A suspected drone attack left an oil tanker ablaze off the coast of Syria, the country’s state media said. The tanker was reportedly of Iranian origin. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, which threatened one of the vessel’s tanks, the Syrian Read more…
Joe Biden has become the first US president to issue a statement formally describing the 1915 massacre of Armenians as a genocide. The killings took place in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, the forerunner of modern-day Turkey. But Read more…
•Northern rulers have been raping our people for 200 years One of the conveners of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determinations (NINAS), Prof Yusuf Turaki, has said that the North must apologise to the Middle Belt for atrocities committed against Read more…
Suspected herdsmen on Saturday morning killed nine Tiv farmers during an attack on three villages in Doma local government area of Nasarawa State. The attacked villages were Ajikamaka, Gidan Rail and Ankoma settlements near Rukubi where Olam farm is located, Read more…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday posited that the motion by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu, demanding the resignation or sack of the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, was validly laid Read more…
No fewer than seventeen people have been killed by suspected herdsmen in separate attacks on Guma local government area of Benue State. The attack which started almost a week ago was said to have been severed between Friday and yesterday Read more…
•As citizens stay indoors Following the attack on the residential house of Governor Hope Uzodima of Imo State, Soldiers from 34 Artillery Brigade Obinze, have taken over the entire communities of the two Local Government Areas of Oru East and Read more…
A delegation of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has paid a visit to former President Goodluck Jonathan where issues bordering on insecurity, clamours for restructuring and agitations among other national concerns were discussed. The PANDEF delegation, which visited the Read more…
Boko Haram insurgents have attacked Geidam town, the country home of Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba Alkali. The Nation gathered the attackers are currently at the heart of the town, burning shops and shooting sporadically in a gun Read more…
Bandits have killed three of the abducted students of the Greenfield University, Kasarami in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The Greenfield University, a privately-owned institution, is located along the Kaduna-Abuja Highway. Some unspecified numbers of students and a Read more…
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Friday, said state governors on the platform of the Nigeria Governors Forum altered some parts of the agreement they reached on Monday with other stakeholders on the implementation of financial autonomy Read more…
The federal government’s delay in issuing notice to airmen (NOTAM) and low passenger turnout are key factors delaying the resumption of international flights from the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano; Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa; and the Akanu Ibiam Read more…