One person has been killed by gunmen while a Kano State-based businesswoman, Hajiya Asabe Jibrin, has been abducted in Rurum town of Rano local government area...
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Thursday, March 4, ordered that seven men be remanded in Abolongo Correctional facility in Oyo, for alleged arson...
Suspected bandits have reportedly abducted over sixty persons and set ablaze houses and farm produce in Ruwan Tofa village of Maru local government area of Zamfara...
The hashtag #NoWaterInEnugu is currently trending on the social media platform, Twitter, as residents in Enugu State took to their handles to narrate their ordeal while...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Thursday, March 4, stated its commitment towards ensuring the non-infiltration of sub-standard COVID-19 vaccines...
The World Bank, Adolescent Girls Initiative and Empowerment, will construct 90 junior secondary schools, 69 senior secondary schools and renovate 69 others in Kaduna to foster...
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has revealed that up to 2.3m Nigerians have registered on its portal for scheduled COVID-19 vaccination. NPHCDA made...
The case against alleged brutality by operatives of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad continued as Mrs Mfon Uweh of Urue Offong/Oruko Local Government Area of Akwa...
Some gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted the sister in-law and brother of Sokoto state Commissioner for Youth and Sport Development, Bashir Gorau, in Gorau...
The Police Command in Benue has confirmed the killing of Dr Terkula Suswam, an elder brother of the immediate past governor of Benue, Sen. Gabriel Suswam....
Disquiet reigned along the Osogbo/Ibokun road on Tuesday night, March 2, as some unknown gunmen abducted travellers along the route. The incident reportedly occurred around 7:30...
The Rivers State Police Commamd has described as fake, a report that gunmen hijacked a bus filled with students of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic, Bori, Khana...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has disclosed that it is in the process of reviewing the Meter Asset Provider (MAP) Regulation 2018 to fast-track the...
The Lagos State Government has revealed that it will embark on weeklong monitoring and enforcement against the conversion of government residential buildings to commercial purposes. The...
Nigeria, along with other 14 countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are to benefit from the $320,000 funding from the African Development...
Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun of the Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta, on Tuesday sentenced a 39-year-old labourer, Mohammed Ibrahim, to death over the murder of a two-year-old...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arraigned a Dutch couple identified as Peiter Borremans and Nkechi Borremans at the Federal High Court, Port...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Taraba State University Chapter, on Tuesday declared an indefinite strike over the refusal of the state government to address...
The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Niger State have intercepted 27 new rifles from two suspects during a routine stop and...
The Sokoto State police command has established additional five units in a bid to check banditry and other criminalities in the state. The command’s spokesman, Sanusi...
The Federal Government has stated that 398 Estate Surveyors and Valuers have bided for valuation of forfeited assets during the Request for Proposal (RFP). Dayo Apata,...
The Rivers State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Tuesday, apprehended two people who allegedly tried to smuggle about 115 kilogrammes of...
The Nigerian Army has reported a fire outbreak at its Headquarters in Abuja. This was disclosed in a statement, released Tuesday morning by the Director, Army...
A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Tuesday, March 2, adjourned a suit by Nigerian artiste, Bright Okiki against some telecommunication companies over alleged copyright infringement...
The Federal Government has approved the reopening of Osubi airport in Warri for daylight operations, a year after it’s closure. The airport was initially closed in...
The Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, has sacked three commisioners and replaced them subject to confirmation of the state House of Assembly. In the minor cabinet...
BudgIT, a Nigerian civic organisation, has bemoaned the refusal of state governments to ensure an open audit of their COVID-19 expenditures. The organisation further disclosed that...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has commenced the second round of sitting of the Special Investigation Panel on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Nigeria....
The decaying body of a 54-year-old woman, Mrs Philomena Ogadi, who was kidnapped, has been found buried in a shallow grave. The corpse was buried on...
Police operatives in Osun have arrested seven suspected armed robbers terrorising the state. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olawale Olokode, who paraded the suspects at...
The Chairman/Chief Executive of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd), said on Monday the agency confiscated drugs worth over N60...
Armed bandits have killed at least 10 people in fresh attacks in some communities in Zango-Kataf and Chikun local government areas of Kaduna State. The state’s...
The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons, NCFRMI, has revealed that more than 2.6 million Nigerians are internally displaced within the country. This...
The embattled alleged fraudster, Ramon Abass popularly known as Hushpuppi has reportedly hired the services of the highly successful criminal defence lawyer, Loius Shapiro to represent...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dissociated itself from the activities of a group on WhatsApp, dedicated to EFCC Recruitment 2020/2021. The Commission in...
In a bid to maintain further decline in recorded cases of COVID-19, Lagos State Government has further extended the work-from-home directive to civil servants on Salary...
The power sector may have recorded the lowest decline in technical hitches and power system collapses with only four incidents in 2020. According to industry records,...
The Management of the Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, (KSUSTA), Aliero, has announced the indefinite closure of the institution over the death of a...
Armed bandits have killed at least seven persons including a Catholic priest in Igabi and Kajuru local government areas of Kaduna State. The state’s Commissioner for...
Police operatives in Anambra have arrested three suspected members of different cult groups in the state. The spokesman of the state police command, Haruna Mohammed, who...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and heads of various tertiary institutions in the country have agreed to conclude the 2020/21 admissions by June 15....
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has revealed that the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2022. Fashola made...
The Federal Government on Sunday, February 28, began the evacuation of shanties, illegal structures encroaching on its Right of Way (RoW) following the expiration of the...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized 46.8 kilogrammes of suspected Tramadol capsules worth N50 million in Mubi, Mubi North local government area of...
The Anambra State police command on Saturday confirmed the recovery of one pump action rifle allegedly stolen by hoodlums from a police station during last year’s...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has discovered an alleged illegal maize flour production outfit in Potiskum town of Yobe State....
The Federal Government has announced that it has completed rehabilitation work on the Third Mainland bridge in Lagos. This was disclosed by the Minister of Works...
The Bayelsa Police on Friday, arrested two suspected kidnappers and freed an abducted female civil servant kidnapped in Yenagoa, the state’s capital. It was learnt that...
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, February 26, said that the foundation for the proposed Fourth Mainland Bridge would be laid before the end...
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said it has arrested five suspects allegedly connected with the renewed communal clash between Ukonteghe Uda and Enwang communities in...
