A meeting was held today between President Muhammadu Buhari and the national leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities  at the State House in Abuja. The meeting also had in attendance...

The Lagos State Government (LASG) on Wednesday announced that it would close two roads to traffic on January 9 and January 11 respectively. According to a statement by the Public Affairs unit of the Lagos...

The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has disclosed that Nigeria imported more than 19 billion litres of premium motor spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, in 2019. PPPRA Executive Secretary,...

An undergraduate at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Tombari Akata, has won the December 2019 edition of the Help the Hardworker Project of the Princewill Trust Foundation. Speaking while...

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, have announced their plan to step back as “senior members” of Britain’s royal family. In a statement shared on their official Instagram...

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has affirmed the election of the incumbent governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa at the 2019 governoship election in the state. Justice Centus Nweze delivered the unanimous...

The Supreme Court today upheld the election of Dr. Okezie Victor Ikpeazu as Governor of Abia State. Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour who led a seven-man panel of justices gave the judgement. The candidate...

Sadio Mane, the Senegalese international and Liverpool talisman has been crowned as the 2019 CAF African Player of the Year. This is his first CAF African Player title. Mane beat his  Liverpool teammate,...

A Ukrainian airplane carrying 176 people crashed today shortly after takeoff from the main airport in Tehran, the Iranian capital. Iranian State Tv reports that the crash was due to technical difficulties. The...

Iran has fired more than a dozen rockets at two Iraqi military bases hosting US troops, the Pentagon has confirmed. The rockets fired at the Ain al-Asad base in Anbar province and a base in Erbil early...

Dozens of people have been killed in a stampede that erupted in the Iranian city of Kerman at the funeral procession for Qassem Soleimani, the top Iranian general killed last Friday  in a U.S. drone strike....

No less than 30 people were killed in Borno State after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detonated on a crowded bridge on Monday evening. Eyewitness accounts said the bomb detonated at about 5.00 pm...

The Police in Kenya say a pastor stabbed his wife during a church service and then slit his own throat in a murder-suicide witnessed by a bewildered congregation. Elijah Misiko, an assistant pastor with...

Six German tourists have been confirmed dead and four seriously injured after they were hit by a suspected drunk driver on Sunday morning at the popular Italian ski resort of Lutago. Lutago is located...

The oldest woman in the world, Kane Tanaka has extended her record by celebrating her 117th birthday at a nursing home in Fukuoka, southern Japan. The Japanese channel, TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting reported...

A half-tonne bronze statue of Swedish football icon, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been toppled after vandals appeared to saw it off at the ankles. Just the feet were left on the plinth while the rest of the...

The United States government has issued a security alert to its citizens living in Nigeria amid rising tensions following Friday’s US airstrike which killed Iran’s most powerful military commander,...

The Ondo State Government on Monday  claimed that  the Dr. Olusegun Mimiko-led former administration in the state left a N220 billion debt at the end of its tenure in 2016 . The state Commissioner for...

United States President, Donald Trump has warned Iran of a major retaliation if Tehran carries out any attack against America to avenge the killing of top military commander, Qassim Soleimani. Trump’s...

An Iranian general who replaced the leader killed by a US airstrike in Baghdad has vowed to take revenge as Tehran abandoned the remaining limits of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers in response...