The torrential rains that accompanied last week’s passage of Cyclone Ava on the eastern part of the island of Madagascar has left 29 persons dead and left more than 80,000 people as disaster victims. According...

Armed security operatives have reportedly taken into custody leaders of the Ambazonia separatist movement, a Cameroonian group agitating for the independence of the Anglophone region of Cameroon. It is...

A chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said he supports the reported endorsement of the Gombe State governor, Ibrahim Dankwambo by popular Enugu-based cleric, Reverend Father...

Jamaican sprint star, Usain Bolt on Sunday confirmed that he would be going on trials with German Bundesliga side, Borussia Dortmund in a bid to pursue a soccer career which he had always dreamt of. The...

Elder statesman and leader of the apex Yoruba socio-political group,  Afenifere, Chief Ayo  Adebanjo  has said President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to fulfill all the promises he made before he was...

The Nigerian Army has said that Abubakar Shekau, the main leader of the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram was no longer posing a threat to its counter-insurgency operations. In a statement released...

The three reverend sisters kidnapped from the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Convent in Edo State have regained their freedom after spending 53 days in the custody of their abductors. Agatha Osarekhoe, the...

Notorious Boko Haram factional leader, Mamman Nur has been fatally injured according to a claim by the Nigerian military. A statement released this Friday by Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, Deputy Director, Public...

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has said that the attacks by herdsmen on Benue communities which has left over 50 people dead are acts of criminality. He has therefore assured Nigerians that the...

Prsident Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the review of the list of persons who were last week appointed into the boards of Federal agencies and parastatals. The list caused outrage from across the country...

A 2011 gubernatorial candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC) in Bauchi State, Alhaji Adamu Danchina has declared his intention to contest in the 2019 Presidential Election under...

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Senator Kabiru Marafa has said that the Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari is not an indigene of the state. Governor Yari and Marafa...

The Nigeria Police has called on the Federal Government to allocate an annual sum of ₦1.13 trillion from the federation account to enable it provide adequate security in the country. The Inspector General...

  The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being responsible for the crisis and confusion currently rocking the party. The newly-elected Publicity Secretary...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained Dr. Ngozi Olojeme who was the Deputy Chairman, Finance Committee of the 2015 Presidential Campaign Organization of former President Goodluck...

There seems to be no end in sight in the ongoing fight between the managements of Dangote Group and BUA Group of Companies over mining rights in Edo State. The management of Dangote Industries Limited...

The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has called upon the Federal Government to come clean and stop hiding the truth about the persistent fuel scarcity currently being experienced...

A former Nigerian military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon has said  the major problem facing the democracy in the country remained poverty. Gowon, who stated this on Wednesday while speaking at an...

The House of Representatives on Wednesday constituted an adhoc committee to investigate the non-remittance of the sum of $5 billion into the federation account by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The...

The newly-elected National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has distanced himself from media reports that cited him as insinuating that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar...