Nigeria, Aug. 27 -- Nigeria's D'Tigers will begin the second round of their 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifying campaign on Thursday with a crucial showdown against group leaders Cameroon, knowi... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 27 -- The presidency has again faulted the position of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), who has pledged to restore petrol subsidy if e... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 27 -- Veteran Nigerian Juju and Highlife musician Iyun Janet Ajilore, popularly known as Saint Janet, has been laid to rest in Abeokuta, Ogun State, weeks after her sudden death. The si... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 27 -- Sunday Isuwa, Group News Editor of LEADERSHIP Newspaper, is set to launch a book examining the transformation of Nigeria's newspaper industry in the digital era. The book, Digital... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 27 -- The police in Cross River State have arrested two men, aged 68 and 70, over the alleged attempted rape of a 12-year-old girl in Calabar. The suspects, identified as Moris Monday, ... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 27 -- As negotiations continue at the 17th session of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP17) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, the challenge of financing land rest... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 27 -- Malian singer and songwriter Salif Keita has cancelled his upcoming commercial performances in South Africa over reports of xenophobic violence against African migrants, his spokes... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 27 -- The Executive Chairman of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Hulayat Omidiran, has called on the FCT Football Association (FCT FA) and the FCT Sports Department to make grassr... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 27 -- The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Plateau State University, Bokkos chapter, has declared an indefinite strike over what it described as the university management's f... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 27 -- A worker at Frankfurt Airport in Germany has died of malaria in a rare outbreak believed to have been caused by infected mosquitoes brought into the country on an aircraft. Five o... Read More