Politics

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, says that 116 of the Nigerian migrants trapped in Libya slave camps would be repatriated home soon. Dabiri-Erewa said this in a statement by her ...

Five insurgents have lost their lives in a failed bid to infiltrate a community in Maiduguri, to cause havoc. The incident took place on Aug. 5 at Kaleri community in Maiduguri, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed on Monday in ...

The national government is staring at a crisis of offsetting more than Sh100 billion in pending bills owed to various suppliers and entities. The amount is strewn across government ministries, departments, commissions, independent offices and state corporations, among others. The ...

This photo surfaced on social media showing several men of God at the residence of Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu praying for his deliverance from EFCC.   The embattled lawmaker is currently being frilled by the anti-graft agency on allegations ...

A week after its historic presidential elections, Zimbabweans have begun mourning the dead as seven people lost their lives on Wednesday, August 1, when the military opened fire on protesters in the streets of the capital Harare.   Opposition supporters ...

The deputy governor of Kano State, Hafiz Abubakar has tendeed his resignation on Sunday August 5, 2018. This follows rumoured reports speculations last week that Mr Abubakar has defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to the opposition Peoples ...

Read Reno’s pece below…. Ever since Adams Oshiomhole became the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress on June 24, 2018, he has acted, and is still acting like a bull in a China shop. No finesse, no tact, no diplomacy. ...

At least five people were killed and a village razed in an attack by Boko Haram jihadists in the northern Nigerian Borno state, militia fighting the Islamists told AFP Saturday. Arriving in 10 trucks, the Boko Haram fighters stormed the ...

Mobs looted shops and burned down properties in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali region on Saturday, as unrest gained momentum and spread across the province following deployment of soldiers, witnesses said. On Friday evening, Ethiopian troops entered the regional capital Jijiga in ...

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of robotics and artificial intelligence agency in the south East. Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu said this at a grand rally of the All Progressives Congress in Abakaliki, capital ...

The Nigerian Army says it has arrested a wanted Boko Haram suspect, Maje Lawan at Banki, Borno. According to a statement by the Army spokesman, Brig.Gen Texas Chukwu, the suspect is believed to be number 96 on the wanted list ...

Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed said this in an interview on Saturday. The Minister when asked about the party’s next step for the defected APC members to vacate their seats, said: “I still believe that the party (APC) reserves the legal ...

Ethiopian soldiers have traded fire with members of local government Security Forces in the country’s eastern Somali region after central authorities sought to arrest regional officials. Residents said that the soldiers were deployed in the province’s capital Jijiga on Friday ...

The Nigerian Air Force says the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole has conducted a successful attack on a Boko Haram Terrorists’ (BHTs) Hideout in Daban Masara in Borno State.   Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public ...

Nigerian soldiers have been caught on camera receiving matching orders in Chinese language. The video has gone viral online, cracking up social media users. The hilarious footage was shared by a Nigerian soldier, Ameh John Bosco, on his Instagram page. ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Federal Government of shopping for a fraudulent interim court order to declare vacant, the seat of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, following his defection from ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has once again restated his position to never support Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s presidential aspiration. Atiku has declared his interest to run for president in 2019. He is currently in the PDP and is working towards ...

Two men have been convicted for having a consenting same-sex relationship in Zambia. According to a report from AFP, Stephen Sambo, 30, and Japhet Chataba, 38, were found guilty of “performing unnatural acts”. Prosecutors presented “videos and photographs” of the ...

Former Cabinet minister and West Mugirango MP Henry Obwocha has died. The current West Mugirango MP Vincent Kemosi said the former lawmaker, 69, died after collapsing at his home in Nairobi on Friday night. Obwocha had on Friday afternoon attended ...

Nandi Hills MP Alfred Keter is in trouble after he was warned not to step in Nandi and Uasin Gishu counties until he apologises for attacking Deputy President William Ruto. On Friday, demonstrations were held against the lawmaker in his ...

Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has challenged the country’s electoral body to release ‘proper and verified results’ of the presidential election, even as South African president Cyril Ramaphosa called on Zimbabweans to accept the poll outcome. The election, the first since the ...

Nigerian Air Force (NAF) combat aircraft has neutralised several armed bandits during air attacks near Mashema Village and at another location 4km Southeast of Yanmari, both in Zamfara State. NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, ...

If there is a single dream that is shared in common by the members of Argungu community in Kebbi State, it is the resuscitation of the once famous Argungu fishing festival. It used to be a source of excitement for ...

Sidonie Maboue pulled her hands out of the muddy water and sat down on a piece of fabric next to the bags of gravel that she and three of her 12 children filled that day. “This gravel will be crushed, ...

The Lagos State Government has warned the general public against falling prey to fraudsters planning to defraud unsuspecting Lagosians following the announcement by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to inject additional 1000 teachers into the state public schools.   According to a ...