The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a proscribed secessionist group in Nigeria led by Nnamdi Kanu, has scrapped the office of the deputy leader. The IPOB scrapped the office of the deputy leader after Nnamdi Kanu’s deputy, Uche Mefor tendered…
The Ghana Electoral Commission has said police, soldiers, journalists and ambulance drivers will not be able to cast their ballots in the December 7 election. The GEC has already published the names of those who will cast their ballots on…
At least 22 people have been killed in clashes between Arab herdsmen and farmers in the southern province of Kabbia. The rift is believed to be rooted in cattle rustling between the two communities. Chadian Communications Minister Cherif Mahamat told…
The Muhammadu Buhari-led government has asked the British government to apologize over a claim by a member of its parliament that ex-Military ruler Yakubu Gowon looted Nigeria’s Central Bank. Tom Tungendhat, a British Parliament member, made the allegation on Monday,…
Men of the Ondo State Security Network also known as Amotekun Corps have rescued the wife of the Chief of Staff to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, Olugbenga Ale. The gunmen on Friday abducted Mrs. Ale around Owena after the Joseph Ayo…
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has vowed that victims of rape or other sexual and gender-based violence will get justice. This is as he promised that anyone found guilty of rape or other sexual crimes will be made to face…
Former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, has condemned the allegation of looting half of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, by a British Parliamentarian. Recall that a UK lawmaker, Tom Tugendhat, accussed the former Head of State during a debate…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has faulted the Muhammadu Buhari-led government social intervention programmes and misapplication of foreign loans, blaming it for the recent recession suffered by the country. Nigeria on Saturday, November 21, officially went into recession for the…
Ondo monarch, the Olufon of Ifon, Oba Israel Adeusi is dead. He was killed by gunmen in the Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State around 4pm today. A relative of the monarch who confirmed this said Israel Adeusi was…
Former Nigerian Head of State General Yakubu Gowon (Rtd) has reacted to allegations by a British lawmaker that he stole half of the Central Bank of Nigeria while in office. In his reaction on Wednesday, the former Nigerian leader described…
The former Argentina attacking midfielder and manager suffered a heart attack at his Buenos Aires home. He had successful surgery on a brain blood clot earlier in November and was to be treated for alcohol dependency. Maradona was captain when…
Russia has accused a US naval vessel of “operating illegally” in territorial waters in the Sea of Japan near the country’s far east. The USS John S. McCain, which had been in the area for several days, “violated the territorial…
President Emmanuel Macron has said France will start to ease its strict national lockdown this weekend with the reopening of non-essential shops. The French president has also announced the easing of more COVID-19 restrictions, expected from mid-December, as long as…
Two people were injured in a stabbing at a department store in Lugano which is being investigated as a possible terror incident. Police in the Swiss canton of Ticino said a 28-year-old Swiss citizen who lives in the Lugano area…
Police in Poland are using increasingly violent tactics against peaceful demonstrators at women-led protests over abortion rights, according to activists. Authorities have thrown protesters on the ground, hit them with telescopic batons, and used kettling — a tactic that involves…
Nigerian activist, Deji Adeyanju has cautioned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against presenting Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate in 2023. He noted that if the PDP fields Atiku as its 2023 presidential candidate, the party should be ready to…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been charged by the former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bode George to be careful of politicians advertising the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, to him. The PDP chieftain…
The trial of men accused of murdering Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018 has resumed in Turkey. Twenty Saudi officials who are not in Turkey are being tried in absentia. A leading critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin…
Nigerian DJ and songwriter, Obianuju Catherine Udeh, popularly known as DJ Switch has declared that she won’t succumb to any intimidation from the government over her roles in the #EndSARS protest and the reportage on the Lekki toll gate shooting.…
The West African nation of Niger is observing three days of national mourning following the death of former President Mamadou Tandja at the age of 82. The government said Tuesday Tandja died in the capital, Niamey, but no cause of…