As countries around the world try to figure out ways to deal with the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said it

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday stressed the need for Nigeria and South Africa to strengthen bilateral ties and avoid unnecessary rivalry.  Buhari made the call in Abuja at the opening of

The Federal Government has promised to address the concerns raised by the Ogoni community about the on-going environmental remediation of oil impacted sites in the area being carried out by

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has lamented that 330,389 students are out of school in troubled Borno State due to the Boko Haram crisis. The United Nations agency however

United States said it has saved more than 20 million lives, prevented millions of HIV infections, and supported many countries to reach epidemic control of HIV. This claim was made

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday morning confirmed the first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the country. This was contained in a press release issued by

Canada on Tuesday banned travellers from Nigeria, Egypt, and Malawi over fears of the spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, bringing to 10 the number of African countries targeted

Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Tuesday nullified the banishment placed on former Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi by the Kano State Government.

The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) Lagos State chapter has joined the rest of the world in a 16-day activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in the society. The global

A disturbing, hard to watch two minute, eight seconds video of how the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the security wing of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), celebrated the

A businesswoman on Umrah (Lesser Hajj) to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has been arrested by operatives of Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)  at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja

China has promised to give an additional one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Africa. Presenting a keynote address: “Uphold the Tradition of Always Standing Together And Jointly Build a

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) said on Monday that eleven persons were lost in the attack on the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Jos, Plateau State A statement by the

South Africa’s president has condemned travel bans enacted against his country and its neighbours over the new coronavirus variant Omicron. Cyril Ramaphosa said he was “deeply disappointed” by the action,

More details have emerged on how the Nigerian Army trailed and arrested in Lagos some 13 Boko Haram terrorists, who had coordinated and carried out several deadly attacks on troops