Authorities in France closed 76 mosques and deported 66 migrants in the country suspected of “separatism”. This was announced in a statement on Thursday by the...
In a bid to proffer solution to the challenges of pension administration in Nigeria, the Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated 16 members of the National...
Runaway former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), who jumped bail, Abdulrasheed Maina was in court on Friday to face his alleged corruption...
A female soldier identified simply as Mamman H, attached to the Letmuck Barracks in Ibadan, Oyo State, has been caught on video beating up a physically...
The House of Representatives has invited Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance, budget and national...
Former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, has called President Muhammadu Buhari a failure who should resign and beg Nigerians for forgiveness. According to him, Buhari has...
The United Nations (UN) has informed that no fewer than 22 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo are facing acute food shortage, in a...
The Nigerian Senate has warned that failure by the Federal Government to administer COVID-19 vaccines to its citizens may lead to other countries imposing travel ban...
Forty-eight families of the slain Borno farmers were on Thursday compensated with N600,000 each by the state government. No fewer than 48 farmers on Saturday were...
Nigeria incurs $12 billion in post-harvest loss every year in its agriculture industry on account of poor transportation system and storage infrastructures among other factors, the...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has recorded the highest positive cases of Covid-19 thus far with no fewer than 123 patients testing positive for the deadly...
A member of a vigilante group in the Urhokosa/Obagie community of Edo State, has been killed in a shootout between the group and armed kidnappers on...
The trial of Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) continued on Thursday at the Federal High Court, Abuja presided over...
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has reacted to the gruesome murder of 43 rice farmers at Koshebe village in Borno State by marauding Boko Haram...
Three suspected attackers of the Christian Universal Church International, Port Harcourt, believed to belong to the father of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, were on...
A former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, on Thursday began his defence in the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) scam trial before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the...
The Nigeria police has ordered for an urgent probe of the police suit to stop investigation into the allegations against officers of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you. 1. 343 fresh COVID-19 cases take Nigeria’s total to 68,303. Deaths, recoveries updated Nigeria on Thursday...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dare Adeleke, has accused a former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose of working for the National Leader...
Nigeria on Thursday recorded 343 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which disclosed this on its Twitter handle, said the new COVID-19...
The presidency on Thursday described as fake news reports that former Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, paid N12.5 million into the personal account of President Muhammadu...
The House of Representatives on Thursday resolved to summon the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and his Foreign Affairs counterpart, Geoffrey...
A former Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, said on Thursday the statement credited to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai,...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday urged countries in Africa to comply with tenets of multi-party democracy. Buhari, according to a statement issued by his Special Adviser...
Trading in the equity segment of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday ended in the negative as sell pressure on blue-chip stocks led by GTB,...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday asked Nigerians to hold President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) responsible for the killings...
The House of Representatives said on Thursday President Muhammadu Buhari may address the lawmakers on the country’s security challenges on December 10. The House Spokesman, Benjamin...
Lagos State government on Thursday presented cheques of N60 million to families of six police officers killed during the violence that trailed the #EndSARS protest in...
The debate on the Ogun State 2021 budget proposal scaled second reading on the floor of the state House of Assembly on Thursday. The state governor,...
The Federal Government on Thursday described as cheap and irresponsible, the call for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over last weekend’s killing of farmers by...
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday gave the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) 91 days to provide reports on its...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned 12 persons and two entities at the Federal High Court, Lagos, for alleged illegal oil deal....
The Nigerian government has come under intense criticism on social media for a number of reasons, especially concerning the latest developments surrounding the #EndSARS protest of...
Emeka Ojukwu, son of the late Biafra warlord, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, on Thursday declared his intention to vie for the Anambra State governorship seat in 2021. In...
Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT, alleged to have stolen from the pension fund, has been extradited to Nigeria from Niamey,...
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola on Thursday held a closed-door meeting with the former interim chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande,...
Just when it appeared that the dust had settled on claims that former President Goodluck Jonathan left an empty treasury in 2015, top lawmaker in the...
Comedian, Debo Adebayo aka Mr Macaroni has lamented the spate of insecurity in the country and has advised his fans and Nigerians in general on how...
Gabriel Ofoma is now a happy man after the Independent Investigative Panel on allegations of Human Rights Violations by the defunct SARS and other units of...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has told Nigerians not to be discouraged by the recent attack by Boko Haram in which 43 rice farmers were massacred. This...
The trial of Jide Omokore over alleged N1.6 billion oil fraud was on Thursday, December 3, adjourned till February 22, 2021 by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has on Thursday, granted the request by Adeola Adedipe, a defence lawyer in the trial of former Chairman of the...
Twitter, a US owned micro-blogging platform Wednesday expanded its policy on hate speech to include race and ethnicity. Twitter in a statement said hate speech includes...
The Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo has discharged and acquitted the nurse who was accused of killing a former Osun State governor, Isiaka Adeleke,...
These latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. CcHub launches investment to support African startups Lagos-based Co-Creation Hub (CcHub)...
Senator Ibrahim Shekarau has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of breaking the law by still retaining his service chiefs. Shekarau, a former Education Minister, stated this when...
The Akwa Ibom State government has cancelled the staging of this year’s Christmas Carol festival to stem the spread of the deadly Covid-19 disease. This was...
Operations at the Arik Air company were on Thursday grounded by the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) over poor working conditions. Arik Air workers...
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has once again berated President Muhammadu Buhari over the spate of killings and insecurity being witnessed across the country. NEF expressed...
The Chairman of the Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency (BASPHCDA), Rilwanu Mohammed, says 19 people have died of Lassa fever disease in Toro and...
