The pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere and the Ohanaeze Ndigbo have condemned Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso’s opposition to the call for the arrest of northern youths, who said the...
Residents of Rafin Dadi area of Katsina have been thrown into mourning following Monday’s death of no fewer than five kids during a stampede when collecting...
One of the judges recently recalled from suspension by the National Judicial Council will be charged this week with offences bordering on receiving gratification from lawyers,...
Special Assistant to the President on Prosecutions, Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla, said on Saturday that the Federal Government had finalised its decision to appeal last Wednesday’s ruling...
Members of the All Progressives Congress have begun to jostle for the position of the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, at...
Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Chairman Justice Danladi Umar may face a fresh probe by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over some allegations, The...
Four days after the police said it had launched a manhunt for the leaders of the Coalition of Northern Youth Groups that warned the Igbo to...
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it may register more political parties before the 2019 general elections. It stated that the process of registering new...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized a hotel allegedly belonging to Mrs. Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The anti-graft agency...
Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello’s name has disappeared from the voters register after being accused of double registration. Bello’s name has been delisted, but the Independent...
Members of the National Assembly are currently subscribing to a mortgage facility that will make each lawmaker cough out N2.5m every month, SUNDAY PUNCH has reliably...
Following what it described as the successful sit- at- home order in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Biafra, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has...
The Federal Government may ask the Federal High Court in Abuja to revoke the bail granted to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mr....
A group of protesters stormed the Abuja office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday. The protesters were demanding EFCC Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu’s...
Prominent Senior Advocates of Nigeria, on Wednesday, condemned the Federal Government for the continued detention of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.),...
By Joseph Edgar… The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has asked the Federal Government to obey court orders regarding the detention...
After exactly two years in the saddle, the Federal Government, yesterday, boasted that it had rescued Nigeria from predators and set the country on the path...
A Lagos High Court has barred local government areas from conducting marriages across the country. The court, in a judgment, declared that the Local Government Unified...
Kebbi State House of Assembly has asked the police to arrest former governor Usman Saidu Dakingari for his failure to appear before a House committee over...
THE report of the panel set up by President Muhammadu Buhari and headed by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to investigate administrative infractions by suspended Secretary to...
The Nigerian Army may have begun an internal search for soldiers and officers suspected to be engaging in political meetings, a top military source has told...
The Federal Government’s decision to break the hold of Intels over logistics handling in Nigeria’s oil and gas port terminals may be another move by power...
Chief of Army Staff Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai warned officers against politics to save the nation’s democracy, The Nation learnt yesterday. The alarm is believed to have...
Less than 48hours after Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson said that the six years ex-President Goodluck Jonathan spent as president was a wasted opportunity for the...
A fresh row may be in the offing between the Executive and the Legislative arms of government over the 2017 budget. This is because the Presidency...
A judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Adeniyi Ademola who was recently discharged of corruption charges has written to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN)...
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has said the actualisation of the Republic of Biafra is possible. He said that in realisation...
The Jonathan administration allegedly overruled the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in disbursing more than $500million cash to security agencies as Special Intervention...
The Presidency has ruled out the possibility of reinstating the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke, and the Secretary to the Government...
The state governor accused of building a hotel with $3 million of the controversial London-Paris Club loan refund has sneaked into Aso Rock Presidential Villa in...
A Lagos textile dealer, Mrs. Taiwo Momoh, who recently attempted suicide in the Lagoon, has appealed to the government to stop her prosecution. But she lamented...
Fresh facts pointing to a vicious power struggle between political leaders in the Southwest and the famed cabal in the presidency have emerged. The face-off between...
Detectives have traced $3 million of the controversial London-Paris Club loan refund to a governor, The Nation learnt yesterday. The cash is believed to be part...
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State was left dumbfounded after escaping death on Thursday evening when a Central Bank of Nigeria bullion van rammed into his...
There was confusion at Ikeja High Court on Thursday when a witness, whose name was not given, slumped and died in the court. The decease said...
Leaders of ex-militants in phases Two and Three of the Presidential Amnesty Programme have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for ordering the release of N30 billion for...
Suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Babachir David Lawal and National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Director-General Ayo Oke are to be relieved of their...
Two employees of an oil firm in Lagos have been forced to pay heavily for refusing to give N5,000 bribe to some operatives of the Nigeria...
The Department of State Security (DSS) has been ordered by the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, to without failure produce the managing director of Capital...
The presidential committee, which is currently investigating the suspended Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Mr. Ayo Oke, and the suspended Secretary to the Government...
The mainstream of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP aligned to the Senator Ahmed Makarfi led National Caretaker Committee, NCC is set to trigger the alternative option...
Former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, may have made up his mind to dump the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pitch his...
The ongoing agitation for local government autonomy in the country by the National Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, yesterday, got a boost as senators threw...
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has faulted the advice by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, that Nigerians should...
The National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that a cabal is now ruling Nigeria. The party said the health challenge of President...
The appeal filed at the Supreme Court by Senator Ahmed Makarfi faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the chairmanship of the party will be...
The Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East has indicted the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal,...
For the second time within a week, the Presidential Investigative Panel, headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, last night grilled the suspended Secretary to the Government...
The Senate has perfected plans to withhold the confirmation of nominees by President Muhammadu Buhari as part of the lawmakers’ strategies for a showdown with the...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has said that he belongs to Biafra and decried the prosecution of the Indigenous People...
