The Nigerian Army has insisted that soldiers did not shoot at protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate area of Lagos State. The Army also said that their presence was requested by the Lagos State Government...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Professor Mahmood Yakubu as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for another five-year term. In a letter to President of the Senate,...

 Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the full reopening of markets in the state. The Lagos Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Dr Wale Ahmed, made this known in...

World 100m champion, Christian Coleman has been banned for two years after missing three drugs tests. The 24-year-old American, who is suspended from 14 May 2020, will miss the postponed Tokyo Olympics...

The US Senate has confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court which is seen by many Americans as a victory for President Donald Trump a week before the presidential election. Republicans overcame...

The US space agency has revealed conclusive evidence of water on the Moon. Casey Honniball at Nasa’s ASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, and colleagues have detected a chemical signature that...

The National Broadcasting Commission has fined Channels Television, Arise Television and Africa Independent Television the sum of N3m each for what it termed “unprofessional coverage” of the #EndSARS...

The Chief Of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, is currently holding a meeting with Principal Staff Officers and top army commanders on the security situation in the country. The meeting is being held...

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has denied reports that he flew out of the country in the heat of the looting and arson recorded in Lagos after the shooting...

Nobel laureate and eminent social critic, Wole Soyinka has reacted to the allegation in some quarters that he had asked Nigerians of Igbo extraction to leave Yorubaland. In a message currently circulating...

Guinea’s Alpha Conde has won the country’s presidential poll, the national electoral authority said Saturday. Announcing provisional results, the president of the electoral authority, Kabinet...

US President Donald Trump cast his ballot in Florida on Saturday morning before travelling to headline three rallies in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin. With only 10 days left before the election,...

  The Forum of Eko Princes and Princesses  and the Isale Eko Descendants’ Union have risen to condemn the attack by hoodlums on the palace of the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Osualale Akiolu 1. In...

President Muhammadu Buhari has addressed Nigerians on the ongoing #EndSARS protests across the country. In a nationwide broadcast on Thursday night, the President announced the suspension of the #EndSARS...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the 15 senatorial and state bye-elections slated for October 31 in 11 states. The announcement of the postponement came after a meeting...

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with the Service Chiefs and heads of security agencies at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting, which holds quarterly, is coming amidst ongoing unrest...

Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said the 24-hour curfew imposed on the state to curtail the widespread violence that has ravaged it might be eased by Friday. The governor said the easing...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has condemned the use of force to end the #EndSARS protests at the Lekki tollgate. He also appealed to the protesters to give peace a chance as they go about making their...

No one was killed in the shootings of #ENDSARS protesters in Lekki on Tuesday night, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has claimed. Addressing Lagosians in a broadcast on Wednesday, Sanwo-Olu said...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has blamed the killing of young #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate on people he called “forces beyond our direct control.” Military personnel had opened...