Gunmen suspected to herdsmen reportedly killed six people in two communities of Ushongo Local Government Area of Benue State on Sunday night. An eyewitness told journalists...
President Bola Tinubu on Monday returned to the country after participating in the African Union meeting in Kenya. The president left for the East African country...
The Federal Government has confirmed cases of anthrax among some farm animals in Niger State. Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by the spore-forming bacteria, Bacillus...
The Kano State House of Assembly has approved Governor Abba Kabir-Yusuf’s request for the appointment of 20 Special Advisers in the state. The Speaker of the...
Gunmen on Sunday abducted two persons at the Mpape area of the Federal Capital Territory. An eyewitness told journalists on Monday the hoodlums stormed the community...
Troops of the 192 Battalion Nigerian Army within the 81 Division Area of Responsibility on Saturday arrested two suspected members of an international ammunition smuggling syndicate...
Kenneth Okonkwo, a renowned actor and frontline member of the Labour Party, LP, has criticised plans by the Federal Government to pay poor Nigerian households N8,000...
Two Kano-bound flights were diverted by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to Lagos as a result of unserviceable runway lighting at the Kano airport....
In light of his 89th birthday festivities, Prof. Wole Soyinka made three requests of the Federal Government on Sunday, including that security services reopen outstanding cases...
The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has raised the alarm over the plan to further increase electricity tariffs by the Distribution Companies (DISCOs), describing the move as...
The Zamfara State Police Command on Sunday promised to investigate the arrest and detention of the driver of the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman in the...
The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, on Sunday, ordered the suspension of the ongoing Egungun festival over violence, arson and looting of shops in the...
The Nigerian Navy has intercepted a boat laden with suspected stolen crude in Bayelsa State. The Commander of the NNS SOROH, Commodore Olushina Ojebode, who disclosed...
The Senate on Sunday dismissed claims on the padding of the 2022 supplementary budget by N70 billion. The upper legislative chamber was reacting to the backlash...
The House of Representatives will screen the recently appointed service chiefs on Monday. The exercise will take player 72 hours after the Senate confirmed the appointment...
The Labour Party governorship candidate in Enugu State, Chijioke Edoga, on Sunday closed his case in the petition challenging Governor Peter Mbah’s victory in the March...
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in Cross River on Sunday embarked on an indefinite strike over the abduction of its members in the state. The victim,...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended 28 judges for appointment in the Federal High Courts and Sharia Courts of Appeal in Kaduna and Kano States....
The minimum wage of civil servants in Imo State have been increased to N40,000 by the state governor, Hope Uzodimma. Uzodimma announced the increase on Saturday...
The Lagos State Government, on Saturday, announced that the Eko Bridge at the recently reopened Apongbon Bridge area will be closed for 24 hours on Sunday,...
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams, has reacted to a threat by self-proclaimed Prime Minister of Biafran Republic Government In Exile, Simon Ekpa,...
An insurance broker resident in Lagos, Olayiwola Rotimi Inyang has accused the Lagos State Government and his former employers, FGB General Insurance Limited, an arm of...
International humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation, Doctors Without Borders has raised the alarm over a growing malnutrition crisis in North-West, warning that the current humanitarian response has...
Civil servants in Plateau State have called off a two-month old strike they embarked upon following government’s failure to meet their demands which included payment of...
President Bola Ahmes Tinubu is scheduled to leave Abuja on Saturday for Nairobi, Kenya to attend the Fifth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of the African Union, the...
An FT7-NI fighter jet belonging to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), on Friday, crashed in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, The PUNCH has reported. Though details...
The Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Omon’Oba N’Edo Uku’Akpolokpolo Ewuare II, on Friday, paid a visit to President Bola Tinubu at the State House, Abuja....
Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, on Friday, charged wives of the 36 state governors to use their positions meaningfully. Mrs Tinubu, who gave the charge when...
Prospective corps members of the 2023 Batch B Stream One of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have been warned against violating the rules and regulations...
Outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has called on the Nigerian government to release its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, as that would signal an end to...
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has filed a motion at a Federal High Court in Abuja asking the court to set aside its May 10, 2023...
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has petitioned the European Union, the President of the United States of America, the French...
The Nigerian Senate, on Thursday, confirmed the appointment of Service Chiefs as anominated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Senate made the confirmation after the consideration...
The House of Representatives, during plenary on Thursday, resolved to carry out a probe into the circumstances that led to the difficulties faced by Nigerian pilgrims...
The suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele has been charged to court, the Department of State Services (DSS) claimed on Thursday....
Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared a state of emergency on food security, appeoving that all matters pertaining to food and water availability and affordability,...
Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, dismissed a suit brought before him by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra...
It has been disclosed that not fewer than 600 members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), ATBU, Bauchi branch were not paid their salaries...
A Federal Capital Territory High Court, on Thursday, gave the Department of State Security Service (DSS) one week to either prosecute suspended Central Bank of Nigeria...
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Thursday, condemned the current sit-at-home order being observed in the South-East. However, Obi exonerated the Indigenous...
An Igbo youth group under the aegies of the Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL), has lampooned former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode over a recent...
The Federal High Court, Akure, on Wednesday, adjourned the trial of four suspects arrested for impersonation and examination malpractices during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)...
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday promised to come up with palliatives to cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal on Nigerians. The president had earlier...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday asked the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to extend the validity of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results...
Troops of the 3 Division Nigerian Army deployed to quell the crisis in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State on Wednesday killed three suspected bandits...
The Senate on Wednesday urged the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC), Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to embark on nationwide vaccination of livestock...
President Bola Tinubu has requested the National Assembly’s approval of N500 billion for palliatives to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal on Nigerians. The president...
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday met with “The class of 1999 governors” at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The ex-governors on the trip to the seat of...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday resolved to intervene in the dispute between the country’s women’s national soccer team, the Super Falcons, and the Nigeria Football...
The Taraba House of Assembly has confirmed the 21 commissioner nominees forwarded to the lawmakers by Governor Agbu Kefas. The Chairman of the House Committee on...
