The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Tuesday night confirmed 348 new COVID-19 cases in 18 states of the federation and Abuja. The NCDC said in...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, said on Wednesday the state government had pulled out of its peace agreement with bandits terrorizing the people of the state....
The International Police (INTERPOL) has extended its globalized information platform to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The EFCC spokesman, Mr. Dele Oyewale, who disclosed...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Rabiu Oluwo, said on Wednesday the state government would soon unveil a reform to ensure the reversal of the...
Rights watchdog, Amnesty International Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare rape as a national crisis in the country. The organization said that it joined its...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said on Wednesday at least 17 patients in the state had died from COVID-19-related complications in the...
The Osun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Rafiu Isamotu, on Wednesday confirmed two COVID-19 cases in the state. Isamotu, who disclosed this in a statement in...
A former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has been released from Kuje Custodial Centre, Abuja. Kalu, who was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for...
The ventilators promised Nigeria by United States President, Donald Trump, will arrive in the country in two weeks. The US Embassy which disclosed this in a...
Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Attorney General has moved to increase charges against ex-Minneapolis Police officer, Derek Chauvin who had previously been charge with a third degree murder...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said on Wednesday 20 more COVID-19 patients had been discharged from the state’s isolation facilities following their full recovery from the...
The Senate on Wednesday linked the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, to the alleged misappropriation of funds of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday rejected the Federal Government’s decision to slash the 2020 budgetary allocations for basic healthcare and the Universal Basic Education (UBE),...
A 23-year-old Nigerian writer, Innocent Ilo has emerged the regional winner for the Africa 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He was named the winner for his...
Jigawa State Governor, Badaru Abubakar, on Wednesday extended the directive for workers to work from home by another two weeks. Badaru who disclosed this while briefing...
Justice Lewis Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Kano, on Wednesday set aside the suspension of five members of the Kano State House of Assembly. The...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved a refund of N148billion expended on federal roads to Rivers, Cross River, Ondo, Bayelsa, and Osun states. The...
The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation has taken over the prosecution of the alleged Taraba State kidnapping kingpin, Bala Hamisu, a.k.a Wadume, from the...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, Wednesday asked the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, to stay away from the party’s governorship primary...
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has ordered the immediate suspension of all medical staff of the Ngala general hospital for dereliction of duty. The governor...
The Ekiti State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Mojisola Yahaya-Kolade, said on Wednesday two health workers and three patients had tested positive for COVID-19...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said on Wednesday the commission would continue to adopt and implement measures to mitigate...
The Chairman of the Imo State Task Force Team on COVID-19, Prof. Maurice Iwu, said on Wednesday a three-year-old had tested positive for the virus in...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has vowed to delete the names of its members who would receive appointments from Adamawa State government. The state APC said...
The Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN) has threatened to drag the Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) to court over allegations of lack...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Ventureburn and Techpoint Africa sign intra-continental partnership South Africa-based Ventureburn...
A middle age restaurant owner, David McAtee, has been shot dead on Monday as #BlackLivesMatter protests in Kentucky, USA intensifies. The deceased was killed on Monday...
Former President George W Bush said in a statement on Wednesday that he and wife Laura Bush “are anguished by the brutal suffocation of George Floyd...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday said that rape had become a pandemic in Nigeria. He called for the strenghtening of laws on rape in...
The Kano State Government on Wednesday announced that the COVID-19 lockdown in the state would be relaxed on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays between the hours of...
The federal government of has announced plans to engage community volunteers for COVID-19 in a bid to disseminate more info about the deadly virus. This was...
Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki on Wednesday submitted his expression of interest and nomination forms at the APC national secretariat, Abuja. Speaking to newsmen at the...
The case involving a kidnapping kingpin from Taraba State, Bala Hamisu, also known as Wadume, has been taken over by the Office of the Attorney General...
Another student, Barakat Bello was raped and gruesomly murdered by unidentified men on Monday evening in her parents’ house in Akinyele area of Ibadan, Oyo State....
Another round of violence and killings reportedly broke out in Tudu village in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, on Wednesday, as unknown gunmen killed...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an appeal to three United Nations (UN) special rapporteurs over the Federal Government’s cut in education and health...
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Tuesday, announced a new rise of the nation’s foreign reserves by $2.7bn after long-witnessing major decline for several months. According...
The prices of oil in the international market witnessed a surge on Wednesday, with Brent, Nigeria’s flagship crude grade rising to $40 over continued optimism that...
KOWA party, one of the 74 deregistered political parties in Nigeria has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court. The party is praying for...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Musa Nuhu, on Wednesday, listed five airports where flight operations would resume on June 21. In...
Aggrieved women in Imo State have shut Sterling Global Oil Company for reneging on an alleged agreement to pay for the burial rites of three persons...
The Lagos State government, in a presentation highlighting various implications of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy, has revealed that about N2.3 trillion was cut short...
Thousands of angry protesters have continued to defy curfew imposed across the US to stem wild protests arising from the death of George Floyd, an unarmed...
President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), Defence Headquarters (DHQ) and other security agencies to ensure telecom infrastructures in the...
Reality TV star and former housemate of Big Brother Naija (BBN), Uriel Oputa has launched a search for a husband on Instagram following the launch of...
Protesting residents of Owube community, Ahoada West Local Government Area, Rivers State, marched in their numbers to Government House in Port Harcourt on Tuesday to complain...
Teachers in Anambra State have been warned by the state government to stop forcing it to reopen schools, which have since been closed due to the...
The Secretary to the Nasarawa State Government, Mr. Aliyu Tijani has been recommended for sack by the Nasarawa State House of Assembly. The House called for...
The Bauchi State government has confirmed that Deputy Governor, Baba Tela, has tested positive for the deadly COVID-19 virus which has killed hundreds of people in...
The Federal Government on Tuesday said religious worship centres have been identified as a major potential avenue for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. This it...