President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm the appointment of Professor Mahmood Yakubu for a second term in office as Chairman of the Nigerian Independent Electoral Commission. Buhari’s...

A Federal High Court has ordered Senator Ali Ndume to be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre in the Federal Capital Territory for failing to produce the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Task...

Two people died and multiple others were injured in a stabbing Sunday night at a church in California where homeless people had been brought to shelter from the cold weather, police said. The stabbing...

Pharmaceutical giant, AstraZeneca said Monday that late-stage trials showed its coronavirus vaccine was up to 90% effective against COVID-19. This has raised hopes that the company will soon roll out a...

The Nigeria Police on Sunday confirmed that bandits on motorcycles had on Friday attacked a Jummat mosque in Zamfara and abducted the imam and 17 other worshippers. The police spokesperson of Zamfara State,...

President of the Confederation of African Football, Ahmad Ahmad has been banned for five years by FIFA for breaching various codes of ethics.  Ahmad was found to have breached codes relating to duty,...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has confirmed that an agent of the Department of State Services attached to him shot and killed Ifeanyi Okereke, a newspaper vendor in Abuja. Gbajabiamila,...

The Justice Ayo Salami-led probe panel on alleged infractions by the suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu has submitted it’s report to President...

The Nigerian Federal Government has maintained it will go ahead with the proposed but widely-criticized social media regulation. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said social media was...

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has announced the seizure of assets belonging to Jimoh Ibrahim, Chairman of Global Fleet Group, over debts valued at N69.4 billion. This was disclosed in...

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has signed a new two-year contract to keep him at the club until 2023. Pep’s contract was due to expire in the summer after five years at the club and it had...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State says another Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) governor is planning to join Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, in defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Wike...

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s path to another term of leading the lower chamber got clearer Tuesday after a majority of House Democrats nominated her in a voice vote. A full House floor vote...

Confirmed Coronavirus cases in Africa have surpassed 2 million. The grim milestone was disclosed by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Africa has seen more than 48,000 deaths from COVID-19....

The United States surpassed 250,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus Wednesday. The milestone was reached a day after the deadliest day of the pandemic since May, with over 1,700 people dying on Tuesday...

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture,  Lai Mohammed has called for sanctions against CNN over its report on last month’s Lekki Toll Gate massacre of #EndSARS protesters. He made this...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has reiterated its resolve to grow the nation’s hydrocarbon reserves to 40billion barrels through reinvigorated exploratory activities in the inland...

The Air Component of Operation Thunder Strike has neutralized several armed bandits along the Abuja-Kaduna Highway, according to Defence Headquarters. Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. John...

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has reacted to the defection of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State to the Alll Progressives Congress. He said his counterpart left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...

Germany’s humiliating  defeat by Spain on Tuesday night was the former’s worst football defeat in almost 90 years . Indeed, football analysts and historians think it was Germany’s worst...