Governors of Nigeria’s Southern States have expressed grave concerns over worsening insecurity and “strongly” called on the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari to address citizens on the challenges. The 17 southern states Governors also banned open grazing

The seventeen governors of Nigeria’s southern states have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency convoke a national dialogue. The Southern Governors forum stated this on Tuesday in

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has approved new measures to tackle the growing insecurity in the southeast and south-south region of the country. The security measures to be deployed to tackle insecurity, according to

Nigeria is among an “amber list” of countries on Britain’s new international travel advisory once foreign holidays become legal in England. As England goes into the next phase of the roadmap

Portugal and Mozambique have signed a new military agreement that will see troops of the southern African country trained to confront a growing Islamist insurgency in the north of the

Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) says the invasion of Aso Presidential Villa, Nigeria’s seat of power, by bandits and armed robbers “further point to the collapse of the country’s security command structure under

The Suez Canal Authority says there are plans to expand and deepen the southern stretch of the waterway where the container ship Ever Given got stuck in March, Chairman Osama

Serie A side Juventus faces being expelled from the Italian top league if they don’t withdraw from the European Super League, Italian FA president Gabriele Gravina has said. The Bianconeri

11 people have been killed and four wounded in a school shooting in the Russian city of Kazan.   According to the Interfax news agency, two gunmen opened fire in

Fulham were relegated from the Premier League on Monday after losing 2-0 at home to fellow strugglers Burnley, who secured their spot in the top flight next season on the

Last week’s suspension of Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms. Hadiza Bala-Usman, at the request of the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, was the culmination of

For the tenth time, Nigeria’s entrepreneurial giant and richest black man on earth, Mr. Aliko Dangote, has retained his position as the richest man in Africa with a net worth

The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified the coronavirus variant first found in India last year as a “variant of global concern”. It said preliminary studies show the B.1.617 mutation

China’s population grew at its slowest since the 1950s as births declined, sowing doubt over Beijing’s ability to power its economy as it succumbs to the same ageing trends afflicting

Countries worldwide have appealed for calm after days of unrest spiralled into retaliatory attacks by Israel and Palestinians. The US, the European Union and the UK have urged Israel and

At least 11 people have been killed and dozens injured after a roadside bomb struck a bus in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province, the interior ministry said. The blast took place

The Group of Seven intergovernmental organisation, popularly called the G7, has committed N148.062 billion (£276 million) to tackle deteriorating food security of millions of Nigerians occasioned by years of insurgency

Authorities in Nigeria have reintroduced restrictions on mass gatherings to curb the further spread of Covid-19. The Presidential steering committee on Covid-19 also reintroduced a nationwide 12 am to 4 am curfew as part