A former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Bello Salim, has advised the board to consider setting up mobile courts for the...
No fewer than 1,000 former students of the Adesun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa in Oyo State, on Sunday, threatened to sue the management of the institution for...
The federal government, through the Department of Petroleum Resources has debunked rumours of a possible fuel scarcity in Lagos State. Following the failure of petroleum marketers...
No fewer than 300 houses were set ablaze on Saturday in clashes between the Jukun and the Tiv in Taraba State. It was gathered that suspected...
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), on Saturday moved against the court judgement on twenty-year renewal of operatorship of Oil Mining Lease...
The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of five persons by unidentified gunmen in Danbushiya Village in Malali, Kaduna North Local Government Area the...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has revealed that six suspected fake youth corps members were arrested during the ongoing registration exercise at the Katsina State...
Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition in Trafficking of Persons (NAPTIP) Saturday said it has nabbed a kidnap suspect, Chika Nnodim, who allegedly kidnapped...
The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaech, has attributed delay in need approval and payments as causes in the delay of work on the new Lagos-Ibadan...
Nigeria Army on Saturday said no fewer than four trucks loaded with smoked fish and some animal hides belonging to Boko Haram insurgents have been intercepted...
Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole has killed scores of Boko Haram fighters in Sambisa forest, Borno State. This was revealed by the Nigeria...
A trailer loaded with granite stones on Friday, crushed a Nigerian Army officer, R. A. Nata’ala, to death at Iyana mortuary area of Abeokuta, Ogun State....
Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has promised that members of the Newspaper Vendors Association of Nigeria will be enrolled into the federal government’s N-Power...
A neighbour, said to be on the run, has allegedly raped and strangled a middle-aged woman, Bukola Olanrenwaju to death in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State...
The Ekiti State government Friday lamented that poor power supply has crippled its economic activities. The Commissioner for Infrastructure and Public Utilities, Hon. Bamidele Faparusi, said...
There are only 300 elephants Nigeria’s wildlife, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation has said. Mr Oladapo Soneye, Head of Communication, NCF, said this in a statement made...
Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State on Friday ordered that nine suspected internet fraudsters be remanded in Ado-Ekiti prison...
The Nigeria Police Force on Thursday said it had uncovered and detonated an undisclosed number of bombs left during the 1967-1970 Nigeria civil war in three...
No less than 1,140 illegal schools, said to be operating under unhygienic conditions and deplorable environment, have been penned down for closure by the Akwa Ibom...
Police in Ogun state command on Thursday said some kidnappers had laid ambush on the members of Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Ogun community. A statement by...
The Nasarawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency (NSPHCDA) on Thursday said said that 2,637 children under five years had been cured of Acute Malnutrition since...
A pregnant woman in Nchatancha Nike, Enugu East Local Government Area of the Enugu State have been killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen on her way from...
Tragedy struck on Thursday in Ilile community in Ohaji/Egbema Local Area of Imo State, as gunmen, suspected to be cultists killed five persons, including a retired...
The logistics base of the insurgent group, Boko Haram was on Thursday destroyed by fighter jets of the Nigerian Air Force in Bula Bello, close to...
The Ogun State Police Command has announced the arrest of two suspected kidnappers who were part of the gang that abducted three persons, including the son...
The Lagos State Police Command Thursday said it has dismissed four policemen caught on camera extra-judicially killing two suspected robbers. The erring officers were also charged...
Two separate groups staged protests in front of the Oyo State House of Assembly complex, Agodi Secretariat, Ibadan on Thursday. While one group was opposing the...
Boko Haram has withdrawn from Gubio and Magumeri, Borno State after attacking and causing damages in the communities. The terrorists were said to have at about...
Ogun State government on Thursday sealed four houses in Abeokuta for lack of toilets, and practicing of open defecations. The government also threatened to seal more...
The committee set up by the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) to carry out investigations into allegations involving the founder of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly,...
The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons on Thursday said it was prepared to receive 4,000 Nigerian refugees from the Cameroon Republic. The...
Some unknown gunmen have kidnapped a lawmaker of the Sokoto State House of Assembly, Aminu Magaji Bodai. Bodai who represents Denge/Shuni State Constituency was kidnapped by...
THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday urged the Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, to declare a state of emergency on waste management and open...
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in Ondo State, on Wednesday said it had told the police to arrest and prosecute any herdsman...
Nigerian Army on Wednesday said troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, foiled a plan by terrorists to plant Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in massive potholes dug on...
Controversy ensued at Seme border, Lagos on Wednesday as operatives of the newly launched joint border security, EX-SWIFT RESPONSE commenced operation. It was gathered that the...
A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, on Wednesday condemned an investigative panel set up by the Nigerian Army to probe the soldiers that killed policemen in...
The Nigerian government has said a total sum of N9.8bn was spent to ensure the successful eradication of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) in the country within...
The Lagos State Government has said strategic moves would be deployed into combating maternal and child mortality in the state. The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin...
The Lagos State Police Command has announced the arrest of the four policemen who shot dead two suspected phone thieves in the Igando area of the...
Fresh tension has engulfed Vat village in Foron District of Barki Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State after gunmen suspected to be herdsmen attacked the...
While efforts are still being made to end xenophobic attacks, yet another Nigerian has reportedly been murdered in South Africa. The Nigeria Union South Africa (NUSA)...
A 37-year-old woman, Adeola Afonja has been ordered remanded in prison by a Plateau State High Court sitting in Jos.for allegedly beating her eight-year-old daughter to...
Resident Doctors at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba Lagos have maintained that their strike which has entered the fourth week would not end soon except their...
A bandit, Aliu Musa on Wednesday revealed how weapons were supplied to his gang members in Katsina forest. According to him, the weapons were supplied with...
The Nigerian Army on Wednesday revealed actions it has taken against the soldier that allegedly killed a motorcyclist (okada rider) in Abia State. The motorcyclist, Chimaobi...
The Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC) on Tuesday tasked Nigerian workers to exercise more patience as the federal government and labour struggle over a...
Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) the Association of Primary School Head Teachers of Nigeria, (AOPSHON) on Tuesday threatened a showdown with...
Nigeria Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Oyo State, on Tuesday, pledged its readiness to fight kidnapping and other related criminalities in the state. A...
Six members of the Vigilante group in Kebbi were on Tuesday arrested by police operatives for killing kidnap suspects. The state Commissioner of police commissioner, Garba...
