Oil prices advanced further on Friday as traders expect signals from a conference that could hold this weekend among key oil producing countries to consider the...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare has offered an explanation on why the planned rehabilitation of the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja, was yet to...
The Kwara State House of Assembly on Thursday called on the state government to handover a former governor of the state, Abdulfattah Ahmed to the Economic...
Nigeria’s former Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been nominated as the next Director General of the World Trade Organisation...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Thursday led some senators to the home of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, who just returned from Kuje...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will auction treasury bills worth N821.797 billion with varying tenors in the third quarter of this year, its issue programme...
Super Eagles forward, Kelechi Iheanacho has been ranked as the most effective player from the bench so far this season at Leicester City. The 23-year-old, who...
Professor Wole Soyinka on Thursday said he did not believe that President Muhammadu Buhari or anybody was in charge in Aso Rock. The Nobel laureate stated...
The President of the United States of America (USA) Donald Trump has been sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over allegations that police on...
The President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta has moved to reorganise his government which has seen him also strip his deputy, William Ruto of his power sharing...
The Nigerian government has declared that a new initiative named Green Imperative valued at $1.2 billion, under the Nigeria-Brazil Bilateral Agriculture Development Programme, will revolutionise the...
Former Big Brother Africa (BBA) reality show, Season Five winner, Uti Nwachukwu has threatened to drag a Twitter user who accused him of raping her sometime...
Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance and Chair of the Gavi Board, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-iweala, has commended a pledge of $1.6 billion by the Bill and Melinda...
Public officials, including cabinet members, in Gombe State are being tested for COVID-19, following the death of Shuaibu Danlami, a director of special services and Secretary...
A Managing Director (MD) of a micro finance bank, Belema Abibo was on Thursday arraigned and remanded in custody over an alleged N100 million scam. Abibo...
Troops of the Nigerian Airforce on ground have been ordered to locate and neutralise all bandits taking refuge in Katsina State and to also submit weekly...
The board of governors of Africa’s biggest multilateral lender, African Development Bank (AfDB), plans to commission a fair-minded personality of global repute to carry out an...
The Katsina State government has approved the reopening of no fewer than 15 major weekly markets across the state which were hitherto closed because of the...
Nigerian Government on Thursday announced a new date for the completion of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and Second Niger Bridge. The Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola, who...
The Kano State government led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has recorded one death arising from COVID-19 infection and the discharge of 41 patients who have recovered...
The World Coalition Against Death Penalty and the Human Rights Law Service have called on countries all over the world to impose a moratorium on the...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you this Friday morning. 1. 350 new cases of COVID-19 take Nigeria’s total to 11516; deaths now...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday night confirmed 350 fresh COVID-19 cases in the country. The NCDC said in its daily update on...
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Thursday, relaxed the COVID-19 lockdown in the state. In a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Ismail Omipidan, the...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said on Thursday 24 additional COVID-19 patients had been discharged from the state’s isolation centres following their full recovery from the...
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, said on Thursday the Federal Government had received test kits and a Polymerase Chain...
The Sokoto State government said on Thursday the last five COVID-19 patients had been discharged from its isolation facilities. The state’s Ministry of Health, which disclosed...
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) on Thursday faulted the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami’s takeover of the prosecution of...
The police said on Thursday it had forwarded the alleged rape case involving the Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Biodun Fatoyinbo, to the...
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) on Thursday removed the cap on the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and gave oil marketers the licence...
The Federal Commissioner in charge of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Basheer Mohammed, said on Thursday the Federal Government would...
At least nine persons, including eight policemen, were killed when a gang of armed robbers launched an attack on a commercial bank in Isanlu, Kogi State,...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihewkweazu, on Thursday, unveiled new case management guidelines for the treatment and discharge of...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Snapchat takes action against President Trump In what is seemingly...
The Kogi State government on Thursday questioned the report of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that the state had recorded its third COVID-19 case....
The Bayelsa State Police Command said Thursday the abducted 80-year-old mother of local a council chief in the state had been rescued. The woman, Mrs. Beauty...
The Oyo State Police Command on Thursday called for credible information from members of the public in a bid to fish out those behind the killing...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Thursday released the guidelines for the reopening of places of worship as recommended by the Presidential Task Force (PTF)...
Suspected cultists have killed a young man identified as Saro Godwin in Duburo community in Khana local government area of Rivers State. Residents of the community...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said on Thursday the state government would take the decision on the reopening of schools in two weeks. The governor, who...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has approved the appointment of Mr. Stewart Efe as the state’s new Commissioner for Communication and Orientation. Stewart replaced Mr. Paul...
The Senate said on Thursday it would launch a probe into the N1.8 trillion Federal Government interventions in the power sector since the privatization of the...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Williams Bassi, said on Thursday a COVID-19 patient absconded from a Plateau State isolation centre. Bassi who...
The Ebonyi State Police Command Thursday confirmed the kidnap of two Chinese men working in a mining site in Ihietutu, Ishiagu in Ivo Local Government Area...
Churches and mosques in Lagos State would be reopened to worshippers from the 19th of June, 2020, the state government said on Thursday. According to Governor...
Civil servants on Grade Level 13 and 14 in the employment of the Lagos State Government have been ordered back to their duty posts by Governor...
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has lost another key cabinet member as his Commissioner for Information, Paul Ohonbamu has tendered his resignation letter. The resignation...
Nigeria’s service chiefs have been summoned by the House of Representatives over the rising and worrisome insecurity situation in the country. The lawmakers want them to...
The Gombe State government has announced three fresh deaths arising from COVID-19 infections bringing the total number of lives lost to the virus in the state...
English Premier League teams will be able to make five substitutions, instead of three, in the remaining matches of the 2019-20 season. World football governing body,...
