10 Turkish sailors who were kidnapped three weeks ago onboard a cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria in the troubled Niger Delta have been released....
We can’t achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement without managing emissions from land use, according to a special report released today by the Intergovernmental...
The U.S. has announced an economic embargo on Venezuela, intended to put an end to President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian regime. In an Aug. 5 executive order,...
The peerless novelist and cultural commentator Toni Morrison, who has died aged 88, never accepted the received wisdom about anything. In a writing career that spanned...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Saturday said Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE had destroyed a Boko Haram Terrorists’ (BHT) Command and Control...
The Nigerian Army on Saturday announced that a soldier that killed a commercial bike (okada) rider in Abia State few days ago has been arrested. A...
The management of Bayero University Kano (BUK) has expelled Over 24 final year students for falsification of their entry qualifications. The spokesperson for the university, Malam...
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Enugu State chapter and the Northern Leaders, Livestock and Perishable Goods Market, have both announced the closure...
The media space, weekend, has been awash with stories of Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s call for scrapping of the zoning system, a political philosophy adopted by most...
Patrick Crusius, the 21-year-old arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of 20 people and wounding 26 others at a packed shopping area in El Paso,...
The President of Chad, Idriss Deby, has raised the alarm over a communal clash in the eastern part of the country which has thus far claimed...
The major opposition party in Kogi State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described the state lawmakers as worse than “bootlickers”. It said they were “cheap...
The African Action Alliance (AAC) has stated its reason for the expulsion of its National Chairman, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, from its fold among other issues. According...
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, presided over by Justice A. T. Mohammed, has convicted 12 fraudsters for illegal dealing in petroleum...
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to the re-arrest of Uyi Giwa-Osagie, Atiku Abubakar’s lawyer and his son-in-law, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Saturday morning. 1. Sowore fights back, challenges detention order Not backing down, the presidential candidate of...
A murder suspect, Oladosu Nureni, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing two residents of Iwoye Village, Ilaro. The police said...
The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives, on Friday, called on the Federal Government to set up a judicial commission o enquiry to investigate the...
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, has ordered the All Progressives Congress, APC to put on hold, its plan to hold...
Residents of Umuagu area of Asaba,the Delta State woke up Friday morning to discover the body of an unidentified man hanging in front of a shop...
Not backing down, the presidential candidate of the African Action Alliance in the February 2019 general elections, Omoyele Sowore, Friday applied to the Federal High Court...
Commercial drivers have blocked both lanes of the Kaduna-Abuja highway in protest. Motorists were on Friday trapped for hours on the Kaduna-Abuja highway as drivers of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the arrest of lawyer and son-in-law to its presidential candidate in the last election, Atiku Abubakar, by the...
APC Justice Forum/Buhari Support Group in Kogi State, a self-acclaimed “arm” of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has condemned what it described as “the purported”...
Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s arrest of lawyer, and son-in-law to presidential candidate...
What looked like a drama occurred on Friday in Cross Rivers state as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, sacked the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the...
Former governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, has denied claims that he is involved in an alleged N9.9 billion fraud levelled against him by the Economic...
A former Imo Chief of Staff and governorship candidate of Action Alliance (AA) in the State in the last election, Uche Nwosu, on Friday said that...
Zimbawe’s Minister of Tourism, Prisca Mupfumira has been sacked and also charged to court over the disappearance of $94 million pension fund from the state’s National...
At least 16 persons have reportedly died following an outbreak of yellow fever virus in Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State. Many others are also...
A fresh round of political crisis is brewing within the ranks of the African Action Alliance (AAC) as the party has reportedly moved to expel its...
Justice Chuka Obiozor of a Federal High Court in Lagos has granted a bail of N1billion to a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission...
Girls in Ondo state are now expected to defend themselves against rapists as the state governor’s wife; Mrs Betty Akeredolu has employed the services of Taekwondo...
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Abia state chapter on Friday issued a seven-day ultimatum to the state government over unpaid arrears of workers’ salaries in the state....
There are indications that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will arraign Mr. Uyiekpen Giwa-Osagie, a lawyer to the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, in...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the All Progressives Congress (APC) to suspend plans towards adopting an indirect primary for the nomination of its...
The Federal Government through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund has set aside N4.9 billion for Book Development Fund, which is to enhance academic publications across universities...
Revolutions come in different format and in whatever format it comes the status quo takes it very seriously because of its potentials of massive upheaval. We...
Abia State governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has said that his government was going to do everything possible to ensure a Nigerian soldier who murdered a commercial motorcyclist,...
Eccentric former President of the Performing Musicians Employers Association of Nigeria (PMAN), Charly Boy has taken a dig at the current living standards in Nigeria. The...
Facebook has lost its appeal that its facial recognition technology did not invade the privacy of its users located in Illinois, United States, leaving the company...
The arrest of three Congolese doctors over the murder of a World Health Organisation (WHO), medic has been confirmed by a military prosecutor. According to Senior...
The police in Mexico are now on the hunt for the masterminds behind the dead bodies of 19 people found in three different locations, including some...
The chairman, Free El-Zakzaky campaign organisation of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) Sheikh Abubakar, on Thursday, said Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky is a man of integrity, unlike...
Investors in the nation’s stock market recorded a slight gain of N7 billion on Thursday as the market capitalisation of equities increased to N13.365 trillion from...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday said it has secured the conviction and sentencing of Adetunji Abudu, a former Managing Director, New Prudential...
All youth group within Rivers State have been proscribed henceforth, following an order by Governor Nyesom Wike. The state governor who gave the order on Thursday...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Department of Security Services (DSS) of having a hand in the alleged forceful seizure of one Abubakar Idris, popularly...
The total assets under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) rose to N9.32tn as of the end of June 2019, Figures obtained from the National Pension Commission...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command on Thursday, paraded 49 criminal suspects who were allegedly terrorizing Abuja community. Information gathered revealed that they were arrested...