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...
The Abia State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has waved aside allegations that Senator representing Abia Central, Senator Theodore Orji and his son, Chinedum...
On a hot afternoon, news filtered into the town of Dapchi, that the government had succeeded in securing the release of some female students who had...
Africa is facing a serious lead poisoning problem. In Senegal, for example, researchers linked the deaths of children from processing lead waste to supply a lead...
Nigeria was recently in the spotlight when the Oxford English Dictionary announced that its January 2020 update included 29 Nigerian English words. The reception, in both...
Two communities bordering Chibok came under Boko Haram attack on Tuesday evening, as the terrorists burned houses in the communities located just six kilometres from the...
The United Nations in a joint report with the World Health Organization and the Lancet medical journal has warned that poor diet and climate change pose...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Wednesday morning. 1. Buhari vows to secure release of Leah Sharibu, other Boko Haram captives President...
China’s health authorities in latest update concerning the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus which has fast spread across the world have revealed that infections is nearing...
A 60-year-old man, Muyiwa Olutayo has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zone for smuggling in a substance believed to be...
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier-General Ibrahim Shuaibu has tasked all state coordinators on the safety and welfare of corps members during the...
The United States of America ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, has revealed when the visa ban recently imposed by President Donald Trump on six countries...
Kidnappers operating in Kogi State struck again on Tuesday in the Itobe/Ajegu community in Ofu Local Government Area of the state, abducting 12 persons. This was...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan has informed that he has received reports of security threat to the assembly complex urging security agencies to...
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, said on Tuesday corruption is more deadly than cancer, the Ebola Virus Disease...
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Melee Kyari, said on Tuesday Nigeria lost about $750 million to oil theft in 2019....
The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday picked March 17 for hearing in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s alleged corruption trial. The Israeli PM has been indicted for...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said the results of the mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held on Tuesday would be ready within...
The Zamfara State House of Assembly on Tuesday set up an ad hoc committee to probe the alleged N2billion contract scam levelled against the immediate past...
Some unidentified persons on Monday evening killed an Assistant Director attached to the State House, Abuja, Laetitia Naankang Dagan. Dagan was killed in her apartment located...