Jihadists linked to the Islamic State have attacked a UN base and overrun a humanitarian hub in northeastern Nigeria, trapping 25 aid workers, security and humanitarian sources said. Scores of

A Paris court has found Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s former president, guilty of corruption and influence peddling, sentencing him to one year in prison and a two-year suspended sentence. The 66-year-old

Armed bandits have released the twenty-seven schoolboys and fourteen others that were abducted from Government Science Secondary School Kagara, in Nigeria’s north central Niger State. A government official who confirmed

More than 300 schoolgirls have been abducted by suspected bandits from a Government Girls Secondary School in Mafara local government area of northwestern Zamfara state. The bandits invaded the school

The Nigerian Senate has confirmed Abdulrasheed Bawa as the substantive executive chairman of the country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The forty-year-old Bawa’s confirmation was done after a lengthy

Tiger Woods has been taken to hospital after being injured in a car crash in Los Angeles, police have said. The golf star had to be cut out of the

The electoral commission in Niger says the ruling party’s candidate Mohamed Bazoum has won the presidential election with more than 55% of the vote. His opponent, former president Mahamane Ousmane,

The Italian ambassador to Kinshasa was on Monday shot dead in an attack that targeted a convoy of the World Food Program (WFP) during a visit near Goma in the

Africa’s largest economy Nigeria, has officially exited recession helped by the gradual return of economic activities following the easing of restricted movements and stimulus packages by the Central Bank of

Suspected bandits have killed one student and kidnapped several others in Government Science College Kagara in northcentral Niger state. Details of the incident is still sketchy but the Director General

Obinwanne Okeke, popularly known as Invictus Obi, was on Tuesday sentenced in the United States to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a computer-based intrusion fraud scheme that

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm forty year old Abdulrasheed Bawa as the substantive Chairman of the country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Femi Adesina,

Former Nigerian Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been chosen as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ms Okonjo-Iweala will assume office on 1 March 2021 and will

The US Senate has voted to acquit former US president Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6.  House Democrats, who voted a month ago

Nigeria’s Minister of Information Lai Mohammed has warned those planning to protest at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos on Saturday to desist. This follows calls by citizens on social media