A senior secondary school girl in Cross River State. has been arrested after she attempted to shoot her teacher with a pistol. The student  was arrested last week at the Government Secondary School,...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr. Mojisola Adeyeye...

Naomi Osaka knocked Serena Williams out of the Australian Open on Thursday in a 6-3, 6-4 win in the semi-finals. Osaka, who also beat Williams in the chaotic 2018 US Open final, reached her fourth major...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Ogbonnaya Orji as the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative for a single term of five years. A statement...

The Niger State Government has released the names of the abductees from Government Science Secondary School Kagara. The list released by the State Ministry of Education shows 27 students were abducted...

Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State has ordered the immediate closure of all boarding schools in the bandit ravaged areas of the state. This comes after armed men attacked Government Science College...

Some students and staff of Government Science College, Kagara in Niger State were this Wednesday morning kidnapped by armed bandits who stormed their school. A student was also reportedly killed by the...

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has announced the re-opening of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos runway after its temporal closure following a landing incident. This...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has recorded 1,368 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 148,296. The NCDC disclosed this via its official Twitter handle...

The United Nations has allocated $15 million (N5.8 billion) to fight the fresh Ebola outbreaks in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock...

The United States (U.S.) Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has disclosed that terrorists, Islamic fundamentalists and bandits killed 8,279 Nigerians in 2020. The USCIRF, an independent...

A Nigerian businessman, Obinwanne Okeke alias Invictus Obi was on Tuesday sentenced in the United States to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a computer-based intrusion fraud scheme that caused...

Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday met former President Goodluck Jonathan amid rumours that he was planning to dump the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Former...

The Lagos State Government, on Tuesday, announced that it will vaccinate no fewer than 1.5 million dogs within the next two weeks. The government said the exercise will take place during the free anti-rabies...

The rise of Bitcoin continued Tuesday with the cost of a single unit of the digital currency rising above $50,000 for the first time. The same Bitcoin just one year ago would have cost you $10,000. The...

Police in Myanmar filed a new charge against ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer said Tuesday. The new charge has come in the face of increased nationwide protests by pro-democracy groups who want...

The Northern Elders’ Forum has asked Fulani herdsmen to return to the north if their security cannot be guaranteed in their host communities in the south. Speaking through its Director of Publicity...

President Muhammadu Buhari has named Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He has therefore requested the Senate to confirm Bawa’s nomination. This...

The West African Examinations Council has released the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for private candidates (second series). Announcing the release at the WAEC National Headquarters,...

An Owerri High Court on Monday gave a judgement nullifying the impeachment of Jude Agbaso as Deputy Governor of Imo State. The state House of Assembly had on March 28, 2013, impeached Agbaso as the deputy...