Sierra Leone on Wednesday charged former President Ernest Bai Koroma with treason and other offences for his alleged role in what authorities have called an attempted coup on November 26, authorities said. Koroma, who led the West African nation from 2007 to 2018, had previously been questioned, with authorities saying …

The federal government has suspended the evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo. Augustina Obilor-Duru, the acting director of press at the federal ministry of education, confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday. The director said the decision follows a recently published report exposing certificate racketeering …

December 27, 2023 dawned in a very grim manner. As I woke up I saw a news item on the scroll bar of Channels Television that Ghali Umar Na’Abba 8th Speaker of the House of Representatives had passed on at the age of 65. The son of a wealthy Kano …

Alex Uka for 6 years he reigns as the Duke of the government house Alagbaka in Akure in Ondo State, he was the kinsman and the personal assistant to the former First Lady of Ondo State Betty Ayanwu Akeredolu, he is the major business canvaser to the former First Lady, …

President Bola Tinubu on the first day of 2024 reassured Nigerians that he is awake to their plight facing months of economic hardship.“From the boardrooms at Broad Street in Lagos to the main-streets of Kano and Nembe Creeks in Bayelsa, I hear the groans of Nigerians who work hard every …

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Federal Capital Territory Command, has arrested 82 suspected vandals and 22 illegal miners from August till date.The FCT Commandant of the NSCDC, Mr. Olusola Odumosu, gave the figures during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja Odumosu said …

In a big boost towards achieving Nigeria’s energy refining capacity and security, Nigeria’s Dangote refinery has received its next one-million-barrel crude oil cargo from Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited (STASCO), bringing the total to three million barrels at the facility’s Single-Point Mooring.Media investigation by The Commerce Africa that …

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, is dead,The Commerce Africa has learnt. The governor, aged 67, died on Wednesday morning after a prolonged health battle.Akeredolu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), ex-president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), and ex-Attorney General of Ondo State, was a second-term governor before his death. …

Ethiopia became Africa’s third default in as many years on Tuesday after it failed to make a 33-million-dollar “coupon” payment on its only international government bond. Africa’s second-most populous country announced earlier this month that it intended to formally go into default, having been under severe financial strain in the …

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese,  Mathew  Kukah, has charged President Bola Tinubu to find a way to put a permanent end to the killings of Nigerians by whatever means or name. Kukah, in his Christmas message with the theme, “Time to Reclaim Nigeria’s Greatness,”  and made available to our …