After the dismissal of about 22,000 unqualified teachers from the state educational system, the Kaduna State government is to conduct a competency test for primary school...
Bandits have reportedly burnt to death, 42 travellers in the Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The tragic incident, according to residents of the...
A former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah, has bern charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the alleged diversion...
The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, has attributed the escalating violence in the state to inmates who escaped from the Owerri Correctional Center on April...
A German court has convicted a 67-year-old electrician on charges of “aggravated, dangerous and simple assault” for castrating several men by removing their testicles at their...
Not fewer than 46 bandits have been killed by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) following a sustained bombardment of the hideout of a notorious kidnapping kingpin,...
A commander of the deadly terrorist group, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), Abou Sufyan, has reportedly been killed by Nigerian troops, alongside scores of his...
The Plateau State Command of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), says it has arrested 21 inmates who escaped from the Jos Custodial Centre when gunmen attacked...
After 16 years at the helms of affairs, German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is set to leave office and has been assured of a place in the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate sacking of the management of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) over Monday’s strike by the Nigerian Union of...
An advocacy group known as the Southern and Middle Belt Alliance (SaMBA) has petitioned Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong to immediately start a process of 102...
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has reacted to comments credited to former governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, that the South-East region will kneel and...
A distraught Kenyan father has filed a suit against his uncaring son, lamenting that he has been left to languish in abject poverty after sacrificing his...
A senior lecturer with the Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, Okpokwu Local Government Area of the state, identified as Adah Echobu Chris, has been killed by gunmen...
Incumbent president of Gambia, Adama Barrow, was on Sunday, declared winner in the country’s presidential election held on Saturday by the electoral commission, winning a second...
A coalition of Northern youth groups, the Northern Ethnic Group Assembly (NEYGA) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack National Security Adviser (NSA) Maj. Gen....
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has described as ‘grand deception,’ the call by former Governor of Anambra State, Chukuemeka Ezeife, for the South-East to do...
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim, says no region of the country can win the presidency without...
America media outfit, Cable News Network (CNN) has fired its primetime anchorman, Chris Cuomo, after he was found guilty of helping his older brother, Andrew Cuomo,...
A die hard supporter of former President of the United States, Donald Trump, who pleaded guilty to threatening to hang members of the US Congress, has...
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of nepotism by appointing more northerners into critical national positions to the detriment of the...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) says it will hold former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, responsible, if anything happens to its incarcerated leader, Nnamdi...
Former Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, says the quest to have an Igbo president in 2023 has become such a serious matter that the South-East...
When President Muhammadu Buhari nominated former Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola for a ministerial position in 2015, he (Fashola) gave Nigerian lawmakers a lesson on...
At least 41 people including members of a Catholic Church choir were feared dead on Saturday after the bus they were travelling in plunged into the...
The parents of 15-year-old schoolboy, Ethan Crumbley, who killed four students and injured several others in a shooting spree at the Oxford High School in Michigan,...
Nigerian-born Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has been named among the Financial Times’ 25 most influential women of 2021. Okonjo-Iweala was...
Ethiopian authorities have announced the closure of all secondary schools in the country so pupils can harvest crops for those on the frontline of the civil...
Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, has explained why he has not joined other southern governors to sign the Anti-Open Grazing bill, as agreed at a...
Residents of communities in the Gomari Ward and 1,000 Housing Estate in Maiduguri, Borno State, were woken to a rude shock on Saturday morning when at...
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lambasted former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Lasun Yussuf over comments credited to...
The son of late Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi, Saif-al-Islam, has been reinstated as a presidential candidate and given the go-ahead to run in the country’s upcoming...
The Kano State government, has once again, sealed the office premises of Barr. Nureini Ibrahim Jimoh (SAN) lawyer to the All Progressives Congress (APC) faction loyal...
The Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, has resigned his position following the exposure of his secret romance with a married woman. In a statement by the...
Former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said alleged that Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje is behind the current crisis brewing in the state chapter...
After seven days in the captivity of his abductors, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Fugar, Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State,...
The Zamfara State government has placed a ban on officials from the state Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) from speaking to the media or disseminating information...
A court in the United Kingdom has convicted a self-styled Yoruba activist, Adeyinka Grandson, of racial hatred, incitement to genocide and conspiracy to commit terrorist acts....
The 15-year-old student who went on a mass shooting spree at the Oxford High School, Michigan, USA, has been identified by the police as Ethan Crumbley,...
The gubernatorial campaign office of Senator Barau Jibrin, a stalwart of the Ibrahim Shekarau-led faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, has been...
The Zamfara State government has concluded arrangements to import goats and cows from South Africa and Norway in readiness for the development of RUGA settlements in...
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Kukah, on Wednesday decried the hardship in the country, saying Nigerians are going through psychological trauma under President Muhammadu...
The former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, on Wednesday, described as insensitive and callous the Lagos State government’s White...
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Oxford, Michigan, after a mass shooting at the Oxford High School left three students dead and eight others seriously...
The Kano State government has rejected a Tuesday court judgment declaring the banishment of deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, and the award of N10...
The Kano State government has reacted to Tuesday’s court ruling which nullified the All Progressive Congress (APC) ward congresses conducted by a faction loyal to Governor...
The Osun State Police Command has rescued a six-year-old girl who was locked up and maltreated for months by her guardian at the Isale-Osun quarters of...
Forty people, mostly women and children, have been confirmed dead after a boat capsized in Badau village, Bagwai Local Government Area of Kano State on Tuesday....
Former Lesotho Prime Minister, Thomas Motsoahae Thabane, has been charged with the brutal murder of his estranged wife, Lipolelo, who was shot to death in 2017...
A 14-year-old boy, Yussuf Mustapha, has become Britain’s youngest person to be convicted of a gun murder after he was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing...
