No less than 257 more Nigerians returned home from Libya on Wednesday morning after the return of 144 earlier on Tuesday evening. The 144 who landed...
Moses Motoni, a project tracking official at BudgIT Nigeria, an anti-corruption Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has been granted bail by the Nigerian police. This is coming hours...
No less than 1,070 Nigerians died in road crashes across the country within the third quarter of 2017, a report by the National Bureau of Statistics...
The long arm of the law has caught up with three suspects arrested in connection with the murder of a prominent cattle dealer and three of...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Federal Government and Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to the United Nations over the detention of an official...
The Senate, on Tuesday, instructed its adhoc committee on National Security Infrastructure to probe issues of human rights abuses carried out by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad...
The movement by #ENDSARS campaigners for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad has witnessed more momentum as former Governor of Gombe State and Senator representing...
Pandemonium broke out at the burial ceremony of Deaconess Taiwo Albert staged in the Edo State capital of Benin City when unknown gunmen stormed the venue...
The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the immediate re-organisation of the special anti-robbery squad (SARS) following public outcry of the violent and exploitative measures...
Unknown gunmen have reportedly kidnapped former Nigerian Senator representing Ekiti State, Sylvester Ayodele Arise who was on a journey from Akure to the Federal Capital Territory...
A housewife identified as Mrs. Fatima Muhammed, 18, and another victim Hafsat Adamu, 15 have both been rescued by men of the Nigeria Security and Civil...
Following terror alerts contained in the latest travel advisories issued to their nationals visiting Nigeria by some western countries including the United Kingdom and the United...
Two members of a seven-man robbery gang were gunned down by cops after they were caught up in a gun battle when they stormed Dangote Cement...
The British government has sent out a travel advisory out to its citizens in Nigeria to avoid visiting about 20 states in the country during this...
The spate of suicide bombings in Borno again left no less than 13 people dead on Saturday. Two females reportedly detonated Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) strapped...
The long arm of the law has caught up with Yohanna Ahmadu, 27, for staging a fake army recruitment drive and also issuing his victim identified...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday, lamented that since 2014, an estimated 1,500 schools have been targeted by armed groups in northeast Nigeria, causing...
Two robbers identified as Steven Aleke, 22, and Oseni Umadi, 26, who both resorted to constructing a dummy gun, using woods and cello tape which they...
Nigerian migrants in Libya have stated returning home just as President Muhammadu Buhari revealed that the Federal Government had started bringing back stranded citizens of the...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a 36-year-old man identified as Ahmed Ajibore, and his 17-year-old lover Chidimma Igwe for allegedly strangling...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to push for a joint European Union (EU) and African Union (AU) commission of inquiry...
A magistrate court sitting in Katsina has ordered the detention of two friends Hassan Ibrahim, 50 and Adamu Idris, 60, for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl....
Power, Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday refuted claims by many Nigerians that roads in the country are bad. He said that there are...
Men of the Ekiti State Police Command are on the trail of a rape suspect identified as Tope Adeniyi for allegedly raping his wife’s sales girl...
A prosecution witness, Abdul-rasheed Bawa, an investigator with the EFCC, on Monday, told Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday inaugurated the committee on Tripartite National Minimum Wage at the Council Chambers, State House, Abuja. With the inauguration of the committee,...
There was chaos at the Mile 2 area of Lagos State when a commercial bus driver was shot dead by unknown gunmen who were taking turns...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday insisted that Boko Haram has been defeated by his administration. He said that suicide bombing and other attacks currently being carried...
A robbery suspect identified as Mr. Hyacinth Loveday Bright, 32, has confessed to men of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command how he and his gang...
The three major tribes in Benue State have given reasons to justify the enactment of an Open Grazing Prohibition Law by the state government. The leaders...
The ever busy Owerri-Umuaka-Okwudor-Orlu federal highway witnessed a tragic accident on Saturday when no less than 20 people were feared dead following a crash involving a...
A suspected ritualist identified as Olayinka Abbas Akeem met his Waterloo after he was nabbed by men of the Kwara State Police Command along Ilorin-Ajase Ipo...
Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has berated the Department of State Services (DSS) for preventing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a 30-year-old suspected armed robber, Kola Arobiole who fired the shot that claimed the life of...
The National Inter-faith Thanksgiving Project for the Survival of President Muhammadu Buhari and Stability of Nigeria says it has concluded plans to moblise five thousand Nigerians...
The League of Progressive Ambassadors of Nigeria (LEPAN), a youth-focused civil society organisation, Wednesday lamented the low voter turnout that characterised the just-concluded Anambra governorship election,...
UNICEF is striving to make World Children’s Day an annual signature moment “For children, By children” all over the world. The goal is to make World...
The Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, and other party stalwarts on Tuesday, signed the condolence register...
Seven suspected kidnappers, including two ladies have been arrested by troops of the Nigerian Army after an invasion on a shrine located in the Omoku area...
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to visit Zamfara State in the wake of recent attacks and report back his findings....
President Muhammadu Buhari has withheld assent to two bills passed by the National Assembly. He conveyed his decision via a letter to the Senate. The bills...
Kaduna State government has announced the death of the commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Professor Andrew Jonathan nok, after a brief illness. Nok who was...
A blast at a mosque in Mubi, on Tuesday, during the early Morning Prayer has left over 50 dead. The Public Relations Officer, SP Othman Abubakar...
The Lagos State Police Command have declared musician Damini Ogulu, aka Burna Boy wanted in connection to a robbery incident that happened at the EKO Hotel...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has stated that the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration was implementing critical reforms in the health sector to stem and reverse the brain drain challenge....
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has signed into law, the bill prohibiting secret cults and terrorism, with death penalty as punishment for anyone caught in the...
The United States government says it will contribute an additional $45.5 million to rehabilitation efforts in the North-East, while also calling on the Nigerian government to...
The Nigerian government has expressed its displeasure over the hurried burial of the 26 migrants whose bodies were recovered from the Mediterranean, revealing that it had...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a truck driver, Ebenezer Oyeneye, 50, suspected to be behind several hacking of customers’ bank accounts...
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alex Ekwueme, who was recently flown out of the country for medical treatment has died. He reportedly passed on at a...