The Lagos State Government has defended the ongoing demolition of illegal structures at the Trade Fair Complex in Ojo, insisting that the exercise is a technical enforcement of planning laws and not targeted at any ethnic group. Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Olumide Oluyinka, made the clarification on Thursday during an interview on […]
Nigeria’s iconic National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos, now wearing a fresh look after four years of renovation, was officially reopened Wednesday, October 1, 2025, by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The landmark event, which coincided with the nation’s 65th Independence Day celebration, also marked the renaming of the national monument as the Wole Soyinka Centre […]
Namibia is set to deploy helicopters and hundreds of soldiers to battle a massive fire that has ravaged a third of Etosha National Park, one of southern Africa’s top tourist attractions. It is also home to critically endangered black rhinos. The blaze, believed to have started at a charcoal production site outside the park, spread […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Group Chief Executive Officer, Bashir Ojulari, has lamented the crude and gas production losses resulting from the three-day strike carried out by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria. In a letter written to the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority and Nigerian Upstream Petroleum […]
A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has sentenced former president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia, convicting him of crimes including war crimes. The charges concern accusations that Kabila has been supporting the M23, a rebel group who have wreaked devastation across the country’s eastern region. Kabila was convicted […]
Investors in the Nigerian stock market smiled to the bank in September 2025, earning a total of ₦1.811 trillion amid renewed confidence triggered by the ongoing monetary reforms of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Naija News understands that the recent decision by the apex bank to cut the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to 27% […]
In Sudan’s vast western region of Darfur, journalists in El-Fasher are trapped under siege, suffering violence, hunger, and relentless bombardment alongside the people they report on. Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group formed from the notorious Janjaweed militias in Darfur, have been fighting the Sudanese army since April 2023. In May 2024, they encircled […]
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has announced that it will begin nationwide enforcement against visa overstayers following the expiration of the Federal Government’s three-month amnesty programme on October 1, 2025. The crackdown will target foreign nationals who failed to regularise their status during the grace period. Spokesman of the NIS, Akinsola Akinlabi, said offenders risk […]
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has disengaged members of his cabinet affected by the recent Supreme Court judgment, ending the tenure of commissioners and public officers whose appointments were nullified by the court. The announcement was made on Wednesday October 1, during a valedictory session with the outgoing cabinet at Government House, Port Harcourt, as […]
Peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) “is still mostly a promise”, the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, MONUSCO, told the Security Council on Tuesday. “There are discrepancies between the progress we see on paper and the reality we observe on the ground which continues to be marred with […]
Former Malian Prime Minister Moussa Mara has appeared in court in Bamako as judges rejected his bail application for his release on bail. The prosecution instead sought a two-year prison sentence, an action encapsulating the military junta’s crackdown on political opposition and dissent. Mara, who served briefly between 2014 and 2015, was arrested on August […]
Anti-government protests over the poor state of public services in Morocco have led to the killing of two people by police officers who opened fire on a group of people attempting to “storm” a police station in Lqliaa. Authorities said the group was armed with knives and that they fired in self-defense, with a judicial investigation now underway. The […]