ECOWAS: Nigerian police unit to be deployed in Guinea-Bissau
ECOWAS has instructed that the “necessary steps” be taken to deploy a Nigerian police unit to Guinea-Bissau, according to the final communiqué of the organization’s […]
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ECOWAS Summit: Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu elected President opposes military coups
The 63rd session of the Conference of Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) came to a close late on […]
Chinese navy on “friendly visit” to Nigeria
Three Chinese naval vessels made a five-day stopover in the waters of Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, on Sunday, in a rare visit to the Gulf […]
Nigeria: Crowd lynches a man accused of “blasphemy”
A mob lynched a Muslim man in a northern Nigerian town on Sunday, accusing him of blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad, local police and residents said […]
Nigerian President suspends anti-corruption Chief
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has suspended the country’s anti-corruption Chief who is under investigation for abuse of Office, the Government has announced. The ousting of […]
Police say about 100 killed after boat capsizes in Nigeria
About 100 people were killed when a boat carrying locals returning from a wedding collapsed in northern Nigeria, according to police and locals, who increased […]
Nigeria’s banditry epidemic: armed men kill scores of villagers in country’s north
30 people were killed over the weekend by armed men on motorcycles in raids on six villages in Nigeria’s north, a region regularly hit by […]
The Opec+ reaches an uneasy agreement on a production cut
An oil production cut is on the way. An agreement was reached by the 23 OPEC+ member States, producers of around 40% of the world’s […]
Fuel prices in Nigeria almost triple in two days
Prices at the pump almost tripled at service stations in Nigeria after the new President announced on Monday that he would end fuel subsidies, journalists […]
Bola Tinubu takes the reins of a Nigeria in crisis
Bola Ahmed Tinubu took the oath of office in Abuja on Monday to officially become the new President of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country mired […]