Police in Myanmar filed a new charge against ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer said Tuesday. The new charge has come in the face of increased nationwide protests by pro-democracy groups who want...

The Northern Elders’ Forum has asked Fulani herdsmen to return to the north if their security cannot be guaranteed in their host communities in the south. Speaking through its Director of Publicity...

President Muhammadu Buhari has named Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He has therefore requested the Senate to confirm Bawa’s nomination. This...

The West African Examinations Council has released the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for private candidates (second series). Announcing the release at the WAEC National Headquarters,...

An Owerri High Court on Monday gave a judgement nullifying the impeachment of Jude Agbaso as Deputy Governor of Imo State. The state House of Assembly had on March 28, 2013, impeached Agbaso as the deputy...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of supporting Kurdish armed groups that Ankara says executed 13 kidnapped Turks in northern Iraq, adding a US statement of condemnation...

China last year overtook the United States as the EU’s biggest trading partner, the EU statistics agency Eurostat said on Monday. The EU’s trade with the United States dropped significantly...

The former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. Okonjo-Iweala, whose tenure begins March 1, is the first woman and African...

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma did not show up on Monday at an inquiry into alleged corruption during his time in office. The country’s top court had earlier ordered Zuma to appear...

Syria’s army said on Monday the country’s air defences intercepted “Israeli aggression” over the capital, Damascus, in the latest stepped-up bombing of alleged Iranian targets inside the country...

Guinea has declared an Ebola epidemic after three people died and four others became ill in the country’s southeast. The seven people fell ill with diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding after attending a...

Security forces in Myanmar opened fire on protesters Sunday, as demonstrations against military rule in the country enter their second week. There was no immediate confirmation of a death toll and no comment...

Prince Tonye  Princewill, a philanthropist, movie producer, business tycoon, politician and one time gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress and Labour Party in Rivers State, and currently a chieftain...

Former US President Donald Trump was acquitted by the country’s Senate on Saturday in an impeachment trial for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Trump was the first US president...

Suspected bandits have invaded Baka village in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing  a man and his son. The deceased man, Sanusi Musa and his son were said to have resisted attempts...

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Maj. Gen. Samuel Adebayo as the Chief of Defence Intelligence. By this, Adebayo becomes the head of Nigeria’s Defence Intelligence Agency, DIA., Adebayo,...

Police have detained at least 12 people following protests over the reopening of the Lekki toll gate in Lagos on Saturday. The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on February 6 had ordered that the toll...

Israel Afeare has publicly apologised to DJ Cuppy less than 24 hours after he was issued a letter demanding that he did so if he was to avert a law suit. Israel, who is an aide to Afro pop star, Davido,...

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has dragged President Mohammadu Buhari to the Federal High Court in Lagos  over his elongation of the tenure of the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu. Named...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a Public Private Partnership-styled Infrastructure company named Infra-Co, with an initial seed capital of N1 trillion. The Senior Special Assistant...