The hand of history is reset in Edo State, Nigeria as major political gladiators are gathering at the palace of Oba of Benin for a peace pact to stem rising violence during the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

The Presidency has rejected a report that an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Sarki Abba, had contracted COVID-19.
A report by an online newspaper had claimed that the aide to Buhari tested positive for COVID-19.
However, in a series of tweets on Wednesda

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has urged Nigerians to resist National Water Resources Bill, warning that the country would be doomed if National Assembly passes the bill into law.
Soyinka who spoke Monday while presenting 107 copies of …

The National Assembly has resumed another round of rebuttals over allegation of Niger Delta Development Commission giving COVID-19 palliatives to its members.
The Senate said on Tuesday that none of its members received N20 million COVID-19 palliative from NDDC.

Nigerian electricity consumers are in for rough economic times as electricity distribution companies (DisCos) have begun implementation of electricity tariff hike with effect from Tuesday, September 1, 2020.

Akinsanya Olamide Ridwan convicted over romance scam is expected to clear the drainage at Bekind Filing Station near Tipper Garage, Tanke up to the gate of the University of Ilorin, according to Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of Kwara State High Court, Ilorin.

In what was a major onslaught against bandits terrorising Katsina and other North West states, the Nigeria Army has killed two bandits and rescued 10 kidnapped victims.

The 2019 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Vice Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, has demanded constitution of a panel of inquiry into the recent killings in Emene, Enugu State.
A clash between the Department of States Services (DSS) and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) a week ago left some persons dead.

Reprieve may soon come the way of the 12 royal fathers in Anambra State recently suspended by the state government.
This follows the intervention of the state House of Assembly, and some elders in the state.

Sudan’s government and the main rebel alliance agreed on a historic peace accord on Monday to end the 17-year-old conflict.
The Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), a coalition of rebel groups from the western region of Darfur and the southern states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, signed the peace agreement at a ceremony in Juba, capital of neighbouring South Sudan, which hosted and helped mediate the long-running talks since late 2019.