The committee set up by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to screen  candidates for the upcoming governorship primary election in Edo State has disqualified the incumbent governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki,...

Olena, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on Friday she had tested positive for coronavirus, but her husband and their two children had tested negative. “Today I received a...

Nigeria has recorded 681 new cases of  COVID-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 14,554. This was disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control via its official twitter...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday addressed Nigerians on the occasion of Democracy Day. Read the speech below:    National Broadcast By President Muhammadu Buhari On Democracy Day, June 12th,2020 Fellow...

Mr Mukhtar Isa Hazo, the Deputy Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, has been impeached. Hazo was impeached by 24 members of the assembly at Thursday’s plenary session. The development followed...

One of the four former Minneapolis police officers who were charged over the death of George Floyd was released on bail on Wednesday. The former police officer released, Thomas Lane, 37, had been held...

Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem has been confirmed as the President of the Court of Appeal. She was confirmed after a report of the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters was presented by...

The Nigerian Senate has passed the N10.85 trillion revised 2020 nationl budget. The House of Representatives had passed the budget submitted by President Buhari on Wednesday. A breakdown of the figure...

The Nigerian Senate on Thursday asked the leadership of the National Assembly to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari and the country’s military chiefs over the recent killings by Boko Haram in...

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday affirmed the deregistration of 32 political parties Justice Anwuli Chikere dismissed the suit filed by the parties against the powers of the Independent National...

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the recent resurgence in Boko Haram killings in the country. He has also called on the Nigerian armed forces to strongly repel the attack on Faduma Kolomdi...

Nigeria recorded 409 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday. The latest figures bring the total number of cases in the country to 13,873. The latest figures were disclosed by the official twitter handle of...

The University of Ibadan has confirmed that Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki graduated from the institution. The university made this known in a press statement by its Registrar, Mrs Olubunmi O Faluyi,...

The Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development at the African Development Bank, Dr Jennifer Blanke, has resigned from her position. The bank disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement,...

The United States Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed General Charles Brown Jr as Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, making him the first Black officer to lead one of the nation’s military services. Vice...

Police affidavit on Wednesday says Lesotho’s former prime minister, Thomas Thabane and his wife made a down payment of $24,000 to assassins to kill his estranged wife, Lipolelo three years ago. Thomas...

Nigeria’s House of Representatives has passed the revised 2020 federal budget of N10.8 trillion from the initial N10.5 trillion submitted by the president. The lawmakers also approved President Muhammadu...

George Floyd, the African- American whose killing by police inspired worldwide protests calling for an end to racism and police brutality, was buried in a cemetery on Tuesday in his hometown of Houston,...

Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday named their main suspect in the 1986 killing of Prime Minister Olof Palme. Prosecutors also closed the probe into the murder case. The suspect was named as Stig Engstrom,...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday announced 663 new positive cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. This represents the highest number of infections confirmed in a day in...