The Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris, said on Saturday he would sign the death warrant of anyone convicted for volunteering information to bandits in the state....
The University of Abuja (UniAbuja) is defying calls cessation of academic activities despite a strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) chapter on campus....
The House of Representatives on Friday promised to review the laws and practices restricting press freedom in the country. The Chairman, House Committee on Media and...
The Borno State government has reaffirmed the ban on the use of motorcycles in the state over insecurity. The state government had in 2014 banned the...
The Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja, on Friday adjourned till May 9 the consideration of an additional proof of evidence submitted by the Economic and...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed eight members of a vigilante group and two others at Kakangi and Ungwan Matinja communities of Birnin Gwari local...
As the international community marks the World Press Freedom Day, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) have urged Nigerian authorities...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has issued a weather forecast predicting three days of cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms across the country. This forecast, released earlier...
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has directed all law enforcement agencies, regulators, businesses and stakeholders to begin the full implementation and enforcement of...
A Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, on Thursday, adjourned the N100bn lawsuit filed by indigenes of Okuama community in Ughelli North Local Government...
The Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-corruption Agency has arrested three senior officials of the state government for allegedly recommending illegal migrants to secure Nigerian citizenship....
Police operatives have arrested the suspected mastermind of the March 2022 Abuja-Kaduna train attack, Ibrahim Abdullahi aka Mandi. The Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, disclosed...
The Defence Headquarters claimed on Thursday troops operating in various theatres of operation killed 715 suspected terrorists and rescued 465 hostages in April. The Director of...
Vice-President Kashim Shettima.said on Thursday President Bola Tinubu’s administration would not blame former President Muhammadu Buhari’ government for the current challenges. Shettima, who spoke during the...
The Nigerian military high command, on Thursday, said it had concluded its investigations into the bombing of innocent citizens in Tudun Biri village of Igabi LGA...
A Nigerian court has adjourned the legal proceedings against cryptocurrency exchange Binance and two of its executives on charges of tax evasion and money laundering. The...
The University of Abuja branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has embarked on an indefinite strike to draw attention to developments bordering the...
Nigeria’s Minister of Works, David Umahi, has refuted claims in some quarters that the ongoing rehabilitation of the Eleme section of the East-West Road in Rivers...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has declared May 30 as a sit-at-home day across the South-East to mark heroes who died during the Nigeria/Biafra civil...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and celebrity barman, Pascal Okechukwu, popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest, have agreed to settle a Naira abuse charge...
The non-remittance of about N75 billion pension contributions by organisations in Kano State has become a source of worry for the state chapter of the Nigeria...
The Federal Government has promised to compensate families of victims in last weekend’s gas explosion in Ogun State. Some people were killed when a Compressed Natural...
The Lagos State government has discovered 86 partitioned rooms under the Dolphin Estate Bridge in the Ikoyi area of the state. The state’s Commissioner for Environment...
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to address the harassment and exploitation faced by workers in the informal economic sector. The...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) former Deputy National Chairman, South-West, Chief Bode George, and other leaders of the party in Lagos State met on Wednesday to...
The Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has set up a committee to work out modalities for the implementation of a new minimum wage for workers in...
The House of Representatives Committees on Petroleum Resources (Downstream and Midstream) on Wednesday asked security agencies to clamp down on fuel marketers hoarding petrol and causing...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has given the Federal Government till the end of this month to finalise the process of the implementation of the new...
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday promised better living and working conditions for Nigerian workers. In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity,...
In a move aimed at addressing a potential hurdle for the 700km Lagos-Calabar highway project, the Nigerian government announced the commencement of compensation payments to affected...
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Joe Ajaero, has stressed that the Federal Government’s announced pay rise for civil servants is mischievous, noting that...
As the recent fuel scarcity being experienced in the country continues to bite hard, Nigerians have dug up a 30-year-old video of a lady complaining bitterly...
The VisaGuide’s World Passport Index has ranked the Nigerian passport 191 out of 199 countries, making it the 10th worst travel document worldwide and the fourth...
In another high-profile case, Changpeng Zhao, founder of cryptocurrency firm Binance has been sentenced to four months in US prison after pleading guilty to money laundering...
Governors of the South-South states on Tuesday met in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, and deliberated on issues affecting the region. They came together under the auspices of...
The Federal Government has approved a salary increase of between 25 percent and 35 percent for civil servants on the remaining six Consolidated Salary Structures. The...
The Senate on Tuesday adjourned plenary till May 7 to allow for further refurbishment of its chamber. The Red Chamber resumed on Tuesday after the Easter...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, arraigned a former commissioner for finance in Kwara State, Ademola Banu, at the Federal High Court, Ilorin,...
Men of the Naval Security Station (NSS) 023 have rescued more than 250 passengers aboard a capsised passenger boat along Cawthorne Channel in Rivers State. The...
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has dismissed reports on the shooting of supporters of former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, at its headquarters on...
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja, last week, granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) an interim order to freeze 1,146 bank...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday outlined his administration’s vision to transform Nigeria’s economy, reducing its dependence on fossil fuels while maximizing revenue from the oil...
Nigeria’s House of Representatives, on Monday, charged the electricity industry regulator, Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to halt the implementation of the newly increased electricity tariff....
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed May 30 to rule on an application for the bail of the detained President of Miyetti...
There seem not to be an end in sight in the battle for tbe soul of oil rich Rivers State, as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...
Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, has vowed to hunt down perpetrators of Sunday night attacks in the Ugwuijoro Nimbo community of Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has launched a scathing critique of the Federal Government’s recent decision to increase electricity tariffs, alleging that the move is a...