Israel said Monday it would once again target Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold mostly spared heavy attacks since April, as it stages its deepest incursion into Lebanon in two decades. The UN Security Council is expected to hold an emergency…

Suspected terrorists have killed one person and abducted more than 15 others in Ayegunle Bunu, a town in the Kabba-Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State. According to Egbe Mekun Parrot, a community newspaper in the Kogi West Senatorial District,…

Residents of Commissioners’ Quarters in Damaturu, Yobe State, have bemoaned worsening water scarcity in one of the capital’s prominent residential areas. They said the shortage followed the breakdown of a generator powering a major public borehole serving the area, where…

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday rebuffed Moscow’s call for his country to hold a referendum on joining the EU, saying ties with Russia were in a “transformation phase.” The Kremlin has upped pressure on Armenia over its rapprochement…

Twenty-four defendants, including 15 Chinese nationals and nine Nigerians, have been arraigned before the Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged illegal lithium mining activities in Nasarawa State, in a case that underscores growing efforts by authorities to curb unauthorised…

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, says there is no resident of the Abuja that can deny the impact of President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Wike made this statement on Monday  during his monthly media briefing in Abuja. He urged…

Teachers in public primary and secondary schools across Oyo State on Monday began an indefinite strike to protest the kidnap of teachers and pupils of three schools in Oriire Local Government Area of the state The News Agency of Nigeria…

More than 50 houses have been destroyed and hundreds of residents displaced by a rainstorm in Tom Gangare, a town in Sopp Ward of the Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State. The disaster occurred on Saturday following a heavy…

Presidential spokesman Daniel Bwala has mocked Arise Television anchor Rufai Oseni, accusing him of being an unofficial spokesman for Mr Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC. In a post on X on Monday, Bwala alleged that Oseni’s…

Chelsea midfielder Moises Caicedo has been named in Ecuador’s squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, as the South American side prepares for the tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico. As reported by BBC Sport on Monday, the…

Just days after PREMIUM TIMES reported a breach of aviation safety regulations involving Patience Abbo, wife of former Adamawa North Senator Ishaku Abbo, fresh footage has emerged showing her engaging in an identical act at what appears to be the…

Former Kano State governor and 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has expressed concern over the continued stay in captivity of students and teachers abducted from schools in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo…

France said on Monday that a suspected Russian oil tanker had been detained in the Atlantic over the weekend, in the latest such seizure aimed at combating Moscow’s sanctions-busting “shadow fleet.” The Tagor was detained on Sunday morning in international…

Akwa Ibom State Governor Umo Eno’s declaration that he will not complete the long-stalled Ibom Science Park project has exposed a contradiction between his public commitments before assuming office and the policies his administration pursued during its first two years…

Violent crime seems to have returned to Anambra as gunmen whose identities were not immediately ascertained have attacked men of the Anambra State Police Command, killing at least two officers. The state has been peaceful for months, following a heavy…