The Ekiti State police command on Tuesday confirmed the death of the female police officer shot during last weekend’s by-election in the state. The command’s spokesman,...
Magistrates in Cross River State have resumed a protest over their unpaid 26 months salaries and allowances. The aggrieved magistrates, who occupied Governor Ben Ayade’s office...
Gunmen on Sunday kidnapped Mrs. Funmilola Osalusi, wife of the late Surveyor-General of Ekiti State, Felix Oladapo Osalusi, in Ado-Ekiti. Osalusi, who is a staff of...
The South-West Security Network, Amotekun, has seized over 100 cows along the Akure-Ilesa Expressway after their owners allegedly violated the Ondo State government’s directive on highway...
The Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) will begin an indefinite strike across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Tuesday. The PASAN...
Police operatives in Lagos have arrested a 28-year-old woman, Justina Eje, for allegedly stabbing her husband to death in the Ikorodu area of the state. The...
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) on Monday urged the Kwara State government to prevent the dispute over hijab in the state from snowballing into a...
Police operatives in Lagos have arrested 132 persons for alleged impersonation, murder and cultism in the state. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, who...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Anita Harrison for allegedly mistreating the body of an accident victim, Nofiat Idowu. According to the police, Harrison...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday, March 22, said it would use the database of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to track drug...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) on Monday arraigned one Nanpan Salihu Yaniyang at the State High Court, Ikeja, for alleged fraud. The commission, according...
At least 19 passengers died in an auto accident along the Kaduna-Abuja Highway on Sunday. The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan,...
Police on Monday arraigned four security guards for alleged murder at the Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The defendants – Sunday Onilede (28), Fatai Alao (40),...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered a large marijuana farm with over 350 plants in Gwarzo local government area of Kano State. The...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Monday fixed July 5 for the hearing of the property suit lodged against a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, J.B. Majiyagbe,...
Police on Monday arraigned a 47-year-old mechanic, Bamidele Michael, at the Upper Zuba Area Court, Abuja, for alleged criminal breach of trust and cheating. Michael was...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) in Anambra has placed a N200, 000 bounty on one Chidi Nwankwo who was set free by members of his gang...
An early morning fire on Monday razed several shops at the Katsina Central Market. The incident started at about 9:20 a.m. with personnel of the state...
Police operatives in Ekiti State have arrested three suspects in connection with the violence that marred last Saturday’s House of Assembly by-election in the state. The...
Police operatives in Ogun State have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of a woman, Modupeola Folorunso, and her four-year-old son for ritual purpose...
The Deputy Registrar of Veterinary Council of Nigeria (VCN), Dr. Fadipe Oladotun, on Sunday warned Nigerians against the consumption of meat roasted with tyres, saying tyres...
42 non-profit organisations from Nigeria have been nominated for the 2021 edition of the Sharjah International Award for Refugee Advocacy and Support (SIARA), partly sponsored by...
Gunmen, on Sunday, again attacked a police station in Mgbakwu in the Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, bringing to four the number of...
The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Ecclesiastical Province of Kwara, on Saturday, March 20, called for a peaceful resolution of the Hijab controversy rocking the state....
Gunmen on Saturday abducted a community leader in Imope, Ijebu-North local government area of Ogun State, Tajudeen Omotayo. Eyewitnesses said the victim was accosted by the...
Gunmen on Saturday evening razed the Isiala Mbano Divisional Police Headquarters in Imo State. The hoodlums also freed suspects and carted away arms from the divisional...
The Nigerian Navy has deployed six ships, two tugboats, two helicopters, and a Nigerian Air Force ATR42 aircraft in a bid to address the maritime challenges...
An 18 year-old-girl, Idowu Biletiri, on Saturday allegedly stabbed her elder brother, Kehinde Biletiri, to death at Igbokoda, Ilaje local government area of Ondo State. An...
Justice E.A Obile of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced Chibueze Okenwa (a.k.a Rodriguz), a fake United States...
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has criticised Azman Air, following the discovery of a series of serious incidents and numerous unprofessional conduct which led to...
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has revealed that the retrial of a Nigerian, Itunu Babalola, said to have been wrongfully incarcerated in Cote D’lvoire, is...
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has commuted the sentences of three inmates of the state’s correctional centres. He also ordered the release of one inmate....
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed 13 people and injured seven others in separate attacks in three local government areas of Kaduna State. The state’s...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has expressed concern about the activities of fake whistle-blowers who mislead the agency with false information. In a statement...
About seven suspects have been arrested in connection with the death of a Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) official, Godwin Obasu, and the hospitalisation of...
Ekiti State Government and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday agreed that a drug-free certificate should be the condition for intending couples before...
The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) has embarked on an anti-piracy sensitisation campaign in Lagos. Mr Matthew Ojo, the Director of Lagos Office of the commission, led...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Adedeji Zacch as the Executive Secretary of the National Sugar Development Council. Mr Zacch was appointed in accordance...
A lecturer at the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, Abdullahi Opashola, and twin brothers, Taiye and Kehinde Adebayo, on Thursday, were convicted by Justice...
At least three naval officials and three policemen have been reportedly killed in what seemed like an ambush of security operatives, in different areas of Anambra...
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has suspended the ongoing teachers’ recruitment exercise over the economic crisis posed by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The governor directed...
The Kwara Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) has directed principals, teachers, and staff of the yet to be opened grant-aided mission schools to report at their respective...
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has stressed the need for Nigeria to have a uniform “Combustible Standard Law” guiding tankers and articulated vehicles. Sanwo-Olu made...
The Federal Government claimed that it has captured no fewer than 30 million Nigerians in the National Social Register that would facilitate lifting 100 million people...
An aide to Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State, Castro Ezama, says 50 to 60 per cent of secondary schools girls in the state are...
The National Association of Resident Doctors on Thursday, March 18, issued a memo to its members over an indefinite nationwide strike from March 31, 2021. This...
The President of Kwara Baptist Conference, Reverend Victor Dada, has issued a warning to the Kwara State Government and Muslims in the state not to take...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi on Thursday said bed occupancy in the state’s public and private COVID-19 care facilities has reduced from 60...
An 80-year-old retired lecturer, Prof. Muritala Haroon on Thursday told a customary court sitting in Mapo, Oyo State that his wife, Afsat, still denies him sex....
An 18-year-old teenager, Lakan Odetayo who stabbed his elder brother, 21-year-old to death over a disagreement on Wednesday in Modakeke area of Osun state is on...
