The Ministry of Mines and Steel development has debunked claims that it spent ₦700 million to build and update a website. A statement issued on Sunday by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry,...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has recovered a total sum of $64.6 million out of about $115.91 million owed operators in the electricity industry from two of her West African neighbours namely the...

An American woman, Martha O’Donovan charged with subversion in Zimbabwe for allegedly insulting President Robert Mugabe on Twitter has been freed after paying the required $1,000 bail. O’Donovan who...

David Umahi, the Governor of Ebonyi State who was elected into office under the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wants President Muhammadu Buhari to seek re-election  in 2019. Addressing...

A Spanish judge has jailed the Speaker of the Catalonian parliament, Carme Forcadell on a rebellion charge connected with the region’s independence declaration. The judge of the Supreme Court, Pablo...

Eighty-one days after he returned from a medical vacation in the United Kingdom, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday returned to his office which he reportedly abandoned due to an invasion by rats. Since...

Pope Francis has banned the sale of cheap cigarettes to employees and former employees resident in the Vatican City on health grounds. The ban which is expected to take full effect in 2018 is to ensure...

    A German nurse who used lethal drugs on patients out of boredom has been held responsible for the death of 106 people, a figure which could rise as more bodies are exhumed and studied. Investigators...

  The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) is set to embark on the identification and arrest of antagonists of the federal government on social media over what it describes as acts that...

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Walid Jibrin has stated that if former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar returns to the party, he will not be given...

According to the World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI) report released by the International Police Science Association (IPSA) and the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the Nigeria Police...

 President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday presented the sum of ₦8.612 trillion as the 2018 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja. The President stated during the session...

Scotland-born tennis star, Andy Murray who got married to his wife, Kim in 2015 has welcomed a second daughter, a year after their first child, Sophia was born. The new child was born in a hospital in...

Liberia’s President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Tuesday said the democracy and reputation of her country has come under threat. She spoke a day after the Supreme Court put a hold on the presidential run-off...

    The Nigerian military has deployed more soldiers and helicopters to the Niger Delta to enable it effectively check renewed threats of violence by militant group, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) . Helicopters...

 Nigeria’s former Minister of the Environment and current Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed has won the Diplomat of the Year award of Foreign Policy (FP) magazine. The...

Prominent Christian leaders in Nigeria have called on the Federal Government to withdraw from the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) and other religious organisations it currently belongs in. Led...

 The Nigeria Police on Tuesday said it has sanctioned 17 of its officers and returned the sum of N834,000 extorted by them from members of the public between July and September this year. This was disclosed...

Former Nigerian international footballer, Sunday Oliseh has been named as Best Coach after the first round of matches in the Dutch second tier football league, The Jupiler League. The 43-year-old Oliseh...

Liberia’s Supreme Court on Monday suspended the planned October 7 presidential run-off elections in the country and ordered the electoral body to investigate allegations of fraud in the first round...