The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has recorded 1,368 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 148,296. The NCDC disclosed this via its official Twitter handle...

The United Nations has allocated $15 million (N5.8 billion) to fight the fresh Ebola outbreaks in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock...

The United States (U.S.) Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has disclosed that terrorists, Islamic fundamentalists and bandits killed 8,279 Nigerians in 2020. The USCIRF, an independent...

A Nigerian businessman, Obinwanne Okeke alias Invictus Obi was on Tuesday sentenced in the United States to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a computer-based intrusion fraud scheme that caused...

Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday met former President Goodluck Jonathan amid rumours that he was planning to dump the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Former...

The Lagos State Government, on Tuesday, announced that it will vaccinate no fewer than 1.5 million dogs within the next two weeks. The government said the exercise will take place during the free anti-rabies...

The rise of Bitcoin continued Tuesday with the cost of a single unit of the digital currency rising above $50,000 for the first time. The same Bitcoin just one year ago would have cost you $10,000. The...

Police in Myanmar filed a new charge against ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer said Tuesday. The new charge has come in the face of increased nationwide protests by pro-democracy groups who want...

The Northern Elders’ Forum has asked Fulani herdsmen to return to the north if their security cannot be guaranteed in their host communities in the south. Speaking through its Director of Publicity...

President Muhammadu Buhari has named Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He has therefore requested the Senate to confirm Bawa’s nomination. This...

The West African Examinations Council has released the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for private candidates (second series). Announcing the release at the WAEC National Headquarters,...

An Owerri High Court on Monday gave a judgement nullifying the impeachment of Jude Agbaso as Deputy Governor of Imo State. The state House of Assembly had on March 28, 2013, impeached Agbaso as the deputy...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of supporting Kurdish armed groups that Ankara says executed 13 kidnapped Turks in northern Iraq, adding a US statement of condemnation...

China last year overtook the United States as the EU’s biggest trading partner, the EU statistics agency Eurostat said on Monday. The EU’s trade with the United States dropped significantly...

The former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. Okonjo-Iweala, whose tenure begins March 1, is the first woman and African...

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma did not show up on Monday at an inquiry into alleged corruption during his time in office. The country’s top court had earlier ordered Zuma to appear...

Syria’s army said on Monday the country’s air defences intercepted “Israeli aggression” over the capital, Damascus, in the latest stepped-up bombing of alleged Iranian targets inside the country...

Guinea has declared an Ebola epidemic after three people died and four others became ill in the country’s southeast. The seven people fell ill with diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding after attending a...

Security forces in Myanmar opened fire on protesters Sunday, as demonstrations against military rule in the country enter their second week. There was no immediate confirmation of a death toll and no comment...

Prince Tonye  Princewill, a philanthropist, movie producer, business tycoon, politician and one time gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress and Labour Party in Rivers State, and currently a chieftain...