The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Biodun Oyebanji, the winner of the Ekiti State governorship election. Mr Oyebanji polled a total...

The European Commission has backed Ukraine and Moldova to become candidates for EU membership. But leaders of EU countries will then have the final say at a summit in Brussels on 23-24 June. The announcement...

The Supreme Court has set aside, the restriction the Lagos state government placed on the use of hijab by female Muslim students in its public primary and secondary schools. In a split decision of a seven-man...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, has announced Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate. Atiku made the announcement at a meeting attended by PDP...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has scheduled Thursday, June 16 for the screening of its Vice Presidential candidates for the 2023 elections. This was announced in a statement by Debo Ologunagba, the...

Justice Emeka Nwite of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Tuesday, sentenced two co-defendants of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari in an alleged drug deal to two years imprisonment. The...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Although the governors declined to speak with the...

At least three persons collapsed at the Eagle Square during the military parade to mark the Democracy Day ceremony on Monday. Those who collapsed during the parade were believed to be members of the different...

An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, the state capital, has sentenced three persons to death by hanging for killing Olufunke Olakunrin, the daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. The...

The Federal Government has declared Monday, June 13 as a public holiday in commemoration of Nigeria’s Democracy Day which comes up on June 12. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made...

Algeria has announced the North African nation is “immediately” suspending a two-decades-old friendship treaty with Spain – a decision Madrid said it regretted – and banning all imports...

Pro-Russia officials have sentenced to death two British men and a Moroccan national captured while fighting in the Ukrainian army in Mariupol. A court in Russian-controlled east Ukraine convicted Aiden...

The National Security Council has accused the Islamic State, West African Province (ISWAP) as responsible for the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo which led to the death of about 38 persons on...

The ADC presidential primary was held in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Wednesday. Kachikwu emerged as the overall winner with 978 votes ahead of the former deputy governor of the Central Bank of...

President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation via a live broadcast at 7:00 am on Sunday. This was confirmed in a statement issued by the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed. He said Buhari will...

Former Lagos governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu will lead Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) into next year’s general elections having won the presidential primary of the party which...

Former Lagos State Governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is currently heading for a landslide victory at the All Progressives Congress(APC). Sorting which is currently taking place at the Eagles Square shows Bola...

Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have recommended Bola Tinubu, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, ex-Transportation Minister, Rotimi Ameachi, Governors Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti) and Dave Umahi...

Gunmen have killed an unknown number of church worshippers in Ondo state, south-west Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari said “only fiends from the nether region” could have done this “dastardly...

Governors of the All Progressives Congress Governors from the Northern part of the country have asked aspirants from the region to resign from the presidential race. This is as they backed the transfer...