A suicide bomb tore through a mosque in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz province on Friday, killing or wounding more than 100 people, a UN agency said. Video footage showed bodies surrounded by...

The United Kingdom has reviewed its travel protocols for travellers from Nigeria who have taken their complete jabs of the COVID-19 vaccines approved by authorities in the country. This was announced...

President Muhammadu Buhari has received the Certificate of Incorporation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He was presented with the certificate at the State House on Friday by the...

Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their fight to defend free expression in the Philippines and Russia. Ressa is the co-founder of the investigative digital...

The Police in Zamfara State have rescued 187 people abducted and held captive by bandits in Tsibiri Forest in Maradun Local Government Area of the state. Some of those rescued are natives of Gora Namaye,...

Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose work touches on colonialism and refugee life, on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy said. Gurnah, who grew up on the island of...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday presented a total budget of N16.39 trillion for the year 2022 to the National Assembly. Speaking at the assembly chambers, the President tagged the appropriation...

Germany’s Benjamin List and David MacMillan of the United States on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction, the jury said. The...

The Nigerian federal government has approved the payment of N75,000 per semester for every student studying education in public universities across the country. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu,...

Governors of the South-South have decided that states in the region should join the suit filed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) challenging the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT) by states. This...

Ikeja Electric Plc on Monday said some communities under its franchise network in Lagos State will experience an eight-week power outage. In a briefing, the Chief Technical Officer of the company, Jide...

The Senate has confirmed the appointment of the Executive Secretary and board members of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Their confirmation followed the consideration of the report...

President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2022 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday. The Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, disclosed...

Nigeria on Sunday recorded 74 case of COVID-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 206,138. The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)...

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its nationwide strike. At their emergency National Executive Council meeting, held in Abuja on Sunday, NARD resolved to go back to work...

White Money has won the Big Brother Naija season 6 ‘Shine Ya Eyes’ reality show. He was announced as the winner on Sunday night, closely followed by Afije Roseline Omokhoa a.k.a Liquor Rose. White...

Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has signed the bill prohibiting open grazing across the state, into law. Assenting to the bill called  “Delta State Livestock, Breeding, Rearing and Marketing Regulation...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has granted the application by Lagos State, through its Attorney General, to be made a respondent in the appeal filed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The FIRS...

Tunisian President Kais Saied has named Najla Bouden Romdhane, a little-known university engineer who worked with the World Bank, as the country’s first female prime minister. President Kais Saied has...

Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said communication lines will be disrupted to launch an offensive against militants hiding in some local government areas. El-Rufai in a chat with BBC Hausa service...