The Nigerian military has carried out successful operations in Katsina State, neutralizing 31 bandits and demolishing their hideouts in two separate missions.
In the first operation, troops of Operation Fansan Yamma engaged bandits in Maigora village, Faskari LGA, killing 12,...
MTN Group suffered a 69% slump in full-year earnings, Africa's biggest telecom operator reported on Monday, hit by devaluation of the Nigerian naira and operational challenges in Sudan.
South Africa-headquartered MTN said its reported headline earnings per share (HEPS) -...
U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and discuss ending the war in Ukraine, after positive talks between U.S. and Russian officials in Moscow.
"I'll be speaking to President Putin on...
An 18-year-old boy, identified as Chinedu Abimbor, has reportedly been shot dead by police in Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area of the state.
The tragic incident occurred on Wednesday, 12 March 2025, at a police checkpoint in the town.
The...
The immediate past Secretary to the Kano State Government (SSG), Dr. Abdullahi Baffa Bichi, and the former Commissioner for Project Monitoring and Evaluation, Muhammad Diggol, recently visited Deputy Senate President Barau I. Jibrin in Abuja.
Barau, a chieftain of the...
The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations for resettling Palestinians uprooted from the Gaza Strip under President Donald Trump’s proposed postwar plan, American and...
China hosted Russian and Iranian diplomats on Friday for talks Beijing hopes will restart long-stalled negotiations on Tehran's nuclear program.
The United States withdrew from a landmark 2015 deal, which imposed curbs on Tehran's nuclear development in return for sanctions...
A 25-year-old man, identified as Toye Dominic, has allegedly taken his own life by hanging himself in a forest near Alagbodagbo village, in the Ijebu Igbo area of Ogun State.
Toye’s lifeless body was discovered hanging from a tree at...
The Nigerian House of Representatives has given approval to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s tax reform bills.
This was announced on Thursday after months of controversy.
Presidential spokesperson and Special Adviser on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, disclosed this in a...
Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to escalate a global trade war with further tariffs on European Union goods, as major U.S. trading partners said they would retaliate for trade barriers already erected by the U.S. president.
Just hours after Trump's...
