Politics

The federal cabinet has approved the sum of seventy-nine point nine billion naira for the reconstruction of the road from Apapa to the toll gate on Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Lagos state, South-West Nigeria. Minister of Works, Power and Housing Babatunde ...

The Lagos Zonal office of EFCC on Wednesday, August 1, 2018, arraigned the trio of Gbadegun Isaiah Abiodun, Oladipo Oladapo and Afolabi Peter Albert, before Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a five-count charge bordering ...

President Muhammadu Buhari would on Friday, August 3, embark on a 10 working days holiday in the United Kingdom. This was revealed by the president’s special assistant on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, in a tweet on Wednesday, August 1. ...

Dozens of top executives and government officials have been charged, lifestyle audits have been ordered and even lie detector tests suggested in recent weeks, as Kenya launches a new crusade against corruption. There are few topics as discussed in the ...

\ At least three people have been killed as police and soldiers in Harare clashed with opposition protesters amid a delay in announcing the winner of Zimbabwe’s presidential election. The scene in the capital has deteriorated into serious disorder, according to reports on ...

Gunmen attacked a convoy carrying election materials in central Mali, triggering a shootout in which four soldiers and eight attackers were killed, a Defence Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. The spokesman said the attack occurred late on Tuesday on the ...

Police fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing protesters in Harare on Wednesday as the main opposition leader accused the ruling party of trying to rig the result of Zimbabwe’s election. European Union observers also questioned the conduct of Zimbabwe’s first ...

  The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the declaration followed a solidarity rallies organised by the governor’s supporters across the 23 local government areas of the state. Tambuwal told the rally that the defection came after due consultations with ...

Ahead of the elections, politicians are crossing from one political party to another looking for political parties which suit their interests. President Buhari referred to defection as a seasonal occurrence that happens on election eve. While all Nigerian major parties ...

The National Publicity Secretary of Nigeria’s governing party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi has resigned his position and his membership of the party. He made this known in a press statement released to journalists in Abuja. This ...

The presidential candidate for Zimbabwe’s main opposition accused the ruling ZANU-PF of trying to steal the general election on Wednesday after official figures gave President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s party a majority in parliament. Nelson Chamisa, 40, and the 75-year-old Mnangagwa were ...

23 members of the Kwara State House of Assembly have defected to PDP. This massive defection comes barely 24 hours after the state governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed and senate president Bukola Saraki, defected form APC to PDP. Reading out a joint ...

  The northern Nigerian state of Zamfara is “at the mercy” of armed bandits who have killed at least 371 people this year, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Daily kidnappings and raids across the state have left villagers in constant ...

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Seme Command, said it repatriated 414 irregular immigrants in the first six months of the year. The command’s spokesman , Yusuf Salman, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Seme that 159 ...

Some 46 people from the Coast have gone missing as the war on terror and criminal gangs intensifies. Human rights lobby, Haki Africa, said the missing, who are from six Coast counties, could have been abducted by security agencies. “We ...

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has said he is not afraid of suspension in a party in which he is a founding member. He was responding to the threat issued by the Chairman of the All ...

Violence in Nigeria between semi-nomadic cattle herders and settled farmers has killed around six times more people than deaths related to the Boko Haram insurgency in the first half of 2018, and poses a major threat to the country’s stability, ...

A prosecution witness, Chuks Igboerika, a manager with Access Bank Plc, on Monday, July 23, 2018, told Justice M.S. Hassan of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how a  suspected fraudster, Ifeanyi Nwaneri, had carried out fraudulent transactions ...

Lagos state Governor Akinwunmi Ambode who was a guest speaker at this year’s Executive Intelligence Management Course participants of the Institute for Security Studies in Abuja, on said the state has become one of the safest cities in Africa. The ...

The Benue youths have prevented Governor Samuel Ortom from traveling from Makurdi to Abuja to honour a meeting with the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Sun reports that the youths numbering over 2,000 on Wednesday, July 25, ...

Yusuf Abdulwahab, the Chief of Staff to the Kwara state governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, arrested for his alleged involvement in the April 5, 2018 Offa bank robbery, has been granted bail in the sum of N10 million by a state High ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday, July 24, called for criminalisation of vote-buying to stop the trend in the political system of the country. Adedeji Soyebi, National Electoral Commissioner in charge of southwest, made the call in Abuja ...

Supporters of Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso burnt their brooms today as the senator defected from APC to PDP.

President Donald Trump is considering revoking the security clearances of at least half a dozen well-known former national security officials, his spokeswoman said Monday, in an extraordinary expression of his desire to punish increasingly vocal critics from past administrations. Among ...