Youths under the banner of the Coalition of Northern Zone Ethnic Nationalities and the Plateau Youth Coalition staged a protest on Wednesday at the Plateau State Government House in Jos, expressing concern over persistent attacks in rural communities and escalating insecurity across the state.

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has affirmed that there is only one Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), dismissing suggestions of separate factions within the party.

Now, under mounting pressure, both sides appear to be recalibrating, choosing dialogue over a damaging standoff.

Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau, NSIB, and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Wednesday, warned airlines and their crew members against overwriting Cockpit Voice Recorders, CVR, and Flight Data Recorders, FDR, during incidents or accidents.

Iranian newspapers on Wednesday ridiculed what they called Donald Trump’s “lies” about ongoing diplomatic discussions to end the war, publishing cartoons of the US president styled as Pinocchio. A caricature of Trump with an elongated nose looming over a map of the Strait of Hormuz appeared on the front page of the conservative daily Javan, […]

By Favour Ulebor, Abuja Abuja – Workers in Nigeria’s informal sector have called on the Federal Government to introduce social protection and relief measures to improve living and working conditions for millions of Nigerians outside formal employment. The demand was made on Wednesday by the Federation of Informal Workers Organizations of Nigeria (FIWON) during a […]

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Nigeria has called for increased budgetary allocation to the health sector, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB), following significant reductions in international donor funding.

The Israeli military said Wednesday it had struck a submarine development facility in Isfahan, a day after its air force carried out a wave of strikes on the central Iran city.

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered final forfeiture of the sum of $13 million that was linked to a Lagos socialite, Ms Aisha Achimugu and her company, Oceangate Engineering Oil & Gas Limited.

By Udeme Akpan The Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Petroleum Refinery, David Bird, has disclosed that the 650,000 barrels-per-day refinery currently receives only about five crude oil cargoes per month, significantly below its designed supply capacity. Bird explained that the refinery is designed to handle 13 to 15 cargoes monthly to meet Nigeria’s domestic fuel […]