At least 78 people have died and more than 4,000 others injured as two huge explosions rocked the Lebanese capital, Beirut on Tuesday. Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun later said in a statement that...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to immediately pay the fees and stipends of the stranded Nigerian scholars who have been facing hardships abroad. The...

Spain’s World Cup-winning goalkeeper Iker Casillas announced his retirement on Tuesday. He has been sidelined for more than a year due to a heart problem. “Today is both one of the most important and...

United States President, Donald Trump has given popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok six weeks to sell its US operations to an American company. He said on Monday that Tik Tok would be “out of business”...

Nigeria has recorded 288 new cases of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, bringing the total infections in the country to 44,129. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this via its official...

Former Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke  has pleaded not guilty to the amended charges of money laundering preferred against him. He is being re-arraigned with Aliyu Abubakar before...

The Lagos State Government has introduced measures that must be taken by all religious centres planning to reopen, after relaxation of lockdown. These measures...

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Northern Ireland politician, John Hume has died aged 83. He was one of the founding members of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) in 1970 and went on to lead the...

One of Africa’s largest supermarket chains, Shoprite, has begun a formal process to exit Nigeria. The megastore company said its decision was based on the coronavirus pandemic which has disrupted major...

Nigeria  confirmed 304 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Sunday. The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via its official twitter handle.   304 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-81 FCT-39 Abia-31 Kaduna-24 Rivers-23 Plateau-16 Cross...

 Borno State governor, Babagana Zulum has blasted the Nigerian Army over an attack on his convoy in Baga, a town in Kukawa Local Government Area of the state. About fifteen persons were wounded as Boko...

American President, Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that the upcoming US presidential election scheduled for  November this year be postponed. He claimed the election would be “the most inaccurate”...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 404 new cases of COVID-19 wiithin 24 hours. This brings the total number of recorded COVID-19 cases in the country to 42,208. In a tweet on Wednesday...

The Leader of Afenifere, Egbe Ilosiwaju Yoruba, Senator Ayo Fasanmi is dead. Pa Fasanmi died on Wednesday night according to his son, Afolabi. He wrote in a statement, “With gratitude to the Almighty...

The death toll in the United States due to the coronavirus surpassed 150,000 on Wednesday, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. The country’s coronavirus death toll was 150,676...

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over the 10th virtual meeting of the Federal Executive Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting has Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo physically...

Ondo Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has chosen a former Commissioner in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Lucky Aiyedatiwa, as his running mate for the October 10 governorship poll. Akeredolu...

The Peoples Democratic Party has postponed its scheduled party primaries in Ekiti, Niger, Sokoto and Taraba states indefinitely. The latest development was contained in a letter titled: “Re:...

Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 624 new cases of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, bringing total number of infections to 41,804. This was disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), via its...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Thursday, July 30 and Friday, July 31 as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid-el-Kabir Celebration. This was disclosed in a press release issued on...