Opeyemi Olamilekan Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in eastern Nigeria, wounding two security operatives and burning down vehicles, police said on Friday. The incident occurred in the Ajali area of…
Morakinyo Akinosun An explosion killed multiple travellers along a road in northwest Nigeria on Friday, in what a local news outlets reported as “the third incident in less than a…
Ayomidele Oluwasusi Abuja – The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Yemi Cardoso has confessed that Nigeria remains in a financial and economic crisis, a situation inherited by…
Bella Ifasola At least four suspects were arrested for allegedly raping two minors in Nigeria’s soutwestern state of Osun, civil defence said on Thursday. The suspects, Sadiq Opeyemi, 30, Afeez…
Agency Report The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), on Friday, opposed alleged plans to establish a French military base in Nigeria, describing the move as unconstitutional and detrimental to the…
Ayodele Afolabi IBADAN – Yoruba Nation advocate, Dr. Chief Sunday Adeyemo Igboho, has paid a deeply emotional tribute to the late Sheikh Alhaji Muyideen Ajani Bello, a distinguished Islamic scholar,…
Agency Report MELBOURNE, Australia – Worshippers were forced to flee an Australian synagogue after it was set on fire in what the prime minister condemned as an “act of hate”.…
Iran sent into space on Friday its heaviest-ever payload using the Simorgh carrier rocket including an advanced module for transferring satellites to higher-altitude orbits, state television reported. The Samān-1 transfer…
MOSCOW – Russia’s largest lender Sberbank plans to open offices in Russian-controlled parts of the Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia this month, Alexander Vedyakhin, first deputy chairman of Sberbank’s…
Sodiq Rabiu ABEOKUTA, NIgeria – A 32-year-old water driller, Amusan Olanrewaju, has lost his life while working inside a well in Nigeria’s southwestern state of Ogun, police said on Thursday.…
