Reports suggest more than twenty houses have were torched when gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen attacked Umuogodo-Akpu Ngbo community, in southeastern Ebonyi State on Sunday. There are also reported cases of

Gunmen in Imo State have attacked a correctional facility and police command in Owerri, the Imo State capital, freeing some inmates in the process The number of inmates released from the facility is yet

Britain has expressed grave concern about what it described as the deteriorating security situation in Nigeria and pledged to help the country tackle insecurity. The UK’s Minister of Armed Forces,

Chairman of the National Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Mai Mala Buni, Tuesday unfolded plans by the party to rule Nigeria for 32 consecutive

The newly appointed Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has concluded her first official working visit to Nigeria. Ms Okonjo-Iweala, a former finance minister of Nigeria, arrived in

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday raised the tempo in the efforts by his administration to tame the worsening insecurity in the country as he directed the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS)

Nigeria and Kenya are to receive Covid-19 vaccines from the UN-backed Covax programme on Tuesday. Kenya will get 1.25 million doses of the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine and vaccinations are expected to

Analysts on Monday predicted a faster economic recovery for Nigeria as crude oil prices, at $60 per barrel, hit a new high since February 2020. The analysts, however, urged the

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has ordered all financial institutions including banks in the country to shut accounts of citizens or entities involved in cryptocurrency transactions within their systems.

West Africa’s oil exports slumped to the lowest level in at least three years last month as infrastructure woes for some of Nigeria’s biggest streams combined with gradually waning output

Nigeria has extended its search for Covid-19 vaccines to Russia and India in a bid to get enough supplies to meet its target of vaccinating 40% of its population by

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to take a decision on who will be the next Inspector-General of Police (IG) any time from Tuesday when he returns from his trip to

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that Nigeria’s capital spending will improve this year while anticipating that financing the country’s deficit will remain a challenge with its huge debt

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an investment of N50 billion (about $126m) in Nigeria Commodity Exchange (NCX) as part of efforts to reposition it. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met with the new service chiefs, urging them to concentrate their efforts on helping his administration to deliver on its electoral pledge to make Nigeria

Nigeria’s federal government on Monday signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mota-Engil Group for the construction of $1.959 billion Kano-Maradi standard gauge railway lines. The Minister of Transportation, Mr.

The United States has shed more light on why it added Nigeria to the religious freedom blacklist, attributing it to the federal government’s alleged violations of religious freedom. The US,

For the second time in a week, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has expressed concern about the worsening insecurity in Nigeria. The sultan, who last Thursday