The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, while speaking at the colloquium to mark the 10th Anniversary of the African Centre for Leadership Strategy...
The National Chairman of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Chekwas Okorie, said on Thursday the party has concluded plans to collapse into the All Progressives Congress...
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, on Thursday held a closed-door meeting with President Mohammed Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. At the meeting, the governor demanded...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arrested Muhammed Audu, a son of the former Governor of Kogi State, late Abubakar Audu, for allegedly...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Thursday called for the resignation of the Accountant- General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris, for alleged gross...
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday sentenced a part-time lecturer at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Mr. Afeez Baruwa, to 21 years imprisonment...
Borno State governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, on Thursday called for the recruitment of at least 100,000 additional soldiers to tackle the Boko Haram insurgency in the...
Thomas Thabane, Prime Minister of Lesotho, who was allegedly involved in the killing of his wife is expected to face a murder charge on Friday. The...
Major Mustapha Jokolo (rtd), a former Emir of Gwandu has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno and...
A bill for the establishment of an agency for the rehabilitation, deradicalisation and integration of repentant Boko Haram insurgents scaled through first reading at the Senate...
The Nasarawa State chapter of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria has announced that it has placed a ban on night grazing in the state...
The Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Amnesty International to stop tagging Nigerian troops as “the bad guys” in their...
The Federal Government on Thursday reacted calls for President Muhammadu Buhari to resign from office in the face of the worsening security situation in the country,...
Talented singer, Brymo, who is known for keeping a relatively low profile on social media, has taken a swipe at his detractors who think he is...
Two buildings in Kaura-Namoda and Sakajiki Local Government areas in Zamfara State suspected to be used as hideouts by cattle rustlers in the state have been...
The Jigawa State government led by Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar has received the sum of $37m in loan to help implement state-integrated rural development projects. This...
Three Wall Street Journal reporters have been expelled by authorities in China for publishing an opinion piece with the headline, ‘China is the Real Sick Man...
An 18th Century crown (thought to be one of just 20 in existence) that had been stolen and then hidden in a flat in the Netherlands...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmed Lawan, on Wednesday insisted that telecommunications service providers in the country refund to subscribers money paid for drop calls....
The Taraba State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has declared that the continued absence of the state Governor, Darius Ishaku, for close to 60...
President Muhammadu Buhari was, last week, booed by some angry residents of Maiduguri – Borno State capital – during his condolence visit to the government and...
The Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji has accused the Otun Olubadan, High Chief Lekan Balogun of blackmailing him to gain sympathy. The Olubadan was reacting...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Thursday morning. 1. JUMBO PAY: Buhari defends federal lawmakers Members of the National Assembly got the...
The last has not been heard of the physical brawl between two Osun monarchs, the Agbowu of Ogbaagba, Oba Dhikirulahi Akinropo and the Oluwo of Iwo,...
Temporary respite came the way of the Emir of Kano, Mohammed Sanusi II, as Justice Suleiman Namallam of the Kano State High Court on Wednesday ordered...
Members of the National Assembly got the most unusual support on Wednesday when President Muhammadu Buhari defended them, saying Nigerians are wrong to think federal lawmakers...
Former Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun and his successor, Dapo Abiodun, on Wednesday tried to outdo each other in order to take full credit for the...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Wednesday described as troubling and suspicious the Federal Government’s release of some Boko Haram insurgents arrested a few years...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, to withdraw from the money laundering trial of a...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Wednesday President Muhammadu Buhari has not fulfill promise his 2015 pre-election promise that all citizens abducted by Boko...
Former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Wednesday sought the support of the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the review of the...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Wednesday called for a one day fasting and prayer session for the return of peace in the state. The one...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 16, 2019 governorship election in Bayelsa State, Chief David Lyon, on Wednesday urged his supporters in the...
The Sokoto State Police Command said on Wednesday it has arrested at least 10 suspected cattle rustlers in the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim...
Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Maitama, on Wednesday, ordered the release of the international passport of a former National Security...
A report released by a Commission put together by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and The Lancet, has ranked Nigeria in the bottom 10 in...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday disassociated itself from the protest at the Abuja home of a Supreme Court justice, Mary Odili. The party’s Deputy...
The federal, states and local governments on Wednesday shared a total of N647.35 billion as revenue allocation for January. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Budget...
Mrs. Rebecca Sharibu, mother of Leah Sharibu, one of the abducted students of the Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, on Wednesday pleaded with the...
Mother of the young man, Davies Daibo, who was said to dived from the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos, into the lagoon has said that her...
The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta has confirmed the death of no fewer than 4 soldiers in an ambush by unknown gunmen...
The Senator representing Gombe South Senatorial district, Amos Bulus, has stated that insecurity in Nigeria cannot be nipped in the bud without checkmating the cartels involved...
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has said that the government is yet to pay the benefits of 547 teachers killed by Boko Haram in the...
Islamic terrorists group, Al-Shabaab, on Wednesday unleased attacks on two military bases in Somalia with the aid of suicide bombs and heavily armed militants. The Al-...
The Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Monday Bubou-Obolo, on Wednesday announced his resignation from the position as number three citizen of the state....
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday replaced Mrs Gbene Joi Nunieh with Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei, as Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is as flawed as Ibrahim Magu, its acting chairman, who has revised the agency to a personality cult. The...
Yasir Mohammed, the son of the District Head of Gayari town in Zamfara State, Alhaji Hassan Mohammed, who was kidnapped alongside his father has been released...
Nigerian rapper and YBNL head honcho Olamide Adedeji popularly known and addressed as Olamide has signed a multi-million naira deal with American record label, music distribution...
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday confirmed the first case of Lassa fever that has killed scores of people in different parts of the country in...