The arrest followed a distress call on Sunday, December 22 that robbers were attacking a church in Benin City.

Efforts to strike a truce and hostage release deal in numerous rounds of indirect talks have repeatedly failed over key stumbling blocks.

A man displays a box containing Captagon (brand name of psychostimulant drug Fenethylline), as Syria’s new authorities burn ...

The Anambra State Police Command says its operatives have arrested one Chukwuma Obi, a 32-year-old male from Umuagu Village, Igboukwu, Aguata Local Government Area, in connection with an alleged case ...

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, has urged Christians in Nigeria not to forget that they are the light of the world.

A fire early Wednesday killed dozens of dogs at a breeding facility on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, an official said. It took firefighters about four hours to extinguish the blaze that ...

He used his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" message to the world's 1.4 billion Catholics to call for talks for a just peace in Ukraine.

Ukraine said Russia had launched 170 drones and missiles targeting its energy grid in an "inhumane" Christmas Day attack.

At least 10 kidnapped victims are said to have been rescued from the hands of kidnappers by operatives of the Katsina State Police Command.

In his message, Abure charged Nigerians to take the Christmas celebration as a season to love, serve and forgive one another.

Kazakh authorities said 28 people had survived the crash of the Embraer 190 near the city of Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.

The missile was aimed at the Tel Aviv area, the Iran-backed Huthis said. The Israelis reported it was shot down before it entered Israeli territory.