Following a violent clash on Thursday between officials of the Borno State Geographical Information System (BOGIS), and worshippers at a branch of EYN Church in Maiduguri,...
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor has warned violent secession agitators that the Nigerian military will not take it easy with them if...
Estranged former Deputy Leader of proscribed Igbo separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Uche Mefor, has described his former boss, Nnamdi Kanu, as a fraudster...
South African police have arrested 28 people after one of the country’s biggest highways was blocked following violent protests that broke out against the imprisonment of...
Former Senator who represented Kaduna Central senatorial district in the 8th National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has lamented the fact that the South-East is gradually witnessing the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his regrets over the spate of violence in Benue State and other parts of the country. Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on...
The social media space on Monday witnessed a wild influx of violence-related topics following series of chaos that erupted in different parts of the country. These...
The news of the death of eight people in a mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility in the United States last Thursday brought the number...
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has charged youths of the state to shun violence...
The rise in the cases of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), especially one of a sexual nature has become a thing of great concern in...
Violent protests broke out in Niger Republic on Tuesday, spilling into the early hours of Wednesday, after the West African country’s electoral commission named ruling party...
The management of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, on Sunday ordered the indefinite closure of the university following the killing of some students of...
Despite violent protests by President Donald Trump’s supporters at the United States Capitol building as Congress leaders sat to certify the election of President-elect, Joe Biden,...
Following threats by a group ‘Yan Sa Kai’ (Youth Volunteer) to kill those responsible for the selection of District Head of Bajida in Fakai Local Government...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested and promised to charge 17 suspected hoodlums mostly teenagers for violence related matters. The state Police Public Relations Officer,...
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has revealed those inciting wanton violence in his domain. Governor El-Rufai who was speaking at the state’s Government House...
A former Senator representing Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), Shehu Sani has reacted to the incessant killing...
The Adamawa State government has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew order on two local governments in the state following renewed violence. This was confirmed in...
Never has there been a time in history when women’s rights have been so radically glorified than now. Rights laws and groups dedicated to the female...
Thousands of angry protesters have continued to defy curfew imposed across the US to stem wild protests arising from the death of George Floyd, an unarmed...
The pressing problem most African families are dealing with at home and abroad is how to ameliorate the hidden and open attacks against them by constituted...
Ekiti State First Lady, Bisi Fayemi, has said that despite strict legislation in the state, gender-based violence and other forms of discrimination still exist in the...
The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan has advised Fulani leaders to caution their people against violence before it becomes too late. Onaiyekan...
The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has released an official statement on the clash with the police in Abuja earlier on Monday. The sect claimed that...
Around 7,500 Congolese refugees have arrived in Uganda since the start of June, placing a strain on already badly overstretched facilities, the UN refugee agency’s UNHCR...
UN agencies warned on Friday that almost seven million people are facing severe hunger in South Sudan, despite a peace agreement which has largely stopped fighting...
Two electoral officers engaged by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have recounted what they went through during the February 23 and March 9 general elections...
President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has called on the security agencies to intensify efforts to protect the people and nab criminals perpetrating violence across...
A fresh outbreak of prison violence which occurred late Saturday in one of the overcrowded facilities in the northeastern region of Brazil has claimed the lives...
The Independent National Electoral Commission today conducted the rescheduled National Assembly and State House rerun and supplementary elections in Rivers State. And as many had expected,...
No less than 30 lives were claimed in an apparent escalation of deadly violence between two rival groups that has flared repeatedly this year. An ethnic...
Reports from Akure ward 2 is that there is violence after an alleged All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman was chased away by angry voters as he...
The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused Governor Adams Oshiomhole and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, of usiung violence and...
Not less than 100 staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, are currently being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. This was...
Chief Ikedi Ohakim, has said he is no more interested in politics, at least for now as he declares a “temporary withdrawal from active partisan politics”....
The Rivers State Legislative rerun elections have again proven to be a hard nut for INEC to crack, as it has postponed the scheduled elections in...
Reports say the death toll arising from street violence in South Africa has risen to five as two more dead bodies have been discovered. According to...
Russia captain Vasili Berezutski inflicted Euro 2016 heartache on England on Saturday after a day in which fan violence brought new shame on football. Battles involving...
At least 22 people have been reportedly killed after local police clashed with scores of squatters in India following operations to clear thousands of people from...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Friday, maintained it resolve not to return to Rivers State until security of voters and others involved in the electoral...
The violence that marred the National and State assembly rerun elections in Rivers State continued Sunday evening as Governor Nyesom Wike’s Chief of Staff driver was...
Following widespread violence and disruptions, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, last night suspended further action on National and state assembly rerun elections in Rivers State....
The Kaduna State government, on Wednesday, met with the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, over concerns raised relating to the Religious Preaching Bill...
South African President Jacob Zuma has informed that the African Union (AU) will send 200 human rights and military monitors to Burundi. Zuma made the comments...
The Bayelsa State governorship supplementary election got under way Saturday, but just like the December 5 exercise, it was marred by violence, ballot snatching and destruction...
Violence continues to brew in Burundi’s capital of Bujumbura following recent attacks on security forces which have escalated with frequent ambushes of police convoys by rebels...
Days after Burundi accused Belgium of links to opposition groups blaming it for the spate of killings in the capital Bujumbura, Burundi’s ruling party says all...
A resolution strongly condemning the escalating violence in Burundi has been unanimously adopted by the United Nations Security Council. The resolution paves the way for the...
Football Federation Australia (FFA), the national football body, is monitoring the security situation in Tajikistan ahead of their FIFA World Cup qualifier in Dushanbe after 10...
In a bid to avoid being caught up in violence that may erupt after the February 2015 general elections, politicians, many chief executive officers/ chairmen of...
