The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi State, has been shut down after four students died as a metallic bridge at the Gubi Campus collapsed during a...
A commercial bank in Iju town, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, was on Tuesday attacked by suspected armed robbers who killed a female...
President Muhammadu Buhari is set to swear in ministers-designate on Wednesday, 21st of August, 2019. The National Assembly had, last Tuesday, concluded the screening of nominees...
Serena Williams, US tennis superstar, has for the fourth consecutive year topped Forbes magazine’s list of the highest-paid women in sports. Forbes on Tuesday reported that...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, adjourned till Thursday, the 8th of August to rule on an application brought before it by the...
When computer technology made electronic communication possible, the “new media” emerged: email, chat rooms, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and so much more. It looked, perhaps, like...
One of the least enviable tasks of journalists in the US must be reporting on how the public trusts their work less and less. A 2018...
The former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, has reacted to reports that operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) carted away some valuables...
I seriously have problems with the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government. He has shown over these years that either he never prepared to lead a...
Within 13 hours, two mass shooting took place—in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio—killing 31 innocent people and injuring twice as many. We normally hear about...
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has called for the unconditional release of Omoyele Sowore who had been arrested for organisng...
“So, did you join the #RevolutionNow protests yesterday?” “Which Revolution?” “The #RevolutionNow protest led by Omoyele Sowore. The security people grabbed him ahead of the August...
Celebrated American author and Nobel laureate, Toni Morrison, the author of acclaimed novels such as “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon,” is no more, according to reports....
The Movement for the Actualization the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) on Tuesday condemned an alleged statement by the Enugu state commissioner of police, Suleiman Balarabe,...
53 filling stations and four gas plants in Kaduna have been sealed by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) for offences, including under-dispensing, hoarding and diversion...
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday granted the request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to freeze three bank accounts said to...
The Chairman, Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Elias Mbam, has disclosed plans by the Nigerian government to review the revenue sharing formula for Federal,...
Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last election, Atiku Abubakar, “is directly responsible” for extreme poverty ravaging millions of...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko branch, on Tuesday called on the authorities of both Nigeria Police and Army to...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has cast doubt over the sincerity of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Fulani/South West peace meeting. The group nonetheless, acknowledged that the...
The Edo State Government on Tuesday cleared the air on its decision to sack the chairman of Etsako West Local Government Area, Yakubu Musa. It said...
Senate President Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday told Nigerians that he should be henceforth addressed as, ‘Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan Ph.D, CON’. His media office stated this in...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASUU) on Tuesday held a joint protest in Ibadan to demand the...
The Nigerian Police Force has invited embattled singer, Tekno Miles, over for questioning in respect of the indecent video of him dancing with semi-nude ladies in...
After a rather long spell, it is time to pause our weekly diagnosis of the Nigerian condition and examine a raft of treacherous words or phrases...
The United Nations humanitarian agency has raised the alarm over the malaria epidemic plaguing the African country of Burundi. According to the United Nations Office for...
While some governors in the country claim that their states lack the capacity to pay with N30,000 minimum wage signed into law by President Muhmmadu Buhari,...
A former Kaduna Central senator, Shehu Sani, has suggested that Nigerians are hypocrites. He described them as a people that despise autocrats of other nations but...
Five members of #RevolutionNow protest group, and a lawyer were on Tuesday arraigned in an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The protesters who are...
A tragic bridge collapse at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Bauchi State, has reportedly claimed the lives of some students of the ivory tower. Reports...
The Court of Appeal in Lagos has ordered the continuation of the petitions filed by the defeated governorship candidates of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in...
The acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has said that the challenge of integrity in Nigeria has to be addressed from...
Police Operatives in Enugu State on Tuesday arrested a notorious gun manufacturer, Cyprian Eze, 69, who allegedly supplies firearms to criminals in the state. The Command’s...
State governments have lamented the costs they incur in funding federal government agencies and security setups, including the army and police. Speaking on behalf of the...
A Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, on Monday evening expressed satisfaction that despite his arrest, Nigerians were able to stage the RevolutionNow protests in some parts...
Scientists have used artificial intelligence to recognise patterns in breast cancer – and uncovered five new types of the disease each matched different personalised treatments. Their...
Journalists in Cross Rivers state on Monday evening embarked on protests over their colleagues that were arrested by the police at the venue of Revolution Now...
The Niger state governor, Abubakar Bello, on Monday canvassed for stiffer punishment for criminals in the state. Bello who expressed worries over the manner in which...
The President of the United States of America has moved to mount pressure on President Nicola Maduro to step down from power by freezing all assets...
Some gunmen in Ondo state on Monday evening killed a police inspector at a checking point around Isua-Ise Akoko Road in Akoko South East Local Government...
Authorities in Egypt have blamed the deadly car explosion in the city of Cairo, which claimed no less than 19 lives and injured 30 others on...
An Anglican priest, Gabriel Asateru, was on Monday sentenced to five years imprisonment by a High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, for defiling a minor. While...
Human right activist, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin has added her voice to the growing calls for the release of former African Action Congress (AAC) Presidential candidate, Mr...
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo president general, Chief Nnia Nwodo, has called on his people to understand that they have difficult challenges facing them in Nigeria. He has...
Like democracy, business is failing in Africa’s most populated country, Nigeria. This is not ill-stating, neither a taunt to paint the nation in the red before...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Tuesday morning. 1. Buhari thanks Nigerians for ignoring ‘Revolution’ protest President Muhammadu Buhari has said he...
Ever vocal former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has commended President Muhmmadu Buhari for the permission granted leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky...
There appears to be a brewing challenge for Nigeria, as Brent Crude on Monday slipped below its $60 per barrel budget benchmark for the 2019 appropriation...
The Nigeriam National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is targeting to end fuel importation into the country by 2023 with the use of technology. NNPC boss, Mele Kyari...
The naira on Monday closed trading at N362.57 to the dollar at the parallel market in Lagos. Turnover at the window stood at 293.60 million dollars....