Long-term net migration to the United Kingdom (UK) fell to 204,000 in the year to June, around two-thirds lower than a year earlier. This was contained in data released by the Office for National Statistics on Thursday, November 27, 2025. Immigration...
A yet-to-be-identified woman has been found dead in a hotel room in Ore, Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State. It was gathered that the woman’s lifeless body was discovered in the hotel located along the Ore–Okitipupa Road on Wednesday. The...
The Kebbi State Government has confirmed that none of the 24 schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, suffered any form of sexual abuse while in captivity. The confirmation was given on Wednesday by the Commissioner for Basic...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned that insecurity in Nigeria has evolved into a highly organised and lucrative criminal economy, fueling banditry, kidnapping, and terrorism. In a televised interview on Wednesday, PDP National Publicity Secretary Ini Ememobong urged the...
The former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has written to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), asking the commission to give him a date for his appearance. Sylva, a former governor of Bayelsa State, in a...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan and several other African leaders have been left stranded in Guinea-Bissau following a military coup that disrupted the West African nation’s electoral process. Jonathan, along with 35 other senior officials, is in the country as part...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $500 million loan to Nigeria to fund the second phase of its Economic Governance and Energy Transition Support Programme (EGET-SP). The initiative aims to accelerate the transformation of Nigeria’s electricity infrastructure and...
The Federal Government has terminated the Abuja-Lokoja road contracts following an exhaustive performance review. The Minister of Works, David Umahi, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the meeting held with the Federal Ministry of Works and selected...
No fewer than 55 people have been confirmed dead from a devastating fire that ripped through a high-rise complex in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's fire department raised the death toll to 55 on Thursday morning. Among the dead was a 37-year-old...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by National Chairman Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), has petitioned the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, seeking to bar Justices James Omotosho, Peter Lifu and Joyce Abdulmalik from handling...