The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria has voted to hold the benchmark rate steady at 11.5 per cent. Governor of the apex bank Mr. Godwin Emefiele, in a statement on Tu... Read more
President of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Mr Peter Igbifa, has been abducted. He was kidnapped around the Omagwa-Port Harcourt International Airport Road in Rivers State on Tuesday. Those b... Read more
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu might have taken his agitation for a Biafra nation to another level as he is said to have hired a United State of American fi... Read more
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s former leader Jacob Zuma pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to corruption, fraud, racketeering and money laundering charges relating to a $2... Read more
A 34-year-old man, Okpegboro Avwerosuo, has allegedly killed his roommate in Sagbama Town, Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa. Mr Okpegboro was alleged to have sold the deceased’s vita... Read more
BBC News our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes about the throne reserved for the Queen of England in the West African sta... Read more
Sophie Strosberg Getty Images. Money—having it, that is—can pave the way for just about anything. Your small business aspirations. Your dream travel. Your garden gnome collection. It can eve... Read more
Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru has died in plane crash while on his way to Kaduna on official duties. Not less than 11 other persons mainly his aides were travelling with h... Read more
Bandits have killed the eldest son of the Emir of Kontagora, Bashir Namaska, at his father’s farm alongside others working on the farm at Masuga village along the Kontagora-Rijau Road in Nig... Read more
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, has ordered the closure of four markets in two Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state in the north-west region of the country. The Secretary to t... Read more
