News From Nigeria

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said all was well shortly after Iran claimed responsibility for multiple rocket attacks on two military bases housing U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq.

A Ukrainian passenger plane carrying 170 passengers crashed shortly after take-off in Tehran on Wednesday, according to the semi-official Iranian agency Isna.

Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno state, came down hard on soldiers manning Damaturu-Maiduguri road in the state on Monday afternoon. Zulum was on his way to Jakana, a community where Boko Haram insurgents struck on Saturday when he ran into ...

Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s right-hand man is leaving his post amid growing tensions with Iran. NBC News’s Hallie Jackson reported Monday that Eric Chewning resigned as Pentagon chief of staff and will leave the Department of Defense at the end ...

In what may be termed the first soothing news of 2020, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, on Monday reiterated Federal Government’s plan to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty this year, in line ...

Imam Tawhid, a popular Australian Muslim Scholar Imam Tawhidi, disclosed that Nigerian Government harbours all forms of terrorists because the government itself is run Terrorist. Tawhidi is a Muslim influencer, who claims to be a reformist Imam. According to Tawhidi, ...

The former Aviation Minister and diehard human rights activist, Femi Fani Kayode has attacked Ismaila Isa Funtua for saying that if Igbo (Southeastern Nigeria) must occupy the position of President in 2023 general elections, “they should belong.” Kayode on his ...

Earlier, the opposition leader announced his bid for reelection as speaker of the semi-defunct National Assembly legislative body, as the Venezuelan political crisis he helped initiate approaches its one year anniversary. Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed ‘president’ Juan Guaido has ...

The dramatic move to expel US troops followed nearly two weeks of violence and escalations which culminated in the US assassination of a senior Iranian military commander on Iraqi soil. Iraq’s parliament was convened for an extraordinary session on Sunday, ...

Tragedy struck in Oyo Town in the early hours of Sunday, January 5, 2020, as fire razed Akesan Market, the town’s main commercial centre, almost entirely.According to information obtained on Oyo Global Forum, only few shops and a filling station ...