A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and social activist, Femi Falana says the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris went beyond his bounds by declaring Mr. Kassim Afegbua, the spokesman to former...

The Federal Government has earmarked the sum of N45 billion for the rebuilding of liberated communities in the north-eastern part of the country which were destroyed by years of  Boko Haram insurgency. This...

Suspected herdsmen on Thursday attacked Waku village and a part of Gbajimba town, both in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, killing two persons and destroying a farmhouse belonging to the State...

A socio-cultural organization of young Igbo intellectuals, Ochie Igbo has condemned the planned construction of a rail line linking Daura in Katsina State, Nigeria to Maradi in the neighbouring Niger...

A prominent American investigator of the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade in Africa and Asia, Esmond Bradley-Martin has been found dead in his Nairobi home with a stab wound on his neck. The 57-year-old...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday designated Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu to lead the consultation and reconciliation committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2019 elections. Tinubu’s...

Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai is critically ill in a South African hospital and his supporters have been advised to brace up for the worse due to his current condition. The 65-year-old...

The Israeli government has issued a two-month ultimatum warning African migrants to leave the country by the end of March or risk being jailed if they refuse. The country’s immigration authority spokeswoman,...

  A few days after the Nigerian military said the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram had been completely decimated, the insurgents on Sunday night stormed a village in Borno State and killed three...

  The Zambian Police has revealed plans to clamp down on persons who are in possession of sex toys and other materials which are obscene and to ban the importation and sale of such in the country. Spokesperson...

 Former Governor of Plateau State and Senator representing Plateau North Senatorial District at the National Assembly,Jonah Jang has urged the Federal Government to send killer Fulani herdsmen out of...

 The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus says the newly – formed Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) is dead on arrival as it is not the solution to the plethora...

 The former spokesperson of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh was brought to court on Monday on a stretcher and in an ambulance in compliance with an order of a Federal High...

The rumoured planned return of Senate President Bukola Saraki back to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is already causing an uproar in the party. The PDP stakeholders in his home state of...

The Taraba State governor, Darius Ishaku has raised alarm over an impending attack from insurgents on the state within the next 10 days. Ishaku, who made the revelation when he received the National Chairman...

  At least seven persons are feared dead and several homes burnt to ashes at Kaguru village of Udawa ward in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State after a midnight raid by suspected...

In a bid to curb the lingering feud between the Senator representing Kano Central District in the National Assembly, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and the Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the...

The Nigerian military on Thursday said the lack of adequate funds was responsible for the delay in nipping the activities of the militant group, Boko Haram in the bud as well as checking the security...

The Federal Government has lamented the rot in the Nigeria Prisons Services (NPS) saying it would take several years of sustained and continued interventions by all stakeholders to reverse the trend. Vice...

The Kenyan Police on Friday arrested an outspoken member and a leader of the opposition National Super Alliance (NASA), Miguna Miguna in a dawn raid on his Nairobi home. Reports say the armed police officers...