A new report the United Nations Children and Education Fund, UNICEF, has put the cost of violence against children in Nigeria at a staggering N1.42 trillion....
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of deliberately creating tension in the state to scare voters...
The Nigerian Army has approved the postings and appointments of some senior officers in a statement on Thursday. According to a release by the acting Director...
Operators in the telecommunications sector in the country have cried out over what they termed multiple environmental taxes imposed on them by federal and state ministries...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has been chided by the Buhari Media Organisation, BMO, over his scathing criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari, describing it as mere ego...
A clash between loyalists of the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Kaduna on Wednesday left one person dead while several...
The umbrella body of Ijaw youths, Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, has called on politicians not to turn the Niger Delta to a war zone ahead of...
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has some tough words for Governor Rochas Okorocha ahead of the...
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that the Nigerian military is carrying out mass arrest of its members in South South...
A medical practitioner with the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Alagbe Oyedeji, on Tuesday, narrated before the Lagos State Special Offences Court how a 37-year-old commercial...
In a bid to take the fight against fraudulent activities in extractive industry, especially the oil and gas sector, a step further, the Nigeria Extractive Industries...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has taken over assets worth N771 million belonging to oil marketers who underpaid for petroleum products supplied them from the...
A meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and service chiefs on Tuesday has agreed to send more security presence to states with high possibility of violence during...
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has backed the decision of the presidential candidate of thed Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February 23 elections...
The Bayelsa State Government is insisting the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai produce the soldiers who killed Government House photographer, Mr Reginald Dei, and...
Nigerians will no longer be able to access foreign exchange for the importation of any form of textile materials from henceforth, as the Central Bank of...
Sentiments, speculation and rumours have been identified by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, as some of the major determinants of developments in the global...
The Taraba State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has raised the alarm over plans by some politicians to cause mayhem in order to...
Electricity generating companies in the country, GenCos, has identified inaccurate date, government interference and inefficiency as a he major factors responsible for the sorry state...
The nation’s capital market on Monday closed in the positive as Bank stocks on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, rallied to reverse some of the losses...
The Federal Government is again offering for subscription savings bonds with a tenor of two and three years, a circular on Monday from the Debt Management...
A company belonging to the former Chief of Defence Staff, the late Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, Iyalikam Nigeria Limited, has been convicted by a Federal High...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has resolved to approach the United Nations and other global democratic institutions over the alleged roles the Nigerian military played in...
The Secretary to the Government of Federation, Mr Boss Mustafa, had downplayed the tough second term statement of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the tough decisions the...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged the arrest by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of the Deputy Director General (Administration) of the PDP Presidential...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said who becomes the next speaker of the House of Representatives is not his business. Dogara...
Uganda played a 0-0 away draw in Ghana in the opening game of Group E in 2018 World Cup qualifying on Friday. Ghana dominated the game...
If Nigeria must come out of recession and benefit from recent reforms, it must embrace increased structural adjustment, the International Monetary Fund, IMF, has said. The...
Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, has accused western powers of frustrating efforts by the nation in addressing its power challenges. Adeosun, who spoke in...
As concerns keep growing over the fate of 50 Nigerian students being detained in Turkey over allegations of having links with coup plotters who attempted to...
The Deputy National Chairman (South) of the All Progressives Congress, Segun Oni, has said the party was elected to do the impossible. He, however, said Nigerians...
The Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has come to the defence of Fulani herdsmen, saying they are not criminals contrary to the belief of majority...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, has declined the application of Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, seeking his immediate release from detention by the Department of State Services (DSS)....
A clearing agent, Mr. Sikiru Olanrewaju, has lost his life after leaving his wife and children at home to have fun with his girlfriend in the...
The operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Police Command, have reportedly arrested a self-acclaimed Chairman of pickpockets in Oshodi, Lagos, Ibrahim Kasali, and...
The Lagos State Government has told residents not to panic over the heavy rain in the State on Sunday, saying that necessary steps had been taken...
The resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta region and the renewed agitation for the state of Biafra by the South-East are mere reactions to marginalization...
A three-year old boy, Bashir Aliyu, died while three others sustained injuries as a result of windstorm which destroyed several houses at Shuni town in Dange-Shuni...
The Nigerian military has said recent fears over likely federal forces offensive in the Niger Delta were unnecessary as there are no such plans. Chief of...
The Federal Department of Fisheries on Saturday destroyed 15 containers of frozen fish allegedly belonging to a company, Food Solution Nigeria Limited. According to the Deputy...
Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, says the security challenges facing Nigeria have made the development of middle cadre officers on...
ALL Progressives Congress, APC, Woman Leader in Delta State, Dr. (Mrs.) Janet Oyubu, has urged Nigerians to allow President Muhammadu Buhari to work, saying the country...
Indications have emerged that cattle rearers are fleeing Enugu State over fears of a reprisal after a Catholic seminarian was killed during the invasion of Attakwu...
Four months after the abduction of a former Minister of Education, 70-year-old Senator Iyabo Anisulowo, the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, has arrested the...
Troops of 33 Brigade, Nigerian Army, deployed at Forward Operation Base (FOB) Toro, Toro Loca Government Area of Bauchi State, have on Wednesday arrested three suspected...
Abductors of Chief W.G. Watson, the 81-year-old father of a member of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Chief Alfred Watson, have freed him. The lawmaker...
The Federal Government has announced the re-opening of eight satellite prisons in Bauchi State for the North-East. The prisons were earlier shut, due to the wave...
AHEAD of the legislative rerun in Rivers State billed for October, the Peoples Democratic Party has disagreed with the All Progressives Congress in the state over...
STAFFERS of Bendel Feed and Floor Mill, BFFM, Ewu, in Edo State have dragged the management of the company and the Assets Management Company of Nigeria,...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has announced a N5 million reward for anybody with useful information that would lead to the arrest of a former amnesty...