A journalist, Agba Jalingo who has been in detention for about 174 days, and being prosecuted by the Cross River State government led by Ben Ayede...
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State on Wednesday night paid a visit to an hospital caring for residents of the state that were attacked by suspected...
Mr. David Lyon, the Bayelsa State governor-elect and his deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo, were on Thursday sacked by the Supreme Court. The court handed down the decision...
Waidi Soremi, a 25 years old with two of his friends have been apprehended for allegedly stealing the head of a dead neighbor, Taiwo Mesioye. The...
The trial of Omoyele Sowore and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, will now commence on March 11 to March 13, 2020. The trial which was to kick...
500 Startups, a San Francisco based seed accelerator programme company for innovative firms, has listed Nigeria’s Fintech startup Thank U Cash among other international startups to...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has extended the designation of global health emergency earlier declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the outbreak of the...
The death toll arising from the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in China which has fast spread across the globe has surged past 1,300 with Chinese...
The Lagos State police command has arrested two Chinese men identified as Yang Liang Ming, 41, and Wang Gui-Moi, 45 for allegedly rapi’ng their collegue, Jun...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has declared that Nigerians will remain helpless until the nation’s security system is completely overhauled. CAN made the assertion in...
Governors of the Southeast geopolitical zone and the apex Igbo Sociocultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Wednesday took different positions on how to approach the growing insecurity...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Thursday morning, February 13, 2020 1. Buhari to Borno residents: Boko Haram militants aided by locals...
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday warned security agencies in the country, especially the Police and the Army not to push them into an...
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah has been warned to stop fanning the embers of religious discord over the rising spate of insecurity...
A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, APC Unity Forum, has rejected the leadership of a former Interim National Chairman of the...
Ahead of the burial of parents of leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, in Afara Ukwu, Abia State, on Friday, rights group, Amnesty...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately declare a state of emergency on the security situation in the country. The state...
The President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday told people of Borno State that the Boko Haram insurgents or any of their factions cannot carry out attacks on...
The Nigerian government has discovered about one billion barrels of crude oil in North East part of the country, a minister in charge of the petroleum...
Sporadic gunshots suspected to have been carried out by Boko Haram fighters rocked the Jiddari Polo general area of Maiduguri, Borno State, on Wednesday evening. The...
A crowd of Borno residents on Wednesday booed President Muhammadu Buhari during his visit to Borno State to commiserate with the people over last Sunday attack...
Magistrate Daniel John of the Yola Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of the lawmaker representing Song constituency in the Adamawa State House of Assembly,...
Nigeria women’s basketball team, D’Tigress have climbed three places in the world ranking to sit as 14th best in the world. The rankings were released by...
The Director of Finance and Administration, National Examination Council (NECO), Dr. Jacob Ekele, said on Wednesday the body conducted examinations for students in 19 states on...
The Presidency on Wednesday dismissed as malicious, report that President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, Zahra, has secured employment with the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA). The...
The Nigerian stock market recorded marginal gain for the second consecutive day today on the back of investors’ interest in mid-cap equities. A positive market breadth...
One of Nigeria’s highlife music legends, Sir Victor Olaiya, died on Wednesday in Lagos. The music maestro’s death has sent shock waves across the country with...
The founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba armed militant, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, has been sentenced to a five and a half years jail term by a court in...
Fire on Wednesday razed a section of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) headquarters in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos and destroyed some property. However, no casualty was recorded...
The Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, said on Wednesday the Senate Committee on review of the 1999 Constitution would consider recommendations of the 2014 constitutional conference...
The Ogun State Government on Wednesday approved the proposal for the creation of the South West Security Network, Amotekun, in the state. The approval, according to...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed former Super Eagles’ defender and captain Joseph Yobo as assistant coach of the team. The spokesperson for the football...
A police officer was on Wednesday crushed to death by a heavy-duty truck along the Owerri -Okigwe highway in Imo State. The deceased police officer, Paul...
A former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district, Shehu Sani on Wednesday lamented the growing insecurity in the country, saying Nigerians now live in perpetual fear...
The military on Monday intercepted a cache of ammunition hidden in a bag of rice in Moriki, Zamfara state. Military sources said the bag that contained...
The streets of Owerri in Imo State witnessed an overflow of demonstrators under the aegis of the Imo Concerned Citizens Forum who came out in their...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday said that the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan was removed as...
Reigning unified heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua has given his support to fellow Briton, Tyson Fury ahead of the latter’s match with America’s Deontay Wilder. Undefeated...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday landed in Maiduguri, the Borno State Capital for a condolence visit over the massacre of about 30 people in Auno village,...
Reports emanating from Bakali Village, Fika District in the Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, say 16 members of a family were Tuesday afternoon burnt...
The social media space is heated up at the moment after Media personality, Emma Ugolee and singer Etcetera started a conversation about tribalism in the Nigerian...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has joined the fray in demanding for the immediate release of the publisher of an online publication, Cross River Watch, Mr....
Justice Ifeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday went tough against the Federal Government, accusing it of causing the adjustment of the trial...
Comments made by the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Matthew Kukah, has attracted a response from the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, describing it as...
My theory. Boko Haram is an enterprise. The wheel of the war must be kept spinning for the profiteers and racketeers of blood. The insurgency has...
The continuation of the trial of the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore on Wednesday attracted notable names in the nation’s human rights society, including Professor...
Sudanese authorities have given the go ahead to hand over disgraced former President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face genocide and war...
Ahead of their heavyweight boxing rematch billed for upper Saturday, Tyson Fury has insisted that he will knock Deontay Wilder out in two rounds. Both boxers...
Sule Lamido, the Governor of Jigawa State, has expressed his backing for the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, led by Prof. Ango Abdullahi which had described the...
Nigeria lost a mind-blowing sum of N4.57 trillion to oil theft activities in the four years between 2015 and 2018, estimates of the Nigeria Natural Resource...
