Three passengers traveling from Katsina-Ala to Makurdi were killed on Monday by unknown gunmen who opened fire on their vehicle about five kilometres into their journey....
An intervention by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has pushed off the planned strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD....
Abductors of Mrs Beauty Ogere Siasia, mother to the former Super Eagles striker and coach, Samson Siasia, have reduced their ransom demand for her release to...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of two internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo Boys before Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of a...
The Buhari Media Organization (BMO) on Monday clarified that the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria led by Sheik Ibrahim El-zakzaky was not the umbrella body of...
The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) and national troops on Monday said 10 members of Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) were killed in Baga,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office, Monday said it had arrested Segun Soewu, Director General, Kwara State Bureau of Small and Medium...
The Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has claimed that no less than 3,000 members who defected from various political parties in the...
Four monarchs in Ondo state have sacked herdsmen from their communities following the ugly experience they have had recently. They communities are Idoani, Idogun, Imeri and...
Several persons are feared trapped beneath the rubbles of a three-storey building that collapsed in the Osasa area of Bariga, a densely populated area of Lagos....
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a tenant, Daniel Isaac for allegedly killing his landlord, Willy Ebinate in the Ikotun area of the state. According...
A 65-year-old businessman, Yusuf Garkar-Bore was Sunday morning killed in Gulma town of Kebbi State by Gunmen who also abducted his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Aisha Yusuf. A...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Sunday paid a condolence visit to the family of Precious Owolabi, a Channels Television reporter who was killed during a clash between...
14 days after her abduction, the whereabouts of Beauty Ogere, the mother of a former Coach and skipper of the Super Eagles, Samson Siasia, remains unknown....
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on Sunday said a technical audit has been carried out on fleet of aircraft owned by Air Peace to verify...
The military Special Task Force (STF) in charge of security in Plateau State and other law enforcement agencies have concluded plans to cage Shi’ite members in...
Osun monarch, Oluwo of Iwo, Oba AbdulRasheed Akanbi, has called for collective action over the rising state of insecurity in the South West characterised by killings...
Host communities of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), have described the recent claim of hostility against the institution by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of...
A 50-yr-old man, Raphael Ekechi has been arrested by the police for defrauding a trader, Emmanuel Ekpe of the sum of N167,000 on the pretence of...
A secondary school teacher, Idowu Daniel, has been repremanded in prison custody for allegedly defiling a 17-year-old student of the school where he teaches Computer Science....
Speaker of the Lagos state House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has urged the government of China to increase its investments in Lagos. While receiving the Chinese...
Three persons have been arrested in connection with the kidnap of the Permanent Secretary of the Adamawa State Ministry of Mineral Resources, Emmanuel Piridimso. Piridimso, who...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied claims by former Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, that the commission raided the college while it was...
The governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade has warned warring communities in the state to stop further clashes or face the wrath of government. Speaking...
The Kwara State Police Command has rescued four Turkish expatriates that were kidnapped six days ago by Gunmen my n Gbale, Edu Local Government Area of...
The first lady, Aisha Buhari, has decried the alarming rate of maternal deaths in Nigeria. She noted that about 9.2 million Nigerian women and girls get...
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians to exercise caution when buying animal hides, popularly known as Ponmo. A statement...
The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) has sealed a total of 255 pharmacies and patient medicine shops in Ondo State. This was revealed by the Director,...
No fewer that 171 Nigerians that were stranded in Libya on Friday returned to Nigeria. The returnees were received by the operatives of National Emergency Management...
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Muazu, on Friday said the only means by which crime can be fought in the state is with adequate...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned five suspected internet fraudsters before Justice N.E. Maha of the Federal High Court, Abuja. The suspects...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the results for the May/June 2019 results written earlier in the year. The exam board withheld results of...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), in a joint effort with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Thursday destroyed tramadol and...
Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi on Thursday said Nigeria loses $14 billion yearly to the lingering farmer-herdsmen clashes. Dr. Fayemi spoke while delivering a paper, titled:...
The Abia State Police Command had rescued two kidnapped victims, Ndukwe Patrick and Chika Aniere have reportedly been rescued by policemen attached to the Ohuru Isimiri...
A director with the Sharia Court of Appeal in Kaduna State, Aishatu Muhammad, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. The Kaduna State Police Command on Thursday...
Two people were on Thursday confirmed dead by the police in Anambra state when a 20 feet container fell on a tricycle in Onitsha. The incident...
The Kano State Governorship Election petition tribunal on Thursday barred the election agent assigned by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to polling unit no 019 located in...
Lawmakers at the Ondo State House of Assembly were on Thursday chased out of plenary when a snake fell from the roof of the chamber. The...
The Bauchi State Chief Judge, Justice Rabi Talatu Umar on Thursday granted parole to 29 prison inmates during her 2019 First and Second Quarter jail delivery...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Thursday closed the Kaduna office of South African Telecommunication giant, MTN, over xenophobic attacks and killings of 118...
The House of Representative on Wednesday pledged its readiness to investigate a rape and assault allegation at the Federal Capital Territory School for the Blind. This...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared through its Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Georgina E. Ehuriah, that most marriages conducted in Nigeria are...
There was confusion at the All Progressive Congress (APC) Secretariat in Zamfara State, following an attack by suspected hoodlums. Reports say the rampaging vandals destroyed property...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Wednesday accused the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) of duping Rivers State Government on a partnership to build the...
The Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos Police Command has said it will, on Thursday, charge an American, Breedlove Shawn to court for allegedly assaulting and inflicting...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on Wednesday demanded that the government put in more resources and commendable fiscal appropriation to...
The Presidency has ordered the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to be vigilant over the purported importation of poisonous tomato paste...
The Federal Government has disengaged from service, over 2,000 beneficiaries of its social investment programme, N-Power. Disclosing this in a statement on Wednesday, the spokesperson of...
Nine suspected internet fraudsters have been nabbed by the Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Benin Zonal Office. According to a statement by...
