The Nigerian Army says it has apprehended soldiers who brutalized a physically challenged man on a wheelchair because he put on camouflage clothing. Recall that a...
Rescue operatives are battling to save the lives of at least 13 passengers who were among passengers that drowned while aboard a boat sailing from Malaysia...
The National Working Committee (NWC) chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has described the police panel that investigated the Rivers state rerun...
After three consecutive negative trading sessions, Nigerian equities broke through the bears’ cordon on Wednesday with a marginal gain of N5 billion. The breather was largely...
Today, February 9, 2017 appears to be fortuitous in many more ways than one. Coincidentally, on this day, the country is contending with the health concerns...
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who recently made it clear he does not tell lies, has asked Nigerians to stop demanding for updates...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has extended by three months the acting tenure of Walter Onnoghen as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and has officially written...
The 11th witness testifying against Justice Adeniyi Ademola, on Wednesday brought before the Federal High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Matiama, Abuja bags of local...
Operatives of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) have been barred from erecting checkpoints at major streets in Kaduna and other urban centres by the State...
A leaked info by an anonymous White House aide reveals that US President Donald Trump wants the hand towels changed on Air Force One ‘because they...
Troubled former governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shema, has blamed incumbent governor of the state, Aminu Masari, for masterminding a failed abduction attempt on his person...
Apparently in its efforts to ensure Senate President Bukola Saraki does not go unscathed in his trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) in Abuja,...
In the absence of President Muhammad’s Buhari, the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday presided over the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting. The meeting which held...
There are strong indications that the Senate may cut short its budget defense to act on the issue of naming a substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria...
A 35-year-old woman identified as Dalya Saeed has appeared before a UK court after she was accused of stabbing her estranged husband Bilal Miah, 31, with...
The proposed funding of the $50 billion Biofuel Industry Equity Fund (BIEF) for Nigeria by government agencies and parastatals has, generated some disagreements between the Minister...
By Dr. Peregrino Brimah… The Special Adviser to the Nigerian President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina in his recent media conversations relating to the...
The Senate on Wednesday directed Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, to withdraw the statement he made that the National Assembly was frustrating construction of the Lagos-Ibadan...
The National Assembly (NASS)’yesterday queried the utilisation of N2.74 trillion invested in the nation’s power sector from 1999-2015, saying the sector depreciated increasingly, despite the huge...
Investors in the nation’s power sector have called for the settlement of N50 billion owed them, while also calling for the introduction of a realistic tariff...
The Ekiti State House of Assembly has asked the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to immediately arrest the former governor of the state and present...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) says it has consficated 62 houses belonging to one female public officer. According to the commission’s...
Social media giants Twitter has more worries to contend with as its VP of diversity and inclusion Jeffrey Siminoff is leaving the company at the end...
Kano State Second Republic politician, Dr Junaid Mohammed, has hit hard on Kano State Emir, Mallam Muhammad Sanusi II, describing him as a man that speaks...
Following a fourth-place finish of the Black Stars at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, the Ghana Football Association and coach Avram Grant have parted ways...
The Nigerian government has revealed that no less than 116 Nigerians have lost their lives in xenophobic attacks in South Africa, within the last two years....
The travel ban signed into law by President Donald Trump is being investigated by a US appeals court which is now questioning whether the ban unfairly...
African countries, under the aegis of African Union (AU), have agreed to empanel a trade negotiation talk to promote multi lateral relations in line with demand...
Lagos based constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) has described the EFCC allegation that his confiscated N75million was proceeds of money laundering,...
Authorities in Australia have arrested a teenage couple for plotting terror attacks in the capital of Sydney in charges that carry a maximum penalty of life...
Rivers government has declared as “patently false”, the claim by the Nigerian Police that Governor Nyesom Wike allegedly spent N111million to bribe Independent National Electoral Commission...
The latest streak of downtrend at the Nigerian stock market extended to the third consecutive trading session on Tuesday, raising the negative average year-to-date return to...
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has appointed Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed, as his new Chief of Staff. In a statement by his Special Adviser (Media...
The story of 18-year-old bomber, Amina, who was given N200 and sent on a suicide mission by Boko Haram, seems to have proffered explanations into how...
That is the question on the lips of virtually every Nigerian at the moment, as President Muhammadu Buhari seems to have become incommunicado to a nation...
Days after saying his claims are hardly laced with lies, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has taken the Minister of Information and Culture , Lai...
The presidency may be bracing up for tougher times as the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Tuesday, joined the growing list of organizations demanding full disclosure on...
The outspoken Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammad Sanusi II, has hit at established tradition of laying more emphasis on erection of mosques in the North, demanding...
By Reuben Abati… The road to Kaduna from Abuja was horrific. I had been told that the journey would take no more than one and a...
Two French investigating magistrates have decided that former French President Nicolas Sarkozy should stand trial for alleged illegal financing of election expenses during his 2012 campaign....
Barring any unforeseen development, Nigeria will stop importing refined petroleum products by 2019, so says the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu. Speaking...
The Senate, on Tuesday, came in strong defence of President Muhammadu Buhari and maintained that he has not bridged any section of the constitution by extending...
Ondo State’s Governor Olusegun Mimiko has described the recent removal of the state House of Assembly Speaker, Mrs. Jumoke Akindele as unconstitutional. While noting that the...
The Nigeria Police says it has recovered about N111.3 million from 23 officials of INEC who took part in the Rivers State rerun elections. Pictures have...
Eagle eyed officers of the NSCDC foiled a suicide bomb attack when they intercepted two suspected Boko Haram terrorists in the troubled city of Maiduguri, the...
A Commissioner at the Public Compliant Commission in Benue State, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav yesterday expressed disappointment with the Presidency for ‘not telling the truth’ about President...
Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State on Tuesday sacked 10 out of his 16 commissioners and retained six. A statement issued by the Secretary to the...
There are indications that most foreign airlines in the country may suspend flight operations to the nation’s capital following government’s decision to close down the Nnamdi...
The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) on Tuesday extended the ban imposed on five Nigerian officials by the Disciplinary Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation...
The long drawn face off between the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over deployment of foreign exchange realized from...
