President Muhammadu Buhari held a closed-door meeting with the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday. The meeting was also...
Police operatives in Akwa Ibom on Wednesday arrested two suspects for allegedly using fake bank alerts to make purchases in the state. The spokesman of the...
The Federal High Court, Uyo, on Wednesday ordered the arrest of the chairman of Communications Trends Limited, Uzoma Udemba, for allegedly showing matches of the English...
The trial of Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, a former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-governmental affairs continued today before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court...
The Benue State government said it has impounded 376 cows from heavily armed herdsmen for violating the state’s anti-open grazing law. The state Deputy Governor, Benson...
The trial of Azeez Fashola, a popular musician also known as Naira Marley continued on Thursday January 27, 2021 with Justice Nicholas Oweibo of a Federal...
Violent clashes between the police and anti-lockdown protesters in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli has left dozens injured and hospitalized. The Lebanese Red Cross in...
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Wednesday said the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has run out of steam in its fight against corruption in the...
Unhappy with the Health Ministry’s lack of specific plan on the local production of COVID-19 vaccine, the National Assembly has asked the ministry to suspend spending...
These latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Kenyan VC Antler invests in two new startups from Nairobi Kenyan...
The Governor Kayode Fayemi-led government of Ekiti State on Wednesday debunked claims that herdsmen fleeing Ondo State are relocating to Ekiti forest. The Maize Growers Processing...
The Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Ikoi Ikpi Itam before Justice S. M. Shuaibu of the Federal...
The Executive Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, had stirred the hornet’s nest penultimate week when he issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Fulanis living as...
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Wednesday said the state has deployed 200 officers of the Oyo State Security Network, otherwise known as Amotekun to...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Wednesday said the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will be passed into law in April. The Speaker...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday inaugurated an 18-member Presidential Steering Committee on Alternate School Programme (ASP) in a move he says will sustain efforts on providing...
The trial of Aisha Alkali Wakil alias ‘Mama Boko Haram’ who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a fresh three...
The Anambra State Police Command has smashed another baby-making factory and child trafficking syndicate operating in the Oraifite community in the state. The State Police Public...
The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu said on Tuesday that a total of 18,360 community policing officers (CPOs) have been recruited, trained and deployed in...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has disbursed a total of N2 trillion through its various intervention programmes, as at January 2021. This was...
The Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) has been shut down with the students ordered to vacate their hostels by Thursday, January 28, following the death of...
Abducted spokesperson of the Nigeria Immigration Service in the Edo State, Bridget Esene, has regained freedom, Edo police disclosed on Tuesday evening. Edo police spokesperson, Chidi...
Six months after overthrowing former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta from power, Mali’s military junta has been officially dissolved, according to a government decree. The decree was...
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has tested positive for COVID-19 after recent test results of most of his close aides returned positive in the...
Cletus Ibeto, a billionaire and businessman from Anambra State has been dragged to court by a 104-year-old woman, Margaret Nwuelo, for alleged land grabbing. The centenarian...
Elders in the Northern part of the country on Wednesday said it was not enough for President Muhammadu Buhari to change the nation’s service chiefs, but...
The death of veteran actor Ernest Asuzu who began his career in the ’90s movie ‘Another Campus Queen’ and later rose to national prominence in 1997...
Yoruba activist and freedom fighter, Sunday Igboho, claims that there are some leaders in Yoruba land who are giving clandestine support to killer herdsmen to perpetrate...
A Yola Magistrate’s Court on Monday ordered seven defendants to restore the health of a three-year-old girl within 24 hours whom they allegedly bewitched with a...
In the past week, in the South Western part of Nigeria, we have been treated to stories of conflicts in Ondo and Oyo States between herdsmen,...
The Ondo State government has declared that herdsmen domiciled in the state have no alternative but to register in compliance with the order issued by Governor...
The Ekiti State Government on Tuesday said it will soon commence the registration of herdsmen operating in the state. The state government also disclosed that identity...
A former Kogi West senator, Dino Melaye, has asked Nigerians not to celebrate the announcement of the new service chiefs yet. President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday...
The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, has warned that failure to investigate the fire outbreak which engulfed the house of Sunday Adeyemo, popularly...
Abuja is under siege. Terror lives and breathes here. Citizens are kidnapped every day from their homes but sadly, some of these tragedies escape outrage and...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Dr Mike Ozekhome has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari for congratulating recently ‘resigned’ service chiefs for their ‘overwhelming achievements’. Ozekhome, a...
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has revealed that efforts are underway to follow up on the insurance cover for frontline health workers that died of the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, January 26, presented two more witnesses who testified in the ongoing trial of Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, a...
The Osun State Police Command on Tuesday said one of the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) involved in the beaten to death of...
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has asked the new service chiefs to reduce insecurity in Nigeria to the barest minimum. The governor also...
Finally, finally, finally, President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Service Chiefs, who, for over two years, had passed their retirement age. More importantly, they had outlived...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you. 1. FG enrolls seven million Nigerians in cash transfer programme The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster...
Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 1,303 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which disclosed this on its Twitter handle, said the new COVID-19...
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, said on Tuesday the Federal Government has enrolled 7, 068, 629 vulnerable Nigerians...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday nominated Mr. Adolphis Aghughu as new Auditor-General of the Federation (AGF). The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly...
The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Tuesday lifted the ban on the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the state. Ikpeazu, who disclosed...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said on Tuesday the state government was exploring opportunities for mutual collaborations with Canada on COVID-19 response...
The total transaction by domestic investors in Nigeria’s stock market stood at N1.43 trillion at the end of 2020, a report has said. The Nigeria Stock...
The Niger State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of four suspects who allegedly vandalized 40 railway tracks in the Bosso local government area of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested eight suspected internet fraudsters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson...
