Nigeria’s federal government at the weekend said that it was set to revive the over $22 billion abandoned Brass Liquefied Natural Gas (BLNG) in Bayelsa in a bid to ramp

Angered by their treatment in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State, former governor of the state, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, and Senator Kabiru Marafa, on Sunday, defected to

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted at the nation’s three major airports of Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt large consignments of cocaine which Brazil-based drug

Nigeria’s U17 girls have one leg in the final round of the African qualification series for this year’s FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup after a 4-0 defeat of their Egyptian

Families of some abductees on the Abuja-Kaduna train on Friday warned that they would resist any attempt to resume services on the route without rescuing their loved ones.They also lashed

The World Bank in its latest Africa’s Pulse, a biannual analysis of the near-term regional macroeconomic outlook, has projected a 2.7% growth for Nigeria in 2022.Of the region’s three largest

Plans to send some asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda are a breach of international law, the UN’s refugee agency has said. The UNHCR said attempting to “shift responsibility”

The Nigeria Football Federation and the Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol on Friday announced that the ‘A’ National Teams of both countries will play a friendly match in New Jersey, United

At least 167 people died in landslides and floods after Tropical Storm Megi devastated the Philippines last Sunday. A further 110 people are missing and 1.9 million have been adversely

  Three –time champions and four-time runners-up Nigeria will know their group opponents when the draw for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification series is staged at the SuperSport

Russia has banned UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior ministers from entering Russia over the UK’s “hostile” stance on the war in Ukraine. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Defence

Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed Wednesday that its Moskva missile cruiser was badly damaged in a fire — hours after Ukrainian forces claimed they’d struck the vessel in the Black Sea.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has kicked against an interim ex parte order by the Awka Division of the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Hyeladzira Nganjiwa

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,  has revealed that the terrain where bandits operate contributes to making security operations difficult. But human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana

After months of speculations over his political ambition, Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Saturday declared his ambition to contest the 2023 presidential election. Amaechi, who made the declaration in

Southern governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have rejected the report of the 37-man committee that recommended that the presidential ticket of the main opposition

The United Nations has said the deterioration of food security in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states have left more than 8.4 million people in dire need of humanitarian assistance and

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele on Friday announced that the Infrastructure Corporation of Nigeria (InfraCo) would unlock N8 trillion of pension funds’ assets to

The quest by some presidential aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for a consensus flagbearer for the party ahead of their Presidential primaries is looking more like a fruitless

French President Emmanuel Macron voiced regret on Friday for starting campaigning late as opinion polls showed him holding a slender lead over the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who he