A U.S. visa program ran a lottery on Sunday to award 85,000 slots for high-skilled workers just one week after the application period...
Nigerian regional lender Wema Bank said on Monday it had received regulatory approval to issue a 35 billion naira ($220 mln) private share...
Guinea-Bissau's caretaker president may have cooperated with the planners of a doomed cocaine-and-weapons smuggling scheme meant to arm Colombian rebels, according to U.S....
President Barack Obama determined on Monday that Somalia may receive U.S. military assistance, a step seen as a sign of improving relations with...
Zamalek of Egypt forced a 0-0 draw at former winners Vita Club of the Democratic Republic of Congo to narrowly reach the Caf...
Information available to 247ureports.com through sources close to the northern oligarchy indicates that the members of the Jihadist group, the Yusufiyya sect popularly...
Suspected Islamist militants shot or hacked to death 11 people on Saturday in a northeast Nigerian village, including at a deputy governor's house,...
At least 36 people were killed when a fuel tanker exploded after crashing into a crowded bus in southern Nigeria, officials said on...
A bomb exploded in Kano metropolis on Thursday, throwing the area into pandemonium. Eyewitnesses said the bomb exploded on...
The federal government Thursday set up a committee on the proposed amnesty for members of the Islamic terror group Boko Haram. ...
Kilmarnock have signed the Nigeria midfielder Reuben Gabriel. The 22-year-old was most recently with Kano Pillars in his homeland...
An Agege Customary Court in Lagos on Wednesday dissolved a 22-year-old marriage between Adewale Oluokun and his wife, Titilayo, noting that the marriage...
An arrest warrant has been issued for a popular Egyptian political satirist for allegedly insulting Islam and President Mohammed Morsi. ...
Violence involving rival ethnic groups in central Nigeria has killed at least 36 people and left dozens of houses burnt over the past...
The northern city of Kano in the early hours of Saturday was hit by twin bomb explosions at the Eastern by-pass and...
The woman is believed to be suffering deep depression following the death of her husband. A female employee of...
Hundreds of Muslim villagers in Egypt's south have attacked Christian-owned stores in search of a girl whose family claims was abducted. ...
