The Nigerian Army, 6 Division, has arrested 14 suspected oil thieves and seized more than 20,000 litres of stolen petroleum products during a coordinated offensive across the Niger Delta. This was contained in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Monday, November 11, by the Acting Deputy Director, 6 Division Army Public Relations, Jonah Danjuma. […]

President Yoweri Museveni has claimed that two recently freed Kenyan activists, Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, were arrested in Uganda for allegedly planning to train youths in riot tactics during their visit to Jinja for the National Unity Platform (NUP) manifesto launch. Museveni said intelligence reports indicated the pair had entered Uganda to collaborate with […]

Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has approved an increase in monthly allowances for members of the National Youth Service Corps serving in the state, raising the payment “from ₦4,000 to as much as ₦50,000.” The new allowance structure provides a ₦20,000 base allowance for all corps members serving in Abia. Plus this ₦20,000, those […]

Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden were recalled to the England squad by manager Thomas Tuchel on Friday ahead of World Cup qualifiers against Serbia and Albania. England, who have secured qualification for next year’s tournament with two matches to spare, will round off Group K with next Thursday’s match against Serbia at Wembley and a […]

Seventeen South African men, sixteen from KwaZulu-Natal and one from the Eastern Cape, have been reportedly trapped in the war-torn Donbas region of Ukraine after being lured into joining mercenary forces under the guise of lucrative employment. The South African government received a distress call from the group. The government said the men were apparently […]

Wary of the continued warning by the United States (U.S.) to undertake a swift bombardment of terrorist enclaves in the country, some foreign herders have begun to leave Nigerian territorial boundaries with their herd of cattle. Checks by The Guardian revealed that in Gurin, a border town in the Fufore Local Government Area of Adamawa […]

Amnesty International has accused Tunisia of “widespread human rights violations” against refugees and migrants in a new report released. The group also condemned the European Union (EU) for “risking complicity” through its cooperation with Tunisian authorities to curb irregular migration. Based on three years of research and interviews with 120 refugees from nearly 20 countries, […]

Cameroon’s longtime leader, and the world’s oldest leader, President Paul Biya, has been sworn in for an eighth consecutive term, vowing to restore order after deadly post-election violence. In his inaugural speech, Biya promised to stay faithful to the confidence of the Cameroonian people and pledged to work for a ”united, stable and prosperous” country. […]

Food and beverage imports increased to N677.3bn in the first half of 2025, a 44.48 per cent rise from N468.76bn in the same period of 2024, prompting renewed calls for stronger government support to enhance local industry capacity and reduce dependency on imports. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that while the value […]

US officials said the scheduled capacity for flights was being cut by 10 percent in 40 busy air traffic areas nationwide on Friday, as the longest government shutdown drags on. Federal agencies have been grinding to a halt since Congress failed to approve funding past September 30, with some 1.4 million federal workers, from air […]

The Chinese government has said Nigeria must be allowed to handle its own internal challenges without undue foreign interference. In a statement, the Chinese foreign ministry said that as Nigeria’s strategic partner, Beijing is against any country using religion and human rights as an excuse to interfere with and threaten the West African nation with […]

The Kano State Government has commended Lagos for what it describes as an outstanding transformation of its transport sector during an official study tour undertaken by senior officials of the Kano State Transport Authority in Lagos. Kano Commissioner for Transportation, Haruna Isa Dederi, who led the delegation, said the visit is a strategic step in […]