The World Bank in its latest Africa’s Pulse, a biannual analysis of the near-term regional macroeconomic outlook, has projected a 2.7% growth for Nigeria in 2022.Of the region’s three largest

A new report by the United States Department of State has alleged that the judiciary in Nigeria remains susceptible to corruption and is constantly under pressure from the executive and

The U.S. State Department has cleared the sale of 12 AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopters to Nigeria worth nearly $1 billion, apparently after U.S. lawmakers lifted objections over human rights concerns.

The deteriorating security condition in the country was the focus of the first meeting of the National Council of State (NCS) this year, which held on Thursday in Abuja, with

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through Partners for Development has launched a three-year $3.5 million Water Improvement and Sanitation Enhancement (WISE) activity to improve water safety in

Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammad Abubakar, on Thursday commenced the emergency release of assorted food commodities to vulnerable persons across the country. Also to benefit from the

Nigeria’s federal government has described the call by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for the setting up of a high-powered committee to resolve the ongoing strike by university lecturers as

Flooding in South Africa’s Durban area has killed at least 306 people and is a “catastrophe of enormous proportions,” President Cyril Ramaphosa says. “This disaster is part of climate change.

Agricultural workers in the east and Horn of Africa are preparing for their most severe drought in 40 years, as authorities warn that higher temperatures and less than normal rainfall

The governor of Benue State in Nigeria’s North-Central region Samuel Ortom accused the Muhammadu Buhari administration of pretending not to notice the unremitting killings of innocent Nigerians. Ortom, who spoke

As Nigerians continue to lament the insecurity ravaging the country, the federal government on Wednesday blamed the recent attack on a Kaduna-bound train on an unholy alliance between Boko Haram

Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu has linked the ongoing crisis facing the nation’s power sector to acts of sabotage being perpetrated by certain criminally minded Nigerians. Briefing newsmen at

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has given the go-ahead for the release of 40,000 metric tons of assorted grains to needy Nigerians from the nation’s Strategic Grains Reserve (SGR). Minister of

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari, the senator for Plateau South in the National Assembly, Professor Nora Dadu’ut, and her counterpart in Plateau Central, Hezekiah Dimka, have described the recent bloody terrorist

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has said that Nigeria now has 3.3 million people displaced by various crisis rocking the nation, even as it revealed that modalities

The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday received a request from President Muhammadu Buhari to approve adjustments in the 2022 fiscal framework, including to raise the amount the federal government would expend

Bloodthirsty terrorists have killed 80 persons and abducted 70 others in Nigeria’s North-Central region after an invasion of some communities in Plateau State . The villages, which were attacked on

The European Union (EU) on Monday continued to mount pressure on Nigeria to ramp up its gas supply to Europe, with a visit to the Group Managing Director of the

Relatives of the kidnapped victims of the March 28, terror attack on Abuja – Kaduna train have given Nigeria’s federal government a 72-hour-ultimatum to ensure the safe rescue of their