A Plateau State High Court sitting in Jos has ordered the remand in prison custody of a serving senator and the immediate past governor of the state, Jonah David Jang. Prior to his ruling, Justice Daniel...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sum of ₦10 bilion for the rehabilitation of all communities affected by  herdsmen attacks in Benue and other states. This was disclosed by Vice President...

No fewer than 13 pilgrims out of the 156 from Delta State who travelled to Israel on pilgrimage last year absconded upon arrival in the Holy City. The Delta State Commissioner of the Bureau for Special...

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has given claimants a 90-day ultimatum to challenge the planned repatriation of $625 million of the ‘Abacha Loot’ to the Nigerian government. This is...

Scores of placards-carrying youths from Imo State on Tuesday stormed the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja to demand an end to what they called Governor Rochas Okorocha’s...

As the seven-day ultimatum issued by the New Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress elapses this Tuesday, a splinter faction of the group has dissociated itself from the Alhaji Kawu...

A presidential aspirant of the National Conscience Party (NCP), on Monday renounced  his membership of the party over the high cost of its presidential candidacy forms. Mr. Ikubese, while speaking to...

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has said that the menace of graft ravaging the nation will not end until justice catches up with corrupt Nigerian leaders. Soyinka stated this on Monday while speaking...

For the umpteenth time, youths protesting the continued detention of Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria and his wife, Zeenat on Monday clashed with policemen at the Federal...

United States First Lady, Melania Trump on Monday underwent kidney surgery at Walter Reed National Military Centre near Washington DC. According to a statement released by her office and signed by Stephanie...

Music icon and inspirational figure, Yvonne Chaka Chaka has been awarded an honorary degree by Rhodes University, a top South African public university. Surprisingly, the recognition by the institution...

Israel prepared a series of festivities to celebrate the opening of the new United States Embassy in Jerusalem despite Palestinian protests, raising fears of a further outbreak of violence. After marking...

A human rights advocacy group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the United Nations (UN) to prevail on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the willful disobedience...

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the results so far released by Returning Officers (ROs) in last Saturday’s Local government elections in Kaduna State. According to results...

An Indonesian family of five on Monday detonated explosives outside the police headquarters in Surabaya, a day after members of another family carried out coordinated suicide bombings on three churches...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the crisis currently rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is a normal phenomenon in politics. In a statement released through his spokesman, Laolu Akande...

The Catholic Church has warned the Federal Government against any plots to gag the media in the guise of curbing hate and inciting speeches ahead of the 2019 general elections. Speaking in Abuja in his...

Unidentified gunmen on Sunday morning attacked the landing site of the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) at Igbogene in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, killing one airman in the process. A statement...

Malaysians on Thursday elected 92-year-old opposition politician, Mahathir Mohammad to lead them. Mohammad defeated his one-time protégé and incumbent Prime Minister, Najib Razak. Razak’s defeat was...

Imo State Governor and Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors Forum, Owelle Rochas Okorocha says his party has derailed and is now playing the kind of politics associated with the opposition...