A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, cleared the former Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, of the alleged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate forgery, which resulted in her eventual...

President Muhammadu Buhari has decorated the newly appointed Chief of Army Staff, Farouk Yahaya with his new rank of Lieutenant General. Yahaya took over from former Chief of Army Staff, late Lt. Gen....

The Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP)’s suit which sought to disqualify Senator Adetokunbo Abiru of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from continuing to represent...

Megaship the MV Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal for six days in March, weighed anchor Wednesday following a compensation deal between Egypt and the vessel’s Japanese owner after having been...

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated Wednesday in an attack on his residence, the country’s acting prime minister, Claude Joseph, said in a statement tweeted by Haiti’s Embassy in...

The Senate on Wednesday approved a loan request of $6.1 billion by President Muhammadu Buhari. The $6.1 billion was approved following the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Local and...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has reiterated its commitment to ensuring effective stewardship of the nation’s hydrocarbon resources to guarantee energy security and drive wealth...

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, declined granting bail to  Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)who is being prosecuted for...

The Kaduna State Government has ordered the immediate closure of 13 schools located in areas that have been identified as vulnerable to attacks by bandits. This followed Monday’s bandits’ attack on...

The Southern Governors’ Forum (SGF) on Monday, insisted on rotational presidency, saying Nigeria’s president in 2023 must come from the South. The forum agreed on the decision in a communique signed...

Bandits have attacked Bethel Baptist School, a private college located at Maraban Rido area of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, abducting an unspecified number of students. The kidnappers...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit, asking the court “to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to disclose spending details of the overdrafts and loans obtained...

Oyo Police Command on Sunday confirmed five persons dead and others injured when a gas tanker rammed into Bode market in Molete, Ibadan, capital of Oyo State. The accident occurred around 9:00 am on Sunday...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), said its operatives have arrested one Mrs Anita Ugochinyere Ogbonna, a Nigerian based in Brazil with 100 pellets of cocaine concealed in her private part...

At least 45 people have died after a Philippine Air Force plane crashed in the southern Philippines on Sunday, as rescue and recovery operations continue amid the country’s worst military air disaster...

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma wwho was ordered by country’s apex court to surrender himself to start a 15-month jail term for contempt, on Sunday said he would not be doing so...

The government of Kenya on Friday denied involvement in the arrest of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, saying it “does not want to be dragged into Nigeria’s internal affairs.” Nnamdi Kanu’s brother,...

The Department of State Services has declared Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho wanted. The DSS also confirmed that its operatives carried out a midnight raid on his...

After nearly 20 years, the U.S. military has left the Bagram Airfield, the epicenter of its war to oust the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America. Two...

The Nigerian Federal government has projected country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to grow by 4.2 per cent in 2022. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, said this...