21-year-old Zambian student identified as Rebecca Ziba has been arrested for twerking at a World War II memorial in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

2022-04-22 13:47:12

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday reacted to calls that he should contest for President, saying “I cannot tell you I am declaring now, but the political process is still ongoing.”

Will Russia give up the war in the next few weeks? An observation was recently made after observing photos of Russian military vehicles I feel is worth sharing.

2022-04-22 10:18:55

Russian President Vladimir Putin's appearance during a Thursday meeting with his defense minister has left people questioning the leader's health status.

2022-04-22 09:36:51

New satellite images show apparent mass graves near Mariupol, where local officials accused Russia of burying up to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians to conceal the slaughter taking place in the ruined port c

Many people have been feared dead and several houses and shops burnt after a tanker loaded with Premium Motor Spirit also known as petrol fell and later exploded around Ajegunle Bus-Stop along Lagos-A

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the devastated city of Mariupol "continues to resist" despite Russian claims to have captured it as he welcomed fresh US aid to help confront Moscow’s

Following his desire to join the 2023 gubernatorial race in Katsina State, the Deputy Governor of the state, Mannir Yakubu, has resigned his position as the state’s Commissioner for Agriculture and Na

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday bickered over the high cost of the ruling party’s nomination forms.

2022-04-22 05:54:00

Rivers State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Nyesom Wike has told delegate of Taraba State chapter of the party that if he secures the party’s ticket and wins the el

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has said that over one million electoral officials (both permanent and temporary or ad hoc staff) will be

Britain's Queen Elizabeth is being honoured with a Barbie doll in her likeness to mark her Platinum Jubilee this year.

2022-04-21 16:47:26

Operatives of the anti-drug agency, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested some suspected lawbreakers at a party venue at Asokoro area of Abuja for indulgence in drugs use.

An Egyptian court sentenced Thursday a former member of parliament and others to ten years in prison for smuggling antiquities out of the country, as part of a campaign to stop the trade.

An official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Jamiu Issa, has been crushed to death by a yet-to-be-identified driver in the Lekki-Ajah area of the state.

2022-04-21 13:01:29

The First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs Aisha Buhari, will be hosting presidential aspirants across political parties to an Iftar dinner at the Presidential Villa on Saturday.

2022-04-21 11:42:04

Nigerian Young Professionals in Diaspora has given Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan one week ultimatum to declare for 2023 Presidential race or risked being sued.

2022-04-21 10:05:27

The US has responded after Russia tested an intercontinental ballistic missile, dubbed the 'Satan 2'.

2022-04-21 09:35:52

Russia has captured Mariupol, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, adding that the Azovstal steel plant sheltering civilians, police and soldiers has been

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday ended the sale and submission of its nomination and expression of interest forms for all elective positions ahead of the 2023 general elections.

The Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has condemned the high cost of nomination form and expression of interest forms for presidential aspirants of the ruling All Progressives Congress, saying

Zamfara state government has sent 97 clerics to Saudi Arabia on Lesser Hajj to go and pray for a stoppage of banditry.

2022-04-21 07:29:46

A top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russian forces will seize the last main stronghold of resistance in the besieged city of Mariupol on Thursday after Ukraine proposed talks on evacua

Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, yesterday, blamed the country’s rising fiscal deficit partly on the ongoing Ukraine war.

2022-04-21 06:03:35

Gunmen have kidnapped the founder and president of Solid Rock Kingdom Church, Apostle John Okoriko, in the church premises at Ibekwe Akpan Nya in Mkpat Enin Local Council of Akwa Ibom State.

The presidency has offered an explanation to back the president’s action on the pardon granted two former state governors who were jailed for stealing public funds, following claims that it was design

The Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria,(HURIWA) has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the source of

The Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria,(HURIWA) has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt and Other Related Offences Commission to probe the source of

President Muhammadu Buhari has again cautioned the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at both national and state levels against imposing unpopular candidates as the 2023 general electio

The General Overseer of Salvation Ministries, Pastor David Ibiyeomie has cautioned parents not to buy phones for their children until they enter the university.

2022-04-20 17:01:52

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has opened the sale of expression of interest and nomination forms for members wishing to contest in the 2023 general elections.

2022-04-20 13:11:22

The commander of the last remaining Ukrainian troops holding the besieged city of Mariupol has said that his forces are outnumbered and may only have hours to live.

2022-04-20 11:49:42

Ondo state government has suspended a civil servant for reportedly spreading fake news about the death of the governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.

2022-04-20 10:51:10

A 27-year-old father, Adeniyi Adeleke who defiled his 10-year-old daughter in Ondo State has opened up on the reason for carrying out his action.

2022-04-20 10:04:16

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Abuja, urged Nigerians to resist agents bent on causing breakdown of law and order in the country, assuring that no individual or group will be allowed to des

The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced a new name for the National Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos.

2022-04-20 09:05:55

Indonesia President, Joko Widodo has come under fire for naming a 27-year-old pop star as the country's G20 spokesman, the latest in a series of celebrity appointments observers say are aimed at wooin

Russia is not considering using nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.

2022-04-20 06:56:01

Indiana state police have released the photograph of a suitcase in which the body of a young child was found in Washington County last week.

2022-04-20 06:39:25

French President Emmanuel Macron and the far-right’s Marine Le Pen are preparing for a crunch presidential election debate, which could be decisive in the tight race to decide who will run the country

The Central African Republic had to postpone a long-awaited war crimes tribunal on Tuesday after defense attorneys failed to show up in an apparent boycott of the trial.

2022-04-19 17:40:49

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige on Tuesday formally declared his intention to contest the position of President, saying he has a burning desire to see a prosperous, united a

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for granting a presidential pardon to former governors, Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame, describing the action as an egg squashed ag

Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese has hit back at Garba Shehu after the presidential spokesperson criticised the Easter message he delivered on Sunday.

2022-04-19 16:35:34

Mr Peter Obi, one of Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential aspirants has said that Nigerians should stop looking for consensus candidate and look for “problem solvers’’ as presidential materia

A California man has been exonerated after spending more than 30 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit.

2022-04-19 13:35:00

Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi on Tuesday said Japan would provide Ukraine with protective masks and clothing against chemical weapons.

2022-04-19 12:01:52

Russia has launched its long-anticipated offensive in Ukraine’s east, with Moscow announcing that its forces had carried out one of the largest barrages of strikes since the beginning of the invasion.

A former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof Usman Yusuf, has said insecurity will continue until the issue of poverty in Nigeria is addressed.

2022-04-19 09:37:53

Yahaya Hassan Musa, a 39-year-old businessman, who was kidnapped last week, has been found dead.

2022-04-19 09:23:14

Clergyman of the Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman has spoken about the ‘disunity’ amongst the Igbos ahead of the 2023 general elections

2022-04-19 09:10:25

Elon Musk has said he doesn’t own a home and has been sleeping on friends’ spare couches despite reportedly being the world’s richest man.

2022-04-19 08:57:11

Latest report from the US indicates America will in the next few days start training Ukranians troops on how to operate powerful howitzers.This was contained in a news release by a senior Pentagon o

Russia resume the expected talked about offensive in Ukraine.This was in a statement released by top Ukrainian officials.A barrage of missiles pummeled the eastern part of the country on Monday <

Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Saturday blasted Deputy President of the Senate, Mr. Ovie Omo-Agege over his governorship declaration speech saying he displayed high level of indiscipline and

Rivers Governor on Saturday berated the Federal Government for granting pardon to the former Plateau and Taraba Governors Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame, convicted for corruption.

2022-04-16 18:03:11

A man will stand trial in France for assaulting two Muslim women who were wearing headscarves, according to the women's attorney.

2022-04-16 15:05:42

Russian forces resumed their attacks on Kyiv, western Ukraine and beyond on Saturday, with the mayor of the Ukrainian capital saying one person was killed and several wounded in missile strikes.

A seminarian identified as Suel Ambrose has slumped and died while acting Easter drama at Claratian Institute of Philosophy, of the Claratian University of Nigeria (CUN) Nekede, in Owerri, Imo State.<

The Nigerian Government has announced that the new tax regime for tobacco will be implemented from June 1, 2022.

2022-04-16 13:31:32

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and several top UK Cabinet ministers and politicians are banned from Russia for their “unprecedented hostile actions” of imposing sanctions over the Ukraine confli

Russian authority has announced it has expelled 18 members of the EU mission in the country and blamed Brussels for destroying ties.

2022-04-16 11:49:26

The Russian State television has said that World War III has already begun following the sinking of its naval vessel Moskva in the Ukraine war.

2022-04-16 07:36:48

Families of kidnapped victims of the recent terrorist attack on a passenger train in Kaduna State have warned the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) against resuming train services in the route withou

Stakeholders from the country’s South East zone have called to Nigerians, political parties, and other geopolitical zones on Friday to guarantee the area receives the number one seat in the 2023 gene

Twitter unveiled its counterattack against Elon Musk on Friday, using a strategy invented to repel corporate raiders in an attempt to block a takeover bid by the world’s richest person.

Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has hailed his people for their resolve since Russia invaded in February and for making “the most important decision of their life — to fight.”

UN humanitarians on Thursday said no fewer than 870,000 people who fled abroad since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, have now returned home.

2022-04-15 06:38:20

The Council of State led by the President Muhammadu Buhari, has pardoned 159 convicts including a former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye; and ex-Governor Jolly Nyame of Taraba State,

Speculations are rife about Russia escalating the war in Ukraine to a scale not seen before.

2022-04-15 02:59:36

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A hand sign that's gone viral on TikTok meant that a woman in Tennessee was able to avoid an alleged kidnapping and domestic violence situation, after she was able to use it to alert one of the nearby

Two inmates at a women’s prison in New Jersey are pregnant after having sex behind bars with transgender inmates.

2022-04-14 17:55:14

The Director General of National Population Commission (NPC), Mr Nasir Isa-Kwarra, said Thursday that the agency plans to hold national census in April 2023.

2022-04-14 17:45:13

Russia has responded to the news of Finland and Sweden joining NATO . In a recent interview Russian's representative says Moscow will reinforce the Baltic Sea region, including with nuclear weapon

The Chief Executive Officer of Tesla, Elon Musk, has offered to buy micro-blogging and social media platform, Twitter, for $43 billion.

2022-04-14 12:36:37

The current National Assembly dominated by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) members has been criticized for being too soft on national issues and not putting up challenges to the presidency

Disoriented and in disbelief but alive, a crowd of people who watched their homes wash away amid devastating floods in South Africa’s coastal city of Durban queued to register for temporary shelter We

US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen on Wednesday warned China to help end Russia's “heinous war” in Ukraine or face a loss of its standing in the world.

2022-04-14 09:06:54

Amidst the relentless military aggression by Russian troops in Ukraine, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne announced that the Australian government has placed targeted financial restrictions on