No fewer than 10 persons have been confirmed dead after a petrol tanker exploded at Felele area of Lokoja, Kogi State Capital, on Wednesday morning. It...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arraigned a former Director of Physical Planning, and currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Architecture,...
The Nigerian Navy on Tuesday deployed troops on board six warships and 60 gunboats in a special military exercise to tackle pirates, oil smugglers, and other...
The National Universities Commission (NUC) on Tuesday released new guidelines for the reopening of universities in the country. In a memo signed by the Director, Executive...
Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen on Sunday killed three persons in Nzoro Council Ward, Guma local government area of Benue State. The Chairman of the local...
Fire gutted a section of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) headquarters in the Oshodi area of the state on Tuesday. The Assistant Director of...
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has postponed its planned nationwide protest slated for September 23. The TUC Chairman in Lagos, Gbenga Ekundayo, told journalists...
Gunmen on Monday reportedly raided Kana town in Nasarawa Local Government Area of Nasarawa State and killed one person. The hoodlums also abducted 10 others during...
The 2,500 civil servants who were delisted from the Cross River State government’s payroll on Tuesday vowed to occupy the new state secretariat until they are...
An uncompleted one-storey building at Umuota village, Obosi in Idemili North Council Area of Anambra State, which collapsed over the weekend, has been sealed off by...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it had commenced investigation of one Felix Osilama Okpoh, who turned himself in to its Lagos zonal office....
Officials of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) who were kidnapped sometime ago in Nasarawa State, have regained their freedom. Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, who...
The Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja, on Monday, jailed an internet fraudster identified as Imole Oluwasegun to six months’ imprisonment with an option of...
No less than three suspected bandits have been arrested by a combined team of policemen and vigilante groups in Oyo State. It was learnt that the...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), observed in Awka, Anambra State on Monday that about 57 per cent of Nigerian children under five years of age...
The attack on police officers at Gidan Madi Police Division in Tangaza Local Government area of Sokoto State by bandits will not be left unaddressed, so...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the Nigeria Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), will partner to conduct Covid-019 antibody household surveys in four states in...
One Eze Mavus Ugochukwu, a student of Computer Science, Bauchi State Polytechnic, who defrauds unsuspecting members of the public by posing as a Lieutenant in the...
A 300- level student of Human Anatomy at the University of Calabar, Umo Aniekpeno, was killed in a generator explosion in the South-South city at the...
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on Monday threatened to stop domestic flight operations in the country over alleged breach of COVID-19 protocols by industry players....
The Benue State Police Command on Monday confirmed the arrest of 96 persons for alleged house breaking, theft, armed robbery and cultism in Makurdi, the state...
A Nigerian Army officer, Col. DC Bako, has died from a Boko Haram attack in Borno State. The jihadists attacked some soldiers near Damboa on Sunday....
The Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) on Monday directed tanker drivers across the country to embark on strike from Tuesday. The development is expected...
The Nigerian Navy on Monday announced the redeployment of 25 senior officers in the Force. The Director of Naval Information, Commodore Suleman Dahun, who disclosed this...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Monday explained why the Federal Government embarked on the reform and commercialization of the Nigerian Film Corporation...
The Lagos State government led by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved resumption dates for the 2020 to 2021 school session as the effect of the Covid-19...
The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) on Monday in its preliminary report of the crash in Lagos State, involving a Bell 206B Helicopter operated by Quorum Aviation...
The Anambra State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the rescue of a six-month-old baby from the wreckage of a one- storey building which collapsed at Onitsha....
Health Workers under the aegis of Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Health Care Professionals (JOHESU) on Sunday suspended their seven days warning strike. The...
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) on Sunday decried the rising prices of food and hunger in the county and challenged the Federal Government to...
The Edo State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called on all party leaders in the state to proceed to the INEC office in...
The Bauchi State Police Command on Saturday confirmed the arrest of one Bawada Audi over the alleged murder of his newly-born grandchild in Rimin, Zayam Toro...
Five staff of the Bauchi State Local Government Pension Board had been arrested by the police for alleged pension scam. The spokesman of the state police...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said on Saturday divers had recovered bodies of 14 victims of the Ebonyi State auto crash from the Akeze-Ukwu River...
The Lagos State government has sealed three illegal container terminals and two buildings in the Amuwo-Odofin area of the state. The spokesman for the Ministry of...
The management of the Polytechnic, Ibadan, on Saturday, confirmed the sack of a lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Mr. Ajadi Omotosho, for...
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Saturday directed cinemas, spas and other recreational centres in the state to resume operations. The governor gave the directive...
The Rivers State Police Command has explained that the arrest of the Chairman of Gokana Local Government Area of the state, Paul Kobani, was not in...
The Special Military Task Force in Plateau State has arrested 11 members of a suspected cult group, “Sara-suka,” in some parts of Jos North local government...
The Ekiti State police command has placed a N5 million bounty on a suspected criminal, Samuel Oguntoyinbo, who has been declared wanted for alleged bank robberies...
The Kogi State Police Command on Saturday confirmed the killing of one person and the abduction of three others by gunmen in the eastern part of...
Not less than seven persons have been kidnapped by armed bandits, after attacking a community in Barkallahu, Igabi Council of Kaduna State, including five member of...
A three-storey building housing a school, on Saturday collapsed in Ejigbo area of Lagos state. The sad incident occurred at Number 15, Ansarudeen Street, Ile-Epo bus-stop,...
The Akwa Ibom State Government has fixed September 21, 2020, to commence resumption processes for academic activities in the state-owned university, college of education and public...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has revealed that several bandits were killed and their meeting venue in Kwaimbana Forest area of Kaduna State destroyed, when the Air...
A 608-model bus plunged into the Akaeze-ukwu River in Ivo local government area of Ebonyi State on Friday evening. The bus was carrying 38 passengers when...
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said on Friday at least 13, 311 personnel from 10 states had been deployed to Edo State for...
The abducted ex-United States soldier, Major Jide Ijadare, has been released by abductors. Ijadare was abducted alongside one other person at his factory at Ijan Ekiti,...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits reportedly abducted seven persons in Barkallahu, Igabi local government area of Kaduna State on Friday. Five of the abducted persons were...
The Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, Prof. Babatunde Salako, said on Friday the institute has developed molecular test kit for COVID-19....
