The Chief of Defense Staff, Abayomi Olonisakin, has appealed to the media to showcase the roles of the military in nation building in order to correct...
A group of bandits Wednesday attacked a mining site in Anka Local Government Area of Zamfara, killing one of the six mobile policemen on guard and...
Justice Ibrahim Mohammed, Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, has sworn in the remaining 13 members of the 2019 Election Petition Tribunals. This was revealed in a...
The National Population Commission (NPoPC) has estimated that the next census will cost well over N220bn. This was revealed by the Director-General of the NPoPC, Ghaji...
A 34-year-old commercial motorcyclist has been detained by detectives at the State Criminal Intelligence Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos for allegedly killing a passenger simply identified...
The Nigerian Army has announced the deployment of 197 soldiers and officers to a fellow West African country, The Gambia, for a peacekeeping mission. This was...
A 25-year-old man, Ajibade Olumuyiwa, has allegedly killed his wife’s suspected lover, Olakiitan Balogun, after catching him on their matrimonial bed with his wife. Olumuyiwa was...
Three persons, including a former councilor, have been reportedly struck to death by thunderstorm on Tuesday during a downpour at Osieta Avenue, a border quarter between...
The Anambra state police command has confirmed the death of a pregnant woman and her two children in a fire incident at Umuoffor Village, Okija, Ihiala...
A police sergeant, Raheemi Idowu narrated before an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on Wednesday of how a 27-year-old female teacher allegedly defiled her...
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr Ibrahim Magu, has advocated for stiffer penalties for thieves in the country so as...
The Universal School of Aviation, popularly known as USA, has set a record as it becomes the first approved aviation school in Nigeria to have an...
Suspected herdsmen have attacked Tse Ioreleegeb, Babai council ward of Guma local government area of Benue State. At least 10 people are feared dead in in...
The federal government is set to allocate N27.4 billion as intervention fund for victims of conflicts, insecurity and flooding across the country This was announced by...
The Nigerian Navy on Wednesday announced the arrested of 12 crew members of a ship for alleged illegal bunkering of Automotive Gas Oil otherwise known as...
Boko Haram terrorists in northeast Nigeria have in a fresh attack on Wednesday in Borno state killed four farmers. The insurgents had previously killed three people...
21 inmates at the Ado Ekiti Prison were on Wednesday set free by the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Ayodeji Daramola. The release of the...
Following reports of claims by the Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Abdalla Adamu, that former president Olusegun was being paid N40,000 annually...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the State House of Assembly seat in the contended Tafawa Balewa constituency in Bauchi State. The March 9 house...
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has confirmed the death of 13 children to Measles. The agency has also revealed plans to begin the...
A 30-year-old suspect named Umar Tambari has been arrested by the Niger State Police Command for allegedly beating his wife, Hauwa, to death during an argument...
An internet fraudster, Oyesanmi Ayomikun Oluwaseun was sentenced to four months in prison after sharing pornographic and indecent images through his email address. Oyesanmi was arrested...
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) on Tuesday said that former President Olusegun Obasanjo earns N40,000 annually as a staff of the institution. According to...
The Federal Government has said the country requires an annual budget of $55 billion to achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) This was disclosed...
Seven people died on Tuesday after a truck in which they were travelling plunged into a river at Kotonkarfe Community on Lokoja-Abuja Highway. Mr Emmanuel Abe,...
The Enugu State Police Command has arrested three suspected kidnappers operating on the outskirts of Enugu metropolis. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, in...
Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara has lamented the level of insecurity and banditary in the Northwest state, saying the bandits are better equipped than the Nigerian...
Two persons were reported killed during a clash between two rival cult groups on Sunday in Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State. According to...
The Nigerian Army has said that it repelled and killed many of the Boko Haram terrorists who attacked and sent indigenes of Michika in Adamawa State...
A suspect named Akeem Lawal was sentenced to death by hanging by a Lagos High Court in Igbosere on Monday for shooting and robbing his stepmother,...
The head teacher of Okotie-Eboh Primary School in Sapele Local Government Area, Mrs Vero Igbigwe, has been suspended by the Delta State Government for allegedly collecting...
A suspect named Segun Oni was arrested by the Ondo State Police Force on Monday for allegedly killing his brother-in-law, Sunday Oluwadare over a N30,000 debt....
In furtherance of government’s efforts at reducing the number of out of school children, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has announced that Nigeria will soon...
As a part of it efforts to prevent further building collapse, the Lagos State Government, has warned property owners in the state to demolish properties that...
The Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation alongside 29 other firms may lose properties worth total of N4.8bn to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission...
Ekiti State Government on Monday expressed its resolve to conduct psychiatric tests on rapists as well as publish their names and photographs on the Ministry of...
A traditional ruler, Godwin Aigbe, the Enogie of Ukhiri, has been allegedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State. It was...
The Garrison Commander of 33 Artillery Brigade of Nigerian Army (Shadawanka Barracks) Bauchi, Col. Mohammed Barack, has been shot dead. He was shot on Sunday along...
The family of a car dealer, Sodiq Bakare, who went missing, has called on the police to help find him. Relatives say he disappeared after leaving...
Members of an armed robbery gang said to be terrorising residents of the Lekki area of Lagos State, have been apprehended by a team of police...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has blamed the prevalence of fake news in the country for the outbreak of violence during the conduct...
The abductors of Kano-based Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Sulaiman have demanded N300, 000,000 ransom for his release and that of five other persons kidnapped along with...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged “the governments of Lagos and Oyo states to take immediate action to address the numerous ongoing human rights...
A former executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Bem Angwe was shot on Saturday by suspected gunmen. According to sources, Angwe was said...
Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike has assured that his government would make sure that the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) operative that allegedly killed a Peoples...
The Nigerian Army on Saturday released lists of senior officers of the force approved for immediate postings and appointments. This was contained in a statement it...
The Taraba State government has said it would foot the medical bills of the victims of post election violence that rocked the state. The state Commissioner...
The Nigeria Police said on Saturday that it would apprehend those who killed a police sergeant on Friday night in Yenogoa, the Bayelsa State capital. The...
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has confirmed fresh attack on Nandu village in Sanga Local Government Area (LGA) of the state that led to the killing...
Reacting to the post-election violence that broke out in Taraba state following the announcement of the governorship election results, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Taraba...