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How Amb Walter Carrington was harassed by security, verbally assaulted by Abacha’s Minister, Wada Nas, 27 years ago – a Per Second News timeline

  His comment that Nigeria may not attain its potential with bad leaders following annulment of Abiola’s election triggered Wada’s reaction His last...

Another unrepentant paedophile bags  25 years in Nigerian jail for deflowering underage

    …You are guilty as charged, judge tells convict For deflowering an 11-year-old girl, a paedophile, a 36-year-old Ugochukwu Obiakor, was on Wednesday sent to...

New Danish Foresight Tool Predicts Coronavirus Will Displace Millions of Africans

    A new Danish tool has predicted the displacement of over a million people in Africa, as Coronavirus cases increase in the...

BIOGRAPHY: The heroic life of Ambassador Walter Carrington

      Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Senegal and Nigeria) Ambassador Walter Charles Carrington was born on July 24, 1930, in New York...

Walter Carrington, ex-US Ambassador to Nigeria, bids the world good bye at 91

    A one-time United States Ambassador to Nigeria,  Mr Walter Carrington, is dead. His wife, Arese, a Nigerian, announced on Wednesday: “It is with...

Uniting Unilorin and Friends Forum announces death of member

  Transition to glory.  Like a butterfly gracing a garden, adding colour and spreading joy with its flutters… our dear sister and friend,...

Syrian President Bashar Al Assad Appears to Have Low Blood Pressure Attack on Live TV

    Syrian President Bashar Al Assad suffered low blood pressure for a few minutes while delivering a speech to parliament before resuming...

Buruji Kashamu (1958 -2020) By Reuben Abati 

        Then let them laugh and rejoice in our man’s ill-luck. Alive perhaps they felt no need of him, but...

Tackle causes of insurgency, North-East governors tell FG

  In a bid to successfully  fight the seemingly intractable insurgency in the North East, the governors in the zone on Monday called on...

Groundbreaking’ Type 1 Diabetes Drug Has Been Discovered

Medical Researchers in the UK have uncovered a treatment for type 1 diabetes using an existing drug used to combat arthritis, which could...

Oil Spill from grounded Ship Triggers Crisis In Mauritius

Anxious residents of Mauritius created makeshift oil spill barriers on Saturday as tonnes of fuel leaking from a grounded ship put many and...

NNPC resolves 1993 Oil Mining Lease 130 Dispute, Signs Pact with Partners

            Poised to upscale production to 3million barrels per day and inject gas revenues of about   $510million into the...

The Day In Pictures: VP Osinbajo, wife at the residence of late Senator Abiola Ajimobi

            PHOTOS; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN and Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo pay a condolence visit to H.E. Mrs...

Travellers to Germany from Nigeria and at-risk countries must take Covid-19 test or face €25,000 fine

      Travellers to Germany from Nigeria and dozen other countries deemed high-risk, such as the United States of America, Egypt, Souith...

Ex-Ogun Senator, Buruji Kashamu, dies from COVID-19 complications

    A former Ogun Senator,  Buruji Kashamu, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has died of complications from COVID-19 in Lagos. Buruji,...