Angered by the take-over of their farmlands by armed herdsmen, the women of Epie and Atisa communities in Bayelsa State have staged a peaceful protest. The women barricaded the Edepie roundabout axis...

The Federal Executive Council has approved a memo from the Ministry of Education for the establishment of 20 new private universities across the Nigeria. The 20 new private universities are to be given...

Jeff Bezos said Tuesday that he will step down as chief executive of Amazon, leaving the helm of the company he founded 27 years ago. Bezos will transition to the role of executive chair in the third quarter...

Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 1,634 cases of COVID-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 133,552. 107551 cases have been discharged and 1613 deaths in total have been recorded...

The Ekiti State government has said it has begun the implementation of the state’s Anti-Grazing Law. The state’s Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Olabode Adetunji who spoke on behalf of...

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6 percent effective against symptomatic Covid-19, according to results published Tuesday. Sputnik V — named after the Soviet-era satellite — was approved in...

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for giving the Corporation’s Management free-hand to deliver...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, adjourned the arraignment of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu over alleged N7.1bn fraud. Council to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, Mr Chima Okoronma...

Lawyers for Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine filed a challenge in the Supreme Court on Monday against President Yoweri Museveni’s victory in last month’s election, claiming the poll was...

South Africa on Monday received its first batch of Covid-19 vaccine. This is according to an official post on its Twitter handle. The 1 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses produced by the Serum Institute...

Nigeria has recorded six new cases of the B117 strain of COVID-19 bringing the number of cases in the country to seven. Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Chikwe Ihekweazu...

The Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the sum of N200m to support the ongoing COVID-19 patient management and treatment efforts of the two Federal Treatment Centres in the state. This,...

The ongoing National Identification Number and Subscriber Identity Module integration exercise has been extended by eight weeks, the Federal Government announced on Tuesday morning. The new deadline is ...

There are today,  a lot of unsavoury developments surrounding the leadership of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group called Ohanaeze Ndigbo. For one,  the outcome of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo elections held...

In the frenzy to grab the opportunity of getting free meters under the new free mass metering programme, many unmetered customers may have become easy preys to scammers. The Enugu Electricity Distribution...

Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc, a leading Nigerian independent energy company listed on both the Nigerian Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, has announced that its Incorporated Joint...

Myanmar’s powerful military has taken control of the country in a coup and declared a state of emergency, following the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior government leaders in early...

The Lagos State Government on Sunday banned the gathering of more than 50 persons in an enclosed space as the state continues to battle a second wave of the pandemic. This was disclosed in a statement...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 1,883 new cases of COVID-19 infections, bringing the total number of infected people in the country to 130,557. The NCDC disclosed this...

The Lagos State Government says it has reduced the tuition fees for students of Lagos State University. The information was conveyed on Friday via the Twitter handle of the Office of the Special Adviser...