In preparation for Tuesday’s trial, the Nigerian government has selected five witnesses to testify against the detained publisher, Omoyele Sowore. The witnesses, comprising investigation officers and...
Minister of environment, Mohammed Mahmood, has said Nigeria was committed to reducing its greenhouse emissions by as much as 45 percent by 2030. Mahmood who spoke...
Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin, has explained that service chiefs were absent from the meeting with the leadership of the House of Representatives due...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Ibrahim Muhammad, has said his administration would not tolerate the disobedience of court orders by government at all levels. The...
Former Anambra State governor and vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 elections, Peter Obi, has said the Minister of Labour and...
The Lagos police command Monday paraded seven dismissed soldiers among 81 other robbery suspects. Apart from robbery, the suspects were also nabbed for other offenses which...
Benue State Deputy Speaker, Chris Adaji, was on Monday sacked by the National/State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi. Adaji was the People’s Democratic Party...
No fewer than 7,000 teachers in public primary and junior secondary schools in Kogi State Monday expressed their plight over non-payment of salaries by the state...
The Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Lagos has upheld the election of Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the duly elected Governor of Lagos State. The tribunal, in...
Emerging reports say that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, have planned a massive protest against President Muhammadu Buhari and his government during the...
Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, one of justices of the Supreme Court accused of corruption in 2016 has returned to the apex court bench. The Justice, who is...
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El Rufai, has enrolled his six-year-old son, Abubakar into a public school. Speaking to newsmen on Monday after enrolling his...
Service Chiefs in the country finally made themselves available before the House of Representatives on Monday to discuss national security issues, after the Speaker of the...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ben Akile, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Benue State. Akile was reportedly kidnapped along Zaki Biam-Katsina-Ala...
The long arm of the law has eventually caught up with a 21-year-old identified as Emmanuel O. Israel for claiming to be the step son of...
Three soldiers have been dismissed by the Nigerian Army in Borno State for alleged involvement in Kidnapping, armed robbery and killings. The soldiers were said to...
The new Operation Positive Identification launched by the Nigerian Army has started yielding fruits as troops of Operation Lafiya Dole battling terrorism in the North East...
Founder and Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare has told all who care to listen that he would succeed Muhammadu Buhari as the 16th...
A Pro-Biafra group, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has described the current ‘travails’ of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as...
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...