APC governors meeting aimed at choosing a presidential candidate for the party has ended in a deadlock. According to a source,

2022-06-02 02:05:46

Senate president Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday appealed to the delegates of his parties to consider him while making their choice in the up coming upcoming presidential primary.

2022-06-02 01:48:50

A constitutional lawyer, Johnmary Jideobi, on Tuesday, approached the Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, to challenge the eligibility of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to contest the 2023

UK Prime Minister has been facing calls to resign from within his own party AS former British cabinet minister Andrea Leadsom has become the latest senior Tory to criticise Boris Johnson for his "unac

A 32-year-old pastor, Godson Nse Thompson, is being held in Uyo correctional centre, Akwa Ibom state for defiling a 13-year-old girl sent to him for intercessory prayers.

2022-05-31 14:54:06

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday granted bail at N500million to ex-Imo Governor Senator Rochas Okorocha.

2022-05-31 13:00:41

Financial experts have warned that British Pound could be facing an existential crisis after being compared to currencies in emerging markets.

2022-05-31 12:42:36

President Joe Biden on Monday said the U.S. would not be providing Ukraine with rocket systems that could potentially reach Russia.

2022-05-31 11:27:39

Following recent mass shootings in the neighbouring United States, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government introduced legislation Monday that would put a freeze on importing, sale and purc

The European Union has agreed on a plan to block more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports as part of new punitive measures against the Kremlin as Russian forces have taken partial control of a key

A 10-year-old has been arrested in Florida after allegedly threatening to carry out a mass shooting, US police said.

2022-05-30 17:49:33

A 32-year-old French journalist was killed on Monday while covering the war in Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Twitter.

2022-05-30 17:37:47

When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey threatened this month to dam NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, Western officers had been exasperated — however not shocked.

2022-05-30 17:23:17

The ambulances hurtled into the parking lot one after the other, each carrying wounded troops directly from the nearby front line. One young man stared straight ahead, his face swollen, his neck and b

Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has emerged as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party.

2022-05-30 14:19:53

The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday, visited his closest challenger in the just-concluded presidential primary of the part

Iran has sentenced 51 people to death by stoning for committing adultery which is regarded as a terrible sin in the Islamist interpretations of the Quran.

2022-05-30 10:01:28

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Rochas Okorocha, former Imo State governor, and a presidential aspirant in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), before a Federa

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says 66 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported in the country in five months.

2022-05-30 08:40:12

No fewer than 11 members of the Eiye Confraternity, including four siblings, were arrested on Sunday, May 29, over the killing of one Olaosebikan Tejuosho at the Isale-Abetu region of Abeokuta, Ogun S

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says it arrested former Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara over alleged involvement in the N84 billion fraud allegation against the former Accountan

The Police Command in Kogi on Sunday confirmed another yet to be ascertained explosion in Kabba Town of Kabbah-Bunu Local Government Area of the state.

2022-05-30 07:58:52

Dakuku Peterside, a former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, has accused the State Governor, Nyesom Wike of wasting N30 billion of the State fund on the Pe

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has warned the All Progressives Congress, APC, against picking a Northerner as its presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections.

The husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving late on Saturday in Napa County, California after being involved in a two-vehicle crash, the California Highwa

UK Prime Minster, Boris Johnson is facing renewed pressure over the Partygate scandal amid suggestions of a second gathering in the No 10 flat and a drip-feed of Tory MPs calling for his resignation.<

A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Joe Igbokwe, has reacted after Atiku Abubakar emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP flagbearer.

2022-05-29 09:18:38

A fresh crisis is brewing in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the choice of Former President Goodluck Jonathan, who has been reportedly adopted as the consensus candidate ahead of the p

Frontline presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has congratulated former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar for emerging as the flag bearer of the opposition

A former lawmaker representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye, stunned party members at the just concluded PDP 2023 presidential primaries, when he lifted Governor Aminu Tambuwal in the air.

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has emerged victorious in the ongoing PDP 2023 Presidential Primaries.

2022-05-28 22:53:44

The governor of Cross Rivers State, Prof. Ben Ayade has lost his bid to represent the people of Cross River Northern Senatorial District in the National Assembly on the platform of All Progressive Con

Operatives of the Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Saturday stormed the MKO Abiola International Stadium, Abuja, the venue of the Peoples Democratic Party presidential primary election.

Hyacinth Alia, a priest of the Roman Catholic Church suspended by the church for joining Benue State governorship race, has won the APC primary.

2022-05-28 16:34:32

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic(ASUP) has directed its members to resume work on Monday May 30, 2022 following the expiration of its two- week strike.

2022-05-28 16:24:42

Donald Trump has been criticized for dancing at a National Rifle Association (NRA) convention after reading out the names of children killed in the Texas shooting.

2022-05-28 14:52:06

The Rivers State Police Command has said a total of 31 persons died during a stampede at the venue of an outreach programme put together by a new generation church in Port Harcourt on Saturday morning

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on Friday demanded the extension of voters’ registration exercise by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

A 38-year-old Nigerian man, Garuba Galumje has been arrested in India for allegedly defrauding at least 300 women out of crores of rupees on the pretext of marriage.

2022-05-28 11:06:50

President Macky Sall on Friday ordered an audit of Senegal's neonatal services after the death of 11 newborns in a hospital fire sparked fresh grief and indignation over the country's health system.

Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, one of the presidential aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has pulled out of the race.

2022-05-28 09:05:15

Personal assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on new media, Bashir Ahmad, has lost his bid to represent Gaya/Ajingi/Albasu constituency of Kano state in the House of Representatives.

US President Joe Biden has accused Vladimir Putin of aiming at annihilating Ukraine’s culture but suggested the plan had at least partially backfired by spurring the expansion of Nato in Europe.

Russia has accused the United States of having at least four biological laboratories in Nigerian cities that have been responsible for spread of monkeypox

2022-05-28 08:11:18

The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged nations to increase surveillance of monkeypox virus as the infectious disease has spread to more than 20 countries, with about 200 confirmed cases and ove

Folajimi Mohammed, son of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Friday lost the third term APC ticket for Ikeja Constituency 1 in the party’s State House of Assembly primaries in L

A senator representing Ondo Central in the Senate, Ayo Akinyelure, has retrieved two vehicles given to some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders after he lost the return ticket in the primary electi

UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson insists he'll survive attempts to overthrow him over lockdown breaches, as a ministerial aide quit citing the "toxic culture" in No 10.

2022-05-27 16:13:39

A tanker containing 45,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) on Friday, May 27, fell and exploded at Otedola Bridge, Lagos state, causing multiple vehicle collisions.

2022-05-27 14:45:49

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by Rotimi Amaechi, former minister of transportation, seeking to stop his probe in an alleged N96 billion fraud by the Rivers State government.

A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, May 27, has declined the request for bail made by former governor of Imo Governor, Rochas Okorocha.

2022-05-27 13:47:28

The Federal High Court sitting in Bayelsa, Yenagoa, has aligned with the submissions of some plaintiffs that former President Goodluck Jonathan is qualified to contest the 2023 presidential election a

A man who appeared to be carrying a rifle was shot and killed by police near a number of Scarborough schools, Toronto police say.

2022-05-27 09:14:05

The Federal Government has filed 23-count charges against the husband of late gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu, Peter.

2022-05-27 08:38:06

Viral videos of a Brazilian man being asphyxiated with gas in the trunk of police car after getting stopped by highway patrol caused outrage across Brazil on Thursday.

2022-05-27 08:27:40

The husband of a woman who was killed in her Texas classroom on Tuesday has died of a heart attack after laying flowers at her memorial.

2022-05-27 08:09:52

A group has set up a grassroots-based crowdfunding portal to aid Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s bid to become the party’s flag bearer, barely few days to the presidential primary of the All Progressiv

Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has reportedly gotten a waiver to contest in the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primary election scheduled for Sunday.

2022-05-27 06:10:59

U.S. Senate Republicans blocked a bill titled the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act in Congress on Thursday that Democrats view as a response to a white supremacist's killing of 10 Black people this m

U.S. Senate Republicans blocked a bill titled the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act in Congress on Thursday that Democrats view as a response to a white supremacist's killing of 10 Black people this m

Russia’s foreign ministry on Thursday, May 26 threatened to expel US journalists or US media outlets if YouTube again blocks broadcasts of its weekly press briefings.

2022-05-26 17:56:46

The suspended commander of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), DCP Abba Kyari has reportedly escaped death after being attacked by 190 angry inmates in kuje prison, who accused him of insincerity in

Delta State Speaker, Sheriff Oborevwori, bent a knee to the governor of the state, Ifeanyi Okowa, to thank him during a praise session following his emergence as the governorship candidate of the Peo

Twitter has been accused by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice in US of capturing phone numbers or email addresses provided to tighten privacy and then allowing marketers to pr

Three delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from Mariga Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Niger State for the governorship primaries have been shot dead by bandits.

2022-05-26 14:31:59

Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central during the 8th National Assembly, has failed to secure the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ticket to run for the governorship election in the State.

Muhammad Sani Abacha, son of the late military dictator Sani Abacha, has emerged winner of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, parallel governorship primary election in Kano State.

2022-05-26 09:05:14

An investigative report released Wednesday blamed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior leaders for allowing boozy government parties that broke the U.K.’s COVID-19 lockdown rules, and

Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, on Wednesday imposed a curfew on eight local government areas of the state.

2022-05-26 08:37:32

Former Rivers State Accountant General, Fubara Siminialayi, recently declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has emerged candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)

An American author, Nancy Crampton Brophy, who wrote a book called "How To Murder Your Husband", has been found guilty of killing her spouse.

2022-05-26 07:57:36

At least 11 newborns were killed after a fire tore through a neonatal unit of a regional hospital in the West African nation of Senegal, the country’s president, Macky Sall, said on Thursday on Twitte

The Gambian government said Wednesday it will prosecute former dictator Yahya Jammeh for murder, rape, torture and other alleged crimes committed under his more than 20-year rule.

2022-05-26 06:17:36

The police arrested a high school student after he was allegedly seen walking with a rifle to a school in Richardson, Texas, a day after an 18-year-old gunman killed 22 people at an elementary school

Nike announced on Wednesday, May 25 that it will not renew its licensing agreements in Russia, joining a growing list of Western corporations withdrawing from the nation following the invasion of Ukra

The lawmaker representing Anambra-North senatorial district, Stella Oduah, did not complete the mandatory one-year NYSC programme says the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)

2022-05-25 18:01:01

Few days to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention to elect the 2023 presidential candidate, former Anambra state governor, Peter Obi has withdrawn and quit the party.

The trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), earlier scheduled to continue tomorrow, Thursday, has been adjourned to June 28 2022 due to the presiding judge, J

Sue Gray's explosive report into the Downing Street partygate scandal has finally been published.

2022-05-25 11:33:00