Nigeria on Thursday recorded 80 new cases of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. This brings the total number of recorded cases in the country to 164,080. The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria...

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court upheld a ruling Thursday annulling former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s corruption convictions, which cleared the way for him to run for a new presidential...

A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before killing himself in a late-night shooting at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said. Five people were hospitalized after...

The Federal Government on Thursday said the issuance of new SIM cards will resume on April 19. The Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy communicated this in a statement signed by Femi Ademiluyi,...

Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Usman Baba has ordered the immediate disbandment of the IGP Monitoring Units in Lagos and Port Harcourt. Baba gave the order in Abuja at the opening of a conference...

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after weeks in London for medical consultation. The presidential aircraft conveying the president and some of his aides landed at the Presidential Wing...

The United States will announce sanctions on Russia as soon as Thursday for alleged election interference and malicious cyber activity, targeting several individuals and entities, sources say. The sanctions,...

Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 89 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 164,000. The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease control...

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,...