The Lagos State government has ordered an investigation into the report of a student’s dismissal from school over her purported support for the Labour Party’s presidential...
A group of aggrieved women in Rivers State on Wednesday protested the outcome of the February 25 presidential election in the state. The women, who appeared...
The Federal Government has shifted the date for commencement of the 2023 population and housing census to May 2023. The exercise was earlier scheduled to hold...
Nigeria and Israel have commenced collaborative moves to deepen partnership in innovation, entrepreneurship and production with the aim of harnessing Nigeria’s huge potentials for technological development....
Seven Board members for the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related crimes Commission (ICPC) have been sworn in by President Muhammadu Buhari. The swearing-in took place...
Despite litany of criticisms trailing the conduct of the February 25 presidential election, the outgoing British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, has said the process...
A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, on Tuesday, ruled that a lawmaker, Dr Fred Igwe, be remanded in police custody. Igwe was nabbed by security...
A Federal High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State on Tuesday, heard how a former minister of power, Mohammed Wakil and others shared a sum of...
Police operatives in Katsina have arrested a 28-year-old suspected bandit, Suleman Iliyasu, in the state. The suspect, who is also known as “Yar’bushiya,” was paraded before...
The governor of the Gedo region in southwestern Somalia, Ahmed Bulle Gared, was killed in a suicide bombing alongside five others on Tuesday. A senior police...
Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on Tuesday, ordered the state government and the Nigeria Police to pay an Uber driver, Adedotun Clement,...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday launched a $600 million program for young Nigerians in the technology and creative industries. In his address at the event,...
A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Tuesday demanded the removal of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, over...
The National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, on Tuesday confirmed the readiness of security agencies to tackle any potential threat and violence during this weekend’s governorship and...
Nigerians on social media have been talking about Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN’s) latest announcement that the old N200, N500, and N1000 notes remain valid until...
Justice K.A Lewanya of the Imo State High Court, Owerri, on Tuesday, sentenced the state’s former Commissioner for Transport, Laz Anyanwu, to three years imprisonment for...
The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on Tuesday described as a criminal offence the rejection of old Naira notes in the state. The Central Bank of...
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, has cleared the air on his latest visit to the presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo,...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has revealed that it recorded 12.9 million cyberattacks during the elections from within and outside the country. The Minister of Communications...
Political and rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has countered Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State on his claim of not stealing public fund for personal reasons. El-Rufai...
Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq on Tuesday warned marketers as well as citizens in Kwara State against rejecting old naira notes which the Supreme Court had...
The member of the House of Representatives currently representing Bauchi Federal Constituency, Yakubu Shehu Abdullahi has been declared wanted by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) The...
The Accord Party’s House of Assembly candidate for Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Constituency II, Rivers State, Chukwudi Ogbonna, has been reportedly kidnapped. Ifeakachukwu Nwakiri, who identified himself as the...
The Nigerian Army has debunked a trending report that some of its officers and soldiers were involved in serious misconduct and partisanship during the presidential and...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), says Nigeria will not be a party to supporting the trend of legalising cannabis for...
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday urged the people of the state to accept the old N200, N500, and N1000 naira notes. Sanwo-Olu, who...
10 days after it was delivered, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday evening complied with the Supreme Court’s ruling on the old naira notes....
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Monday gave the Federal Government a seven-day ultimatum to address the current naira scarcity in the country. The NLC President,...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has directed the commissioners of police in the states to conclude the investigation on all election-related cases in...
Nigeria has lost N20 trillion to the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) since it started in January 2023. This is according...
A Nigerian man has reportedly died aboard an Indigo flight bound for Doha, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing at the Karachi International Airport...
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has challenged Godwin Emefiele, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, to call commercial banks to order. Despite the Supreme Court...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reportedly directed banks in the country to immediately dispense old notes from customers and also receive same from them....
Over seven months after the opening of the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon on September 13, 2022, which displaced many Nigerians, especially across the North-Central regions, many...
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on Sunday demanded the immediate arrest of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele,...
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday confirmed the discharge of 53 victims of an accident involving a bus and a train in the state....
The Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALCON), Anambra State chapter, on Sunday cautioned opposition parties supporters and leaders against inciting crisis in the state. The...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Saturday killed 23 people and injured several others during attacks on communities in Kankara, Katsina State. The affected communities were...
The Kaduna State police command on Sunday confirmed a fresh attack in the Zangon Kataf local government area of the state. The spokesman for the state...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested 35 persons over the alleged trafficking of various illicit drugs and substances in 12 states across the...
Following the death of one person, Maiunguwar Shata and injuries to 15 other people following alleged attack by suspected political thugs of the ruling All Progressives...
The BBC has been forced into making a public apology to English football fans after its Premier League output went into a freefall as several of...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke, of inconsistency towards the full take-off of the recently established University of Ilesa....
The Abia State Government has threatened to place sanctions on business entities, individuals or groups that reject the old N500 and N1,000 naira notes for transactions...
Nigeria’s political terrain in the past few years has witnessed a pleasant transition with the transformation of several celebrities and Nollywood artists delving into politics, and...
Police operatives in Zamfara have rescued 14 kidnapped victims during a raid on kidnappers’ hideout in the state. The spokesman for the state police command, Muhammad...
Justice Hassan Dikko of the Federal High Court, Bauchi, has sentenced two chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Saleh Gamawa and Aminu...
The Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, on Saturday threatened to order the arrest and prosecution of traders and service providers rejecting the old N500 and N1000...
Despite the ruling of the Supreme Court validating the circulation of old N500 and N1000 notes as legal tender till December 31 of this year, some...
A pandemic-prompted change in working practices has brought about only slight progress for women in senior leadership, according to Grant Thornton’s 2023 International Business Report (IBR)...
