A court in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, has dropped charges against the leader of Nigeria's senate, Bukola Saraki, relating to forging rules that enabled to get elected, the Reuters news agency reports....
Senior Republicans have condemned obscene comments Donald Trump made about women in a 2005 videotape. In the video, posted by the Washington Post, Mr Trump is heard telling TV host Billy Bush "you...
There is a litmus test. If you would like to know how a Hillary Clinton administration would operate, remind yourself of how her email scandal was handled, not just by Hillary and her aides, but by...
It’s time for this year’s election predictions, since waiting until a week out makes it all-too-easy. Nowhere holds the key to victory more than Pennsylvania, so we’ll start there for who wins...
The use of Nigerian government funds earmarked for assisting displaced people who are living in desperate conditions in the former stronghold of Boko Haram, is to be investigated because of...
A new poll gives Hillary Clinton a double-digit lead over Donald Trump, just as the GOP presidential nominee is traveling to Colorado for two events on Monday. The Monmouth University poll shows...
Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry has said it is a matter of "great concern" that 9/11 relatives in the US may be able to sue the kingdom for damages. On Wednesday the US Congress voted for a law...
Manny Pacquiao has admitted he took "all kinds of drugs" - but supports a crackdown on dealers which has led to more than 3,000 deaths in the Philippines. The boxing star, who was elected as a...
President Obama has said Congress made a "mistake" by overriding his veto and pushing through a bill that allows legal action against Saudi Arabia over the 9/11 attacks. He said the bill would set a...
Congress has voted to override President Barack Obama's veto of a bill that would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabian officials. In the first veto override of his presidency, the...
“The wise woman (man) builds her (his) house, but the foolish pulls it down with her (his) hands.” (Proverbs 14:1) Recently, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s media office released a press statement...
Nigeria Minister of budgets and National Planning, Udo Udoma, has disclosed that Nigeria has no plans to sell national assets as a panacea for the current economic recession ravaging the country....
More than $1 billion in debt and financing commitments from US agencies and private investors is set to be announced on Wednesday for US. President Barack Obama's signature Africa energy initiative,...
The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has asked the executive to raise capital from the sale of government assets and other sources to shore up reserves. Senator Saraki made this recommendation as...
Not too long ago, the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu pleaded with Nigerians to allow President Buhari use his first 100 days in office as his...
A new bipartisan report by the House Intelligence Committee depicts former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden as a “serial exaggerator and fabricator” who only began downloading...
A former Filipino militiaman testified before the country's Senate on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was still a city mayor, ordered him and other members of a liquidation squad to...
Federal prosecutors in Brazil have asked a judge to file corruption charges against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The prosecutors had been investigating whether Lula and his wife failed...
A newly elected senator has used his first speech to call for Australia to take inspiration from the UK's Brexit and leave the United Nations. Senator Malcolm Roberts was elected by Queensland as a...
A former Director of the Institute of African Studies, Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, has started a campaign asking for the removal of the statue of Indian independence icon, Mahatma Ghandi, from...