Japan’s national police chief says he will resign to take responsibility over the fatal shooting of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe at a campaign speech last month.

2022-08-25 06:24:33

U.S President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his long-awaited plan to deliver on a campaign promise to provide $10,000 in student debt cancellation for millions of Americans and up to $10,000 more f

U.S. first lady Jill Biden tested positive on Wednesday in a rebound case of COVID-19, her deputy communications director said.

2022-08-24 18:13:56

Western leaders have pledged unwavering support for Ukraine as the country devastated by attacks marked its Independence Day, coinciding with the six-month milestone of Russia’s offensive.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has accused the Federal Government of deliberate attempts to deprive Nigerian youths of access to qualitative education.

2022-08-24 12:35:59

Hong Kong’s gay community suffered a fresh legal setback on Wednesday after the Court of Appeal rejected an appeal against the city’s long-held denial of same-sex marriage to those who have legally wed o

The Kwara State Police Command has arrested four suspects who allegedly snatched the sum of N600,000 which is the proceeds from the sale of cows by a cattle dealer, Alhaji Yahaya Ishaku, at Kara market,

Three suspected members of the Klansman Confraternity have been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly shooting a member of the Eiye Confraternity, Akinola Ayegbusi, to death at

Nigeria and the United States government have reached an agreement on the return of over $23 million of the Abacha loot.

2022-08-24 12:01:44

Authorities of the police have once again said that its personnel have no right to check people’s phones arbitrarily on the road.

2022-08-24 11:55:13

The presidential candidate of Accord Party, Professor Christopher Imumolen, visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.

2022-08-24 11:04:57

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a new dimension as there are strong indications that the All Progressives Congress presidential (APC), candidate, Bola Tinubu, is intensifyin

The former mayor of Russia's fourth-largest city was arrested Wednesday on charges of discrediting the country's military, part of a crackdown on critics of Moscow's military action in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has told Ukrainians in an emotional speech to mark 31 years of independence that Ukraine was reborn when Russia invaded on February 24 and will recapture annexed Crimea an

In a fresh military aid, The United States set to give $3 billion to Ukraine as the worn-torn country marks its independence day as well as the six-month anniversary of the Russian invasion.

Malaysia's Prisons Department has denied rumours that former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak would be given special treatment at Kajang Prison.

2022-08-24 06:43:33

Ukraine's head of Military Administration, Maj. Gen. Mykola Zhyrnov, said events marking celebrations on Independence day have been banned in the capital and other cities so that security forces can r

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Moscow on Tuesday of a powerful response if Russian forces carry out attacks on or around Ukraine's Independence Day as Ukraine set to mark both its ind

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin on Tuesday apologised for a picture that emerged from a private party she had thrown at her official residence in July, following a public stir over her partying in

Bayo Onanuga, The Director, Media and Publicity of the Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council, has criticised Nigerians who attacked the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC

The United States (US) government has signed an agreement with the federal government to repatriate $23 million Abacha loot to Nigeria.

2022-08-23 17:48:42

A 9-year-old girl was killed Monday night in northwestern England when a gunman fired three shots at a man who forced his way into her home as he sought refuge from the attacker, police said.

The death toll from flash floods in Sudan since the start of the country's rainy season has climbed to 83, an official said on Tuesday as the downpours continued to inundate villages across the countr

Elon Musk has served former Twitter boss Jack Dorsey with a subpoena in a hunt for material to help him get out of buying the giant social media platform for $44 billion as agreed.

2022-08-23 12:08:10

Thousands of protesters in the Haitian capital and other major cities blocked roads, closed businesses and marched through the streets on Monday demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry

A level 14 school teacher has been apprehended for impersonating Assistant Superintendent of Police in Oyo State.

2022-08-23 09:17:07

Members of the United Nations Security Council remained divided Monday over whether to exempt some of Afghanistan's Taliban officials from a travel ban, diplomatic sources said.

2022-08-23 08:59:12

Russia on Monday accused Ukraine over the assassination of the daughter of a leading hardliner, as Kyiv said nearly 9,000 of its soldiers had been killed since Moscow launched its invasion.

The US government has recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, including material from the CIA, the National Security Agency and

A journalist has been shot dead in southern Mexico, authorities said, shortly after posting online about the disappearance eight years ago of 43 students from a nearby area.

2022-08-23 08:19:01

The Australian government will launch an inquiry aimed at preventing a prime minister from ever again secretly amassing new ministerial powers, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

2022-08-23 08:07:07

Lawyers for former US president Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to halt the FBI's review of documents recovered from his Florida estate earlier this month until a neutral special master can

More than 721,000 tons of Ukrainian grain have been delivered to world markets, Since the first ship left Ukraine under the Türkiye-brokered Istanbul grain export deal, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi

Kashim Shettima, the running mate of Bola Tinubu, the presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been a subject of ridicule on social media, over his outfit at the Nigerian Bar

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has been mocked in a video that has now gone viral on social media as he was being referred to as “Wike O lu le.”

2022-08-22 15:16:14

Qatar recently arrested at least 60 foreign workers who protested going months without pay and deported some of them, an advocacy group said, just three months before Doha hosts the 2022 FIFA World Cu

A Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Friday ordered the remand of a pastor identify as Makanjuola Olabisi, for allegedly having carnal knowledge of three biological sisters in Ilorin, th

The Ogun State Police Command on Sunday said it arrested a 49-year-old father, Amoda Bola, who allegedly had carnal knowledge of his 14-year-old daughter and impregnated her.

2022-08-22 11:12:35

The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said he almost collapsed when he had a phone call with Mrs Foluke Adeboye, wife of the General Overseer of the Redeem

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday expressed himself over unauthorized report of his discussion with the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinu

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given Nigerians assurance that the electronic transmission of election results has come to stay.

2022-08-22 11:04:50

Former Kenyan prime minister and opposition leader Raila Odinga on Monday challenged the results of the country’s presidential elections at the Supreme Court.

2022-08-22 10:01:48

Gunmen have kidnapped four reverend sisters while on their way to a thanksgiving mass in the Okigwe-Umulolo axis of Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo state.

2022-08-22 09:45:56

Terrorism charges have been filed against former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, authorities have confirmed.

2022-08-22 09:16:00

A pilot has walked away with only minor injuries after he was forced to make an emergency landing onto a road in Florida after his plane ran out of fuel.

2022-08-22 08:56:20

Amid the rising tensions in the Taiwan Strait, Indiana's Republican governor, Eric Holcomb, has met Taiwan's president, days after Washington announced trade talks with Taipei.

2022-08-22 08:09:11

Footage on the US police brutality against a 27-year-old civilian in the city of Mulberry, Arkansas has gone viral.

2022-08-22 06:39:59

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Sunday that Russia might take the provocative step of putting Ukrainian soldiers on trial as Kyiv marks 31 years of independence for the war-ravaged count

The Chinese government has announced that it is forgiving 23 interest-free loans for 17 African nations, while pledging to deepen its collaboration with the continent.

2022-08-22 05:57:35

Tens of thousands of Palestinians employed in Israel staged a one-day strike on Sunday in protest at a decision to pay their salaries into bank accounts rather than in cash.

2022-08-21 17:24:28

Osun State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola says his faith in the judiciary in respect of the petition before the Osun Election Petition Tribunal on the just concluded governorship election remains firm an

The Lagos State Police Command, says it has arrested one Emmanuel Aaron, aged 35, for vandalizing a telecommunication mast in Isolo area of Meiran.

2022-08-21 17:00:38

The Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu, says former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s presidential bid in the 2023 poll, will fail because it is against the principle of power

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) finally identified the 63-year-old grandfather, Afolabi Kolawole, believed to be behind the shipment of illicit drugs to Dubai.

The daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian who advocates Russia absorbing Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bomb attack outside Moscow on Saturday evening, Russian state investigators said on Su

The deadly attack by the most lethal Islamic extremist group in Africa was ended on Sunday by Somali forces in which 21 people were killed and dozens more wounded when gunmen stormed a hotel in the ca

The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has suspended the revocation of the operating licenses of 53 broadcast stations, including AIT/Ray Power and Silverbird TV Network, owing various sums in lic

At least a dozen people have been killed in Somalia’s capital city after Al Qaeda-linked militants attacked a hotel.

2022-08-20 17:56:48

Osun State Police Command has announced the arrested of five suspects in connection with the attack on the convoy of the state’s First Lady, Mrs Kafayat Oyetola.

2022-08-20 17:04:00

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Friday,raised alarm over high rate at which Illicit herbal intoxicants are being used in the country, noting that act portends

The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied any involvement in the attack on the convoy of the state’s First Lady, Mrs Kafayat Oyetola at Owode Ede in Osun State on Friday

Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo has described himself as the father of frustrated youths in Nigeria.

2022-08-20 12:34:17

Two more ships carrying grain have left Ukraine's Chornomorsk port, Turkey's Defence Ministry said on Saturday, bringing the total number of vessels to leave Ukraine's Black Sea ports under an UN-brok

Africa's biggest carrier Ethiopian Airlines said it has suspended two pilots who reportedly fell asleep and missed their landing during a flight from Khartoum to Addis Ababa.

2022-08-20 11:29:25

A convoy conveying the wife of Osun State Governor, Kafayat Oyetola, was reportedly attacked by suspected hoodlums.

2022-08-20 11:12:44

Former British cabinet minister Michael Gove on Friday endorsed Rishi Sunak for prime minister and announced an end of his frontline political career, he said in an op-ed in The Times.

The United States is to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in the next few weeks for an upcoming shipment of food aid from ports no longer blockaded by war.

2022-08-20 10:31:27

Terrorists who attacked an AK9 Train in Kaduna state on March 28 have released four more hostages in their custody.

2022-08-20 10:12:35

Former US President Trump on Friday hinted at taking legal action in response to the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago property last week.

2022-08-20 09:58:49

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has disclosed reasons for revoking the licences of Silverbird Television, African Independent Television (AIT), Beat FM (Megalectrics LTD) Lagos and several oth

Manchester United have been linked with signing a series of Atletico Madrid players this week, including Belgian winger Yannick Carrasco.

2022-08-20 00:21:51

The Edo Government on Friday gave the state Police Command seven days to conclude investigation into the discovery of a suspected ritual shrine in the state.

2022-08-20 00:19:04

The Nigerian Government has renewed N4 billion pipeline surveillance contract with the Commander of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo.

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been vandalized in New York with a sledgehammer at a Hindu temple here after vandalising it earlier this month, media reports said on Friday.

2022-08-19 12:47:28

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has revoked the broadcast licenses of Silverbird TV, AIT and 50 other broadcasters following their failure to renew their broadcast licenses.

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has revealed plan to sue the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, after he asked the students to take the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASU

The Federal Government has again threatened that members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, who are currently on strike, will not receive salary.

2022-08-19 09:07:52

In preparation for electoral campaigns ahead of the 2023 general election, The All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed President Muhammadu Buhari as the Chairman of the party’s Presidential Camp

Russia has failed to gain ground in cyberspace against Ukraine almost six months after its invasion of the country, the head of Britain's GCHQ intelligence service said on Friday.

2022-08-19 08:18:55