The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) Friday announced the death of three of its key members. The immediate past Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbe, is the...
The Anti-kidnap Unit of the Adamawa State Police Command has killed two suspected cattle rustlers and recovered 15 cows, 171 sheep, an AK-47 rifle and some...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday approved the nomination and appointment of the state’s ex-Commissioner for Agriculture, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, as the new Oniru of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday the COVID-19 cases in Africa were 168,464 as at June 5. The WHO Regional Office for Africa in...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reappointment of Umar Danbatta as the Executive Vice-Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The Minister of Communications and Digital...
The Delta State government on Friday appointed the state’s COVID-19 index case, Chief Austin Eruotor, as ambassador to champion the fight against the pandemic in the...
The management of Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Ondo State, on Friday dismissed a report that a staff of the institution had...
The last trading session for this week closed on a negative note Friday as sell pressure on the stocks of two of the most capitalised companies...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tunji Bello, on Friday called for stimulation of action to conserve the state’s biological diversity. Bello, who...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, said on Friday he would engage Speakers of State Houses of Assembly on domestication of laws against...
The presidency on Friday confirmed the nomination of former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala by President Muhammadu Buhari for the position of Director-General of the...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said on Friday the home treatment of COVID-19 patients would begin in the next two to three...
The Ogun State Police Command said on Friday that a 17-year-old girl, Seun Adekunle, and her 25-year-old boyfriend, Basit Olasunkanmi, had been arrested for allegedly faking...
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday reaffirmed the powers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister political parties. The...
Police in Zamfara has refuted media reports that bandits killed about 120 persons in recent attacks in the state. The police said through the state Police...
TV personality and winner of the fifth edition of the Big Brother Africa (BBA) reality TV show, Uti Nwachukwu has filed a petition with the Inspector...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has declared that 42 per cent of the respondents it surveyed in its newly released COVID-19 Impact Monitoring report were...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday observed Juma’at with other worshippers inside the Aso Rock Mosque. However, it was observed, that while other worshippers used face masks,...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Nigeria’s OjaExpress enters Techstars Kansas City accelerator OjaExpress, a Nigerian...
The Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, has threatened to go hard on suspects found guilty of rape in the state by declaring that his...
The efforts by Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi to probe an alleged N2 billion agric loan fraud involving the Former Secretary to the State Government (SSG),...
Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Professor Wole Soyinka had no basis to criticize President Muhammadu Buhari. He described Buhari...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, again on Friday, insisted that the state was free from the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic, just as he lifted the ‘absolute lockdown’...
The Bayelsa State government has announced the death of another COVID-19 patient bringing the number of lives lost in the state to the deadly virus to...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has called on security operatives to act proactively over warning signals’ of violence and acrimony observed ahead the forthcoming Edo...
The career earnings of Juventus and Portugal forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, have hit the billion dollar mark, according to media company, Forbes. The 35-year-old was said to...
The World Athletics has included next May’s World Relays as one of the qualifying events for the Tokyo Olympics billed to hold next year. This has...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced Governor Obaseki, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and four others as aspirants for the party’s governorship ticket. The party said the...
Oil prices advanced further on Friday as traders expect signals from a conference that could hold this weekend among key oil producing countries to consider the...
The Kwara State House of Assembly on Thursday called on the state government to handover a former governor of the state, Abdulfattah Ahmed to the Economic...
Nigeria’s former Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been nominated as the next Director General of the World Trade Organisation...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Thursday led some senators to the home of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, who just returned from Kuje...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will auction treasury bills worth N821.797 billion with varying tenors in the third quarter of this year, its issue programme...
Professor Wole Soyinka on Thursday said he did not believe that President Muhammadu Buhari or anybody was in charge in Aso Rock. The Nobel laureate stated...
The President of the United States of America (USA) Donald Trump has been sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over allegations that police on...
The President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta has moved to reorganise his government which has seen him also strip his deputy, William Ruto of his power sharing...
The Nigerian government has declared that a new initiative named Green Imperative valued at $1.2 billion, under the Nigeria-Brazil Bilateral Agriculture Development Programme, will revolutionise the...
Former Big Brother Africa (BBA) reality show, Season Five winner, Uti Nwachukwu has threatened to drag a Twitter user who accused him of raping her sometime...
Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance and Chair of the Gavi Board, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-iweala, has commended a pledge of $1.6 billion by the Bill and Melinda...
Public officials, including cabinet members, in Gombe State are being tested for COVID-19, following the death of Shuaibu Danlami, a director of special services and Secretary...
A Managing Director (MD) of a micro finance bank, Belema Abibo was on Thursday arraigned and remanded in custody over an alleged N100 million scam. Abibo...
Troops of the Nigerian Airforce on ground have been ordered to locate and neutralise all bandits taking refuge in Katsina State and to also submit weekly...
The board of governors of Africa’s biggest multilateral lender, African Development Bank (AfDB), plans to commission a fair-minded personality of global repute to carry out an...
The Katsina State government has approved the reopening of no fewer than 15 major weekly markets across the state which were hitherto closed because of the...
Nigerian Government on Thursday announced a new date for the completion of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and Second Niger Bridge. The Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola, who...
The Kano State government led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has recorded one death arising from COVID-19 infection and the discharge of 41 patients who have recovered...
The World Coalition Against Death Penalty and the Human Rights Law Service have called on countries all over the world to impose a moratorium on the...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you this Friday morning. 1. 350 new cases of COVID-19 take Nigeria’s total to 11516; deaths now...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday night confirmed 350 fresh COVID-19 cases in the country. The NCDC said in its daily update on...
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Thursday, relaxed the COVID-19 lockdown in the state. In a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Ismail Omipidan, the...