The Minister of Power, Mr. Abubakar Aliyu, Thursday admitted that Nigeria’s current electricity generation was incapable of powering the economy of over 200 million Nigerians. Aliyu, who spoke during the

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the readiness of Nigeria to host the first-ever Global Conference on Tourism, Culture and the Creative Industry in November this year. Speaking on Thursday, during

An unspecified number of people have been reportedly abducted along the dreaded Birnin Gwari- Kaduna highway in Kaduna state by terrorists. In a statement in Kaduna, Chairman of the Birnin

Nigeria’s federal government on Tuesday revealed that it was collaborating with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United States Centre for Disease Control to see how Nigeria would access

With his words carefully chosen and intention unmistaken, President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, pleaded with the 22 governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to allow him choose his

Namibia has expressed willingness to extend bilateral relationship with Nigeria, insisting that it would use her hosting of the 5th Session of the Namibia-Nigeria Joint Commission of Cooperation holding in

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari departed Abuja Tuesday for Madrid, Spain, as head of an 11-man delegation on a state visit to the European nation at the invitation of Spanish President

The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has called for global solidarity in responding to crises facing the world, especially the ongoing war between Russia and

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva has said IOCs were leaving Nigeria because the environment was becoming too volatile for their operations. In an interview with The

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike on Monday accused his southern colleagues of masterminding his failure to win the ticket, saying they ganged up against him with some vested interests to

With Nigeria’s fuel subsidy payout averaging N500 billion monthly, total expenditure on subsidy could hit a record N6 trillion mark by year-end, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Monday.

An Egyptian court has sentenced former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and several prominent figures from the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to lengthy jail terms on Sunday for “spreading false

Plans by former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, to contest next year’s presidential election on the platform of Labour Party (LP) appeared shaky in Sunday, as a faction of

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) said it has activated a national multisectoral Emergency Operations Centre for Monkeypox (MPX-EOC) at level 2 to strengthen and coordinate ongoing response activities

Security forces on Sunday repelled an attack by over 100 motorcyclists on Global Estate in the Lokogoma area of Abuja. The attackers razed two houses in the estate before a

The National Vice Chairman, North West, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Salihu Lukman, has said as far as the leadership of the party was concerned, former President Goodluck

A leader of the high profile terrorists group commonly referred to as ‘unknown gunmen’ that has been terrorising Anambra State has been allegedly apprehended. The apprehended terrorist who claimed to

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Sunday arrested a former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari and Anthony Yaro, Chairman and managing director of Finex Professional for their alleged