Parents of Don Davies, the JSS 1, victim of alleged to have been sexually molestated at the Uyo campus of the Deeper Life High School, Akwa...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Oyo State Command on Friday, said it arrested no fewer than 133 suspects and convicted 44 for various drug-related...
The Auxiliary Bishop of Owerri Achdiocese, Most Rev. Doc. Moses Chikwe, who was recently abducted has regained his freedom. His driver, Ndubuisi Robert, who was abducted...
Medical doctors on the payroll of the Lagos State government have decried the attitude of residents in Lagos towards the observation of set safety protocols to...
70 days after he fled from his palace, the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, returned to his home in the Iga Idungaran area of Lagos Island...
The Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, said on Friday the state government planned to construct 1,000 housing units for civil servants in the state. Fayemi, who...
The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide said on Friday it would pursue the establishment of a regional security outfit for the South-South geo-political zone in the...
The Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Friday granted pardon to 12 inmates of the state’s correctional facilities. The Special Adviser on Media and Communications to...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Lagos chapter, has sanctioned at least 240 lecturers, including professors for enrolling in the Integrated Personnel Payment...
Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji on Thursday rescued 10 persons held hostage by bandits in Katsina and Zamfara States. The Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen....
Suspected military officers have killed a 28-year-old pregnant woman, Mary Pelemo, in Magongo, in the Ogori/Magongo Local Government Area of Kogi State. Recounting the incident, the...
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested one Mr. Ekennah Okechuku for allegedly being in possession of 130 kilogrammes of Cannabis sativa, otherwise known...
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on Thursday unveiled a Mobile App for the National Identification Number (NIN) enrollment. The media aide to the Minister of...
The Ogun State Police Command said on Thursday 2,735 suspected armed robbers, kidnappers and other criminals were arrested between July and December in the state. The...
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, said on Thursday he did not order the closure of churches in the state. In a statement issued by...
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on Thursday warned touts and other individuals using the ongoing enrolment for the National Identification Number (NIN) to extort applicants...
The Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, has banned the display of masquerades during the New Year celebration. Ayade disclosed this in a statement signed by...
The family of a Nigerian in Saudi Arabia, Sulaimon Olufemi, who was sentenced to death, on Wednesday approached the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) for intervention...
A high court in Jigawa State on Tuesday, sentenced two people, identified as Jamilu Harisu and Mustapha Idris to death by hanging. It was learnt that...
Gunmen on Wednesday morning abducted 30 persons from several communities in Dandume local government area of Katsina State. Residents of one of the communities told journalists...
The Ekiti State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing alleged rights violation by operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has recommended the payment of over...
The Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri, Imo State, said on Tuesday the abducted auxiliary Bishop of the diocese, Moses Chikwe, is still alive and has not been...
A 26-year-old man, Sabi’u Ibrahim Chamo, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment with 20 strokes of the cane by a Dutse Magistrate’s Court sitting in...
Labour workers in Ekiti State on Wednesday threatened to embark on strike if the state governor, Kayode Fayemi, does not implement the N30,000 minimum wage approved...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has denied reports making the rounds that it has abandoned corps members who have tested positive to COVID-19 in isolation...
As Nigeria plunges into another round of recession, the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has urged the Federal Government to develop a “clear” economic...
The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has on Tuesday, approved the appointment of Mr. Samuel Ibidunmoye as the State Surveyor-General, and Mr. Victor Adeuya,...
A police inspector in Edo State, Christiana Afekhai, has sought compensation for her car ‘vandalised’ during the #EndSARS protest. She told the Edo State judicial panel...
Gunmen claded in military uniform have kidnapped an Oyo businessman, Wole Agboola, on his farm on Monday. The Oyo police command and Amotekun corps confirmed in...
A member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Femi Odekunle, is dead. Odekunle died at the COVID-19 isolation center in Gwagalada, Abuja, on...
Oyo State Government has banned street carnivals of any form across the state with immediate effect over spike in COVID-19 cases. The Coordinator of Oyo State...
Police operatives had arrested 16 suspected members of the Eiye Confraternity in Lagos. The spokesman of the state police command, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who disclosed this in...
The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has traced a €500,000 COVID-19 fraud to Nigeria. Interpol, which disclosed this in a statement on its website titled: “Unmasked:...
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on Tuesday issued fresh guidelines for the National Identification Number (NIN) registration exercise. The NIMC spokesman, Kayode Adegoke, who announced...
The Benue State government has banned motorcycles and illegal revenue checkpoints in order to stem the rising spate of insecurity in the state. This was contained...
The Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri, Imo State, Most Rev. Moses Chikwe has been kidnapped. It was learnt that the 53 year-old priest...
The Rivers command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has threatened to shut down motor parks in Port Harcourt and its environs if they continue...
A Nigerian man identified as Fulgens Quadio, also known as Kristopher Wilmer, has been arrested by the Cyber Crime Wing of the Central Crime Branch (CCB)...
A businessman identified as Babatunde Olubasa, has been killed by assailants who had allegedly trailed him to a hotel where he lodged in Ondo State. The...
At least 476 FCT health workers have contracted Covid-19 so far, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has said. The health workers include doctors, nurses, pharmacists,...
The Arewa Telecom Operators Agents and Simcard Dealers Association (ATOASDA) has raised the alarm that no fewer than two million Nigerian youths have now been rendered...
Two suspected hoodlums were on Monday set ablaze by an angry mob at Asas, Molete and Oke Ado areas of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. One...
An Ekiti businessman kidnapped on Christmas day in Oye Local Government Area of the state has been rescued by Operatives of the Ekiti State Security Network...
Gunmen that abducted a female councillor in Rivers State, Hellen Alasomuka, have demanded N50 million ransom from her family to aide her release from their custody....
Gunmen on Sunday night abducted 20 people in two communities in Bosso and Munya local government areas of Niger State. Scores of others were also injured...
A notorious bandit terrorizing residents of Kaduna State, Nasiru Kachalla, was on Monday killed during a clash between his group and a rival gang in the...
Suspected bandits on Monday killed an uncle to a member of the Katsina State House of Assembly simply identified as Rufa’i. The hoodlums also killed a...
The Bayelsa State Police Command said on Monday four members of rival cult groups died in a shootout at Lobia community, Southern Ijaw local government area...
A former lawmaker representing Fagge Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Alhaji Danlami Hamza, has died from complications resulting from COVID-19 complications. He was 70....
The Director-General of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said on Monday the agency has shut down six pharmaceutical...
