The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced plans to end monthly food assistance for 500,000 people in Gaza due to a funding shortfall, despite continuing humanitarian needs in the war...
Nigeria is facing a deepening poverty crisis, with the European Union warning that the country may have the highest number of people living below the poverty line worldwide. The bloc has also announce...
Political commentator Segun Sowunmi has identified Peter Obi and his supporters, popularly known as Obidients, as major obstacles to the South-East’s ambition of producing Nigeria’s next president, ar...
US President Donald Trump will take up to 60 days to assess the economic consequences of sanctions and tariffs targeting Russia that he recently suspended, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said, as ...
A deadly incident has occurred at one of Canada’s busiest military bases in Alberta, leaving multiple people dead and others injured as a major fire continued to burn on Saturday. Canadian Defence Min...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has secured a clean sweep in the Kogi State local government elections, winning all 21 chairmanship seats and 239 councillorship positions across the state. The res...
The European Union (EU) is planning to provide €20 million in defence assistance to the Nigerian Armed Forces to strengthen the country’s military operations and security efforts. The proposed support...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), demanding answers over more than ₦126.46 billion earmarked for electoral ope...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has revealed that her investigation into an alleged $2.4 billion petrol subsidy fraud led to the abduction of her mother in...
Eight Nigerian soldiers have been killed after their patrol vehicle struck a landmine allegedly planted by Islamic State-aligned jihadists near the border with Cameroon, according to defence sources. ...