University students on Thursday appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to suspend the ongoing strike and resume classes to continue lectures. Some of...
A Chinese expatriate who was kidnapped by gunmen on Friday at a construction site in Ekiti State, has secured his freedom following the payment of N100...
The Federal Government has presented relief materials to the Borno State government for distribution to residents of Zabarmari village in Jere local government area of the...
The Amotekun Corps in Ondo State have arrested the suspected killers of a monarch in the state, Oba Israel Adeusi, the Olufon of Ifon, who was...
An Islamic cleric (Alfa) has been accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Ijesha, Surulere Local Government Area of Lagos State on Wednesday morning. The...
A 24-year-old Nigerian, Samuel Odupitan, has been convicted of murder by a Croydon Crown Court in the United Kingdom, after he was found guilty of stabbing...
The Federal Government on Wednesday threatened to sanction any electricity distribution company (DisCo) or its representatives selling electricity meters or asking Nigerians to pay money to...
At least one person has been reported dead while many others sustained varying degrees of injuries after a fight ensued between two men over a lady...
A human rights activist, Malcolm Omirhobo, who embarked on a lone protest at the gate of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, has been arrested by operatives of...
Staff of an outsourcing company, Integrated Corporate Services Ltd on Wednesday protested their sacking in front of Access Bank headquarters, Lagos. The workers in their hundreds...
The Ministry of Interior is partnering with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in the recruitment of personnel for the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and...
A fuel tanker explosion which occurred at the Magboro section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, in the early hours of Wednesday, caused heavy traffic gridlock on the...
The leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has released a new video where he praised his members for killing over 43 rice farmers in...
One person was reportedly murdered while five others sustained injury on Tuesday as hoodlums clashed in Ibadan, the Oyo capital city. A witness told the News...
The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Tuesday alleged that 925 persons who did not undergo recruitment processes for 10,000 Nigeria Police Constables were smuggled into the...
The Abia State Commissioner for Information, John Okiyi-Kalu has said that six corps members taking part in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in the state...
The Defence Headquarters claimed on Tuesday that troops of Air Task Force component of Operation Lafiya Dole had killed scores of suspected Boko Haram fighters during...
The Ogun State government said on Tuesday at least five children have been declared missing at the Stella Obasanjo Motherless Babies’ Home in Abeokuta. In a...
A petitioner, Mrs. Victoria Agori, on Tuesday told the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) panel how operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) killed her...
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing allegations of human rights abuses against operatives of the disbanded police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) on Tuesday dismissed...
The rampaging bandits terrorising parts of the North-West have killed seven farmers and abducted 30 others in three communities in Katsina State. The victims of the...
Police in Adamawa State has arrested 32 suspected kidnappers and four armed robbery suspects. The state Police Commissioner (CP), Olugbenga Adeyanju, made this known to newsmen...
No fewer than 12 million infected persons are waiting to access HIV treatment while 1.7 million people became infected with HIV in 2019, due to Inadequacy...
The Federal Government has filed terrorism charges against Aswani market leader, in Lagos State, Chief Taoreed Farounbi, aka Baba Alado, and six others. The Aswani market...
Staff of Ondo tertiary institutions have been instructed by their organised labour unions to embark on a one-day fasting and prayer over alleged non-payment of salaries...
A number of disengaged employees of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Warri Monday held a protest, urging Minister of Transport Rotimi Amaechi and NPA Managing Director...
Justice T. B. Adegoke of the Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State on Monday, November 30, sentenced Onus Osagie Amahian, a former staff of...
Police on Monday confirmed the re-arrest of four inmates who escaped from the Oko Correctional Centre in Edo State last month. The Force Spokesman, Frank Mba,...
The All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (AFAN) on Monday urged the Federal Government to take a drastic step against Boko Haram following the killing of 43...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has suspended the Deputy Controller of Corrections, Abubakar Sani, over an alleged recruitment scam. In a statement issued by its spokesman,...
The family of a 31-year-old taxi driver who was allegedly killed by a policeman in Rivers State over two years ago on Monday demanded an N100million...
The Governing Council of the University of Ibadan on Monday approved the appointment of Prof. Adebola Ekanola as the acting Vice-Chancellor of the institution. The council’s...
One Adam Kaka Adam, a former banker has been sentenced and convicted to prison over N11 million fraud. The Maiduguri zonal office of the Economic and...
Three firemen of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service were reportedly injured and a fire engine of the Agency damaged by hoodlums, who attacked the...
A 50-year-old father of two, Kamoru Smaila, has been arrested by officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), for allegedly raping a 10-year-old...
Three persons who allegedly detonated explosives in a church in Port Harcourt where the father of Governor Nyesom Wike worships have been arrested by the Cross-River...
The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Sunday dismissed reports on the rising cases of COVID-19 at its orientation camps across the country....
The operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit on Sunday demolished over 1,700 illegal shanties and containerised shops in the Agege area of...
Police operatives in Lagos have arrested seven suspected members of Eiye Confraternity in the Ikorodu area of the state. The spokesman of the state police command,...
A hotel manager, Afeez Adio, told the Osun State judicial panel of inquiry that an operative of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) confirmed that he...
The Rivers State Police Command said on Sunday three persons had been arrested in connection with the explosion that rocked a local church in Port Harcourt,...
The Benue State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the killing of an Associate Professor with the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Karl Kwaghger, by unknown gunmen....
At least seven persons have been killed in fresh violence in Jema’a local government area of Kaduna State. The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home...
Forty-three farmers who were killed at a rice plantation in Kashebe village, Borno State on Saturday, were buried on Sunday morning. The state governor, Prof. Babagana...
Troops of 192 and 202 Battalions of Operation Fire Ball (OPFB) of the Nigerian Army pounded Boko Haram terrorists operating around Shyadawe/Nagasino villages in Borno State....
The Ekiti State Council of Traditional Rulers said on Saturday the killing of a first-class monarch in the neighbouring Ondo State by unidentified gunmen was worrisome...
Boko Haram fighters have reportedly killed at least 43 farm workers in Borno State. Six persons were also injured in the attack that took place on...
A hairdresser, Mrs. Hannah Olugbodi, on Saturday, narrated to the Lagos State judicial panel of inquiry probing allegations of police brutality, how she ended up on...
Mrs. Silifat Adeyemo, the wife of a Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) official, Rotimi Adeyemo, who was killed by policemen two years ago, has pleaded...
No fewer than six persons involved in an accident at Ogere area of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, on Saturday, have been confirmed dead, with one other person...
