Nigeria has recorded 163 more COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 60,266. This was disclosed on Sunday night in a tweet by the Nigeria Centre...

The Speaker of the Edo House of Assembly, Hon. Francis Okiye has been impeached. His removal followed a motion by the Majority Leader of the House that Okiye be removed over allegations of high-handedness. The...

Rafael Nadal tied Roger Federer with 20 Grand Slam titles by defeating Novak Djokovic in the French Open final. Nadal equaled long-time rival Federer for the most major singles tennis championships...

The Federal Government has dissolved the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS). This was disclosed in a statement made by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu via the official twitter...

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has won the Ondo State governorship election held on Saturday. The incumbent governor, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, swept to victory by winning 15 of the...

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP), an organ of the United Nations, for its “efforts to combat hunger” and its “contribution to...

Nigeria has recorded zero deaths from COVID-19 for five straight days. This is according to the latest reports released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via its official twitter handle. According...

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has declared today a work-free day, to enable workers prepare for tomorrow’s governorship election. According to the Governor in a statement issued by the Commissioner...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday presented the proposed 2021 national budget of N13 trillion to the National Assembly. The budget termed Budget Of Economic Recovery and Resilience will address key...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will not participate in the second presidential debate with Joe Biden after the Commission on Presidential Debates said the event will be held virtually...

The Federal Government has announced its plan to completely close a section of the Third Mainland Bridge for repairs from the midnight of Friday October 9 to midnight of Sunday, October 11, 2020. A statement...

Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 155 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 59,738. The 155 new cases were reported from eight states – Lagos (84), Rivers (31),...

The World Trade Organization has said Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee have advanced to the final round in the race for the position of  director-general. The implication...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2021 budget estimate at a joint session of both chambers of the National Assembly today. Senate President Ahmed Lawan announced this on Wednesday while...

Eight persons have been confirmed dead following a gas plant explosion which occurred at Baruwa in the Ipaja area of Lagos this Thursday morning. Several houses were also brought down by the explosion. According...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC)  has approved the sum of N653,886,584 to procure and deploy a hybrid spectrum monitoring system that will track radio signals in the southern part of the country, particularly,...

Alhaji Ahmed Nuhu Bamali has emerged as the 19th Emir of the city of Zaria which is traditionally called Zazzau in Kaduna State. He succeeds Alhaji Shehu Idris, who died on Sunday, September 20, 2020,...

Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing. Charpentier, who is French, and Doudna,...

On Tuesday, the number of daily coronavirus cases found in Nigeria was 118, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 59,583. The latest figure was recorded in the following 14 states:...

The Economic Community of West African States has decided to lift the sanctions it had imposed on the Republic of Mali following the military coup which ousted the democratically elected government of...