The senate President, Dr Ahmed Lawan on Tuesday confirmed that the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Tanko Muhammad, will on Wednesday appear before the...
A Palestinian detainee died on Tuesday while being held in solitary confinement in an Israeli jail, the latest in a series of deaths of Palestinian prisoners...
The Supreme Court has dismissed two suits filed by Ned Nwoko, challenging the election of Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate representing...
May 29 marks the beginning of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term in office. The swearing-in ceremony is historic as it is exactly 20 years since the...
The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmoud Yakubu has explained why results of the last general elections could not be transmitted electronically, contrary to...
Elder statesman and Afenifere chieftain, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, on Monday advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to take the letter written to him by former President Olusegun...
Cinema goers in Nigeria spent about 3,124,026,959 billion Naira to watch box office movies at cinemas around the country, between January and June, 2019, data reveals....
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) on Monday warned Nigerians against unguided statements over the murder of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere leader Pa Reuben Fasoranti....
A Professor of Law, Itse Sagay (SAN), on Monday said the letter by former president Olusegun Obasanjo to President Muhammadu Buhari was done with good intention,...
Demonstrators in Sudan on Monday took to the streets in Khartoum district to protest against the killing of a civilian allegedly by paramilitaries the previous day....
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Monday issued a stern warning to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) over electricity tariff. The president of the Congress, Comrade...
Deputy Majority Leader of the Nigerian Senate, Ajayi Boroffice, has denied media reports quoting him to have said he cannot visit his home town for fear...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) remitted N51.3 billion to the Federal Government’s Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) in the first quarter of 2019. The remittance, according to...
The four Democratic congresswomen who were attacked by US President Donald Trump in racist tweets over the weekend have called on the President to focus on...
The European Union has urged Iran to reverse nuclear deal breaches as they do not see the landmark accord as significant, and do not intend for...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Monday, said insecurity in Nigeria was not as serious as portrayed by the people, adding that Nigerians...
Nigerian Senate has said that it is unhappy, like most other Nigerians, over the security situation in some parts of the country. The Senate also noted,...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed appreciation over former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s latest open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on the worsening insecurity and unrestrained...
The Nigerian equities market opened trading for the week on Monday on a negative mood with the market indicators shedding 0.79 per cent. Market capitalisation shed...
The Presidency has called on Nigerians, especially leaders to stop playing politics with the murder of the daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs Funke...
The Coalition of Civil Rights for Justice, Peace and Security, a amalgamation of civil society groups, has called for the immediate removal of the Chief of...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has proposed extra-budgetary attention for the three senatorial districts of Zamfara State in exchange for one year...
The Ogun State Police Command on Monday arrested three herdsmen suspected to have killed a 40-year-old farmer, Rafiu Sowemimo in Odeda Local Government Area of the...
Lawyers under the auspices of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Owo branch, Ondo State have said they would not defend any kidnapper or bandit caught in...
The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Monday made public his assets in line with campaign promise, declaring companies worth N48,150,736,889, cash and property worth several...
The Zamfara state Director of Budget, Hamza Salihu, was on Sunday kidnapped while his deputy, Kabiru Ismail, was murdered near Kachia in Kaduna State while on...
The Ondo State police command has revealed that some suspects have been arrested in connection to the killing of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of the Afenifere...
Fulani socio-cultural organisation, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has called for the arrest of former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the latter’s recent open letter to President Muhammadu...
Founding member of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Tanko Yakasai, has described ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter to President Muhammadu Buhari as selfish and unpatriotic. Obasanjo had, earlier...
Former governor of Osun state, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has urged the federal government to squarely face criminals who have declared war on Nigeria. Oyinlola made the call...
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has frowned at the comment allegedly made by the national leader of the All Progressives...
Deputy Majority Leader of the Nigerian Senate, Ajayi Boroffice, has decried the spate of insecurity in Nigeria, saying he can no longer travel to his town...
In his efforts to prove that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) transmitted the 2019 presidential election results through its server, Reno Omokri, has published the...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Monday announced that it has commenced e-registration of all migrants in all the 18 local government areas of Cross River...
The Presidential Election Tribunal on Monday admitted 48 compact video discs in evidence from the PDP and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the suit challenging President...
Police in Anambra State have confirmed that eight persons have been attacked with substance suspected to be acid, by a yet to be identified man in...
Pandemonium broke out in Ilupeju area of Lagos, on Monday when an officer of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Akeem Mohammed attached to Ladipo Police division on...
The Federal Ministry of Environment under the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) on Monday assured Ogoni people of their full participation in the ongoing clean-up of...
Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Monday asked Nigerians to remember he warned them against voting Muhammadu Buhari as President. This was as he...
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has informed that the state would implement the controversial Ruga settlements initiative to resettle herders and boost economic activities. The...
The skirmishes between the people of Umunneochi and their neighbours from Ebonyi State has forced the Abia State House of Assembly to raise the alarm over...
A 52-year-old trader, Mrs Kuditat Ajayi on Monday told an Igando Customary Court that she slept with her brother-in-law because she thought he was her husband....
Protesting members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union, (NASU) University of Ibadan chapter halted academic and social activities...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday rejected the request of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the February 23 election, Alhaji...
A 26-year-old man, Abibu Babatunde, on Monday was remanded in prison by an Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun after allegedly raping his 14-year-old niece. The Prosecution...
The consumer price index, (CPI) which measures inflation increased by 11.22 percent (year-on-year) in June 2019. This is 0.18 percent points lower than the rate recorded...
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has accused foreign intelligence agencies of plotting to paint him as king of corrupt people as he appeared before a...
Suleiman Mohammed Bulama, one of the witnesses of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the February 23 election told the Presidential Election...
The growing spate of support and backing shown to embattled Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Abiodun Fatoyinbo, by his constituency over rape allegations...
Former Kaduna Central senator, Shehu Sani, has accused the North, and South West parts of Nigeria of tolerating some of the wrongs going on in the...