Category : General News

The Cape Verde’s Supreme Court on Wednesday gave an order authorising the extradition of the Venezuelan diplomat, Alex Saab, to the United States of America. The verdict is in sharp contrast to Monday’s judgment of the Court of Justice of the Economic Community

Tanzanian President, John Magufuli, has died of heart complications, vice president Samia Suluhu announced on a live TV Wednesday. Mr Magufuli, who had not been seen in public for more than two weeks, was 61. There were speculations that he was infected with

  Asari Dokubo, leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force, has declared the formation of Biafra Customary Government (BCG). Uche Mefor, BCG’s head of information and communications, said Dokubo also named those who would serve as leaders in the government alongside himself.

  Nigerian government has apologised after information was released on increase in price of petrol to 212naira. Read the statement by the Minister of State for petroleum, Timipre Sylva below. Dear Nigerians, you are by now very aware of the news trending that

As against the avowal of the Buhari administration that it would not increase petrol price in March, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, has put the price of petrol at N212.61 per litre. On February 28, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,

The Nigerian Federal Government has declared it won’t negotiate with terrorists and bandits. The country’s National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (Rtd), who stated this during the weekly ministerial briefing at the State House in Abuja, said government would rather deploy

The Bayelsa State Government has enacted a law prohibiting open grazing of livestock in the state. The governor, Douye Diri, assented to the Livestock Breeding, Rearing and Marketing Regulation Law 2021 on Wednesday at the Executive Chamber of Government House, Yenagoa. He said the essence

  President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday inaugurate the N16 billion newly-completed office complex of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, announced this while briefing reporters in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. Mr Akpabio said that

  Youths of Ihitte/Uboma on Tuesday burnt down the police station in the community following the killing of two siblings by a policeman in the community. According to reports that the brother and sister were killed at Isiweke by a yet-to-be-identified policeman. The

While Nigeria’s COVID-19 daily infection figures have significantly reduced in the past two weeks, the death tally from the disease has remained high indicating that the country is not yet out of the pandemic. About 1,982 deaths have now been recorded from coronavirus in Nigeria