President Muhammad Buhari has appealed to accountants and auditors in the country to assist in fighting corruption.

A Nigerian policeman who served as a UN peacekeeper in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been sent home and barred from peacekeeping after an investigation found he had sexually exploited a woman, a UN spokesman said Tuesday.

FIFTY eight years after independence, Nigeria’s economy is still groaning under the weight of over-dependence on crude oil, infrastructural decay, severe import dependence, fostered by occasioned by a unitary federal structure and public sector dominance of critical socioeconomic amenities.  

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to dismiss a motion filed by a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman, seeking to commit the Information Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to prison for alleged contempt.

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday described the results being circulated as the outcome of the Imo governorship primaries as fake.

The World Bank on Tuesday confirmed it was withholding 50 million dollars of grant for Tanzania because the bank was deeply concerned about restrictions that the government has placed on freedom of speech concerning statistics.

The Yobe Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam on Tuesday in Damaturu picked the Yobe East Senatorial ticket under the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2019 general elections.

The Lagos State governor Mr Akinwunmi Ambode has said he has not conceded to any defeat in the Lagos APC primary according to a statement by Ambode Campaign Organisation (ACO).

Zimbabwe would soon host the first International Horticulture and Floriculture trade show, HortiFlor, as the nation seeks to boost exports and become once again one of Africa’s top horticulture exporters.

 The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has called for the support of International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to fight human trafficking and irregular migration in West African and Middle East Countries.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Tuesday condoled with the family of a Fourth Republic legislator, late Sen. David Cobbina Brigidi, who passed on at 56.

Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has commended Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State for his administration’s unceasing cooperation with the federal government in the advancement of the set objectives of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) in the state and beyond.

The Edo chapter, National Council of Women’s Societies (NCWS), on Tuesday threatened to boycott the 2019 general elections, citing alleged marginalisation.

says new date for APC Lagos APC primaries to be announced in due course
Chairman of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Clement Ebri, on Tuesday invalidated the governorship primaries purported to have held across the State, saying that it never authorised such to go ahead when the modalities were not followed as scheduled.

Anti-drug authorities in Northern Zambia have arrested 18 people in connection with the cultivation of 100 tonnes of cannabis.