Ghana’s consumer inflation rose to 3.4% year-on-year in April from 3.2% in March, marking the first increase since December 2024, the country’s statistics service said on Wednesday. Government statistician Alhassan...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced a total lockdown across the South-East from 6am to 6pm on May 30, 2026, to mark “Biafran Heroes and Heroines Remembrance Day.”...

Zekari Umoru, one of six defendants standing trial over an alleged plot to topple the Bola Tinubu administration, says he was deceived into involvement and had no knowledge of any...

The joint action committee of the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has directed its branches to suspend the ongoing strike from May...

Dangote Refinery has raised the ex-depot price of petrol by ₦75, bringing it to ₦1,350 per litre from the previous ₦1,275 per litre. The increase takes effect immediately and marks...

Tigray’s main political party has reasserted control over the region’s political administration, moving to restore pre-war structures in a step that could undermine the 2022 peace deal that ended Ethiopia’s...

Boko Haram militants attacked a military base in Chad’s Lake Chad region on Monday night, killing at least 23 security personnel and injuring 26 others, the army said on Tuesday....

President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate seeking confirmation of Joseph Tegbe as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The request was read by Senate President Godswill...

The Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in the last election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has said he will not leave the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Many Nigerians, especially supporters of LP’s 2023...

Zenith Bank Plc has announced the retirement of its founder and long-serving chairman, Jim Ovia, bringing an end to an era for one of Nigeria’s leading financial institutions. The bank...