A court has found Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling and sentenced the former French president to three years in prison with two of them suspended. He is the first former French...

Following the expiration of the ultimatum issued by the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, the Federal Government Monday began the evacuation of shanties and illegal structures...

Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, resumed duty as the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, March 1, 2021. This comes weeks after her appointment was endorsed...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa to to avoid the pitfalls of his immediate predecessor, Ibrahim...

Members and representatives of the Osugbo Society of Ijebuland, also known as Ogboni have been sued for N50bn over alleged hijacking of the body of a late monarch on January 24, 2021. Three daughters of...

Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc (“Seplat” or the “Company”), a leading Nigerian independent energy company listed on both the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and the London Stock Exchange...

A reporter with The Guardian Newspaper, Eniola Daniel, was allegedly brutalised by policemen at the scene of the demolition of the shanties on the right of way of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway on Sunday,...

A suspected kidnapper has been reportedly killed by the hunters and rescue team in Akunu Akoko in Akoko North East Local Government Area of Ondo State. The hunters stormed the forest on the orders of the...

Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in a court hearing via video link on Monday looking healthy but facing new charges from the military junta. The latest charge is believed to be over...

Contrary to speculations of imminent increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) in the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has ruled out any increment in the ex-depot...

The Sokoto State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested a 35-year old trans-border drug trafficker, Nkem Timothy, popularly known as Auwalu Audu. The acting State...

Gunmen in Nigeria have released 42 people, including 27 students, who were kidnapped from a boarding school last week in the north-central state of Niger, the state’s governor said. Their release comes...

There was pandemonium along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Friday when a joint team of policemen and the Department of State Services allegedly attempted to arrest Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better...

The Chief Consultant Pathologist of University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH), AbujaT, Ahmed Abimiku, has debunked claims by the police that a woman, Ifeoma Abugu, who died in their custody on September...

The Ondo State Chapter of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM),has directed its members to embark on a three-day warning strike from March 1 over the percentage payment of their...

An Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has hinted on the identity of the abductors of schoolgirls in Zamfara State, saying they were not the bandits he recently engaged with in Zamfara forests. People and...

Angry protesters have reportedly taken to the streets in Jangebe community in the Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, blocking access roads to the community, burning tyres and preventing...

Gunmen have abducted about 300 students at Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Jangebe in the Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A staff of the school who spoke on the condition...

State High Court in Owerri on Thursday ordered an interim forfeiture of all properties allegedly ‘acquired illegally’ by Rochas Okorocha, while he was in office. This comes barely four days after the...

The United States launched airstrikes in Syria on Thursday, targeting facilities near the Iraqi border used by Iranian-backed militia groups. The Pentagon said the strikes were retaliation for a rocket...