Governors of the South-East geo-political zone of Nigeria have warned criminals using the name of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and their military wing, the Eastern Security Network, ESN to commit...

Saudi Arabia has confirmed its first case of the new Omicron COVID-19 variant. Saudi’s state-run SPA quoted a source from the health ministry as saying the infected individual – a Saudi national who...

Twenty people have been confirmed dead with seven others rescued after a boat carrying passengers capsized in Bagwai River in Bagwai Local Government Area of Kano State. Police Public Relations Officer...

President Muhammadu Buhari has received President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa at the State House in Abuja. The South African president who is accompanied by a delegation of ministers and business...

Nigeria is on high alert as three people in the country have tested positive to the newly identified coronavirus variant, Omicron. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this in a statement...

The Kaduna State Government on Monday confirmed the killing of five suspected bandits and the recovery of arms and motorcycles by security operatives in the state. Samuel Aruwan who is the Commissioner of...

Lionel Messi has won the men’s 2021 Ballon d’Or, and a record seventh trophy, at an awards ceremony in Paris on Monday evening. Messi finished ahead of Bayern Munich forward Robert Lewandowski and...

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has stepped down from his executive role at the social media company. Dorsey will be replaced by Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Parag Agrawal, the company announced on Monday. The...

China’s President Xi Jinping on Monday pledged to offer one billion Covid vaccine doses to Africa, in a speech made via videolink to a China-Africa summit near Senegal’s capital Dakar. The...

The Kaduna State will begin a transition to a four-day working week from December 1, the state government has announced. The move, which will permit public servants to work from home for one day per week,...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated a new coronavirus strain detected in South Africa as a “variant of concern”, prompting countries around the world to impose travel restrictions amid...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has declared bandit groups as terrorists. In a ruling delivered by Justice Taiwo Taiwo on Friday, the court specifically held that activities of Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda...

The Kaduna State Government has announced the restoration of telecommunication services suspended in some parts of the state more than a month after they were shut down on the orders of the state security...

Gunmen have kidnapped a secondary school principal, Joshua Adeyemi, alongside his deputy and three other persons along the Auga/Ise-Akoko Road in Akoko North-East Local Government Area of Ondo the state. Adeyemi,...

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has voted to support FIFA’s plans for a biennial World Cup. This was announced at an Extraordinary General Assembly in Cairo on Friday. CAF is the first confederation...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has upheld the final forfeiture order on the $40 million worth of jewellery seized from the premises of the former Minister for Petroleum, Diezani Allison-Madueke. The...

Asian and European countries tightened travel restrictions on Friday after a new and possibly vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant was detected in South Africa, with the EU and India announcing stricter...

The United Kingdom said on Friday that a newly identified coronavirus variant spreading in South Africa was of huge concern and was considered by scientists to be the most significant one yet found as...

One person have been killed with 13 others hospitalised following cholera outbreak in the Jen-Ardido community of Karim Lamido Local Government Area of Taraba State. Chairman of the LGA, Markus Hamidu...

Soccer star Karim Benzema has been handed a one-year suspended prison sentence and fined 75,000 euros ($84,000) over his involvement in the attempted blackmail against former French national teammate Mathieu...