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Gutsy bandits launch fatal attack on NDA, Kaduna, kill two soldiers, abduct one

“The Academy in collaboration with the 1Division Nigerian Army and Air Training Command as well as other security agencies in Kaduna state has...

Just in: Ogun Senator, NADECO chieftain, Olabiyi Durojaiye, dies at 88

  A former Nigerian Senator, Otunba Olabiyi Durojaiye, has passed on. The 88-year-old Durojaiye reportedly died in the early hours of Tuesday, August...

OML 11: Shell will not be allowed to return to our land, Ogoni leaders vow

    Following the Court of Appeal landmark judgment which handed over the management of Oil Mining License (OML) 11 to the Nigeria...

Afghan evacuees arrive Washington, Dulles airport

The first groups of Afghan evacuees arrived at Dulles International Airport Saturday, one week after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. At the Pentagon...

2 Catholic nuns shot, killed in volatile South Sudan

  Gunmen shot and killed two Catholic nuns while they were traveling on a highway in South Sudan, which is one of the...

19 Year-Old Aircraft: What we know about the United Nigeria airline

    A local airline, Private Airlines Services Limited with a call sign ‘ United Nigeria” operates  a fleet size of 4 Embraer...

Father murders son for refusing to forsake his faith in Jesus

  A 20-year-old man in Uganda who had converted from Islam to Christianity was tied up and murdered by his own father after...

U.S citizens beaten by Taliban fighters en route to Kabul airport

  United States citizens have been beaten by the Taliban while attempting to reach the U.S.-held airport in Kabul, Pentagon Press Secretary John...

Alleged N150bn fraud: NIRSAL dismisses report as phantom, contrived by conscienceless forces

  The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL Plc) has raised alarm about what it called conscienceless forces, who have...

Just in: N50bn fraud: Ex-Abia Gov Orji nabbed at airport by EFCC

  “The former was alleged to have embezzled the N500 million monthly security vote he received for eight years as governor from 2007...

I left Afghanistan to prevent bloodshed – President

  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, speaking from exile in the United Arab Emirates, said on Wednesday that he had left Kabul to prevent...

Breaking: Petroleum Industry Act: FG retains N162 as petrol pump price

  …Both labour and us have agreed on the process of putting the Infrastructure and the process in place. And once we are...

Just in: Ex-Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, dies at 74

A one-time Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, has passed on, according to family sources. Aged 74, Mantu, who was in the Senate in...

30 days after its passage, Pres. Buhari initials the Petroleum Industry Bill, scoring another first

  A month after the National Assembly passed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2021 and sent a clean copy to the Executive, President...

22 worshippers murdered in cold blood on Plateau highway

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh No fewer than 25 travellers have been reportedly killed and 14 others injured by gunmen along Rukuba road...

COVID-19: FG places six states, FCT on red alert as delta variant cases increase

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh As the cases of the delta variant of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to rise gradually in Nigeria, the...