A 37-year-old man, identified as Michael Ugwu, has been arrested for taking a 12-year-old orphan (names withheld) as a wife. Reports say the 12-year-old girl was...
The monthly wage bill of Sagbama Local Government in Bayelsa state has dropped from N200 million to N30 million, it was learnt on Friday. The situation...
The Nigerian Army, Friday, said its troops, Thursday night ambushed Boko Haram insurgents who were attempting to cross the Maiduguri-Bulabulin-Damboa road, killing two and wounding others....
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with members of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) at the State House in Abuja. Among those present at...
Seemingly dazed by the level of recurring bombings of oil pipelines in the Niger Delta area, the federal government has resolved to engage persons from communities...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Yusuf Buratai, may have confirmed the worst fears of Nigerians, as he said on Thursday that the attacks on...
Residents of Fagbeyiro Street in the Alakuko axis of Lagos State were thrown into mourning after a high-tension wire unfortunately fell on Deborah Faleke, a 14-year-old....
The Bayelsa State government says it has uncovered payroll fraud in the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), with the discovery of over 765 illegally employed...
14-year-old Miss Ese Oruru reportedly put to bed earlier today with sources saying the teenager gave birth to a baby girl. Recall that RIPPLES NIGERIA reported...
The Edo State government has truncated every activity towards the installation of His Royal Highness Edaiken N’Uselu, Crown Prince Eheneden Erediauwa as the new Oba of...
The EFCC has raised am alarm over a purported scam email indicating that it is inviting certain individuals to report to its office regarding a fraudulent...
Justice Joseph Awak of a Gombe State High Court on Wednesday sentenced one Mallam Kabiru Jibrin, a Hajj agent to six years in imprisonment. He was...
Luck has ran out for a criminally minded police sergeant after he was nabbed alongside his accomplice by men of the Lagos State Police for allegedly...
A group of Nigerians numbering up to 40 (33 males and seven females) were jointly deported by the UK and Australia after they were alleged to...
The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh has announced that six Nigerian states are currently fighting the spread...
The neighbours of a commercial bus driver identified as Muyiwa Ijaduola who was allegedly pushed to his death by a policewoman identified as corporal Taiwo have...
The Edaiken N’Uselu, his Royal Highness, Prince Eheneden Erediauwa, is to step into the shoes of the late Omo n’Oba n’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Erediauwa, as the...
The Kaduna State government has declared a state of emergency in the tomato sector following the ravaging effect of a moth called Tomato Leaf Miner, or...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday approved the appointment of Ahmed Ja’afaru as the Controller-General of the Nigeria Prisons Service, (NPS). Until his appointment, Ahmed Ja’afaru was...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has been told how the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh, acquired a land belonging...
In what can be described as a major breakthrough in the clearance and rescue operation by the Nigerian military, the chief bomb maker of the Boko...
Pensioners, who retired from the Edo State public service, Monday, took to the streets, protesting the non-payment of 42 month pension arrears by the state government....
A group of armed pipeline vandals from Ikienghenbiri community who allegedly blew up a major oil pipeline line owned by Agip with dynamites have been arrested...
A bus driver, Eze Gabriel, who plies the interstate route is now in police net alongside his conductor for crushing his passenger, simply identified as Sunday,...
It was another low point in the Niger Delta, as armed men again struck in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The gunmen blew...
The lower legislative chamber is crossed with the management of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) for allowing drugs for the treatment of...
Leaders of the Ayuba Wabba led faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, are scheduled to hold a crucial meeting today, Sunday in Abuja to review...
Freedom came the way of kidnapped chairman and Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State, Hon. Ishola Balogun Fulani and Chief Bode Adekanye...
A faceoff between herdsmen and farmers in Oke-Ako Ekiti, a community in Ikole LG of Ekiti state has led to the death of one youth, with...
Controversy has continued to rage over the true identity of the second girl rescued by the Nigerian military, as the Bring Back Our Girls (#BBOG) advocacy...
Kidnappers, operating within Lokoja-Okene axis of Kogi State, struck again on Friday, when the Chairman and the Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara...
Parents of abducted Chibok school girls have denied that the second girl rescued by the Nigerian military is one of the girls abducted by Boko Haram...
Lekan Shonde, the alleged killer of his wife, has been ordered remanded in prison custody by an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrate Court for 30 days. Shonde, who...
A top aide to the Governor Samuel Otom of Benue State, Mr Denen Igbana was in the early hours of Friday morning assassinated by unknown gunmen....
Breakdown of law and order was averted on Thursday during the protest march by the Ayuba Wabba led faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, as...
Following the release of autopsy results of his late better-half, Lekan Shonde, the suspected killer of his ex-banker wife, Ronke is set to have his day...
The Nigerian Army on Thursday night said that it had rescued another Chibok girl, Serah Luka, from the clutches of the once dreaded Boko Haram terrorist...
The military authorities have handed over the Chibok girl who was recently saved from the Sambisa forest by the Civilian JTF over to the Borno State...
The result of an autopsy report by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) carried out on Mrs. Ronke Shonde, the ex-banker who was allegedly killed...
Amina Ali, one of the missing Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram fighters who was found days ago by the Civilian JTF has revealed that...
Tragedy struck at Berger bus stop along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway when a motor park boy was crushed by an on-coming truck while he was fighting with...
The Nigeria Labour Congress has insisted that it will go ahead with the day two of its ongoing strike in protest of the increase in pump...
The stage seems to have finally been set for a full return of militancy to the Niger Delta, as a new militant group, Red Egbesu Water...
Investigations by the Niger Delta Voice- a non-governmental organisation, reveals that pregnant 14-year-old Miss Ese Oruru may put to bed very soon. The teenager now being...
One of the girls that were kidnapped from a secondary school, in Chibok, Borno state in 2014 has reportedly been found. The girl whose name is...
Gabriel Faleye, a 24-year-old who was arrested for robbery after a police raid on a night club on Oba Akran Road in Ikeja area of Lagos...
The Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday, declared that it will begin an indefinite strike from Wednesday. Also, the National President...
There was jubilation yesterday at the Abuja headquarters of the National Immigration Service (NIS) as news filtered in that its Comptroller-General Martin Abeshi, had been given...
The Nigerian military seems to be going all out to capture dissidents in the oil rich Niger Delta area, and secure the region for oil exploration...
Kola Aluko, an oil magnate and associate of the embattled former minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke has sold off his Los Angeles mansion which was...
