Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has said the Covid-19 pandemic and widespread insecurity have grossly affected the food supply situation in the country. Okowa said the food situation in

The Lagos state government says it has pegged the occupancy limit for event centres in the Nigerian commercial capital to 500 people while social events can now have 200 people

President Ismail Omar Guelleh thanks his supporters after the election body declared him the winner, obtaining almost 99 percent of the vote. Djibouti’s veteran ruler Ismail Omar Guelleh was re-elected

Nigeria’s Federal government has presented resident doctors with a new commitment in order to get them to call off their ongoing strike. Rising from another conciliation meeting between federal government

Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Friday denied the alleged massacre of civilians in Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State by troops of Operation Whirl Stroke operating in the area.

The Nigerian Army says one of its officer and ten soldiers while on routine operational task were without provocation killed in Konshisha local government area of northcentral Benue State. Following

Archaeologists in Egypt have made a remarkable discovery of a lost city that dates back more than 3,400 years to the time of the pharaohs. The find has been called one of the

President Muhammadu Buhari has written a letter of good wishes to King Abdullahi II Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan in which he disclosed that he was having a short rest in

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, has described the First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, as a woman of deep convictions and feelings for what she

Former Emir of Kano, Alhaji Lamido Sanusi, on Thursday took a swipe at the country’s economic and political trajectory, concluding that Nigeria may never succeed if it continues with its

Eight members of a popular Nigerian church have been released by their abductors, general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God has confirmed. They were ambushed and kidnapped on

Tech giant Facebook says it has removed more than a dozen accounts and pages on Facebook and Instagram “from Egypt that targeted Ethiopia, Sudan and Turkey. “We removed 17 Facebook

Gunmen have killed a journalist working with Kenya’s state broadcaster. She was shot dead at her home in the outskirts of the capital Nairobi. Two gunmen entered Betty Barasa’s home

National leader of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu says the performance of the wife of Nigeria’s President Aisha Buhari, has laid to rest forever, concerns over the

An investigation is underway in Cameroon into allegations of financial embezzlement of Covid-19 funds. President Paul Biya ordered the investigation on Thursday after campaign group Human Rights Watch raised concern

Kenya’s drugs authority has denied reports that a Kenyan has died from taking the AstraZeneca vaccine. The Pharmacy and Poisons Board’s deputy director Dr Peter Ikamati said the death of

Again gunmen have attacked another police station in southeastern Imo state with reports suggesting several suspects in custody were released. An ARISE Correspondent who visited the Mbieri Divisional Police Headquarters

Nigeria’s Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), on Thursday distanced himself from a suit at the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, querying the

The President of the World Bank Group, Mr. David Malpass, on Wednesday said the multilateral institution is focused on supporting the federal government’s bid to lift 100 million Nigerians out