The United States has formally agreed to sell 12 Super Tucano A-29 planes and weapons to Nigeria, the West African country’s air force said, confirming the...
UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has announced that he is sending former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to support Liberia to peacefully transfer power to a democratically-elected president....
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Wednesday urged media organisations to work closely with it to enlighten Benue residents more on road safety best practices....
The chief of the Russian General Staff on Wednesday accused the U.S. of training former Islamic State fighters in Syria to try to destabilise the country....
The Kano State House of Assembly will on Thursday conduct a public hearing to enable stakeholders and other citizens to make inputs for the approval of...
The Indian government has ordered all civil servants in the country to declare their assets by January, otherwise they will lose promotions as well as foreign...
The Edo State Government says it will take the campaign against illegal migration to churches and schools across the state from 2018. Mr Solomon Okoduwa, the...
A former Ivorian minister was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for complicity in a 2012 attack in western Ivory Coast that killed 18...
U.S. President Donald Trump is going to learn that the Palestinian people cannot be bribed to abandon their historic ties to the holy city of Jerusalem,...
Authorities in eastern Libya will organise a conference in March to drum up support to rebuild the country’s second-largest city Benghazi heavily damaged during three years...
George Weah, former world footballer of the year has been announced winner of Liberia’s presidential election run-off. The former Ballon d’or winner has gone on the...
A former Minister for Sports and one of the National Chairmanship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party at the last National Convention of the party, Prof....
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said its victory in Saturday’s council elections the Ekiti was clear evidence of its popularity in the state, South-West and the...
The Katsina State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Salisu Majigiri, has said former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar is a factor in Nigerian politics whose presence...
A group of 453 Malaysian Muslims who went on an umrah pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and were due to fly home last Friday (Dec 22) are...
Osun State workers on Wednesday began the earlier announced indefinite strike over ‘modulated salary scheme’. The workers, in their large numbers were sighted early Wednesday morning...
The Nigeria Police Force said that it would arrest and prosecute anyone caught selling police uniforms in the open market. Some Inspectors and rank and file...
The United Nations says violence, displacement and hunger will drive record humanitarian needs in 2018, with nearly 136 million people worldwide in need of aid. The...
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Tuesday sealed a filling station in Kubwa, a suburb of Abuja, for allegedly selling petrol above N145 and gave...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the hosting by Nigeria of an international conference on saving the Lake Chad, his office said in a statement Tuesday. The...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan says Liberia is becoming a model of democracy in Africa and beyond, having attained “political stability’’. Jonathan told newsmen in the capital,...
Myanmar state counsellor refused to engage in substantive talks about alleged violence against the Muslim minority, says envoy Aung San Suu Kyi: no ‘substantive’ talks. Photograph:...
It appears that a rogue passenger managed to proceed from check-in all the way to the final boarding pass check at LAX and board the wrong...
US is responsible for 22% of the UN’s annual operating budget Timing sends message after UN rejects Trump’s recognition of Israeli capital Nikki Haley at United...
The United States has announced sanctions on two North Korean officials behind their country’s ballistic missile program. The steps were the latest in a campaign aimed...
Former Secretary of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) Ayo Opadokun yesterday decried the fuel scarcity in the country. He blamed it on over dependence on importation...
Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has warned petroleum marketers to desist from hoarding fuel, which has created artificial scarcity in the state and other parts of...
Marketers: our depots empty Scarcity persists in Ilorin, Abuja, Aba, others Fuel marketers raised the alarm yesterday – depots are empty. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...
President Muhammadu Buhari has set up a 17-man fact-finding mission to bring back Nigerians trapped in Libya. The team may also open talks with Libyan authorities...
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has hailed residents for the support extended to his administration in 2017. He said this made achievements recorded in key sectors...
Information and Culture Minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed has shed light on the approval of $1 billion by the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) to fight insecurity nationwide....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to refuse an application by four companies praying to reverse their...
President Muhammadu Buhari will host an international conference on saving the Lake Chad in February, 2018. According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to...
The Edo Command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has called for support from the state government to enable it to destroy more than 130,000...
The Federal Government has described the criticisms trailing the approval of one billion dollars for the fight against insurgency and other violent crimes in the country...
The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPPMA) on Tuesday expressed concern over the inability of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to send petrol to its...
Normalcy has been restored to the Moloi area of Maiduguri after the Boko Haram insurgents attacked the area on Christmas day. Hundreds of villagers, who fled...
Here is the 55-minute documentary on President Muhammadu Buhari that describes his governance style and ‘softer side’, in the words of close aides and Vice President...
In a video shared on Facebook official page, the man of God warned pastors to stop leading members to hell in the name of miracles. Adelaja...
Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara clocks 50 years today, with President Muhammadu Buhari extolling his virtues of humility, among others in a goodwill...
