The Chairman of the Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State, Mr. Alfred Atera, has alleged that over 100 persons were at the weekend killed in four wards of the

Suspected herdsmen on Sunday night killed 14 persons in two attacks on Dong and Kwi communities in the outskirts of Jos, the Plateau State capital. The assailants reportedly invaded the

Jennifer, the widow of the late Flight Lieutenant Alfred Olufade, on Monday lamented that her husband dreamt of last Friday’s plane crash a day before the incident. Olufade was among

Ethiopia has said it will reassess its relationship with the US if it continues to “meddle in its internal affairs”. The East African country’s ministry of foreign affairs stated this

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has criticised and appeared to query the legality of the decision by Governors of the country’s southern states to ban open grazing in their region. The

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says all health workers and elderly worldwide would have been vaccinated against coronavirus by now if jabs have been distributed equitably. The head of the WHO, Tedros

Protesters in Nigeria’s north-central Niger state are currently demonstrating along the Abuja-Suleja-Kaduna expressway over incessant attacks by armed men in the state, with no less than 25 people reportedly kidnapped

Six out of the two hundred and twenty-seven (227) Jersey cows recently gotten by Nigeria’s southwestern Ekiti State government are now delivering 150 litres of milk per day, compared to

The United States has announced visa restrictions on Ethiopian and Eritrean officials accused of increasing the six-month-old war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, saying those involved had “taken no meaningful steps

In 1999-2002, I was a cabinet member in Katsina State Government. When I was preparing our first budget, I was unsettled by the past trends in government support for agriculture.

Secessionist agitators on Sunday got a call from leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southwest to pull the break on their advocacy. The APC leaders, who rose

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has stated that its aircraft were in good health. NAF said the planes involved in recent crashes were purchased brand new in 2015. It said

Residents in the Democratic Republic of Congo have returned to destroyed houses after a large volcano erupted, with many searching for missing loved ones. Mount Nyiragongo turned the sky red

With Friday’s death of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, in an air crash in Kaduna, the race for who succeeds him has begun in earnest. The

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with Mrs. Fati Ibrahim Attahiru, the wife of the late Chief of Army Staff (COAS) via a telephone call saying Nigerians will continue to

The Nigerian government has sanctioned 90 travellers, disabling their passports for at least one year and cancelling visas of foreigners for violating the protocol for passengers arriving the country from

A Brazil based drug kingpin has been nabbed with 36 blocks of cocaine, weighing about 30 kilogrammes with a street value of over N8 billion (about $20m) at the Murtala

The European Union has announced plans to remove Ghana from the list of countries that are deficient anti-money laundering and terrorism financing. The decision to remove Ghana from the list

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday praised the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, for his gallantry in the war against insurgency and described him as a military