Nigeria: Stakeholders Step Up Preparations for Toilet Day Summit

As the Federal Ministry of Water Resources prepares to organise a World Toilet Summit in Nigeria to create awareness against open defecation and the importance of building toilets… Read more »

Nigeria: Operators Fume Over Govt's Proposed 20% Tax On Non-Alcoholic Drinks

Operators in the carbonated soft drinks sub-sector of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) have raised alarm over implications of the federal government's proposed 20 per… Read more »

Nigeria: Confusion As New Ekiti Speaker Is Impeached After 6 Days in Office

There was confusion on Monday in the Ekiti State House of Assembly as the new Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Gboyega Aribisogan, was impeached and suspended indefinitely. Read more »

Nigeria: Farmer-Herder Crisis, Flood Take Toll on Farming in Nasarawa

The unabated farmers-herders skirmishes in Nasarawa State over the years has taken another dimension as herders continue with attacks ranging from maiming, raping and killing of… Read more »

Nigeria: Osinbajo Seeks More Investments to Achieve Sanitation Targets

To attain global sanitation targets, Nigeria will have to triple current investment levels in the sector, an objective that will require contributions of partners and stakeholders… Read more »

Nigeria: Electoral Violence - Police Identify Rivers, Borno as Flashpoints in 2023 Polls

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, security agencies have expressed concern about likely violence in a number of states like Rivers and Borno states and other places where… Read more »

Nigeria: Polls Body Prints 93 Million Ballot Papers for Presidential Run-Off

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would print concurrently, ballot papers for the presidential election and those for a re-run exercise ahead of the… Read more »

Nigeria: Run-Off - Atiku'll Win at First Ballot, PDP Campaign Tells INEC

The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation has assured the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to bother itself with any preparation for a possible run-off… Read more »

Nigeria: Police Kill 7 Bandits, Arrest 18 in Niger

Police in Niger State have killed seven bandits who had been terrorising farmers within Kumbashi district of Mariga local government area of Niger State and arrested 18 miscreants… Read more »

Nigeria: Benin Monarch Calls for Rituals to Avert Disaster

The Omo N'Oba N'Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin, yesterday called on traditionalists in Benin Kingdom to immediately perform the traditional ceremony of waving away… Read more »

Nigeria: 2023 - Beware of Peter Obi, Christian Youth Group Tells Nigerians

The United Christian Youth Forum of Nigeria (UCYFN) has warned Nigerians to beware of antics of the Labour Party's presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, saying the former Anambra… Read more »

Nigeria: Ganduje, Bala, Ortom, IGP, Others for Roundtable On Violent-Free Polls

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, state governors and other stakeholders will on Tuesday hold a roundtable discussion on how to actualise a violent-free elections next year. Read more »

Nigeria: Go for Victory Against Portugal, Peseiro Charges Eagles

Super Eagles manager, José Santos Peseiro, has called on the three-time African champions to show guts, grit and gumption by aiming for victory over hosts Portugal in… Read more »

Nigeria: South Korean Envoy Visits Bua Group, Seeks to Deepen Partnerships

BUA Group has played host to the Ambassador of South Korea to Nigeria, Kim Young-Chae at the BUA Group HQ in Lagos. Read more »

Nigeria: Air Peace Suspends Flights Into Dubai Over Visa Ban

Air Peace airline, yesterday, announced suspension of its Dubai operations indefinitely over inabilty of Nigerians to get visa to the country. Read more »

Nigeria: 23 Years After - in Remembrance of General Sani Abacha

General Sani Abacha, who was born on September 20, 1943, died three months to his 55th birthday on June 8, 1998. Before his death, Gen Abacha had risen to the rank of a full… Read more »

Nigeria: Shell Plans to Cut Methane Emissions

Oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell said it will cut emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, across its oil and gas operations. Shell aims to maintain methane emissions intensity… Read more »

Nigeria: T.Y. Danjuma Foundation and the Road to Dako

The people of Dako community are predominantly farmers. This is evident from the ridges that could be seen around the footpath that led to the village. Read more »

Nigeria: Reflections on Fifty Years of Change

I would like to thank Chatham House and Coventry University's African Studies Centre for inviting me to speak today. I'm honoured to have the chance at this critical time to share… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: South African Singer Decries Plight of Women

South African Singer, Miriam Makeba has said that women survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) face a "triple tragedy" of physical, psychological… Read more »