The vice chancellor of Nigeria’s Veritas University, a priest in the Awka Diocese, has encouraged journalists in the west African nation to expose Christian persecution, which is at its highest ...

Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, has vowed to intensify security measures following the interception of a large cache of weapons smuggled from the Niger Republic by a suspected gunrunner. The ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has denied the involvement of its personnel in recent cases of kidnapping, banditry, and the supply of arms and ammunition. In a statement on Wednesday ...

A new armed group called Lakurawa is attacking villages in remote corners of northwestern Nigeria and across the border in Niger, posing new threats to two countries that already suffer from ...

World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed concern about the implications of the immediate funding pause for HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries. The organisation said in a ...

The Defence Chief said this challenge, combined with the government’s drive for self-reliance, was driving Nigeria to seek ways of domesticating arms production with Chinese support. During an ...

“The Nigeria Police Force remains unyielding in its goal towards ensuring national security and public safety,” he stressed. The Force PRO urged public members to remain vigilant and work ...

Hosts Ivory Coast completed one of Africa Cup of Nations' most memorable comebacks to be crowned champions of Africa for a third time as Nigeria were beaten 2-1 in Abidjan. Nigeria captain and ...

A relentless celebration that turns West Africa – and especially Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos – into one of the hottest destinations on the continent, if not the planet, right in the middle ...

After my column last year, ‘Thank you, pan minister’ in which I ‘thanked’ Prime Minister Dr Rowley for the ill-timed, ill-thought decision to redesign our coat of arms, I never intended to ...