Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal

A wanted drug supplier in Taraba State, Lami Mai Rigima has been finally nabbed by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. According to the spokesman of NDLEA,

International aid agencies on Tuesday raised the alarm that the West African sub-region was currently facing its worst food crisis in a decade, with 27 million people currently going hungry.

After much foot-dragging, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has finally jettisoned zoning. The 37-man committee set up by the party to decide on whether or not to zone its presidential

Former governor of Lagos state and Presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubuf. has donated N50m to the Kaduna state to rehabilitate and cater for the

The first trial for atrocities committed in Darfur has opened at the International Criminal Court (ICC), nearly 20 years after violence tore through the Sudanese region. A suspected former leader

A few weeks from now, two of these men – one each from the two main political parties – would emerge presidential candidates of their respective parties and dominate the

The European Union is to deliver an array of security hardware including 30 rigid-hull inflatable boats and forensic equipment to the Economic Community of West African States to tackle maritime

Nigeria’s federal government has barred all outgoing calls on every SIM card that is not linked to the National Identification Number (NIN) of the SIM card owner. Hide original message

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Nigerian renowned businessman and philanthropist, Aliko Dangote, were among the dignitaries, who stormed the quiet town of Odoragunshin, Epe, Lagos, on

Over N5 billion worth of pharmaceutical opioids (drugs) have been seized in the last one week by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Nigeria Customs

President Muhammadu Buhari; former President Olusegun Obasanjo; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila have congratulated Lady Christine Doja Otedola, mother of billionaire-

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, has indicated that the federal government saved about N48 billion from the Second Niger Bridge project, which contract was

No fewer than 184 passengers of the ill-fated Kaduna-bound train attacked by terrorists last Monday are still unaccounted for as the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), on Saturday confirmed the safety

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the readiness of Nigeria to lead the digital technology aspiration of the 54 African countries. This is just as Microsoft opened its first engineering

Determined to punish Monday’s attack on a Kaduna-bound train, which killed eight passengers and left scores unaccounted for, the military, yesterday, launched a counter-offensive against terrorists suspected of links with