A 43-year-old woman, Sharon Williams, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly locking up and assaulting her five-year-old nephew for six months....
Gunmen have killed a Major General of the Nigerian Army, Hassan Ahmed, and abducted his wife in an attack in Abuja. Ahmed, who was recently appointed...
Authorities of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) have shut down the students’ hostels, after some students were said to have tested positive for the dreaded covid-19....
Newly appointed Radio Biafra Director, Simon Ekpa, says South-East leaders who have been working against the leader of the proscribed Igbo separatist group, Indigenous People of...
Self-styled Yoruba Nation activist and freedom fighter, Sunday Igboho, leader of Ilana Omo Oodua, Prof Banji Akintoye, and 49 Yoruba self-determination groups have filed a petition...
The death toll in riots that have been raging through South Africa following the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma, has risen to 75, with 1,270...
The Senate has passed a bill that proposes a 10-year jail term for purveyors of hate speech in the country. The bill which was passed during...
President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the inability of his government to develop Nigeria to the lingering insecurity in the country. Buhari said this at a dinner...
A Kaduna State Security Incidents Report for the Second Quarter of 2021 presented to Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Tuesday, has shown that 222 persons were killed,...
Former Governor of Imo State and Senator representing Imo Central at the National Assembly, Rochas Okorocha, has blamed the state governor, Hope Uzodimma, of trying to...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday Nigerians love and accept him wholeheartedly despite not being a rich man. The President stated this when he received the...
The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, said on Tuesday he knows the individuals behind kidnapping, banditry, and other forms of criminality in the state. Mohammed...
The Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected the nomination of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Social Media aide, Lauretta Onochie, as a Commissioner for...
The British police on Tuesday said it seized record hauls of cryptocurrency totalling £294 million ($408 million) as part of an investigation into money laundering after...
The umbrella body of Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has accused governors in the South-West of shielding self-styled Yoruba Nation activist and freedom...
Rioting triggered by the imprisonment of former South African President, Jacob Zuma, has claimed 10 lives as violence escalated on Monday, with shopping malls in Johannesburg...
Former aide to ex-Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has berated Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, saying the governor disrespected the National Chairman of...
The Senate has turned down a fresh request of $434.7m from the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, for projects already captured in the borrowing plan...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has described the nomination of President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide, Lauretta Onochie, as an INEC Commissioner, as a sign of desperation by...
At least 11 people have been confirmed dead after lightning struck at a popular tourist spot in the city of Jaipur, in India’s northern state of...
At least 49 people, including five civilians, four soldiers and 40 armed Jihadists were killed on Sunday in a clash in the restive South-West region of...
Bandits who abducted the provost of the College of Arts and Animal Science, Bakura, Habibu Mainasara, in Zamfara State, have demanded a ransom of N5 million...
Protests over the imprisonment of former South African President, Jacob Zuma, has turned violent as it entered its fourth day, with shops reportedly looted and roads...
The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) and the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) have started a campaign tagged “Information Blackout,”...
The police in Haiti have arrested a man of Haitian origin, reportedly a doctor based in Florida, USA, suspected to be the mastermind behind the assassination...
The Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu (AMEN) Fr Ejike Mbaka, has once again defended the agitations of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of...
Former Zamfara State governor, Sani Yerima, has insisted on entering the race for the 2023 presidential election despite calls for it to be zoned to the...
The week in review threw up another round of intriguing and vexatious issues that kept Nigerians talking. Prominent among the lot, as the 2023 elections gear...
Widow of the assassinated President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, who was killed on July 7, has described the moment assassins “riddled” her husband with bullets after...
South African police have arrested 28 people after one of the country’s biggest highways was blocked following violent protests that broke out against the imprisonment of...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has taken the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Uche Secondus, to the cleaners following the internal crisis within...
Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie, has again spoken on her reasons for leaving the Roman Catholic Church and separating herself from Catholicism, a faith she was born...
A Fulani group under the aegies of the Gan Allah Fulani Development Association (GAFDAN) has kicked against any attempt to ban open grazing in Southern Nigeria,...
The umbrella body of Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria, the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has lambasted governors in the southern states over their resolution to ban open...
A youth leader in Akinkunmi village, Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State capital, has been reportedly shot dead by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen who...
On July 7, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in a report on the abduction of children from various Nigerian schools in the North, said over...
The claim by President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide, Lauretta Onochie, denying being a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been punctured by an affidavit she...
The Taliban on Wednesday attacked a provincial capital in Afghanistan, Baghdis. The early morning attack reportedly caused panic among local people and prompted prisoners to break...
The Netherlands crime reporter, Peter R de Vries, is currently battling for his life after he was shot on a central Amsterdam street on Tuesday evening....
The Bishop of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Onitsha Diocese, Rt Rev. Biereonwu Livinus Onuagha, has said any Igbo person criticising the leader of the proscribed Igbo...
Haitian President, Jovenel Moïse, has been assassinated after gunmen attacked his private residence on Tuesday night, the country’s interim Prime Minister, Claude Joseph, confirmed in a...
The Ohaneze Youth Council (OYC) the youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari and members of his government...
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has thrown his weight behind the resolutions reached by the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) after their meeting in Lagos...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday, presented a bill seeking a five-year-jail term for ‘unlawful protesters’ in the country for consideration. The bill entitled: ‘An act...
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has rejected the resolution of the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) for the 2023 Presidency to be zoned to the south,...
The Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Abuja, has come out to deny ordering the arrest of protesters who wore T-Shirts with the inscription, #BuhariMustGo in the church...
Former South African President, Jacob Zuma, on Tuesday asked a regional court to block his arrest as he pursues legal challenges against a prison sentence. The...
A Kano State High Court on Tuesday fined Governor Abdullahi Ganduje N800,000 for withdrawing his defamation suit against a journalist, Ja’afar Ja’afar, Ja’afar, who is the...
28 people including six crew members aboard a Russian Antonov An-26 aircraft were feared dead after the plane crashed in the Palana region, near the Sea...
Not less than 150 people were killed in over 400 shootings across the United States during the Fourth of July weekend which saw Americans celebrate the...
