Cristiano Ronaldo showed the sterner stuff more than his Real Madrid team-mate, Gareth Bale, as Portugal beat Wales 2-0 in their semi-final fixture to march to the finals.  Ronaldo opened…

A former presidential aspirant in the third republic, Umaru Shinkafi, is dead. Shinkafi died Wednesday in a London hospital at about 4:00pm Nigerian time. In a message of condolence, President…

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari was using corruption to fight corruption. According to the outspoken governor, Buhari was using an equally corrupt Economic…

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has assured depositors that no Nigerian bank is in distress; adding that there was no need for any form of panic withdrawal from any bank….

Gretchen Carlson, the longtime Fox News anchor, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday saying that Roger Ailes, the powerful chairman of Fox News, fired her from the network last month after…

MTN has suspended unregistered subscribers using its mobile network in Cameroon, a month after it agreed to pay a $1.7 billion fine in Nigeria over a similar issue. The move…

The good news for soccer star Lionel Messi is that he won’t be going to jail for defrauding the Spanish tax authorities. The bad news is that he’s been fined…

A South African judge has sentenced Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius to six years in prison for his girlfriend’s murder — the latest ruling in a drawn-out case that has transfixed…

Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC), has in an affidavit disclosed details of how funds from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), found its…

New militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers, announced Tuesday that its Twitter account is under suspension. It disowned  all existing accounts claiming to represent the group. The account was suspended…