More than 180 people including expatriate workers are trapped inside a hotel in a northern Mozambique town under siege by insurgents for three days, workers and security sources said Friday. Several people were reportedly dead, according to witnesses and a rights group, after the attack in Palma near a liquified natural gas site in Cabo […]

By Demola Akinyemi, Ilorin Officers of the Kwara state police command have rescued the three abducted kidnappers from their captors. The spokesman of the police command, Kayode Okasanmi who said this in a press statement issued in Ilorin on Friday said they were rescued on Wednesday. Recall that the three farm Managers Vet. Dr Julius […]

The Oyo State Road Transport Management Authority (OYRTMA) on Friday, refuted in strong terms the case of theft allegedly involving some men of the Authority paraded by the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Oyo State Command.

…as Gov Mohammed touts achievements By Charly Agwam – Bauchi Six selected states, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Gombe, Sokoto, Akwa Ibom and Zamfara have partnered with the United States for improved governance in the USAID’s State Accountability, Transparency & Effectiveness (State2State) Activity. According to the USAID’s Chief of Party, Tressan Sullivan who oversees the programme, the partnership […]

By Peter Duru – Makurdi The Chairman of Benue State Traditional Council and paramount ruler of the Tiv tribe, Tor Tiv His Majesty, Prof. James Ayatse has assured Governor Samuel Ortom of adequate protection by the Tiv Traditional Council despite threat to his life by a Fulani group. The royal father gave the assurance Thursday […]

The Nigerian Army has dismissed reports that its troops of an unidentified battalion under Operation Lafiya Dole protested over alleged unpaid operational allowances as well as obsolete equipment in Maiduguri.

At least, 72 per cent Nigerians are ready to accept the COVID-19 vaccine, says the African Center for Diseases Control (Africa-CDC). A statement on Friday from Africa-CDC made this known as part of the findings of a report released by the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC) Consortium in Addisa Ababa, Ethiopia. It revealed […]

North Korea threatened a further military build-up on Saturday in response to Joe Biden’s condemnation of this week’s missile launches, a weapons test that marked Pyongyang’s first substantive provocation since the US president took office. The nuclear-armed North has a long history of using weapons tests to ramp up tensions, in a carefully calibrated process […]

The agitation for self-determination was again brought to the fore on Thursday, as some Yoruba groups on the platform of Assembly of all Yoruba Groups Worldwide, has set aside June 12 as a day of referendum for Yorubas on the move.

By Solomon Audu It is no longer news that the Boko Haram crisis in North-East Nigeria has devastated economy of the region, and humanitarian crisis is the order of the day. The North East region of Nigeria is made up of Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe and Taraba States. These states are ravaged by the […]