Twelve people have died and thousands have fallen ill after a river in southern DR Congo was polluted by toxic waste from a diamond mine, the government said. Pollution of the Kasai River came to light...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has declared Valentine Ozigbo as the validly elected candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Anambra governorship election slated for November 6, 2021. A...

Police authorities in Zamfara have confirmed the abduction of 73 Students of Government Day Secondary School in Kaya in Maradun Local Government Area of the state. The spokesman for the command, Mohammed...

Troops of 25 Brigade operating under the aegis of Joint Task Force, North East, Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) neutralised 4 terrorists of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) along Damboa-Bulabulin-...

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Minister of Agriculture, Mohammed  Nanono and his Power counterpart,  Saleh Mamman. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and  Publicity, Femi Adesina,...

Bandits have abducted a yet-to-be ascertained number of students following an attack on Kaya Day Secondary School in Zamfara State. The incident occurred at about 11am on Wednesday in Maradun Local Government...

President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the board of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority. This was done during the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by the President at the State...

There is presently no country on the planet that utilizes leaded petroleum, the UN Environment Program has declared. The profoundly harmful fuel has defiled air, soil and water for right around a century. It...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to hear a fresh bail application filed by former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina. Justice Ahmed Mohammed...

The Director- General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, has been appointed as the Assistant Director-General of Health Emergency Intelligence at the World Health Organisation...

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on Tuesday signed the Ondo State anti-open grazing bill into law, Donald Ojogo, the commissioner for information and orientation, has said. The governor signed the bill on...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said focus on job creation, consistency in policy and innovation helped a lot in stimulating a five percent growth of the Nigerian economy in the second quarter of 2021,...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed all banks in the country to publish the names and Bank Verification Number (BVN) of defaulters of its forex policy. This was disclosed in a circular issued...

The United States on Monday completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war. More than 123,000 people were evacuated from Kabul in a massive but chaotic airlift by the United...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has released eight of the 12 aides of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, in its custody. Lawyer to the detainees, Pelumi Olajengbesi,...

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on returning from Abuja on Sunday, after participating in a series of meetings of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, visited the ESUT Teaching Hospital, Parklane,...

Streets and major roads in Enugu, the Enugu State capital are this morning bereft of human and vehicular traffic. thi There are very few places where bus and tricycle operators are making swift runs and...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has expressed its readiness to embark on another round of industrial action following what it called the failure of the Federal Government to implement an agreement...

Rocket fire apparently targeting Kabul’s international airport struck a nearby neighbourhood on Monday, the eve of the deadline for American troops to withdraw from the country’s longest war...

Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong has relaxed the curfews imposed on parts of the state due to insecurity. The Governor, in a broadcast on Monday, said the 24-hour curfew on Jos North is now to be...