Islamic organization, Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has asked the Nigerian Government to, without further delay, place a travel ban on outgoing US President Donald Trump.

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally approved the posting of new ambassadors-designate to Nigerian Missions abroad.

21,296 suspected criminals involved in various “violent crimes” were arrested by Nigerian police in the country last year, according to the Inspector General of Police Mohamed Adamu.

The government hopes that taming food prices and the steep cost of doing business will help push inflation, which touched its near three-year high of 14.89 per cent in November, down to 11.95 per cent.

“President Muhammadu Buhari contested and lost elections a couple of times and followed the process through to the Supreme Court on all accounts."

As the TV showed Wednesday night, as a mob stormed the United States of America’s national legislature, I bemoaned Africa’s weak democratic institutions.

Shareholders of London-listed Nigerian oil company Lekoil voted on Friday to approve an investor’s bid to add three members to the company’s board, in the culmination of a bitter dispute between its founder and its biggest shareholder.

Nigeria’s state oil firm NNPC is in talks to raise around $1 billion in a prepayment with trading firms to refurbish its largest refining complex at Port Harcourt, seven sources familiar with the discussions said.

John Campbell, a former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, has criticised the arrest of Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore.

On the first anniversary of the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by a drone strike, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has declared that days of the United States’ presence in the Middle East are numbered.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that the average life expectancy of children born in Nigeria is expected to be at 62.8 years.

Nigeria is ranked number one in Africa in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 2020 World Economic Outlook’s ratings of countries.

Peter Uzoho chronicles the events that shaped the Nigeria oil and gas industry in 2020

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Tourism is expected to be a major item on the agenda of talks to take place soon in Abuja, Nigeria, aimed at formalising a new bilateral agreement between the African nation and Jamaica.

Lagos is indeed home to the good, the bad and the ugly. As opportunities abound to put in the hard work and be successful, some boys and young men have constituted themselves into street terrors and unleash mayhem on innocent residents and visitors alike.

Congestion, bribery and storage costs add to problems for importers in Africa’s largest economy

At least seven people were killed in a Boko Haram attack on the majority-Christian village of Pemi in Nigeria's Borno state on Christmas Eve, a local official said.

The Presidency stated that the helicopter would be the 23rd new aircraft acquired by the administration.

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Boko Haram jihadists killed at least 11 people, burnt a church and seized a priest on Christmas Eve in Nigeria's restive northeast, local sources claimed today.

Amid the current festivities, piracy attacks have continued to occur along the Nigerian and Ghanian coasts.