A group of United Nations agencies has called for a ban on all tests carried out to assess the virginity of a girl or a woman, describing it as an abuse of their fundamental human rights. The agencies...

Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy has moved up 10 places in the recent Global Competitiveness Report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday. According to the report, Nigeria improved...

Khalid Al-Makura, the son of the Executive Governor of Nasarawa State has reportedly injured six persons with his car around the Mararaba Ankunza area of Lafia, the state capital. Khalid was said to...

Former Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan has  stripped the Taraba State secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of all the property she donated to the party. According to Mr. Aaron...

Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu on Wednesday said that South-East governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) never opposed the choice of Peter Obi as the running...

The Lagos State House of Assembly has ordered the Private Sector Partnership (PSP) operators back to work after disowning Visionscape Sanitation Solutions which was contracted by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode...

Commercial and business activities in Igando and Iyana-Iba areas of Lagos were on Wednesday grounded as commercial bus drivers engaged officials of a Lagos State Task Force on traffic offences within...

The Nigerian Senate has called on the country’s apex financial institution, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to look into the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) maintenance and withdrawal charges by banks...

Nigeria’s former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in next year’s general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says if elected into office, his cabinet will...

Bianca Ojukwu, the widow of late Biafran leader, Odumegwu Ojukwu has said that the All Progressives Grand Alliance ( APGA) will face a crisis that will have  grave repercussions on the party going into...

A video of American rapper, Kanye West dancing freely to a new Nigerian song in an outdoor studio in Uganda has sparked excitement among some of his fans on the African continent. The footage which was...

Ex-militants under the aegis of Coalition of Progressive Niger Delta Ex-militants (CPNDE) on Tuesday resolved to throw their weight behind the 2019 re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari. Arising...

 Newly sworn-in Ekiti State governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has made his first appointments. In a statement released in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital on Tuesday, Fayemi announced Mr. Abiodun Oyebanji as the...

Reigning Wimbledon Table Tennis champion, Angelique Kerber has parted ways with her coach, Wim Fissette. According to a statement from the player’s entourage on Tuesday, the decision to severe  Fissette’s...

The Labour Party (LP) has declared that it will not present candidates in Nigeria’s forthcoming 2019 general elections.  Speaking at a news conference in Abuja, the party’s National Publicity Secretary,...

Dr. Kayode Fayemi was on Tuesday sworn in as the Executive Governor of Ekiti State. In his inauguration speech, the Governor said his government will not witch-hunt the immediate past administration...

  Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose says President Muhamadu Buhari will be no match for the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 elections. Speaking...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has appointed Senate President, Bukola Saraki as the Director General of its Presidential Campaign Council.  Saraki was among the 11 other aspirants who challenged...

The former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to late maximum military dictator, Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al Mustapha (rtd) has dumped the Green Party of Nigeria (GPN) and picked the presidential ticket of...

Hauwa Mohammed Liman, the second aid worker held hostage by a faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) for seven months has finally been executed after a deadline for negotiations...