A day after the Deputy Speaker of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar-Gummi revealed that a yet-to-be-named teacher allegedly flogged a student of...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the construction of the Ibadan-Kaduna rail project expected to cost $6.7 billion. Its approval came by way of endorsement...
Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, has been granted approval by the National Universities Commission (NUC) to commence undergraduate degree programmes effective from the 2017/2018 academic session....
President Muhammadu Buhari visited Yola, Adamawa State to declare open the State Anti-Corruption Summit and commission some projects. Also in attendance were Governor of Kaduna state,...
Tragedy struck at the Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State when a yet-to-be-named teacher allegedly flogged a student of Government Day Secondary School Sankalawa to...
The Niger State Commissioner for Health, Dr Mustaph Jibril, has confirmed that no less than four people have passed on following an outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis...
A banker identified as Mr. Christian Amechi who works in the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) customer’s care unit of a new generation bank has been arrested...
The Senate, on Tuesday, passed a Motion calling on the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Health to establish rehabilitation centers in each of the 36...
Uche Kanu, Wife of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has insisted that her husband is in the custody of the...
The Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court, near Lagos played host to a case of a 29-year-old man who allegedly stole a phone belonging to one Noah Gbeliho...
Four hundred and seventy-five Boko Haram suspects have been freed by a court for lack of evidence. Four judges appointed by Chief Judge of the Federal...
Peter Ebere Okpaleke, the Nigerian Catholic bishop who was hugely supported by Pope Francis as the Bishop of Ahiara Diocese, despite being rejected by the people...
The lingering fuel crisis has attracted the attention of OurMumuDonDo Movement led by popular musician turned social crusader, Charles Oputa (a.k.a Charly Boy). The group will...
Pandemonium struck in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State when a policeman escorting a vehicle conveying frozen chicken and fish shot dead a taxi...
The Catholic Church has announced its return to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) after about five years’ absence due to alleged misunderstanding. The return was...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has dragged native doctors; ordinarily called juju priests to the Oba of Benin. Director-General of...
Two pregnant women and another victim have been lost to the dreaded Lassa fever so says the Benue State Commissioner for Health and Human Resources, Dr....
Cows Saturday invaded the runway of Akure airport, thereby preventing an Air Peace flight said to have departed Lagos around 11:20 am, from landing for about ten minutes....
The administrative panel on financial management set up by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has indicted nine of its officials for their inability to...
At least 22 people lost their lives on Friday, after three suicide bombers set off their explosives at a market in Borno State. The target was...
The Nigerian Army says it is not aware of the whereabouts of the factional leader of Boko Haram terrorist sect, Abubakar Shekau. The Army in a...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a notorious assassin identified as Adeola Williams alias Ade lawyer who revealed in his confessional statement...
Former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan met in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, as Obasanjo embarked on a 3-day working visit to the state on the invitation...
A group of suspected armed bandits have reportedly killed at least 41 persons at Birane village in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The gunmen...
Troops of 222 Battalion, Nigerian Army and operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) Rivers State Command have tracked and killed one of the late...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned Nuraini Adamu, son of former Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Adamu and one Felix Onyeabo Ojiako...
Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Asaba, Delta State, has convicted and sentenced a former Relationship Manager with the United Bank for Africa (UBA)...
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said it has initiated investigate into what went wrong prompting an Atlanta-bound Delta Air Lines flight to make a return...
Twelve Fulani herdsmen are alleged to have been killed and fourteen others declared missing in Oyo State after an attack by suspected local farmers at Okere...
The Federal High Court in Wawa Cantonment, Kainji, Niger State Tuesday sentenced a commander of the Boko Haram terrorist group, Abba Umar, to 60 years imprisonment...
Tragedy struck Tuesday as twenty-two students of Government Secondary School, Misau, Bauchi State and their driver died in an auto crash along Bauchi-Kano road. Kabir Ibrahim-Daura,...
The Federal Government on Tuesday said that it has served no fewer than 246.4 million meals to primary school pupils across 20 states under the National...
Workers on Monday deserted the Akure South Local Government secretariat in Ondo State after rampaging herdsmen stormed the place and sacked everybody within the premises. The...
The British health authorities have classified Nigeria as having a risk of Zika virus transmission and warned travellers especially it’s citizens to take necessary precautions when...
The destructive tendencies of Fulani herdsmen was once again recorded in Kwara State after the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin accused run away herdsmen...
This crisis rocking the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is far from being over as workers of the agency have been polarised by the reinstatement of...
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has admonished Nigerians especially the youth not to engage in unsafe sex during this year’s Valentine’s Day...
The Benue State Police Command has disclosed that the body of one of its remaining missing officers has been recovered with the eyes, ears and nose...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) disclosed Sunday that it had suspended Philomina Chieshe, a staff who claimed N36m was swallowed by a snake in...
A group of scholars who were awarded scholarship by former President Goodluck Jonathan have raised the alarm that about 11 PhD students were currently stranded abroad...
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has condemned the killing of a 32 year old farmer in Ekiti State by suspected Fulani herdsmen and vowed that his...
Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has stated that the state government is willing provide cattle ranches for indigenes who want to go into the cattle rearing...
Policemen have been drafted to the headquarters of the National Health Insurance Scheme, in Jabi area of Abuja, ostensibly to prevent further protest by the workers...
Reactions have continued to trail the response of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to a trending story that a snake swallowed N36 million from...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a pastor identified as Daniel Onwugbufor, who also doubles as the General Overseer of God’s Favour...
Three bodies were recovered after gunmen ambushed commuters in Jebu Miango Village in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State on Saturday. Having reportedly fled the...
The police said Sunday that two of its four missing officers following ambush by suspected herdsmen in Bunue State, have been found unhurt. The officers were...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Governor Akinwunmi Ambode “to take steps to immediately reverse the unfair and discriminatory toll charges at the...
Boko Haram has released three University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) lecturers and the 10 women abducted from a police convoy in Borno State, months after. While the lecturers...
The police in Benue came under attack from herdsmen and are searching for four officers who were part of the targeted patrol team in Logo Local...