President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday in Nairobi that for peace to reign in the world, the global community must develop and implement comprehensive and coordinated counter-extremism strategies at sub-regional, regional and continental levels. Speaking at the opening of bilateral talks between Nigeria and Kenya, President Buhari warned that radicalization and violent extremism were increasingly taking ro ...

A four-year-old gun-bearing boy shown in a recent Islamic State (ISIS) video has been confirmed to be partly Nigerian. According to a report by The Telegraph the grandfather of the boy, Mr. Sunday Henry Dare, came forward as the video went viral. Mr. Dare said Isa is the son of a British jihadi bride. The video as released by ISIS shows how five alleged British spies were killed and 32-year-old British ISIS ...

French President Francois Hollande says the attacks in Paris that have killed 129 people were "an act of war" organised from abroad by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group with internal help. A state of emergency has been declared across France after armed men, some wearing suicide belts, carried out six separate attacks in the French capital on Friday. "Faced with war, the country must take ap ...

At least 717 people have died and hundreds more are injured after a stampede on the edge of Mecca, Saudi authorities say. Civil defence officials said more than 800 were also injured in the crush at Mina, on the outskirts of the Muslim holy city, where some two million people are at the annual pilgrimage, called the Hajj. Some 4,000 rescue workers and 220 ambulances are involved in the emergency operation, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja for Paris tomorrow, Monday, September 14, 2015 to begin a three-day official visit to France at the invitation of President Francois Hollande. President Buhari will be accompanied on the visit by the National Security Adviser, Major-Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd.), the Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Ministries of Defence, Finance, Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, ...

The United States government has assured President Muhammadu Buhari to help him recover about $150 billion stolen from Nigeria. The promise came barely 24 hours after President Buhari who is in the U.S on a four day state visit presented the request before President Obama. Before tabling his request before Obama, Buhari had in an opinion article published in Washington Post, on Monday asked the US governmen ...

United States President Barrack Obama has commended President Muhammadu Buhari's agenda for Nigeria even as he expressed confidence in his ability to tackle the multiple challenges facing the country. Obama said this in Washington DC today when both leaders met at the White House to kick-start Buhari's four-day official visit to the U.S According to him, President Buhari has come with a clear agenda to tack ...

The United Kingdom government today promised to work with and support the Nigerian National Assembly under the leadership of Senator Bukola Saraki. The assurance was given during a visit by the British High Commissioner, Dr. Andrew Pocock to the newly elected NASS leader. Pocock led a delegation including Ben Mellor, Head of the Department for International Development (DFID) to a congratulatory meeting wit ...

A 47-count indictment was unsealed early this morning in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging 14 defendants with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies, among other offenses, in connection with the defendants’ participation in a 24-year scheme to enrich themselves through the corruption of international soccer.  The guilty pleas of four individual defendants and two corporate de ...

Nigerian drug agents have placed under house arrest a senator-elect wanted by the United States in a nearly 20-year-old heroin deal that was the basis for the TV hit “Orange is the New Black.” Spokesman Mitchell Ofoyeju of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency said agents put Buruji Kashamu under house arrest at his Lekki phase 1Lagos home in the early hours of today. He says Kashamu, 56, will appear in c ...