At least seven persons were on Tuesday confirmed killed in a lingering communal conflict between Ezza-Effium and Effium in Ebonyi State. Ebonyi State Governor, Chief David...
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) will commence a nationwide strike on Wednesday, March 10 (today) over the decision by the National Assembly to remove the national...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, Zahra Buhari-Indimi, has issued a week’s ultimatum to Sahara Reporters to publish a retraction regarding “an injurious and defamatory publication” against her....
The Federal Government has introduced a temporary passport for Nigerians abroad. The Spokesman of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Sunday James, who disclosed this in a...
The Ogun State panel of inquiry probing allegations of rights violations by operatives of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other police tactical units on...
The Gombe State government on Tuesday flagged off its annual mass vaccination of livestock against trans-boundary animal diseases. Governor Inuwa Yahaya, who flagged off the vaccination...
The Osun State government has approved the Food Support Scheme to help the vulnerable persons in the state. The state’s governor, Gboyega Oyetola, who disclosed this...
The Osun State Police Command on Tuesday, confirmed the release of two tourists who were abducted on Saturday evening along the Ife-Ibadan Expressway in Osun state....
The Imo State Police Command has arrested suspected kidnappers of the auxiliary bishop of Owerri Archdiocese of the Catholic Church, Bishop Moses Chikwe. According to the...
The Anambra Oxygen Production Plant has achieved its target production of 200 cylinders per day, the Managing Director, Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim, said on Tuesday, March 9,...
Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Anambra State, have uncovered various quantities of cocaine and heroin stashed in the palace of a...
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has issued an ultimatum to stop oil production platforms managed by Brittania U Oil and...
Justice I.M. Sani of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced two false whistle blowers to two months imprisonment each for conspiracy and...
The Oyo State High Court, Ibadan, on Monday, sentenced an Uber driver, Michael Tosin Lawal, to three-month in prison for internet fraud. The Economic and Financial...
The Akwa Ibom State High Court, Ikot Ekpene, on Monday sentenced a 31-year-old man, Edidiong Pius Ototi, to death by hanging for killing his father. The...
The Republic of Benin government has entered into a partnership with the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) to boost local rice production in the neighbouring...
The Osun State Police Command has launched an intensive manhunt for criminals who attacked commuters along the Ibadan/Akure expressway on March 6. The command’s spokesman, Opalola...
The Federal Government is working towards the establishment of specialised courts and judicial divisions that will focus on sexual and gender-based violence (GBV), Malami revealed. The...
An FCT High Court sitting in Nyanya, Abuja, on Monday, ordered that a policeman, Johnson Samanja, who allegedly shot and killed a 19-year old boy, be...
The Kwara State Government has said the state recorded 37 more cases of COVID-19, noting that 82 patients, who tested negative twice have been discharged. The...
An undisclosed number of suspected gays were on Sunday, arrested by the police in the Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State. It was learnt that...
The Kwara state government has direct the indefinite closure of the 10 grant-aided missionary schools over dispute around use of hijab. Permanent secretary of the State’s...
The Oyo State Police Command on Sunday night explained why three members of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) who arrested a suspected notorious kidnapper, Iskilu Wakili,...
Police said on Sunday evening the suspected notorious kidnapper, Iskilu Wakili, who was arrested by the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) in Oyo State has been moved...
Members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and other local security groups on Sunday arrested a suspected notorious kidnapper in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State,...
The Federal Government will resume the phase 2 rehabilitation works on the Marine Beach Bridge, Apapa, Lagos, on Tuesday. The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos,...
The Lagos State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the arrest of 50 suspected cultists and armed robbers in some parts of the state. The state’s Police...
The Lagos State government has shut down 11 recreational facilities, including event centres, and night clubs for breaching the COVID-19 protocols. The Director-General of the Lagos...
Troops of Operation Thunder Strike have killed four suspected bandits and recovered three rifles in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State. The state’s Commissioner for...
A Justice of the Supreme Court, Sylvester Nwali Ngwuta, has been reported dead, at the age of 69. It was gathered that he died in his...
Gunmen on Saturday evening abducted a commercial bus driver and a passenger near Wasinmi Village on the Ife-Ibadan Expressway. According to reports, policemen at a checkpoint...
The Nigerian Army has said troops of its 6 Division, on Saturday, rescued 10 expatriate workers and four Nigerians who were kidnapped by sea pirates off...
A group, Lagos State Prominent Indigenes, has implored Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to mandate the immediate disbandment of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in...
Bayero University Kano (BUK) on Saturday announced the date for the 2020/2021 Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post UTME). The Registrar of BUK, Fatima-Binta Mohammed, who...
Nigerian military on Saturday rescued 10 expatriate workers and four Nigerians abducted by sea pirates off the coast of Gabon. The Director of Public Relations, Nigerian...
At least 10 people were killed on Saturday in a fatal auto crash in Azare local government area of Bauchi State. The Sector Commander of the...
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) quarters in Kaduna, was reportedly attacked in the early hours of Saturday by unknown gunmen. It was learnt that...
Herdsmen on Friday killed two farmers in Isaba Ekiti, Ikole local government area of Ekiti State. A resident of the community told journalists on Saturday the...
The Lagos State Government has revealed the scheduled closure of the Marine Bridge for three months in order to carry out emergency repair works on the...
The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the Federal Government to pay over N53 million to a German, Mr. Martin Gegenheimer, for unlawful arrest and detention....
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of Temitope Oluwasanmi and Augustine Olayinka before Justice Mojisola Dada...
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday commissioned the dual carriageway flyover and five other roads at Pen Cinema in the Agege area of the...
An army officer serving with the Nigerian Army in Zamfara State has been arrested, alongside his girlfriend, for allegedly supplying ammunition and uniforms to bandits terrorizing...
The Nigerian Government has delivered food items to victims of the Shasha Market crisis, and also inaugurated Special Cash Grant to 5,280 rural women in Oyo....
A medical doctor, Ngong Cyprian, has emerged as the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria. Ripples Nigeria gathered that Dr Cyprian has been...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has revealed that the Federal Government is owing its staff about N4 billion in form of accumulated arrears of...
A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yuguda Hassan Kila, representing Gwaram federal constituency of Jigawa State, is dead. It was learnt that Kila died...
Police operatives have arrested five persons at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, for alleged forgery of COVID-19 certificate. The suspects were paraded on Thursday by...
The Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, said on Thursday his administration would partner with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to develop the state’s...
The Federal Government has inaugurated boards of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) and the Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal (CCPT) to ensure consumer...
