The Commissioner for Agriculture in Ekiti State, Folorunso Olabode has been abducted by unknown gunmen. His abductors killed a councillor in his entourage on the spot....
The Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, has decried the rising spate of robberies and kidnapping in the South West charging the governors of the zone to...
The Nigerian bourse posted gains on the Wednesday and Friday sessions last week while trade in the rest of the week days ended in the negative...
The Benue State government led by Governor Samuel Ortom has discovered what it said are questionable deals at the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, in...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the claim that the Federal Government shared expired rice to some states as Covid-19 palliatives. The party said...
Lagos-based upstream exploration and production company, Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc, Monday reported an 89.5% leap in profit for Full Year 2019 compared to the relative...
Polaris Bank Limited has reported a Profit Before Tax of N27.8 billion for the financial year ended 31st December 2019. According to a statement released by the...
Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has demanded for detailed information on the strange deaths and mass burials reportedly happening in Kano. The Senior Advocate...
The number of people confirmed to have COVID-19 worldwide has risen to more than 2.97 million with no fewer than 206,000 reported dead according to data...
South Korea’s Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul, who oversees engagement with the North, has urged caution over the rumored death of headstrong leader Kim Jong Un. After...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Director General (DG), Chikwe Ihekweazu, has said that the country was in desperate need of Covid-19 testing kits. He...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Monday morning. 1. Nigeria records 91 new cases of COVID-19 as total hits 1273 The Nigeria...
The U.S. dollar sold for N450 at the parallel market last Friday, having depreciated by 4.6% or N20 compared to the value at which it closed...
Indications have emerged that the Nigerian government will name the recently completed Warri Railway Station after the immediate past Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan. Rotimi Amaechi, Minister...
The administration of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has said that some of the 1,800 bags the Federal Government sent to Ondo State were expired and not healthy...
A class action suit has been filed against the Peoples Republic of China for not being transparent enough on the novel COVID-19 disease and the adverse...
The Bauchi State government led by Governor Bala Mohammed has recorded three new positive cases of COVID-19 in the state. This was disclosed to journalists on...
The Association of Private Transport Companies of Nigeria (APTCON) has countered the demand of airline operators for financial intervention with a demand of their own, stating...
Emerging reports Sunday evening say men of the State Security Services (SSS) invaded the residence of the former Chief of Staff (CoS) to Governor Godwin Obaseki,...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Sunday night confirmed 91 new cases of COVID-19 in 15 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory...
The Clerk of the House of Representatives, Patrick Giwa, said on Sunday the House would resume plenary on Tuesday Giwa said in a statement the guidelines...
The Management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has denied rumours that it had concluded plans to divert the April and May monthly stipends of...
The Kano State Government Sunday decried the rising death rates in the state capital but declared that none was caused by coronavirus. The state Commissioner for...
Photo credit: Sagipl The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed rules on Crowdfunding have elicited different reactions from stakeholders, it has rattled the cage of most...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire and the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Sunday briefed President Muhammadu Buhari...
The Borno High Powered Committee on Coronavirus (COVID-19) has urged residents of Maiduguri to be on the alert after two positive patients went into hiding in...
Staff of FirstBank, Main branch, Kano, have been advised to self-isolate as the management on Saturday confirmed the death of Abdullahi Lawal, one of its staff....
Two children of a popular Islamic cleric in Oyo State, Taofeeq Akewugbagold, have reportedly been kidnapped. Both are a set of twins. Ripples Nigeria gathered that...
The Kaduna State government Sunday extended the COVID-19 lockdown in the state by 30 days. The governor’s media aide, by Muyiwa Adekeye, disclosed this in a...
The Oyo State government Sunday confirmed three new COVID-19 cases in the state. The state Governor,Seyi Makinde, disclosed this on his Twitter handle. The latest confirmation...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) said Sunday the May/June 2020 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) 2020 had not been cancelled. The Head of...
The management of the University of Lagos Sunday announced the temporary closure of its Medical Centre after the facility was exposed to a COVID-19 patient. A...
The Lagos State government Sunday confirmed the discharge of six COVID-19 patients from the state’s treatment centres after they recovered fully from the disease. The state...
Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, Sunday confirmed two coronavirus-related deaths in the state. The governor, who disclosed this at a press briefing at the Government House...
The Borno State Government said on Sunday it had quarantined 70 travellers for defying the lockdown in the state. The state’s deputy governor, Alhaji Umar Kadafur...
Farmers under the auspices of Concerned Members of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (CMAFAN) Sunday wrote an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari and accused the...
The Lagos State Police Command said on Sunday at least 620 people have been arrested for violating the government’s stay-at-home directive. The Command spokesman, Bala Elkana,...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), Sunday asked the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, to publish the full report of a medical team put together...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested seven interstate commercial buses with its 95 passengers, and 39 strippers who violated the lockdown and social distancing directives...
The suspected COVID-19 patient who fled from the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo, has returned to the hospital. The Chief Medical Director of the...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, Sunday confirmed nine new cases of COVID-19 in the state. Masari disclosed this while briefing journalists in Katsina. He said: “We...
The Nigerian Court of Appeal has set up special panels with mandates to preside over time-bound matters during the period of the COVID-19 lockdown. In a...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said on Sunday it had received 13 Nigerians that arrived from Lome, Togo, at Seme-Krake joint border post. The spokesman of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded for an immediate investigation into the alleged mass deaths in Kano State. The Kano State government admitted that about...
Tragedy struck around Kara, Ayetoro area on the Lagos – Ibadan expressway when an accident involving two trucks claimed the life of one person and injured...
The strides that our country has made in the fight to end malaria could understandably be overlooked against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps more...
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, the Senate Minority Leader, representing Abia South has warned the Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari not to extend the ongoing COVID-19...
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi on Sunday said he cannot order a total lockdown of the state due to covid-19 pandemic because of its economic peculiarities...
Police have arrested suspected killers of Nnadi Michael, a seminarian of the Catholic Good Shepherd Major Seminary at Gonin Gora, Kakau in Chikun Local Government Area...
Three persons, including one of the suspected killers of Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Pa Rueben Fasoranti, have tested positive for Covid-19 in Ondo State. The state...
