The World Cup qualifier between Latin America powerhouses Brazil and Argentina was suspended on Sunday night as the Brazilian Health Authorities stormed onto the pitch to detain Argentina players Emiliano...

Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa, has been released from prison on grounds of ill health after serving less than two months of a 15-month prison sentence for contempt of court. Zuma has...

Guinean special forces have seized power in a coup, arresting the president, and promising to change the political makeup of the West African country. The new military leaders announced a nationwide curfew...

The battle lines were drawn, the drums of war drowning the initial applause that greeted the order for the financial probe of the corruption riddled interventionist agency – the Niger Delta Development...

Cristiano Ronaldo will wear Manchester United’s iconic number seven again after Edinson Cavani agreed to surrender the shirt. Ronaldo followed in a long list of United legends to have worn number...

Dubai’s flagship carrier, Emirates on Friday announced the extension of suspension of Nigeria flights until September 19. An Emirates customer service representative announced the extension in response...

Australia says it has secured an extra four million doses of the Pfizer vaccine from the UK in a swap deal. Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison said the extra vaccines would help his country come...

Twelve people have died and thousands have fallen ill after a river in southern DR Congo was polluted by toxic waste from a diamond mine, the government said. Pollution of the Kasai River came to light...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has declared Valentine Ozigbo as the validly elected candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Anambra governorship election slated for November 6, 2021. A...

Police authorities in Zamfara have confirmed the abduction of 73 Students of Government Day Secondary School in Kaya in Maradun Local Government Area of the state. The spokesman for the command, Mohammed...

Troops of 25 Brigade operating under the aegis of Joint Task Force, North East, Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) neutralised 4 terrorists of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) along Damboa-Bulabulin-...

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Minister of Agriculture, Mohammed  Nanono and his Power counterpart,  Saleh Mamman. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and  Publicity, Femi Adesina,...

Bandits have abducted a yet-to-be ascertained number of students following an attack on Kaya Day Secondary School in Zamfara State. The incident occurred at about 11am on Wednesday in Maradun Local Government...

President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the board of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority. This was done during the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by the President at the State...

There is presently no country on the planet that utilizes leaded petroleum, the UN Environment Program has declared. The profoundly harmful fuel has defiled air, soil and water for right around a century. It...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to hear a fresh bail application filed by former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina. Justice Ahmed Mohammed...

The Director- General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, has been appointed as the Assistant Director-General of Health Emergency Intelligence at the World Health Organisation...

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on Tuesday signed the Ondo State anti-open grazing bill into law, Donald Ojogo, the commissioner for information and orientation, has said. The governor signed the bill on...