Nigeria’s inflation rate rose to 18.17 percent on March amid accelerating increase in food prices, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday. The NBS says the consumer price index, (CPI) which...

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has replied the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, for denying that the Federal Government printed N60 billion in March to support allocation...

Bernie Madoff, the Wall Street con artist who masterminded the largest Ponzi scheme in history and bilked thousands of investors out of billions of dollars, has died in prison. He was 82. His death Wednesday...

The Federal Government has denied it printed N60bn to augument March allocation to States as alleged by Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, told...

Nigeria on the 13th of April 2021 recorded 74 new cases of COVID-19. The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via its official twitter handle. 74 new cases of...

South Africa has announced the voluntary suspension of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine rollout in South Africa. In a media briefing on Tuesday, the country’s Health minister, Dr Zweli...

President Biden will withdraw American combat troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, declaring an end to the nation’s longest war. The decision, which Biden is expected to announce Wednesday, will keep...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited the former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha for questioning. The senator was arrested about 4pm on Tuesday, April 13, at his Unity House private...

Federal health agencies on Tuesday called for an immediate pause in use of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose coronavirus vaccine after six recipients in the United States developed a rare disorder...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced a 37.21 % decrease in cases of pipeline vandalism across the country in the month of January 2021. This is contained in the January 2021...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NAN) has announced 44 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 163,837. The NCDC disclosed this on its official...

A police officer was wounded in a shooting at a high school in Knoxville, Tennessee, authorities said Monday. Officials said the person who shot the officer, a student at Austin-East Magnet High School,...

A fire incident, on Monday, burnt down 30 shops in Oro town in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. The incident which occurred in the afternoon at about 3:12pm at the Oro Central Market, was...

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) on Monday night announced the sighting of the moon and noted that the 2021 Ramadan will begin on Tuesday, April 13th. This is according to a broadcast...

Bangladesh is planning to enforce a nationwide general holiday on April 14 to contain the cases of coronavirus as the country reported 5,819 new patients of COVD-19 in the last 24 hours, including former...

Nigerian Army on Monday buried the remains of Captain Adeolu Adedayo and 11 other soldiers killed by bandits in Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State. The Army had on Friday confirmed the killing...

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced 11 internet fraudsters to various prison terms for fraud. The convicts were prosecuted by the Benin Zonal Office of the Economic...

Thirty-four migrants drowned on Monday after their boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said, the second such accident in just over a month. Survivors...

A professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Lagos, Bose Afolabi, has been awarded a $2.5 million research grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The university said in a statement that...

The Commissioner of Police in Ebonyi, Aliyu Garba, confirmed on Monday that gunmen attacked another community in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state on Sunday hours after South-east governors met...