About 10 houses harbouring silos in Dirani village, Suletankarkar Local Government Area in Jigawa State were on Monday razed by fire. The council’s Information Officer, Alhaji...
The town of Sagamu, Ogun State, on Monday erupted in violent protest over the killing of a footballer and deputy captain of Remo Stars Football Club,...
A fresh threat by Boko Haram insurgents to attack Garkida town in the Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State has forced residents to flee the...
A 29-year-old woman, Mrs Paulina Santos has been arrested by the Nasarawa State Police Command for allegedly planning the kidnap of her friend’s mother. The Nasarawa...
One Emmanuel Bassay who was arrested by the Anambra Police command for sexually molesting six teenage boys, has blamed demons for the acts. According to the...
An operative of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Christopher Akpan, slumped and died in his office at the weekend. Akpan, who led a team of SARS...
Justice Chuka Obiazor of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on Friday sentenced a Ghanaian, Gyan Paul, to 35 years imprisonment for drug trafficking. The judge handed...
The Nigerian Army on Sunday said one of its soldiers attached to the 232 Battalion of 23 Armoured Brigade died while repelling a Boko Haram attack...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said on Saturday its troops have killed some key commanders of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) during raids...
At least three persons including a woman, her daughter and a vulcaniser suffered varying degrees of burns after a petrol tanker fell and exploded at Ijaiye-Tutun,...
The Kaduna State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Amina Mohammed Baloni, on Saturday, confirmed a new case of Lassa fever in the state. The commissioner told journalists...
Two schoolgirls were crushed to death and four others injured by a police van chasing suspected criminals in Mallalladori local government area of Jihawa State on...
The Federal Government has informed that it is planning to digitalize border management for effective surveillance and intelligence gathering. This was revealed on Friday by the...
The Boko Haram militants on Friday killed an unspecified number of vigilante operatives at a checkpoint along the Damaturu/Gashua road in Yobe State. The attack according...
The Kaduna State Police Command said on Friday that three suspected notorious kidnappers have been arrested in Bungel Ladugga village, Kajuru local government area of the...
A Kaduna High Court on Friday release 87 members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) accused of killing a soldier following clashes with troops in...
The management of the Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, has sacked four lecturers of the institution over the alleged alteration of students’ results. The affected lecturers are...
No Nigerian was among the 29 foreign citizens infected with the deadly coronavirus in China, the Chinese government said on Thursday. It said two of the...
Four officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) were reportedly abducted by gunmen in Kogi State Thursday. A family source to one of...
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday sentenced a part-time lecturer at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Mr. Afeez Baruwa, to 21 years imprisonment...
The Nasarawa State chapter of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria has announced that it has placed a ban on night grazing in the state...
Two buildings in Kaura-Namoda and Sakajiki Local Government areas in Zamfara State suspected to be used as hideouts by cattle rustlers in the state have been...
The Jigawa State government led by Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar has received the sum of $37m in loan to help implement state-integrated rural development projects. This...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmed Lawan, on Wednesday insisted that telecommunications service providers in the country refund to subscribers money paid for drop calls....
The Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji has accused the Otun Olubadan, High Chief Lekan Balogun of blackmailing him to gain sympathy. The Olubadan was reacting...
The last has not been heard of the physical brawl between two Osun monarchs, the Agbowu of Ogbaagba, Oba Dhikirulahi Akinropo and the Oluwo of Iwo,...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Wednesday President Muhammadu Buhari has not fulfill promise his 2015 pre-election promise that all citizens abducted by Boko...
The Sokoto State Police Command said on Wednesday it has arrested at least 10 suspected cattle rustlers in the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim...
Mother of the young man, Davies Daibo, who was said to dived from the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos, into the lagoon has said that her...
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has said that the government is yet to pay the benefits of 547 teachers killed by Boko Haram in the...
Yasir Mohammed, the son of the District Head of Gayari town in Zamfara State, Alhaji Hassan Mohammed, who was kidnapped alongside his father has been released...
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday confirmed the first case of Lassa fever that has killed scores of people in different parts of the country in...
Nigeria was recently in the spotlight when the Oxford English Dictionary announced that its January 2020 update included 29 Nigerian English words. The reception, in both...
A 60-year-old man, Muyiwa Olutayo has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zone for smuggling in a substance believed to be...
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier-General Ibrahim Shuaibu has tasked all state coordinators on the safety and welfare of corps members during the...
Kidnappers operating in Kogi State struck again on Tuesday in the Itobe/Ajegu community in Ofu Local Government Area of the state, abducting 12 persons. This was...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said the results of the mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held on Tuesday would be ready within...
Some unidentified persons on Monday evening killed an Assistant Director attached to the State House, Abuja, Laetitia Naankang Dagan. Dagan was killed in her apartment located...
At least four persons were reportedly shot dead by suspected cult members at Gyado Villa, opposite the Benue State University campus, on Monday night. An eyewitness...
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) on Tuesday removed 37 secondary schools in Benue State from the list of centers for the Senior Secondary School Certificate...
The Delta State Police Command on Tuesday said it has received six exhumed corpses allegedly buried in shallow graves in Uwheru communities, Ughelli North Local Government...
A middle-aged woman identified as Mrs. Ohana Freedom on Tuesday slumped at the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) gallery of an old generation bank in Calabar, Cross...
Nigerian students in Wuhan have called for urgent action from the Nigerian government to move them from the Chinese city. They said their lives were increasingly...
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Captain Musa Shuaibu Nuhu as Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). Nuhu’s confirmation was sequel to...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), a Muslim rights group, has said it should not be blamed in the event of a break down of law and...
An Islamic State of West Africa Province training camp at Kirta Wulgo on the fringes of the Lake Chad in the northern part of Borno State...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has warned the managements of higher institutions in the country to desist from admission scams The government said any institution found...
The Kogi State Police Command said on Monday one of the six abducted staff of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been rescued. Six...
Gunmen have abducted a university lecturer and staff of a newspaper outfit in Calabar, Cross River State. The victims – Dr. David Ugwu, an Associate Professor...
Founder of the Resurrection Praise Ministries for Africa, Archbishop Samson Benjamin has called on the United States of America to take another look at the immigration...
