The Lagos State government on Friday announced the temporary closure of the Apapa Dock Road to allow the completion of work on the railway modernisation project....
Gunmen on Friday attacked the Ogila-ama community in the Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State and set fire to buildings. Residents of the community...
The Kano State police command has deployed 7, 251 personnel for Saturday’s local council election in the state. The command’s spokesman, Abdullahi Haruna, who disclosed this...
The Kaduna State Task Force on COVID-19 has rescued 60 Almajiri children from unauthorized premises operating as schools in the state. The Special Adviser on Media...
15 persons have been confirmed dead in a fatal road accident that occured on Friday along the Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway. The accident involved two Sharon mini buses,...
Two police officers and their driver died in a motor accident that occurred on Thursday along the Ajaokuta-Ojodu-Ayingba road in Kogi State on Thursday. The state...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Friday raised the alarm that fake COVID-19 vaccines are already in circulation in the...
The University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) has announced date for resumption of academic activities for its postgraduate and undergraduate students. A statement released on the UNN...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said camps across the country will now open January 19, 2021, as against the earlier announced date of January...
The authorities of the University of Ibadan (UI) are said to have cancelled its 2019/2020 academic session and renamed it 2020/2021. Meanwhile, the institution has announced...
For dumping refuse on Ekiti roads, ten persons have bagged one month imprisonment each in a mobile court in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. The magistrate of...
A man suspected to be an armed robber has been killed by some residents of Amisu, Babasala Street and Oke Itunu in Ibadan, Oyo State on...
A 68-year-old man, Sunday Joel, from Akwa Ibom State, has sought N100m from the police for the death of his 30-year old son, Nsikak Joel. The...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Lagos State chapter, on Thursday advised health workers in the state to see everyone as a suspected COVID-19 case. The Lagos...
The Ogun State Police Command on Thursday said it recovered N2,722,750 cash and drugs worth over N10 million after a drug cartel was raided in the...
The Lagos State University (LASU) has ordered the closure of its College of Medicine in Ikeja over the COVID-19 pandemic. The Head of LASU Centre for...
A military court sitting in Sokoto has released a soldier, Lance Corporal Idakpini Martins, who was detained for allegedly criticising the Chief of Army Staff, Lt....
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has deployed 1,926 personnel to Kano for Saturday’s local council election in the state. The NSCDC Commandant in...
The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) in Lagos on Wednesday arrested 13 suspected traffic robbers in the Ojota area of the state. The RRS...
Absence of one of the defence counsels on Thursday stalled the alleged N100 million theft trial involving the immediate past Chairperson of Kwara State Scholarship Board,...
About 10,000 security agents have been deployed for the local government elections scheduled for Saturday, January 16 in Kano State, the state police command said in...
A mother of two, Olubunmi Faseyitan, has confessed that she asked a witch doctor to keep her husband, Kolawole, in bondage and make him sick. She...
Reports of kidnap of an unspecified number of traders from Kano State on the Kaduna-Abuja Highway has been denied by the Kaduna State Government. The Commissioner...
One Ipadeola Oriyomi, who was arrested on Monday at a night club in Victoria Island by men of the Maroko Police Station in Lagos, has revealed...
An officer of the Oyo Security Network Agency aka Amotekun Corps has been reportedly linked to the death of 21-year-old Oluwatosin Thomas which occurred at Inalende...
Abductors of the Ekiti petrol dealer Mr Suleiman Akinbami, are demanding as ransom N60 million to secure his release. Akinbami was kidnapped on Sunday night by...
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has warned traditional rulers in the state against allocating land to foreigners without proper documentation. According to the governor, foreigners...
Lagos State government on Wednesday shut down the popular, Eko events centre for flouting the Covid-19 guidelines. The Senior Special Assistant (SSA), Jubril Gawat on New...
The Bauchi State Police Command said it arrested about 18 persons, including nine teenagers for organising a s3x party in Dass town, Dass Local Government Area...
The Katsina State Police Command on Wednesday paraded two suspected fraudsters allegedly posing as spirits to defraud members of the public. The suspects, Kabiru Bashir, 27,...
The Air Task Force component of Operation Lafiya Dole on Tuesday killed scores of Boko Haram fighters in the Mainok area of Borno State. The Coordinator...
Gunmen suspected to be cultists on Wednesday disrupted the National Identity Number (NIN) enrollment at the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) office in Port Harcourt, Rivers...
The Yobe State police command on Wednesday confirmed the identity of the 18-year-old girl who died during sex romp in the state’s government lodge in Damaturu....
The Edo State chapter of Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) on Wednesday directed primary school teachers across the state to embark on an indefinite strike from...
A lecturer with the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Ebonyi State, Mr. Kyrian Nwoke, has been killed by unknown assailants in the state. The lecturer...
A former Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Ahmed Hassan Jumare, is dead. A member of the Assembly, Dr. Aminu Shagali, who disclosed this...
The management of the University of Lagos on Wednesday directed the students of the institution to return to campus for the resumption of academic activities on...
Gunmen on Tuesday morning abducted a lecturer with the Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic in Rivers State, Mr. James Finwe. The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of...
The management of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, has set up a COVID-19 committee to control and manage the virus transmission rate in the university community....
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination results. The council revealed that a total of ten schools were derecognised by...
A Military Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), has dismissed claims that it was involved in the death of two youths in Plateau State. The Plateau...
A farmer, Wole Agboola, who was abducted on his farm at Aba-Odo in Akinyele council area of Oyo State on December 28, 2020, has been killed...
A 23-year-old housemaid, Olayemi Lawrence, was on Tuesday, remanded in Ilesa correctional center by a Magistrates’ court sitting in Osogbo, Osun state, for threatening her boss,...
The Ogun State Police Command on Tuesday paraded 11 suspected members of the Eiye Confraternity for allegedly killing 25 persons within a month in Ijebu Ode...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Tuesday pulled down five wrestling centres and also arrested 25 others at Dakibiyu, Gwarimpa 1 and Sector Centre districts...
The Oyo State Police Command on Tuesday gave reasons why it rejected armed robbery suspects brought to it by the Oyo State Security Network, also known...
The Ogun State government has given an update on the eventual take-off of the State Security Network otherwise known as the Amotekun Corps. In a state...
The Abia State University (ABSU) will commence its post- Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) test on Monday. The Registrar of the university, Acho Elendu, who disclosed...
Troops of Operation Sahel Sanity have killed at least 10 suspected bandits in Katsina State. The Acting Director of Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, who...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday approved the redeployment of 21 commissioners of police to new commands and formations. The Deputy Force Public Relations...
