The Crusader

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday approved appointments into the executive management of some government agencies and parastatals. Agencies affected include the Nigerian Television Authority, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, National Emergency Management Agency, and the Nigerian Film Corporation among others. ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate deployment of four of the newly appointed Ambassadors-Designate. The president announced the deployment in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Mr Femi Adesina on Friday in Abuja. Adesina ...

Roger Federer continued his stunning start to 2017 by reaching the Miami Open semi-finals with a dramatic win against Czech 10th seed Tomas Berdych. The 35-year-old Swiss survived two match points in the deciding tie-break before winning 6-2 3-6 7-6 ...

  I once wrote about Nigeria’s “children of anger”, but the country seems to have progressed from anger to clinical depression, resulting in a rise not merely in social aggressiveness, but a determination by certain individuals to escape from it ...

  South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has sacked Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan after days of speculation that rocked the country’s markets, A statement from the president’s office late Thursday, said Mr Gordhan will be replaced by Malusi Gigaba. Earlier this ...

  Forbes, a website renowned for ranking of richest people in the world, has made available the list of richest people in Nigeria in 2017. The Nation reports that in the latest release, nine others made the billionaires club to ...

  Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been arrested and taken into custody over a corruption scandal that led to her dismissal. The 65-year-old was driven to a detention centre south of Seoul after a court approved her arrest. ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the names of three new nominees for the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to the Senate. The nominees are to replace the ones from Imo, Ondo and Abia that were earlier ...

  A Magistrate Court sitting in Idanre in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State, Thursday ordered a 56-year-old man identified as Olubayode to be remanded in prison for impregnating his 16-year-old daughter. The convict who was arraigned by the ...

  The Presidency on Thursday said President Muhammadu Buhari has not changed his plan to return to his doctors in London, United Kingdom for follow-ups. According to PUNCH, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba ...