An unidentified man was on Friday arrested by security agents at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, after he was caught mounting a moving Air Peace...
Four former Executive Directors of the Gombe Internal Revenue Service have been arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Gombe, for fraud by the Gombe...
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, on Friday directed the immediate closure of a hospital where patients suffering from the deadly lasso fever disease were being diagnosed...
Depression may start in the brains of children as young as seven – and warning signs could predict future emotional problems, a study suggests. For...
Investigative journalist, Kiki Mordi, the pen pusher whose undercover story exposed rampant sexual harassment in West African universities, has lamented the fact that same-sex marriage is...
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 37-year-old man, Mutiu Sonola for beating his wife, 34-year-old Zainab to death on Christmas Day. This was revealed...
The Nigerian Army on Thursday said its troops under the Operation Lafiya Dole have recovered a flag hoisted by the Boko Haram insurgents in Fadama village...
The Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Wednesday banned men and women from entering the same commercial tricycles across the state. The ban takes effect from...
Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole have reportedly foiled an attempt by Boko Haram insurgents to bomb the Nigerian Army base in Sambisa Forest on Christmas Day....
The government of Kano State has sealed a ‘witchcraft centre’ in the state that claimed to heal all sicknesses. The centre located at Makoli town in...
The Jigawa State government has announced the commencement of payment of the new minimum wage to its workers, with reports revealing that some civil servants in...
Troops deployed for Operation Lafiya Dole have announced the killing of a commander of a faction of Boko Haram and 30 other terrorists. The Islamic State...
The Ogun Police Command has arrested a dismissed soldier and 22 other suspects for alleged armed robbery, kidnapping and murder. The suspects, who were paraded on...
The 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination has been scheduled to hold between March 14 and April 4, the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) said on...
The Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, has commended the Nigerian Army for foiling an attempt by Boko Haram terrorists to take over the Damaturu,...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has absolved the Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi and his wife, Erelu Bisi Fayemi of complicity in the recent...
The General Overseer of Sotitobire Miracle Center Akure, Ondo State, Prophet Alfa Babatunde, was on Monday arraigned at the Akure Magistrate’s Court, Oke-Eda, for alleged abduction....
Gunmen on Sunday abducted the son of the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Water Resources, Mr. Nengi Talbot. The hoodlums stormed Taibot’s residence at the Commissioners’ Quarters...
Two people were on Sunday killed and one other seriously injured in multiple accidents that involved three articulated vehicles along the Jos-Abuja Road. The Public Education...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) said on Monday it would 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) between March 14 and April 4. The JAMB...
The abducted chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Cross River, Ben Ukpebi, has been released by his captors. Ukpebi was released at about 9:00...
At least 100 students of the University of Abuja have been expelled by the institution’s authorities for their involvement in examination malpractice and other forms of...
The Anambra State Police Command has arrested three suspected kidnappers of staff of the Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, Emeka Chiagbana at Agulu, Aniocha Local Government Area...
The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Sunday approved the promotion of 623 senior police officers to their next ranks. Those promoted include 40 Deputy Commissioners of...
A police Inspector on Saturday shot dead a Corporal and also injured a Deputy Superintendent of Police in the Federal Capital Territory. After killing the junior...
The Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) Saturday revealed that 19,273 teachers who wrote the December Teachers’ Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE) failed. Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, TRCN...
The Nasarawa State Commissioner of Police, Bola Longe, on Friday in Lafia, paraded the village head of Mangora Goma Tunga, in Nasarawa Local Government Area, Alhaji...
Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Friday raided Mubi town market in Adamawa State for foreign rice and other contraband. The raid by the...
The Oyo State Police command on Friday cautioned that the proscription of the state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) was still...
A 37-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Oduola Gbenga, who allegedly raped a woman and killed her five-year-old boy, has said he did not know what prompted him to...
Three travelers have been confirmed dead following a ghastly auto crash in Laboxhi village, along the Mokwa -Bida road of Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger...
A 42-year-old father of 17 children, Toafeek Oyeyemi has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for impregnating his 16-year-old daughter. Oyeyemi, according to the...
Gunmen in military uniform struck in Kaduna on Wednesday and Thursday, abducting five persons in two separate attacks in Kaduna State, the police command in the...
Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Ishaq Oloyede has revealed that the board generated N20 billion from University and Tertiary Matriculation Examinations between...
Kidnappers of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) chief in Cross River, Ben Ukpepi, Thursday demanded a N20 million ransom for his release. Just 24 hours after...
President Muhammadu Buhari has stated the need to have “orderly, disciplined and modern police officers” who will uphold the trust reposed on them by Nigerians by...
The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) has revealed that no fewer than 2,745 inmates condemned nationwide are awaiting execution in its facilities scattered across the country. This...
An Abuja -bound Bayelsa passenger bus was reportedly attacked by unknown gunmen along the Okene-Lokoja expressway in Kogi State on Tuesday, with 12 people abducted. One...
The Nigerian Army has been ordered to pay the sum of N50 million over the death of one Otunba Ajayi Oladele. Late Oladele died after being...
At least six persons have been confirmed dead after a mining pit collapsed on Tuesday at Zawan Community in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau...
At least 14 people were killed and five others injured after Boko Haram fighters attacked Kaiga, a fishing village in western Chad on Tuesday, government officials...
The Ogun State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Wednesday confirmed the death of three persons in a motor accident around Kara Market...
The Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), in Cross River State, Ben Ukpepi, was abducted by unknown gunmen on Tuesday night. A family source who...
A suspected drug merchant has been nabbed by men of the Ondo State Command of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over his alleged link...
The Student Union Government (SUG) of Plateau State University on Tuesday, said gunmen attacked the institution, raping a female student in the process and dispposessing others...
A High Court in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Tuesday sentenced a staff of the Kuje Correctional Centre, Ahmed Abdu, to a four-year jail term...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday regretted the mortality rate for kidney disease and blamed it on patients’ inability to afford the cost of treatment and...
The Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC) has called on the international community to rise against promoters of terrorism in Nigeria while also stating that it is...
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 34-year-old man, Faruq Seidu and three accomplices, who he allegedly contracted to kidnap the seven-year-old son of his...
The Ogun State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to go on a two-day strike to pressure the state government to set up...
