Tragedy struck within the organised labour community in Kogi State Thursday when the State Chairman of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools, Science and Technology...
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has stated that the anti-graft agency was prepared to go after human traffickers. In...
In Benue, a state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, persistent rains and heavy floods are ravaging farmlands, thereby affecting food production and forcing farmers to migrate. Ripples...
An Ikeja High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the detention of a 37-year-old man, Agu Echezona Harrison for allegedly sexually violating his 6-year-old daughter between...
The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, says it has seized a total of 59 bullet-proof Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) in Lagos. Four...
The Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Garba Umar, Wednesday revealed the identities of two suspects behind the invasion and killing of eighteen worshipers at St....
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, swore in Mr Boss Mustapha as the new Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). Mustapha replaces Babachir Lawal who...
The long arm of the law has caught up with two suspected criminals identified as Monday Okoro, and Chidiebere Oke after they were both arrested by...
A middle-aged man, Mr Oyekun Akinsemoyin, has been remanded in Kirikiri Prison following his arraignment before the Ikeja Magistrate Court 1 on charges bordering on shares...
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has stated that his government would follow through on its planned sack of the 22,000 teachers that failed the...
The National Coordinator of Strict Movement Against Ravages in Tivland, Gbakighir Sevendagas, has called on the Federal Government to make Sambisa Forest the designated area for...
Nasarawa State Governor Tanko Al-Makura, on Monday urged Nigerians to support people living with disability and revealed that he is currently one of them as he...
A suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber Sunday struck outside the headquarters of the Borno State command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), located in the...
The Kano State Commissioner for Health, Dr Ibrahim Kabiru Ketso has revealed that the blood sample of the suspected Monkey pox patient in the state has...
The Nigerian Army Saturday announced that it arrested at least 399 suspects for various offences in Lagos and Ogun states during its Operation Crocodile Smile II...
Six new cases of the monkeypox virus have been confirmed including a first case in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The Minister of State for...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos Friday dismissed an appeal filed by Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, seeking to set aside the decision of the Federal High Court,...
Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans, has been charged with murder following the amendment of earlier charges filed against him. The new charge was filed against...
Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has said that Nigeria will not relent in exporting yam until it takes over the world...
Two students of the University of Calabar who have been impersonating military officers on their Facebook pages which they used in defrauding their clients by conducting...
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Usani, has ordered the immediate suspension of the Niger Delta Development Commission’s scholarship programme. With the development, the NDDC...
At least no less than eight soldiers were on Tuesday night allegedly killed in a village near Damaturu, Yobe State capital in the North-east part of...
The suspected killers of Professor Paul Osatowie of the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronics, University of Benin have been arrested by men of...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the North East Development Commission Bill into law. In a...
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, Tuesday escaped a fire accident involving his Mercedes G Wagon from “sudden fire under the vehicle” whose cause was “yet to...
The House of Representatives and the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) on Wednesday disagreed over the powers of the National Assembly to conduct probes into the...
While Abubakar Shekau, leader of the deadly Boko Haram sect, remains an elusive target, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Wednesday revealed that his wife, Mallama Fitdasi...
Following allegation of extortion of retirees by staff of Ebonyi State Audit Department, the state Governor Dave Umahi has ordered a thorough probe of the matter...
The Nigerian Army has apologised to the family of Abubakar Alhaji, a Lagos-based commercial motorcyclist, who was allegedly killed by beating by Sgt. Taiwo Owoeye in...
For allegedly disrespecting corpse of wife, by allowing it to decompose inside their residence, a onetime wrestling champion, John Uti, popularly known as Power Uti, was...
Abdurrahman Amadu, 81, has landed himself in court for being in possession of 34 fake $100 notes suspected to be counterfeit which were recovered from him...
Two police officers were said to have been killed while trying to prevent the abduction of an expatriate at a construction site in Obajana, Kogi State....
More properties belonging to the former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, have been sealed by the operatives of the Economic...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Federal Government to urgently review the minimum wage in the country, vowing that it would never accept any...
Reports have emerged that Boko Haram on Sunday night carried out suicide attacks in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The suicide bombers attacked two locations in...
Mr. Okwuchukwu Obiechina said to be the brother-in-law of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, has been awarded the sum of N2m in damages against...
The long arm of the law has again caught up with an ex-convict identified as Kunle Afolabi, 31, who was arrested after he allegedly vandalised a...
Following the alleged suicide of Edward Soje, a level 16 officer and director in the Kogi State Civil Service, the Kogi State government has responded to...
The body of the man who committed suicide by jumping into Lekki Toll gate area of Lagos Lagoon last Friday has been found. The body of...
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police Imohimi Edgal has warned and advised residents who have cars abandoned at police stations across the state to remove them...
Following intelligence reports from surveillance and reconnaissance, a large gathering of Boko Haram terrorists in Urga, close to Konduga, Borno State, was last Thursday targeted and...
Barley seven months after Dr. Allwell Orji took his life by plunging himself into Lagos Lagoon, a yet-to-be identified man, on afternoon, jumped into the lagoon...
A father of three children identified as David Charles, 27, pleaded not guilty to a one count charge of defilement after he was paraded at an...
With an inmate population of 7,396 against existing prison capacity of 3,927, Lagos State has an alarming case of prison overcrowding. These figures were part of...
The Presidential Committee on the North-East Initiative (PCIN) has raised alarm over the rising cases of sexual violence against displaced persons in camps across the North-East,...
The trail of Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, known as Evans has taken a twist as the Lagos State Government on Thursday amended the charges it filed against the...
A daredevil 21-year-old suspected rapist did the unthinkable in Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State, when he stormed the home of his victim, Mercy Godwin,...
The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has listed Nigeria as a top piracy hotspot, describing the nation’s waters as risky, owing to the high rate of attacks...
The outbreak of the monkeypox virus has grown worse, spreading to eleven states, with 74 suspected cases recorded, Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, has revealed....
Three months after the Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, Is-haq Oloyede, stated in his speech during a meeting with owners of...
