Nigeria has offered to support Mozambique in its fight against Islamist insurgents in the gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado. More than 2,000 people have been killed and more than 500,000 others displaced in the violence, according t...

The Nigerian government has classified Kogi as COVID-19 high risk state because of its failure to acknowledge the existence of the disease, report tests or build isolation centres. The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 disclosed this...

A court in Panaji, India has sentenced a Nigerian footballer, Amachukwu Okeke, to 10 years imprisonment for possessing narcotics in commercial quantity. Okeke was also fined Rs 1 lakh (about N520,000) under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropi...

File Photo Some bandits have attacked Giwa and Zango-Kataf local government areas of Kaduna, killing three persons and injuring three others. Mr Samuel Aruwa, the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, said in a statement ...

Illustration A medical doctor in a tertiary hospital in Nigeria has bemoaned the salary scale of health workers in the country, especially at a time when the world is battling with the COVID-19 pandemic. He alleged that doctors who are front-...

Operatives of the Nigerian army have attacked students of the University of Abuja staging a peaceful protest against hike in tuition fee and other issues at the entrance of the school. SaharaReporters gathered that the soldiers fired tear ga...

Aggrieved youths in Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Council Development Area of Oyo State, welcomed the governor of the state, Seyi Makinde, with placards asking him to do more about insecurity in their area. According to The PUNCH, Makinde ar...

Prince Tony Momoh is dead. The late chieftain of the All Progressives Congress was a veteran journalist, lawyer, politician and former Minister of Information and Culture during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, between 1986 ...

Popular Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho), has said the Ogun state government invited him and his group to fight banditry and kidnapping in the state. Igboho stormed Ogun community, Oja Odan, on Monday with his group, promising...

Bobi Wine Ugandan opposition leader, Bobi Wine, on Monday filed a Supreme Court challenge seeking cancellation of the results of a presidential election that handed victory to incumbent Yoweri Museveni, his party’s lawyer has said. Museveni...