Analysts on Thursday called on the federal government to implement the 2021 budget to boost infrastructural development, ensure policy consistency and proper management of the Covid-19 pandemic in order to

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday stressed the importance of Nigeria being interested in peace in the neighbouring Niger Republic. According to him, peace in the Niger Republic must matter to

The immediate past Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin (rtd) and the erstwhile service chiefs on Thursday explained why security challenges facing the country could not be surmounted

Seven soldiers have been given jail sentences by a disciplinary committee for beating up journalists outside the United Nations Human rights office on Wednesday, the Ugandan military has said. They

Zanzibar’s Vice President Seif Sharif Hamad has been buried in his home village in Tanzania’s Pemba Island, following his death on Wednesday at the age of 77. His cause of

A former Comptroller-general of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Abdullahi Dikko Inde has died. The cause of his death remains uncertain but Mr Dikko had been facing several corruption charges

The World Health Organization says it will send more than 11,000 Ebola vaccinations to the West African nation of Guinea in the coming days to combat the resurgence of the

Zimbabwe has begun vaccinating its health care workers as the country rolls out its COVID-19 inoculation programme. The southern African nation received its first 200,000 doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine

Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi (rtd), on Wednesday rallied Nigerians to defend themselves against bandits who have turned kidnapping into a thriving business. Magashi, speaking against the

Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has faulted the attempts to equate Niger Delta militants with Northern bandits, describing it as not only criminal, but also unconscionable. Clark stated this in

Nigeria’s federal government has assured it will secure the safe release of abducted students and teachers of the Government Science College Kagara, Niger State. Forty-two persons, 27 of them students,

There was excitement at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja and other zonal offices nationwide on Tuesday as President Muhammadu Buhari broke with tradition

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

A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Charles Soludo, Managing Director, Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Mr Birsmack Rewane, and former Nigerian ambassador to the United States,

Nigeria’s former minister of finance Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Monday made history by becoming the first female and first African Director General of the World Trade Organisation. Thousands of Nigerian

On Tuesday, 40-year old Abdulrasheed Bawa was nominated chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari. There are a lot of firsts attached

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,