[Premium Times] The Navy said MT HEROIC IDUN entered the Nigerian maritime environment and headed for Akpo Field without any form of authorisation or clearance by the NNPC.

[Premium Times] NBC, which regulates the broadcast industry, has been criticised in the past for arbitrarily imposing fines on TV and radio stations over controversial programmes.

[The Conversation Africa] Nigeria's National Broadcasting Commission recently imposed a fine of N5 million (about US$11,922) each on MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, NTA-Startimes and Telcom Satellites Limited for airing a BBC Africa Eye documentary titl...

[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- Supporters of free speech in Nigeria are expressing concern after a federal court ruled this week that a singer appealing his death sentence for blasphemy must have his case retried in a Shariah court.

[This Day] The World Bank has identified conflict as one of the critical drivers of food insecurity in West Africa, especially in the north-western part of Nigeria and the Liptako Gourma region, which borders Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Republic.

[This Day] No fewer than 55 communities in four local government areas of Edo State yesterday protested the acquisition of the communities' rainforest reserve and farmland by the state Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, in spite of pending court cases on ...

[This Day] President Muhammadu Buhari has stressed that the stability of Chad and other neighbouring countries to Nigeria is in the overall interest of the nation.

[This Day] Following the controversy generated over the discovery of 20 mummified bodies in a private facility in Benin City, capital of Edo State, the state Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has given the police seven days to carry out a comprehensive i...

[This Day] The United Nations (UN) has revealed that humanitarian assistance was delivered to five million people in North-east Nigeria in 2021.

[This Day] The Bauchi State Government has disclosed that no fewer than 69 persons that were abducted by bandits have been rescued by a combined effort of security agents and vigilantes, after raiding the bandits' hideouts and intensifying patrols on...

[This Day] The leader of the terror group that abducted some of the Abuja-Kaduna train passengers have threatened to forcefully marry 21-year-old train abductee, Azurfa Lois John.

[This Day] The Chairperson, Committee on Social Affairs, Gender and Women Empowerment of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, Ayamba Laadi Ayii, has appealed to West African presidents to ensure the 30 per cent affirmative a...

[This Day] Amassive US$418 million. That's what six consultants have been battling to grab from the 36 Nigerian states and 774 local governments, supposedly for facilitating refunds of the over-deductions against states and local governments, in obli...

[Nigeria Health Watch] Katakpa is a rural farming community in Lapai Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State. Due to years of neglect, the only health facility in the community is now barely functional.

[This Day] The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa has said that Nigerians in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) affected by the mass deportation of illegal aliens are being profiled for evacuation.

[Premium Times] Mr Mamu, in a statement, said the abductors threatened to marry off one of the hostages.

[Premium Times] The police said that he is being taken to Abuja.

[VOA] Accra, Ghana -- Ghana has raised its benchmark interest rate to a record-high 22% as the country struggles to check soaring prices caused in part by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

[CPJ] Abuja -- Authorities in Nigeria should immediately drop any criminal libel investigation into journalist Ifreke Nseowo or TheMail Newspaper and pay damages to the newspaper distributor whom they illegally detained to compel Nseowo to appear for...

[CPJ] Dakar -- Guinean authorities should investigate the attacks on five journalists while they covered protests, hold those responsible to account, and ensure the press can work freely and safely while covering civil unrest, the Committee to Protec...

[Premium Times] Chad holds a Sovereign National Dialogue on 20 August and according to the Special Envoy, "the outcome would be respected, and not tampered with."

[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has formally opened resettlement houses for people internally displaced by the 13-year conflict with Islamist militants in the country's northeast.

[Observer] The standard bearer of the opposition Unity Party (UP), Joseph Boakai, has called on President George Weah to dismiss with immediate effect the sanctioned and disgraced government officials and turn them over for prosecution.

[The Conversation Africa] The writer, film-maker and theatre creator Biyi Bandele has passed away at the age of 54, news that has stunned the West African arts community where he was a creative icon who told classic Nigerian stories, sometimes in the...

[Foroyaa] Nian Sarang Jobe, the former staff of The Point, has narrated before the Court of Celle, Germany, how Deyda Hydara was killed on 16 December 2004 in a trial involving ex-'jungler' Bai Lowe.

[Foroyaa] Chief Magistrate Omar Cham of the Banjul Magistrates' Court recently ordered Lamin Mboge, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gam Housing to open his defence in his ongoing criminal trial.

[Foroyaa] It is often said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. When a person becomes drunk with power he/she sees only his/her might and nothing else. Such a person becomes blind to justice, acts like a beast and would not hes...

[Foroyaa] Talib Ahmed Bensouda, the Mayor of Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC), on Thursday, August 18, 2022 laid the foundation stone for construction of a modern library worth D45 million.

[Foroyaa] Superintendent (Spt) Lamin Njie on Thursday 18th August 2022, confirmed to this Medium that one Cadet Assistant Superintendent Binta Njie of the Gambia Police Force, is the newly appointed Spokesperson of the Gambia Police Force (GPF).

[The Point] Quality education is the cornerstone of any modern society. Quality education enables people to realise their full potential, thereby contributing significantly in any active and productive society.