A human rights advocacy group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the United Nations (UN) to prevail on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the willful disobedience...

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the results so far released by Returning Officers (ROs) in last Saturday’s Local government elections in Kaduna State. According to results...

An Indonesian family of five on Monday detonated explosives outside the police headquarters in Surabaya, a day after members of another family carried out coordinated suicide bombings on three churches...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the crisis currently rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is a normal phenomenon in politics. In a statement released through his spokesman, Laolu Akande...

The Catholic Church has warned the Federal Government against any plots to gag the media in the guise of curbing hate and inciting speeches ahead of the 2019 general elections. Speaking in Abuja in his...

Unidentified gunmen on Sunday morning attacked the landing site of the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) at Igbogene in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, killing one airman in the process. A statement...

Malaysians on Thursday elected 92-year-old opposition politician, Mahathir Mohammad to lead them. Mohammad defeated his one-time protégé and incumbent Prime Minister, Najib Razak. Razak’s defeat was...

Imo State Governor and Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors Forum, Owelle Rochas Okorocha says his party has derailed and is now playing the kind of politics associated with the opposition...

The immediate past governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has formally declared his intention to contest the national chairmanship position of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Oshiomhole...

The United States President, Donald Trump on Thursday revealed that five most wanted leaders of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) have been captured in Iraq. In a tweet released on Thursday,...

The Gambia is selling several airplanes and a fleet of luxury cars belonging to former President Yahya Jammeh as it seeks to reduce crippling debts incurred during his decades-long authoritarian rule. Jammeh,...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has intensified screening and tests at airports and other points of entry into the country as a precautionary measure following the outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease...

Former Inspector General of Police, Sunday Ehindero was on Thursday re-arraigned at an Apo District High Court in Abuja alongside a former police commissioner, John Obaniyi on a six-count charge of  fraud. The...

Renowned Kano business magnate and Islamic scholar, Sheikh Isyaku Rabiu is dead. According to his family, he died on Tuesday in a London hospital after a protracted illness. The late business mogul was ...

The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris on Wednesday told the leadership of the Nigerian Senate that he owed them no apologies over his refusal to honour the summons from them for three consecutive...

The Nigeria Police says some security agencies and  lawmakers were behind the April 18 invasion of the Senate and the subsequent hijacking of the Mace by suspected hoodlums. The Divisional Police Officer...

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development and governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has commended Tuesday’s peaceful conduct of the gubernatorial...

The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu has withdrawn from taking part in Friday’s re-scheduled governorship primaries of the All Progressives...

  The Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM), the political group founded by former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday announced its fusion into the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Announcing...

Barely 42 hours after failing to secure the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a former Minister of State for Works and immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the PDP,...