Ex-militants in the third phase of the Federal Government Amnesty Programme have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to launch an immediate investigation into the amnesty programme, warning that the incompetence of the leadership of the scheme could lead to widespread militancy in the Niger Delta region.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s new campaign chief Stephen Bannon was registered to vote at an abandoned Florida home, according to media reports, potentially violating the state’s election law. The Miami Herald reported on Friday that from 2014 until last week, Bannon was registered to vote at “an abandoned, trash-filled home in Coconut Grove.” The […]

The people of Gabon began casting their ballots Saturday in a vote to decide whether President Ali Bongo will remain in office or be unseated by a career diplomat and close associate of his late father, who ran the country for 41 years.

IRKED by the recur-ring killing and maiming of villagers in Enugu State by Fulani herdsmen and the seeming hopelessness of the security architecture in the state, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, described the governors of the South-eastern states as weak and incapable of performing the primary function of governance.

Avengers (NDA) rebel group announced this week it had called a ceasefire and was entering talks with the government, many hoped peace would be restored to the country’s oil belt.