The World Bank has disbursed N477.8m to 42 communities and seven groups in Katsina State for projects under its supported Community and Social Development Projects. The...
A murder suspect, Oladosu Nureni, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing two residents of Iwoye Village, Ilaro. The police said...
Residents of Umuagu area of Asaba,the Delta State woke up Friday morning to discover the body of an unidentified man hanging in front of a shop...
Commercial drivers have blocked both lanes of the Kaduna-Abuja highway in protest. Motorists were on Friday trapped for hours on the Kaduna-Abuja highway as drivers of...
At least 16 persons have reportedly died following an outbreak of yellow fever virus in Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State. Many others are also...
Girls in Ondo state are now expected to defend themselves against rapists as the state governor’s wife; Mrs Betty Akeredolu has employed the services of Taekwondo...
The Federal Government through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund has set aside N4.9 billion for Book Development Fund, which is to enhance academic publications across universities...
Abia State governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has said that his government was going to do everything possible to ensure a Nigerian soldier who murdered a commercial motorcyclist,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday said it has secured the conviction and sentencing of Adetunji Abudu, a former Managing Director, New Prudential...
All youth group within Rivers State have been proscribed henceforth, following an order by Governor Nyesom Wike. The state governor who gave the order on Thursday...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command on Thursday, paraded 49 criminal suspects who were allegedly terrorizing Abuja community. Information gathered revealed that they were arrested...
A personnel manager of an Indian-owned firm in Lagos, Lokesh Parwani, attempted to take his life by eating a rat poison after he was arrested by...
Two men, Sunday Adewa and Amos Adedayo, were Thursday sentenced to death by hanging by an Ado Ekiti High Court after they were found guilty of...
The Nigeria police has released the names and photographs of the three officers shot dead by soldiers while taking an arrested kidnap kingpin to the police...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday directed the Defence Headquarters to begin immediate probe of the incident where Nigerian soldiers’ alleged killed three policemen to save a...
The Kano State Governorship Election Petition tribunal said it would deliver judgement in the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the election of...
Operatives of the Nigerian police, Rivers state command have ended the reign of Abacha, a robbery kingpin terrorizing the state, Abacha. Until his death in a...
The Lagos State Lotteries Board (LSLB) on Wednesday read the riot acts to licensed bet operators in the state on indulging minors in staking bets in...
The Chairman of Rice Farmers’ Association of Nigeria, Gummi Local Government Area chapter, Zamfara State has been arrested by operatives of Economic and Financial Crime Commission...
The tragic bridge collapse which occurred at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) was allegedly caused by 30 students who were taking selfies when the bridge...
Twelve oil thieves in Rivers State on Wednesday landed in jail and forfeited stolen products to the Federal Government. This followed the ruling of Justice A....
No fewer than 79 suspected kidnappers, armed bandits and others were paraded on Wednesday by the Kaduna state police command at Rijana on Kaduna-Abuja highway. The...
Students of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday protested the alleged harassment and unlawful arrest of their colleagues by operatives of the Economic and...
Justice Archibong Archibong of the Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, on Wednesday, convicted and sentenced Archibong Effiong Edem to seven years imprisonment over...
The police in Enugu state on Wednesday confirmed the release of the traditional ruler of Obom-Agbogugu of Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, Igwe Sunday...
The kidnapped traditional ruler of Obom Obom-Agbogugu, Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, Igwe Sunday Orji and his wife, were on Wednesday released. The monarch...
Investigation has been launched into the killing of three police operatives and one civilian by soldiers in Taraba state. Officers of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT)...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to use the N2.2 billion for Ruga settlements in the 2019 budget to rebuild communities destroyed by alleged killer herdsmen...
The Director General of the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NHSA), Mr Clement Nze has warned Nigerians to prepare for more flood as the country approaches the...
The Nigerian Customs Service in Niger State has seized trucks conveying 1,940 bags of foreign rice worth N32.9 million being smuggled into the country. This was disclosed...
The Human Right Watch on Wednesday said the arrest of the convener of RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, signified that President Muhammadu Buhari led administration was planning to...
The Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) and the Nigeria Copyright Commission (NCC) have vowed to end plagiarism and other forms of intellectual theft in Nigeria. According...
Six among the arrested members of ‘RevolutionNow’ protesters were released by the police in Lagos on Tuesday. This was confirmed by the legal counsel to the...
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers state on Tuesday, jailed four suspected oil thieves. The suspects were served with different jail terms by...
The National Universities Commission (NUC), in collaboration with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), on Tuesday said it had put measures in place to block fake...
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has approved the sum of N500,000 each as bursary to the 120 Oyo State indigenes in the Nigerian Law School....
The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi State, has been shut down after four students died as a metallic bridge at the Gubi Campus collapsed during a...
A commercial bank in Iju town, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, was on Tuesday attacked by suspected armed robbers who killed a female...
53 filling stations and four gas plants in Kaduna have been sealed by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) for offences, including under-dispensing, hoarding and diversion...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko branch, on Tuesday called on the authorities of both Nigeria Police and Army to...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASUU) on Tuesday held a joint protest in Ibadan to demand the...
Five members of #RevolutionNow protest group, and a lawyer were on Tuesday arraigned in an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The protesters who are...
A tragic bridge collapse at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Bauchi State, has reportedly claimed the lives of some students of the ivory tower. Reports...
Police Operatives in Enugu State on Tuesday arrested a notorious gun manufacturer, Cyprian Eze, 69, who allegedly supplies firearms to criminals in the state. The Command’s...
State governments have lamented the costs they incur in funding federal government agencies and security setups, including the army and police. Speaking on behalf of the...
Journalists in Cross Rivers state on Monday evening embarked on protests over their colleagues that were arrested by the police at the venue of Revolution Now...
The Niger state governor, Abubakar Bello, on Monday canvassed for stiffer punishment for criminals in the state. Bello who expressed worries over the manner in which...
Some gunmen in Ondo state on Monday evening killed a police inspector at a checking point around Isua-Ise Akoko Road in Akoko South East Local Government...
An Anglican priest, Gabriel Asateru, was on Monday sentenced to five years imprisonment by a High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, for defiling a minor. While...
The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU ,Ile-Ife in Osun State, has said it was not true that a student of the university, Opeyemi Grace...
