The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, has listed Jigawa State as the worst hit in the recent floods that...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Thursday, swore in the first batch of 100,000 Special Assistants on Political Units at a ceremony held at the...
Former Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, on Thursday afternoon survived an assassination attempt after he was shot and wounded in the leg during a protest march...
A Nigerian man identified as Nicholas Aina, could face life imprisonment if found guilty of stabbing his mother, Caroline Adeyelu, to death at their Auriel Avenue...
The Kaduna State government has reintroduced the payment of tuition by senior secondary school students in the state. The Governor, Nasir El-Rufai had, in 2020, announced...
The African Union mediation team led by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has successfully brokered a truce between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation...
The crisis currently rocking the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has taken a new dimension as the two elder statesmen fighting for the soul of the group,...
Police operatives in Akwa Ibom have arrested one Ime Sunday Etukudo for allegedly killing his 20-year-old daughter, Ofonmbuk, in the state. The spokesman for the state...
The Egyptian security forces have arrested a top journalist in the country, Manal Ajrama, for allegedly criticising President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ahead of the United Nations...
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Wednesday, told Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, that convicted former chairman of the defunct Pension...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has declared November 4 as National Day of Prayers to seek divine intervention in the affairs of the country. The...
Not less than 53 Hindu religion devotees have reportedly drowned in rivers and other water bodies in various parts of India during the four-day Bihar Chhath...
A Kansas, USA mother, Allison Fluke-Ekren, who led an all-female battalion of the Islamic State group (IS), has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on...
Residents of Australian east coast city of Sydney were on Wednesday morning, thrown into panic after authorities at the Sydney’s Taronga Zoo announced that five lions...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has flied a suit at the Federal High Court, Abuja seeking the sack of the national chairman of the All Progressives...
The Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Sean Fraser, has revealed plans by the government to welcome more than half a million immigrants including Nigerians,...
The youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s eulogy on the late first Republic Aviation Minister, Mbazulike Amaechi, who passed on...
The Katsina State Police spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, has confirmed that bandits abducted 39 children while working on a farm in the Faskari Local Government Area...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has warned the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the party would lose the 2023 presidential election if it...
A Cape Town, South Africa, mother who poisoned her abusive husband and two children to death has been sentenced to 94 years in prison by the...
More than 110 people have been confirmed dead as a deadly Tropical Storm Nalgae continued to ravage the southern parts of Philippines, authorities said. A statement...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has sacked his Commissioner for Roads and Bridges, Okojie Newton, over the shoddy performance of the ministry. A statement confirming the...
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, claims that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has been able...
Islamic human rights group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has backed plans by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to redesign the Naira notes, but gave...
The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Association has called on the Nigerian government to establish a Ministry of Nomadic Affairs as that will be the only...
Former Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, has made a stunning comeback to power after defeating the incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro in the country’s presidential...
Death toll following the collapse of a pedestrian suspended bridge in the indian state of Gujarat, has risen to 151 as at Monday morning, authorities say....
Pensioners in Taraba State have cried out to Governor Darius Ishaku to come to their aid by paying them their arrears of benefits running into 10...
The leadership of the Joint Drivers Welfare Association of Nigeria (JDWAN), has raised the alarm over alleged threats to their lives, said to have issued on...
The Defence Headquarters has confirmed that troops of the Nigerian Army on Sunday, killed seven bandits and wounded several others in a coordinated attack in Kaduna...
Commuters in Lagos State will from Monday, October 31, be in a difficult situation as the Joint Drivers Welfare Association of Nigeria (JDWAN) have commenced a...
A former senior official of the United Nations, Karim Elkorany, has been sentenced to 15 tears imprisonment by a Federal Court in Manhattan, USA, after he...
Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, has told the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in camps in the Mahuta and Isgogo of Fakai and Zuru Local Government Areas...
The International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety), has alleged that over 150 Igbo women from the South-East and Igbo-speaking areas of...
A N20 billion suit filed by leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami,...
The US-Nigeria Law Group has accused the Nigerian government of being more responsible for the high number of out-of-school children in the country which the United...
The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN), has given reasons why the Federal Government cannot release the leader of the...
The Kaduna State Commissioner for Human Services and Social Development, Hafsat Baba, has revealed that poor women in some rural communities in the state now give...
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it will publish the hard copies of new voters register at designated centres...
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State on Wednesday night, led his Cross River and Abia States counterparts, Ben Ayade and Okezie Ikpeazu respectively, on a quiet...
An Enugu State magistrate court has freed four Igbo youths who were arrested and detained by the Nigerian Army on allegations of being members of the...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, swore in former spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Chris Finebone, alongside 17 others as...
Staff of the now defunct New Nigerian Newspapers which was owned by governments of 19 northern states, have cried out over their unpaid entitlements, accumulated salaries...
A 46-year-old man, Abubakar Mohammed, was on Wednesday sentenced to death by a High Court sitting in Yola, Adamawa State, for killing his girlfriend, Christiana Augustine,...
A 35-year-old woman, Josephine Diabeh, has been arrested by the police in Liberia for allegedly causing the death of her husband during a fight. The Maryland...
Canada, Australia, and the Republic of Ireland on Wednesday joined the United States and the United Kingdom to issue security warnings to their nationals living in...
A prominent and veteran journalist in Haiti, Roberson Alphonse, has survived an assassination attempt after unknown gunmen shot and wounded him in his car while on...
At least 26 people have been injured after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit the town of Lagayan in Abra province, 348 kilometres north of Manila, the...
Two persons were on Tuesday, killed and 13 others abducted in the Mamman Suka community of Gwadabawa local government area of Sokoto State, the Chairman of...
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday, secures another victory against the federal government in his fight against his extradition from...
