The Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed Professor Charles Soludo as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the Anambra election slated to hold on November 6, 2021. The...

Dystopian South Korean drama Squid Game has become Netflix’s most popular series launch ever, drawing 111 million fans since its debut less than four weeks ago, the streaming service said Tuesday. The...

The National Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill to upgrade Adeyemi College of Education to a full-fledged university. The institution will now be known as Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo...

The Senate on Tuesday resolved that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is free to determine the mode of transmission of results during elections, including electronic transmission or...

The Senate has approved an amendment to the Electoral Act, which provides that political parties would henceforth use only the direct mode of primaries to elect candidates for elections. The Senate had...

Chidinma Ojukwu has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga. The 22-year-old pleaded not guilty on Tuesday when she and one Adedapo Quadri, another the suspects in the murder case,...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday approved N13.3 billion for the take-off of the Community Policing initiative as part of efforts to boost security nationwide. Buhari disclosed this in Abuja at the...

Seplat Energy Plc, a leading Nigerian independent energy company listed on both the Nigerian and London stock exchanges, has commissioned the project for power supply to Oben Cottage Hospital from its...

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation calls on Petroleum Tanker Drivers to, in the interest and welfare of the Nigerian people call off its planned strike action. The strike is about the condition...

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...