UN’s culture and education body of its withdrawal from the organisation, two months after it announced it would follow the US by walking out over resolutions critical of the Jewish state. In a statement UNESCO chief Audrey...

Social media giants Facebook and Twitter are facing a deadline in Britain to cooperate with an inquiry into so-called fake news in the Brexit referendum campaign, a parliamentary committee chairman said Friday. The companies have been given until January...

A plasterer is believed to have hanged himself live on camera as shocked chat-room guests watched on in horror. Gregory Tomkins, from Sutton in south London, is said to have logged on to an ‘insults’ online chat forum in the early hours of Christmas morning....

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Vice President, Retired Gen. Constantino Chiwenga as the country’s defence minister. Acting Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Justin Mupamhanga, said in a statement on Friday that Mnangagwa...

WhatsApp is about to stop working on a range of old smartphones, meaning owners will have to buy newer gadgets if they want to continue using the chat app to the best of its capabilities. On New Year’s Day, WhatsApp will ‘remove support’ for a number...

The Police Command in Oyo State has arrested a soldier serving at 81 Battalion, Makola, Ibadan, for allegedly hijacking a fuel-laden truck along Akobo, Iwo road. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Abiodun Odunde, made the disclosure in Ibadan...

Davido who acknowledged ,Peter Okoye attended the show,said Paul had a show booked in Calabar and couldn't make it to Lagos . He said “Let us preach unity, Psquare were ready to perform but one of them Paul was not present but Peter Okoye was at the show....

Nayzia Thomas, a sophomore at Johnson County Community College, Missouri, United States, tweeted a photo that her mother snapped of her finishing up her final exam on December 11 while in the labour room at the hospital. Thomas said she wanted to be done...

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has graduated with a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree. The Belgian, who has won two Premier League titles, was awarded a merit grade and achieved a distinction with a score of 72 on his dissertation...

The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association on Thursday said the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation lied when it said DAPPMA members owe the oil firm N26.7bn. According to DAPPMA, its members had, in the past one month, paid over N90bn...

Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has demanded that the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), should release a certified true copy of the electronic database of records of arrests made by all...

Nayzia Thomas, a sophomore at Johnson County Community College, Missouri, United States, tweeted a photo that her mother snapped of her finishing up her final exam on December 11 while in the labour room at the hospital. Thomas said she wanted to be done...