The legal fallout from the violence surrounding the 2018 Copa Libertadores final between Boca Juniors and River Plate ended on Tuesday with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ordering the latter to play two matches behind closed doors. CAS that it “considered that the appropriate sanction to be imposed on River Plate for the […]

Dr. Sylvue Briand, director, Global Infections Hazard Preparedness for World Health Organisation, WHO has said that coronavirus, a fast-spreading outbreak that has killed 427 people and threatened economic supply chains around the world is epidemic, not a pandemic. Hong Kong reported its first coronavirus death on Tuesday, the second outside mainland China from a fast-spreading […]

Armed bandits have killed 11 people in separate attacks in northern Nigeria, a community leader and residents said Tuesday. In the first incident on Monday, six vigilantes were killed when gunmen invaded Kakangi village in the restive Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna state. The vigilantes had intercepted the bandits with a large herd of cattle […]

THE Federal Government Tuesday told the Senate why President Muhammadu Buhari was requesting for the approval of 2016- 2018  External Borrowing to the tune of $30 billion to be spent by the Federal Government to  execute key Infrastructural projects across the country.

Malawi’s opposition leader on Tuesday hailed a landmark court ruling that annulled last year’s presidential election and ordered a new vote, telling more than 10,000 celebrating supporters that the verdict was a victory for democracy and Africa. Lazarus Chakwera, the leader of the main opposition Malawi Congress Party, came a close second to incumbent Peter […]

Travel restrictions related to the novel coronavirus from China could impact city and state economies across the United States, which have benefited from a huge jump in tourism from China in recent years, analysts say. Riverside, California, known for its citrus groves, mountain scenery and art galleries, and Buffalo, New York, the closest big town […]

… Inaugurates Ad hoc committee on Committee on “Nigerian Security Challenges … As Police IGP briefs the Senate Today By Henry Umoru The Senate said Tuesday that all heads of Security Agencies were under every obligation to cooperate with the Upper Chamber if the present security challenges in the country must be nipped in the […]

Osun State Government has ordered the Department of Transportation to stop fresh registration of commercial motorcycle popularly known as Okada to curb invasion from neighbouring states.

The Adamawa State Police Command on Tuesday, confirmed a suspected hoodlums’ attack on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant during the 2019 general elections in the state, Dr. Umar Ardo, The command’s spokesman, Sulaiman Nguroje, confirmed the development to journalists in Yola. He said the state Commissioner of Police had directed all formations under […]

Deborah Batts, the nation’s first openly gay member of America federal judiciary, has died. She was 72. Batts died in her sleep on Sunday, according to a news release from Fordham University, which described her as the school’s first African-American faculty member. The cause of death was unclear. Batts was sworn in as a judge […]

MEMBERS of the umbrella body of Christians in active politics in Nigeria, Advocates for Right Leadership, otherwise known as Believers in Politics(BIP) across Nigeria, has supported the protest led against the incessant killings of Christians in Nigeria, which has assumed a worrisome dimension. 

Disturbed by the spate of killings and related crimes across the state, Governor Nasiru Ahmad El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Tuesday, sought for closer ties with traditional rulers and security agencies to deal with the security challenges in the state.

The FCT Police Command said in Tuesday that its investigators have concluded investigations into last December’s Mpape bank invasion by a 5 man armed robbery gang and is set to arraign them in court.

 Says Amotekun not for re-election Dayo Johnson – Akure Governor Rotimi  Akeredolu of Ondo State on Tuesday said the formation of the Southwest security outfit Amotekun was not for his reelection bid. Akeredolu who is also the chairman of the southwest governors forum said; “Ondo state has already done enough in terms of security and […]

Registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in some centres in Kwara South Senatorial District on Tuesday experienced low turnout of prospective candidates. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who monitored the exercise in centres in Omu-Aran, Aran-Orin, Offa and Erin-Ile reports that the centres recorded low patronage, compared to what […]