Security cooperation between the United States and Nigeria has neither been halted nor frozen by the recent suspension of weapons sale to Nigeria by the US Congress. US Consul General

Authorities in Nigeria’s North-Central Niger State have confirmed the kidnap of the Commissioner for Information, Mohammed Sani Idris. According to Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mary Noel-Berje, the commissioner

After months of a hard fought battle with pancreatic cancer at a London hospital, billionaire businessman and Chairman of Ocean Marine Solutions Limited, Captain Idahosa Okunbo,has passed on. He was

Four notorious bandits have been killed by security forces in the ongoing operations against bandits in Kaduna state. Samuel Aruwan, the Kaduna state commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs,

Business magnate, Captain Idahosa Wells Okunbo, is dead. He died of pancreatic cancer in London Sunday morning, according go THISDAY. He was aged 63. THISDAY gathered that he was diagnosed

Nigeria will begin administering the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines from August 10, the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 said on Saturday. The Director of Press, PSC on COVID-19,

Ruth Pagu, one of the girls abducted by Boko Haram at a secondary school in Chibok seven years ago on Saturday reunited with her parents in company of the two

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Middle Belt Forum (MBF), and Afenifere have reacted to the comment by a former Nigeria military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), that the next President

Eighty two of the 94 students abducted by bandits at the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State on June 17 are spending their 52nd day today with the kidnappers

The Nigerian Army on Friday said it had reinvigorated its operations and strengthened them to enable the troops take the war to the enclaves of insurgents, bandits and other criminals

President Adama Barrow of Gambia has commended Nigeria’s commitment to the war against illicit drug trafficking and abuse, even as he called for more collaboration among anti-drug law enforcement agencies

As a way of supporting the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Canada Government is donating the total sum of $3.74million to support Tanzania’s social protection programme. Canada’s contribution would

Aminu Yar’Adua, the son of late General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, is in prison custody after allegedly killing four persons in an auto crash in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. A

South Africa’s jailed former president Jacob Zuma has been admitted to a hospital for medical observation on Friday, the government’s Correctional Services department said. As a former head of state

Rebels from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have taken control of the town of Lalibela, a UNESCO world heritage site in neighbouring Amhara region. Lalibela, home to 13th Century churches hewn

Nigeria’s federal government has named seven of the 36 states of the federation as beneficiaries of a $700 million loan sourced from the World Bank for water projects. The states

United Nations has raised the alarm that Nigeria’s North East is on the brink of catastrophic food insecurity as 4.4 million people in the area expected to face food critical

Cuba has cried that the United States blockade against her and the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic have caused a loss of about $3.6 billion between April and December, 2020 alone. Addressing

The President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou has revealed that the ECOWAS Vision 2050 will be validated and endorsed in December, this