The Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) has advised the Presidency to check the killing spree of the herdsmen in Yorubaland to prevent people from resorting to self-defence and anarchy. This is coming barely...

US President Donald Trump on Monday said the United States was not seeking a change of regime in Iran despite mounting tensions. Speaking after summit talks with Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, Trump...

Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige on Sunday called on state governments and other employers of labour not to delay the implementation of the ₦30, 000 new national minimum wage. Addressing...

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri says that he has told President Muhammadu Buhari that he would not want to return as a minister in his cabinet. Speaking...

The outgoing governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha says despite his current political travails, he will become the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the nearest future. Okorocha,...

Nigeria international and Sporting Charleroi of Belgium striker, Victor Osimhen on Sunday night set a new record by scoring the fastest goal in the history of the Belgian First Division league. The 20-year-old...

British Prime Minister, Theresa May on Friday morning announced that she will resign her position on June 7 following months of mounting pressure over her failure to deliver Brexit. In an emotional speech,...

  The Supreme Court on Friday held that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State did not have any valid candidates in all the 2019 general elections held in the state. In a unanimous...

The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) on Wednesday elected Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State as its new chairman for a term of two years. Fayemi was chosen at a gathering of the 36 governors at the forum’s...

The Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson on Wednesday emerged as the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum. Dickson was announced winner shortly after the PDP governors...

Few days after announcing his retirement from international football, Black Star of Ghana striker, Asamoah Gyan has bowed to a presidential request to make himself available for next month’s African...

Nobel Laureate and social critic, Prof. Wole Soyinka has called on Nigerians not to ignore the call by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that an urgent stakeholders’ meeting was needed to stop the ‘fulanization’...

United States comedienne, actress and author, Tiffany Sara Cornilia Haddish is now officially an Eritrean having applied for and received citizenship of the country of her father’s birth. Haddish flew...

The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa has recused herself from presiding or being a member of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. The judge announced her decision to...

Gabon’s Vice President and the country’s Minister of State for Forests and Environment have been relieved of their positions by a presidential decree in connection with a timbre scandal which rocked...

Pakistani authorities on Tuesday identified an Afghan national, Sadiqullah Momand as the suicide bomber who triggered the May 8 blast outside a revered Sufi shrine, killing 13 people including five police...

 South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa was among the first members of parliament to be sworn in on Wednesday. His deputy, David Mabuza, however, could not be sworn in having requested a postponement...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it met its financial obligations to the Federation Account last year by remitting ₦1.26 trillion as against the ₦1.22 trillion projected in the...

The Nigerian government has closed down four of its missions abroad over the non-availability of funds. The country’s outgoing Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama who stated this in Abuja...

President Buhari on Tuesday said his administration will sustain the  offensive against drug trafficking and traffickers who ferry drugs outside Nigeria  during his second term in office. The President...