A Nigerian,, Ibeh Ejike returning from Kigali, Rwanda has been arrested for ingestion of 87 wraps of cocaine by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the

Nigeria has maintained her position as Africa’s biggest economy after South Africa released the report of its rebased Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that pushed the latter’s economy up by 11

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has issued a 21-day strike notice to the federal government with effect from today (Monday). This is coming as the federal government said it has

Nineteen civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have been burned and hacked to death by Ugandan rebels, a local official said. Fourteen bodies were found on Saturday,

The Plateau State House of Assembly has given Governor Simon Lalong two weeks to address the security challenges bedviling the state. Chairman, House Committee on Information, Mr Philip Dasun, conveyed

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday reiterated his support for a united Nigeria, saying the cost for Nigeria not to continue existing “is much more than the cost to make

Former Malian interim President Bah Ndaw and his prime minister, Moctar Ouane, have been freed from house arrest by the authorities who deposed them in May, a committee monitoring the

Nigeria’s federal government has commenced the implementation of the no work, no pay rule on striking doctors with effect from Monday August 2, 2021. In a letter dated Friday, August

Thirty-two of the remaining sixty-three abducted students of Bethel Baptist High school, Damishi, in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna state have been released from captivity. The chairman of the Christian Association of

The United Kingdom (UK) has donated another 592,880 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Nigeria, bringing the total to 1,292,640 doses given to the African country by the European country in August

Moussa Faki Mahamat, the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union has announced the appointment of a former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo as his High Representative for the Horn

Worried by the increasing medical emergencies orchestrated by the recent violence in Jos and other parts of Plateau State, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Jos University Teaching Hospital

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned the Security Council the conflict in Ethiopia has spread beyond the Tigray region and “a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes”. “Inflammatory rhetoric

Mali’s former prime minister, Boubeye Maiga, has been arrested for his role in the purchase of a presidential plane during the rule of deposed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, his lawyer

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is once more set to deduct about N215.3 billion from its contribution to next month’s joint Federation Account. The aforementioned amount is a combination

Nigeria’s Inspector-general of Police Usman Baba has received the report of a Special Investigation Panel (SIP) investigating the indictment of the suspended Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT),

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dr. Simon Harry as the new Statistician-General of the Federation to head the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The newly appointed general is to succeeded