A number of people on Thursday morning suffered various degrees of injuries as a train went off it’s tracks in Lagos. Many of the injured passengers...
A group of thugs have reportedly attacked the campaign office of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in Akure, Ondo...
A trigger-happy police officer simply identified as Mohammed Usman has been arrested for shooting two drivers in Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State. According to reports,...
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has confirmed the establishment of four private universities in the country. After the first meeting of the Federal Executive Council,...
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has said the anti grazing law in the state has led to the arrest of over 400 herders, while some...
A crackdown by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has led to the arrest of no less than 23 suspected cocaine pushers in Kano State....
Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for the completion of the mausoleum of former president Nnamdi Azikiwe in his country home,...
After 50 years of the first case of Lassa fever in Nigeria, the country is set to host the first Lassa fever international conference. This was...
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Tuesday as expected, embarked on protests in some parts of the country over failure of Nigerian Government to finalise its new...
Statistics released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has shown that Lagos and Kano maintain their lead as states with the highest number of registered...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has announced the seizure of fake drugs worth N60 million from a warehouse in Lagos....
The long arm of the law has caught up with a commercial bus driver identified as Jelili Lawal, 41, for raping a 78-year-old woman. According to...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is set to commence the weekly publication of its financial activities. According to the Head, Media and Information of...
Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) have reacted to the military’s invasion of the Abuja, Borno and Lagos offices of a daily publication, Daily Trust Newspapers. The groups...
A group, Lagos Liberation Movement (LLM), has called on the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, to immediately reopen the Assembly....
A Katsina Senior Magistrates’ Court has ordered the detention of a 27-year-old man identified as Ibrahim Bindiga, alias Tsallen Tunkiya, for stabbing a neighbour, Usman Abubakar,...
The Lagos State Government has ordered that traders on rail lines across the state be evacuated. The government said it had recorded deaths of people along...
The new international terminal of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja has opened for flight operations with the arrival of Asky Airlines flight ET-AVP from Lome,...
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State has been berated by a group for his comments on the appointment of Hakeem...
The World Bank and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility are currently working on an initiative to assist Nigeria in promoting its REDD+ agenda. REDD+ stands for countries’...
In the heat of campaigns for the 2019 elections, governorship candidates of the two major parties in Lagos State, and their running mates, all met at...
There was a harvest of criminals of some sort when men of the Taraba State Police Command paraded no less than 25 suspected cultists’ and political...
The Christian Association of Nigeria has announced that its members observe a national day of prayer on January 10, 2018 to pray for the peaceful conduct...
Pandemonium struck along the Ikere-Ise Road in Ekiti State when unknown gunmen opened fire and killed an Ekiti State Council accountant. The victim identified as Mr...
Private security guards protecting Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) oil pipelines from Lokoja to Kaduna State, embarked on a peaceful protest Thursday against the non-payment of...
The Nigerian Airforce (NAF) has confirmed dead all the five crew members on board the Mi-35 helicopter gunship that was declared missing on Wednesday. The fighting...
A statement by the Nigerian Airforce has confirmed that it has lost one of its helicopters dedicated for the counter-insurgency operations in the North-East state of...
A coalition of civil society organisations has raised worries over the travail of Abuja-based activist, Deji Adeyanju who is being remanded in the Kano Central Prison....
Nigerian workers have been asked to be ready for a prolonged strike action in the new year by organized labour over the failure of government to...
An Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Modakeke has sentenced a 40-year-old man to three years in prison for raping an 80-year-old woman. Arraigned on two...
The hope of Nigerian workers to have a new minimum wage of N30,000 may be hanging in the balance as the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, has...
The African People Alliance Party (APA) in Oyo state has raised concerns over the preaching for forgiveness by the outgoing governor of the state, Senator Abiola...
The camp of rogue bandits terrorising parts of Zamfara State is reportedly located in Birnin Magaji, the hometown of Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, new...
Militants in the Niger Delta, the oil rich region in Nigeria, has cancelled its ceasefire issued to the Federal Government and the Pan Niger Delta Elders...
A hideout for armed bandits at a compound West of Tsamari in Birnin Magaji Local Government Area (LGA) of Zamfara State has been pounded by the...
An attack by bandits at a forest in Doburu in the Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State has reportedly left an unspecified number of soldiers...
Justice A. Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, has ordered the interim forfeiture of $2.8 million intercepted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a suspect who won N4 million from a popular football lottery firm about three weeks earlier,...
The Nigerian Army has denied reports that Boko Haram terrorists have taken over Baga town in Borno, which hosts the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task...
Family of the deceased former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Vice Marshal, Alex Badeh has refuted reports making rounds that the ex-CDS was robbed of a...
UNICEF, an organ of the United Nations (UN) said on Friday, that the futures of millions of children living in countries affected by armed conflict are...
A yet-to-be identified air force officer has been shot dead by a police officer on Marian Road in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State. Reports...
One of the suspects believed to have taken part in the murder of the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh has...
Boko Haram insurgents have killed a Nigerian navy officer in Borno State. Sani Usman, army spokesman, confirmed this in a statement on Thursday. He said the...
The United Nations Support for the Sahel has said Nigeria needs about $337 billion to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) from 2019 to 2022. According...
A total of 105 cows caught grazing openly near Akawe Torkula College of Advanced and Professional Studies, Makurdi, have been seized by the Benue State government....
A total of 167 policemen have reportedly fled the Nigerian Army Special Forces Training School in Buni Yadi, Yobe State where they were trained before they...
The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said thirteen soldiers and two policemen were killed in an ambush by Boko Haram insurgents. The army also revealed that its...
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi has revealed that despite six meetings with the Federal Government, they have yet...
Reports have emerged that killers of the late Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd) have released an abducted friend of the ex-service...