The CBN, in what some have labeled an intended ridiculous extortion, in a statement issued through its Payments System Management Department announced that the new policy on cash-based transactions stipulates a cash handling charge on...
There are indications that more retirees in the country have opted for annuity plans with insurance companies in the country as the industry is revealed to...
Nigeria has sent a delegation to the United Kingdom (UK) to find a way of settling the $9.6 billion judgment debt awarded against it. The delegation...
The United Nations has handed Gabon (which is almost 90 percent covered by forest) the sum of $150 million spread over 10-years to fight the devastating...
The Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje has charged the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to ensure that he yanks off all obstacles...
The Minister of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige, on Sunday, offered reasons for non implementation of consequential adjustments in minimum wage negotiated with Nigerian workers. He also...
A week-old baby, stolen in Gombe State, was on Sunday recovered in Lagos State by the police. The Lagos Police Command, which revealed this in a...
Operatives of Ekiti State Police Command, on Sunday, said they had nabbed a woman, Mercy Momoh, who allegedly stole a two-month-old baby boy in Ado-Ekiti. While...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Monday morning 1. Northern leaders insist presidency must remain in north in 2023 Leader of Northern...
Following a threat to report service chiefs to President Muhammadu Buhari over their failure to honour meeting with lawmakers, a northern group, Arewa Citizens for Democracy...
Organised Labour on Sunday said it would not look back on the planned national strike except President Muhammadu Buhari intervenes in the ongoing negotiation process. The...
Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Otunba Gani Adams, on Sunday said OOdua Peoples Congress (OPC) had been empowered to secure the South-west geo-political region of the...
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) said that a total of N28.58 trillion was remitted to the Federation Account between 2012 and 2016, from mineral...
39 Steps was a foreign novel they made us read while in secondary school. The reason they put it in our curriculum till this day beats...
About 36 cows were struck dead by lightening in Ijare area of Idanre, Ifedore local government area of Ondo state. The cows were said to have...
Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has alleged that the Nigeria Police was planning to sweep the murder of Mrs Funke Olakunrin under the carpet. Mrs Olakunrin, the...
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has stated that Nigeria’s democracy under President Muhammadu Buhari was derailing. The bishops said the Buhari administration was lacking in...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called for the arrest of the President of Miyetti Allah, Abdullahi Badejo, for saying that there would not be...
The Lagos State Task Force said it had impounded no fewer than 4,500 motorcycles (okada) from riders, who had defied the states traffic law. Head, Public...
The March 9, 2019 governorship election which brought Governor Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressives Congress (APC) into power has been affirmed by the Governorship Election...
The Caretaker Chairman of Gubio Local Government Area of Borno State, Hon Zanna Modu, has hired special hunters from some parts of Adamawa, Gombe, Katsina and...
Aggrieved ex-militant leaders on Sunday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the management of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), coordinated by Prof. Charles Dokubo They...
Social media giants Facebook has revealed that it has suspended tens of thousands of apps from the platform because of privacy reasons. Facebook did not give...
Relief has come the way of an Iranian identified as Mohammad Shariff Panahandeh after he was released by his captors, four years after being taken captive....
The Peoples Democratic Party Youth Network (PDPYN) in Bayelsa State has reacted to the purported meeting between Governor Seriake Dickson and the Minister of State for...
Leader of Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Prof Ango Abdullahi, on Sunday, said the presidency, must remain in the north beyond 2023. He noted that critical evaluation...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari would be attending the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) empty without any articulated agenda. The...
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has asked the southerners to jettison any hope of producing the next president of Nigeria in 2023. The former minister said...
The Public Accountability Network (PAN) on Sunday called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to probe the activities...
Seven suspected cultists were on Sunday arrested in the Itire area of Lagos State by the men of the Rapid Response Squad of the state police...
No fewer than three children have reportedly died in a flooding that ravaged communities in Warri North council area of Delta state. The children, a girl...
Two people were reportedly Killed on Sunday morning when suspected cattle rustlers attacked Shaforo and Kudumti communities of Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State. According...
Nigerians moving around in the Northeastern part of the country will be required to provide an official means of identification, before they would be allowed passage,...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to Mr Abukabar Malami, SAN, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, over...
The Katsina State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has affirmed Gov. Aminu Masari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the rightful winner of the March 9...
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, on Saturday called for an end to oil importation, urging the federal government to take practical measures to curtail importation...
The seven-count charge slammed against human rights activist, Omoyole Sowore, who is the co-convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, has been condemned by human rights group, Amnesty...
The Abia State All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate, in the 2019 election, Alex Otti has kicked against the tribunal ruling on his petition against...
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Saturday, hinted of plans by the Nigerian Government to set up industrial clusters in nine states...
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has taken the quest for the actualisation of an independent state of Biafra to Japan....
Imo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal on Saturday affirmed the election of Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha. The tribunal dismissed three petitions challenging Governor Ihedioha’s victory...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you this Sunday morning, September 22, 2019. 1. Stop fighting the UN, fix insecurity instead, PDP tells...
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has knocked the President Muhammadu Buhari administration for the fresh charges filed against the detained convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore. The Nigerian...
Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, has granted amnesty to 13 suspected armed bandits that were arrested by security operatives along Kontonkoro axis in Magama Local Government...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to accept the “bitter truth” instead of picking a fight with the United Nation (UN) Rapporteur...
The Kaduna State Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has lauded the decision by the state government to save the 110-year-old St. George Anglican...
Emir of Lafia, Sidi Bage Muhammad I, has urged the Nigerian government to officially recognize Pidgin English as a language in the country. Muhammad, a retired...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Saturday called on the Federal Government to send visitation panels to universities in order to douse tension and...
Candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in the Kogi governorship election, Dabo Dantele Yusuf, has alleged that the results of the November 16 polls have...
The Nigerian Army Saturday said peace had returned to Gajiram community of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, as the police DPO, alongside 100 hunters, returned to...