The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, has said his administration was considering the need to shut down telecoms services in Funtua, Bakori and Malumfashi Local Government Areas of the

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has directed taxpayers they must continue to comply with their Value Added Tax (VAT) obligations until the court of appeal, or the supreme court

Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Muhammad has ordered three judges involved in granting conflicting exparte orders to appear before the National Judicial Council to show cause why disciplinary action should

Borno State in northeast Nigeria is to export wheat and gum arabic to Sudan. This follows discussion between Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum and a team of experts at

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has sternly warned the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) against sabotaging and undermining the state government’s efforts to freely administer its own tax and other

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar says the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 general election was Nigeria’s biggest mistake. Atiku stated this on Saturday in Yola

The presidency says for the first time in the history of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari broke a giant-sized jinx when the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) announced a first Net

The Nigerian government has said it will drop all legal charges against the striking resident doctors if they suspend their industrial action and resume. The federal government also noted that

The Nigerian Government has condemned the coup d’etat in Guinea A statement by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday, Mrs. Esther Sunsuwa read: “The Nigerian Government

Former South Africa president Jacob Zuma was Sunday granted medical parole, prison authorities announced. Mr Zuma who was jailed in July for contempt of court has been hospitalised since August

Soldiers who staged an uprising in Guinea’s capital on Sunday said in a short broadcast on state television that they have dissolved the constitution and the government in the West

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has cautioned the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the federal government against going ahead with the planned payment of the sum of $418 million

Suspected herdsmen have killed the younger brother of a former Nigeria presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore. Mr Sowore who is also the convener of the #RevolutionNow movement, says his brother, Olajide

Following growing insecurity in northern Zamfara State, the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has instructed telecommunications companies in the country to shut down their services in the state for two weeks.

Zambia’s parliament has elected its first female speaker, more than a week after longtime opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was sworn in as the country’s new president. Nelly Mutti, a lawyer

104 people are dead in Niamey, the Niger capital following a cholera epidemic that has seen 2,874 cases in six regions, the Ministry of Health announced Friday. On August 19,

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has asked all South Africans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as one of the main tools in avoiding another devastating wave of infections. While answering

Twelve people are dead and 4,500 people have fallen sick in southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following a toxic leak from the Catoca diamond mine in neighbouring Angola

The Nigeria military says nearly 6,000 Boko Haram members including commanders, fighters and their families have surrendered to the authorities in the last couple of weeks, the BBC reports. Cameroon