Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said on Wednesday it has deployed thermal scanners in all airports across the country in a bid to prevent the...
Few hours after the murder of chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Adamawa chapter, a student of the University of Maiduguri, Daciya Dalep has...
Sixteen people in Ondo state have been confirmed dead as a result of Lassa fever outbreak. Confirming the incident, the State Chief Epidemiologist, Dr Steven Fagbemi...
Details have emerged of how a Lagos-based billionaire, Chief Ignatius Odunukwe was murdered, his corpse cut into pieces, packed in a bag and dumped in a...
A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, has fixed January 31, 2020 for the sentencing of a 21-year-old internet fraudster, Arowolo Ariremako,...
One Lere Fashola Emmanuel has been remanded in correctional facility for alleged issuance of a dud cheque to the tune of N20 million. The Economic and...
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, on Tuesday, accused security agents, religious leaders and residents of the site of...
Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, on Tuesday, appointed the Big Brother Naija 2019 star, Gedoni Ekpata, as the Special Adviser on Garment Factory and Branding....
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday revoked the licences of 11 centres selling e-PIN for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The...
The Nigerian Navy School of Armament Technology, says its operatives arrested no fewer than nine suspects involved in kidnapping, cattle rustling and banditry in Kaduna State....
The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) based in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Lawan Andimi, who was kidnapped about two weeks...
The Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) has sacked one of its lecturers, Tene John, for allegedly s-exually assaulting a student of the institute, Ms. Anjola Ogunyemi....
The United Nations has condemned in strong terms the attack on its main humanitarian accommodation facility in Ngala, the north-eastern part of Borno State by Boko...
Nigeria has been rated to account for 50 per cent of glaucoma cases in Africa as well as being the country in the continent with the...
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has issued a directive approving free primary and secondary school education for students domiciled in the state with immediate...
Two persons were feared dead in multiple pipeline explosions at Abule-Egba area of Lagos State last night. Many people were injured, as fire from the explosions...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said on Sunday that three persons died after an articulated truck rammed into a tricycle on Mgbuka-Nkpor road in Onitsha,...
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Sunday directed the Governing Council of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, to proceed with all the processes required...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday urged Nigerians to promote and patronise locally made products, saying that is the only way to grow the nation’s economy....
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo at the weekend spoke about the crashed marriage between his son and the daughter of his friend, Chief Kesington Adebutu. Obasanjo said...
The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has said it will soon begin a campaign tagged: #HallofFame and #WallofShame, to recognize efforts of individuals whose activities promote...
The military authority said at least 608 repentant Boko Haram insurgents are currently undergoing De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DRR) Programme put together by Operation Safe Corridor...
Fire razed at least 10 shops on Saturday in Ogoja local government area of Cross River State. Eyewitnesses said the incident which occurred in the morning...
Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, on Saturday, performed the foundation laying ceremony of Samuel Maduka University, Agu-Ekwegbe in Igbo-Etiti local government area of the State. The...
A staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Tarila Ebizimor has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for obtaining N4 million under false pretence. Ebizimor...
Justice J. K. Daggard of Federal High Court, Kano has sentenced one Francis Igo to 28 years prison term for defrauding his victims of a total...
Omolola Ajayi, the 23-year-old Nigerian woman recently suspected to have been trafficked to Lebanon has arrived in Abuja and handed over to National Agency for the...
At least nine children have been rescued from suspected child traffickers who specialized in moving abducted children from the southern to northern parts of the country,...
Scores of physically challenged protesters have rallied in Abuja and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the disability act he had signed into law since...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday secured the conviction of an internet fraudster, Chibundu Anuebunwa, who was sentenced to one year imprisonment by...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested an ex-banker, Seyi Onigbinde for allegedly defrauding 354 people to the tune of over N500 million. Onigbinde was said...
Bandits on Tuesday killed 29 people in Babban Rafi village in Gummi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An indigene of the village, Musa Ibrahim, who...
The Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on Thursday warned heads of schools and other officials to desist from aiding and abetting examination malpractice or risk...
The Ondo State Police Command has arraigned a pastor, John Abiodun and a university Lecturer, Dr. Lanre Olu-Adeyemi before an Ondo State High Court sitting in...
The attack on the First Class Emir of Potiskum, Yobe State, His Royal Highness Alhaji Umaru Bubaram Ibn Wuriwa Bauya by gunmen has been condemned in...
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) on Thursday called on the Kano State Government to discontinue its move to establish a committee to address alleged professional misconduct and...
The fourth prosecution witness (PW4) Enu Matthew Obun, in the trial of Ismaila Mustapha, also known as Mompha, on Wednesday, January 15, 2020, told a Federal...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, arraigned the immediate past chairperson of Kwara State Scholarship Board, Hajia Fatimah Yusuf before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye...
Two members of staff of the National Population Commission (NPC) Gaddafi Ali-Shehu and Isah Zaradeen have been released by their abductors. The duo, who were abducted...
At least 30 people were killed while 100 others were abducted after gunmen attacked commuters along the Kaduna-Zaria Highway on Tuesday. Independent sources said the Emir...
Armed men on Wednesday evening raided the Abuja home of the Director-General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, Earl Osaro Onaiwu. The five-man gang...
A Plateau-born aid worker, Jennifer Ukambong Samuel, who was abducted by Boko Haram insurgents in Maiduguri, Borno State, in December last year has regained her freedom....
The only Nigerian who was reportedly onboard the ill-fated Ukrainian aircraft that crashed in Iran last week has dismissed the report of his death. The 30-...
A 37-year-old man, simply identifies as Stephen, has been remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Service by an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly raping his 16-year-old daughter...
Hepatitis, commonly caused by viral infection, has become a striking health challenge in Nigeria which has prompted the Senate to propose the setting up of a...
The Nigerian Navy Ship Delta (NNS Delta) has arrested and handed over a motor vessel, MV Salvation and its nine crew members to the Economic and...
Three members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State died on Monday in an auto crash along the Kaduna-Abuja road. The PDP Organising Secretary...
Two persons suspected to be involved in the illicit crime of human trafficking have both been arrested by officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition...
Gunmen on Monday abducted two teachers at a primary school in Owan West local government area of Edo State. The hoodlums stormed the Obi Primary School...
Anti-kidnapping operatives attached to the Imo State Police Command have arrested six suspects for allegedly stealing a five-year-old baby, Godday Obi, the state police spokesman, Orlando...
