The staff of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) have embarked on a seven-day warning strike to press home their demands...
A trigger-happy member of a local vigilante group, Lukman Razaq, on Tuesday shot dead one Musa Yahaya in the Ijora area of Lagos. The deceased was...
Police operatives in Zamfara have arrested a medical doctor and seven other persons for allegedly aiding and abetting banditry across the state. The state’s Commissioner for...
Lagos State government has commenced work on the Rail Mass Transit Red Line project from Agbado to Marina. The state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, disclosed this during...
Police operatives in Abia State have arrested two suspected killers of two brothers, Bright and Victory Osuagwu, in the state. The spokesman of the state police...
At least 10 people have been confirmed dead and more than 400 others currently hospitalised after drinking expired drinks in Kano State last week. The state’s...
Video sharing device, YouTube, has suspended the Christian television channel, Emmanuel TV, owned by Founder of The Synagogue Church Of All Nations, Pastor TB Joshua for...
The Police Command in Ebonyi State has confirmed the death of three police officers murdered by suspected gunmen in Abakaliki, the state capital. DSP Loveth Odah,...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has said it would only call off its planned mass protest in the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife, only...
The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, on Thursday, apologised for the power outage experienced by many Nigerians across the country. Mamman stated that the challenge was...
The Katsina State Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has disclosed that it secured a conviction of fifteen years imprisonment for Ibrahim Ali,...
In what seems a recurring scourge, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Edo Command, has revealed that it scuttled an attempted jailbreak by inmates...
A 25-year-old Nigerian drug trafficker, Unachukwu Chiluba Paulinus, has been sentenced to death by a court in Vietnam. Paulinus was convicted by the People’s Court in...
A 100-level student of the Plateau State University, Bokkos, identified as Israel Emmanuel, has died after he fell off a vehicle during a protest by the...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has requested for the assistance of the Nigerian Army to train its armed squad personnel to check invasion of custodial centres...
A high court at the Queen’s Bench Division in London has granted a perpetual injunction restraining one Maureen Badejo from publishing further defamatory words against or...
The management of Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Osogbo, has directed all newly admitted students who are below the age of 16 to either defer their enrollment...
Women of Ikabigbo community in Uzairue Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State on Tuesday, urged herdsmen occupying their community to leave, as their presence...
The Ekiti State Amotekun Corps has arrested three suspected kidnappers in the Igbara Odo area of the state following attacks on a woman at the Erinjiyan-Igbara...
Some headless bodies have been found in a valley by the double carriageway under construction, at the Five Miles area in the outskirts of Calabar, the...
The U.S Consul-General in Nigeria, Claire Pierangelo, on Tuesday, announced that the US government had provided over $6 billion since 2003, as assistance for the prevention...
The Lagos State government has called for the support of building professionals as it embarks on aggressive enforcement against quackery in construction to eradicate building collapse...
At least 20 children were killed in a fire outbreak at a public school in Niamey, Niger Republic, on Tuesday evening. The commander of the country’s...
A Canadian court sitting in Ottawa, Ontario, on Tuesday upheld the decision of the Immigration Department to deny a former operative of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery...
The Bauchi State government has concluded plans to carry out comprehensive profiling of commercial sex workers in the state. The Commissioner in charge of Hisbah at...
Armed bandits on Tuesday killed four persons and injured one other in Igabi local government area of Kaduna State. The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security and...
An unspecified number of people were injured in a gas explosion in the Amuwo-Odofin local government area of Lagos on Tuesday. The spokesman of the Lagos...
Police operatives in Lagos have arrested five persons for allegedly stealing construction materials in the state. The Spokesman of the Lagos Police Command, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who...
The Police in Plateau on Tuesday, refuted stories that three female students of Plateau State University, Bokkos, were kidnapped by bandits on Monday. The Police spokesman...
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Ogun Council, has commenced a strike action over the repeated kidnappings of its members and insecurity in...
A father and son have met an untimely death as gun-wielding bandits attacked Wawan Rafi II village in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State...
Five vigilante group members have been killed and many others injured during an attack on a local market and some communities in the Shiroro Local Government...
The Rivers State government has handed two persons accompanying a truckload of substandard animal hide, popularly known as Ponmo, in Elemme local government area of the...
The Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) has stated that Lagos state is the seventh fastest-growing city in the world, with the highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, said on Monday night this year’s Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins on Tuesday. Abubakar, who is the President-General of...
The abductors of a Baptist Church Pastor in Yakila district in the Rafi local government area of Niger State have reportedly demanded a N10 million ransom...
Saudi Arabia has announced that the Muslims Ramadan fasting would commence on Tuesday across the world. The Kingdom’s Supreme Council disclosed this in a statement on...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have reportedly abducted at least 15 traders in Katsina States. An eyewitness said 18 traders were traveling in a commercial bus...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Monday confirmed the death of a motorcycle passenger in an auto crash in Anambra State. The FRSC Sector Commander...
The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed a police sergeant, Eze Aiwansoba, who shot his estranged girlfriend in October last year. The lady, Joy Ndubueze, reportedly ended...
Police operatives in Osun State have arrested four persons with guns at the venue of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) South-West Zonal Congress in Osogbo, the...
34 African immigrants who were trying to flee the continent for a better life in Asia, have drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of...
A gunman, who opened fire in front of a private Red Cross Hospital in Paris on Monday afternoon, has killed one person while severely wounding a...
Scores of residents in a village in the Ngbo community in Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi State, have reportedly been killed, while houses and property...
A Catholic priest, Father Marcel Izu-Onyeocha, has regained his freedom after spending one day in captivity, following his abduction by herdsmen. Ripples Nigeria had reported that...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Nigeria says it has launched a COVID-19 Food Security Challenge for $3 million dollars in grant and...
A yet to be identified suspected ritualist is on the run after allegedly killing and chopping off the head and hands of a female food vendor...
Lagos police officers attached to the Ikorodu Division have arrested one Wisdom Okoro, 50, from Orlu in Imo State, following the sudden death of his girlfriend,...
Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two suspects for the alleged murder of one Osita Anwuanwu, 64, in the Arida area of Ikotun....
A commissioner in Ekiti State House of Assembly, Segun Erinle revealed on Sunday that a monarch in the state, Oba Adetutu Ajayi who was attacked on...
