Taraba State Governor, Darius Dickson Ishaku on Tuesday called on the youths in the state to support his second term bid, promising to make them millionaires if he is re-elected in next year’s...
American rapper, songwriter and actor, Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. professionally known as Snoop Dogg has booked a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for his 145 gallons of paradise cocktail...
Tuesday’s storms and lightning across a swathe of northern India have killed at least 47 people, the latest deaths from freak weather that has battered the Asian country since the beginning of this...
Human rights activist and Senator representing Kaduna Central Zone in the National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani says the days of Governor Nasir El-Rufai in office are numbered following his decision to...
Ten persons including children have been beheaded in a village in northern Mozambique in a weekend attack that has been blamed on suspected Islamists.
Local media sources said the pre-dawn attack on Sunday...
United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo on Monday threatened to impose the ‘strongest sanctions in history’ against Iran if it did not accept a sweeping series of US demands, including effectively...
Following is the full text of the official statement by the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari to mark the 2018 Democracy Day, on Tuesday,May 29.
My Dear Nigerians!
Today marks the 19th year of our...
Nigeria is conspicuously missing among the twenty-six African countries that have so far committed themselves to the establishment of the concept of a Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM).
The...
Former Zimbabwe president, Robert Gabriel Mugabe has yet again snubbed the country’s parliament in respect of summons for him to appear before a committee investigating the country’s diamond revenue.
The...
Kenyan authorities arrested the head of a government agency on Monday in a corruption investigation into the theft of nearly $100 million-Ca rare move to hold officials to account for graft in a nation...
Former Minister of Education and current leader of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of “murdering” the Nigerian currency.
Speaking...
The death toll from the outbreak of cholera which hit the Mubi area of Adamawa State two weeks ago has risen to 13 out of the reported 434 cases.
Confirming the figures through a statement issued on Sunday,...
Men of the Nigeria Police numbering over 100 on Sunday stormed Ikot Anna Town Hall, venue of the parallel congress of the Cross River State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and sealed it...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to stop spreading falsehood by accusing the ruling party of corruption, sectionalism and clampdown on the opposition...
Strong indications emerged over the weekend that the prices of imported goods and fuel may rise after shipping companies including Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) announced a rate hike...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned a former governor of Zamfara State, Mahmud Shinkafi alongside three others before Justice Fatima Murtala of the Federal High Court...
A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega on Monday accused some members of the National Assembly of seeking bribes before carrying out their constitutional...
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has appointed a former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel to spearhead his 2019 presidential campaign under the platform of the Peoples Democratic...
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State over the weekend vowed never to castigate the All Progressives Congress-led administration of President Muhammadu Buhari just to prove that he was still in the opposition...
Although the exact circumstances surrounding their deaths were not immediately clear, at least twelve people were killed in one of Cameroon’s Anglophone regions when separatists clashed with soldiers...
