No fewer than 189 out of the 202 persons arraigned for violating the lockdown order of the Lagos State government have been convicted in a mobile...
Some civil society organisations in Ogun and Kaduna states focused on National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) have promised to monitor the distribution of food...
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has denied rumours making the rounds especially on social media that it has postponed its 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination and...
Gunmen on Wednesday evening abducted a medical doctor simply identified as Dr Adewunmi in Emure Ekiti area of Ekiti State. The victim was abducted at his...
The police in Lagos on Wednesday arraigned additional 17 residents who flouted the stay-at-home order of the state government. Those arraigned include: Adekunle Peter, 28; Rikwan...
The Police on Wednesday arraigned a 20-year-old man, Anuoluwapo Busuyi, at the Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged attempted murder. The defendant is standing trial on...
Despite growing calls for the revocation of its license, the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) has announced a N50 million financial relief package as a palliative...
A tragic scene played out in Tirkania community, a suburb of Kaduna State when no fewer than four people were killed when operatives of the Civilian...
Mr. John Mamman, the abducted Special Adviser on Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development to the Nasarawa State governor, has been released by his captors....
The headquarters of the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, Abuja, known as Treasury House, was gutted by fire on Wednesday morning. As at...
The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said facilities in Epe, Lekki and Alimosho will be ready for use soon, as centres for the coronavirus disease....
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control has been urged to make public the daily number of Nigerians being screened for the CoronaVirus. A coalition of civil...
No fewer than 40 health workers have been put in isolation due to contact with coronavirus cases, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba and the...
The Ondo State Police Command and the Yoruba Sociocultural organisation, Afenifere have disagreed over the alleged arrest of the suspected killers of the daughter of the...
The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) on Tuesday decried the harassment and intimidation of oil company workers on essential services by security...
The University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) has commenced mass production of liquid soap and hand sanitizers for staff. The Chief Medical Director of UBTH, Prof....
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State has described as disappointing the state’s preparedness to fight a full-blown COVID-19 pandemic. The party stated this on...
The Lagos State Government has pegged entry age into both public and private secondary schools in the state at 12 years beginning from the next academic...
One Prince Musa, who impersonated Senator Bulus Amos, representing Gombe South at the Nigerian Senate, has been convicted by a Gombe State High Court. Musa posed...
The Ondo State House of Assembly on Tuesday proceeded on an indefinite break in a bid to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the state....
The police in Taraba State on Monday said 27 children have been rescued from one Mary Yakubu, a suspected child trafficker, from whom 33 children were...
A former governorship aspirant in Lagos State under the Action for Democracy Party (ADP) Babatunde Gbadamosi has been arrested for attending Funke Akindele‘s husband’s birthday celebration...
A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has faulted the sentencing of Funke Akindele and her husband, AbdulRasheed Bello, for flouting order to curtail COVID-19 in Lagos....
The Lagos State Government has reportedly sent about 67 persons, who attempted to enter the country through Seme border, into quarantine. According to reports, security agencies...
Suspected killers of the daughter of the leader of Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, have been arrested. This was disclosed in a statement on...
The Zamfara State government Monday demolished a four-bedroom apartment suspected to be housing cultists near the new motor park in Gusau, the state capital. The demolition...
The Delta State Police Command on Monday confirmed the arrest of a lady who just returned from Cote D’Ivoire and her driver at Udu local government...
The Abia State Police Command said Monday that a police inspector who allegedly shot a man dead along Ururuka Road, Ogbor Hill area of Aba has...
A clergyman, Archbishop Samson Benjamin yesterday staged a protest calling on the government and telecom companies in the country not to implement the Fifth Generation Mobile...
Governor Godwin Obaseki-led government of Edo has hinted on plans to create no less than 54 COVID-19 screening centres in the state. The state Commissioner for...
The Lagos State Police Command on Sunday advised parents to adequately watch over their children during the coronavirus lockdown to ward off child abusers, who could...
A police inspector attached to the Abia State Police Command headquarters in Umuahia, Amadi Kingdom, has been killed by unknown gunmen who also took away his...
A native doctor known as Onyeonoziri Friday on Saturday committed suicide in Ukpakiri village, Obingwa local government area of Abia State. The man popularly known as...
Unknown gunmen on Saturday night abducted Mr. John Mamman, the Special Adviser on Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development to the Nasarawa State Governor. The...
The Imo State government said on Saturday that staff of Fancy Hotel, Umuguma, Owerri and their guests have been discharged after they were quarantined for 14...
The Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said on Saturday the agency monitored the repair of the vandalized pipeline at...
The Kebbi State Police Command has arrested nine members of a vigilante group, popularly known as Yansakai, for allegedly killing seven persons in an attempt to...
The Ogun Government said Friday night it would only open markets every two days during the lockdown. Governor Dapo Abiodun stated this while addressing journalists at...
Emergency responders led by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) are currently battling to avert imminent pipeline explosion following a leakage of one of the...
The family of the first person that died of COVID-19 in Lagos University Teaching Hospital said they did not reveal his travel history, over fear that...
The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, on Saturday confirmed the death of a COVID-19 patient in the hospital. The LUTH Chief Medical Director, Prof. Chris...
The Nigerian Army said it had arrested two soldiers who vowed to rape, and infect Warri women with HIV. The Army said the soldiers were arrested...
Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) has apprehended six suspected drug dealers who were supplying Cocaine and Rophypnol, popularly called Refnol...
Two shops with household utensils at Maola Shopping Mall in Idumota area of Lagos Island were destroyed by fire on Friday. The Director-General of the Lagos...
In response to growing cases of coronavirus in the country, the Bayero University, Kano (BUK) said on Thursday it had commissioned a team of engineers to...
The University of Benin (UNIBEN) has commenced mass production of liquid soap and hand sanitizers in a bid to check further spread of coronavirus in the...
One person died in multiple accidents in the early hours of Friday in Lagos. The accident which involved two 20-feet containers, a private towing truck, a...
The Delta State Government has waved aside a video of angry youths who attacked two soldiers in the state after soldiers allegedly killed a father of...
There was drama on Thursday at the Oregbeni market in the Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State as angry buyers beat up garri sellers for...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Thursday the Lassa fever death toll in the country had increased to 185. The centre, in its...
