A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted leave to a group, Kingdom Human Rights Foundation, to initiate proceeding for an order to arrest the Minister...
The Coalition of Human Rights Organizations, SBCHROs is kicking against what it termed numerous road blocks mounted on the highways by the police in the South...
A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on Thursday varied the conditions attached to the bail granted Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia and Chief Godwin Obla (SAN), who...
Mrs Aisha Buhari, wife of Nigerian President, has called on those who always try to shower her with gift items to stop because she will never...
A Federal High Court Lagos presided over by Justice Mohammed Idris has further adjourned hearing in a suit by former President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Patience, till...
Aggrieved Osun pensioners staged another protest yesterday over non-payment of their pension by the state government and stalled the probe of the state’s N34.5 billion bailout...
Anxiety has enveloped the political space in Cross River State following the expected judgment by the Supreme Court scheduled for December 9, 2016 in a pre-election...
Chairman of the Police Service Commission, PSC, Mr. Mike Okiro has blamed the federal character principle for the dearth of South East Police officers in the top...
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose on Tuesday layed before the state House of Assembly in Ado Ekiti, a N93.4billion 2017 Budget he termed “Budget of Higher...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday at Gbaramatu Kingdom, Delta State, said it is unsafe to talk about events and situation of things in Nigeria. The reluctance...
Indication emerged on Tuesday that the Federal Government had sent to the National Assembly, a bill seeking the establishment of a special anti-corruption court to try...
New Mega Party Targets 16 Governors With an eye firmly fixed on the 2018 governorship polls in Ekiti and Osun States and 2019 general election, the...
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has approved the dismissal of no fewer than 662 workers from the state public service for allegedly forging their West Africa...
The court asked the parties to maintain the status quo pending the determination of the motion seeking an injunction to restrain the commission from probing the...
President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government’s move to rebuild Boko Haram ravaged North East and Niger Delta regions may have been boosted with European Union (EU) pledge...
The Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) has arrested three of the kidnappers that murdered one and kidnapped five expatriate members of staff of...
The Police Service Commission said Tuesday that it has concluded the recruitment of some Nigerians into the Nigeria Police Force. This is in fulfillment of the...
Osun State House of Assembly has started probing how N34.5 billion received from the federal government as bailout was spent. It has summoned some government officials...
The proposed mega party by some aggrieved opposition politicians of major political parties in the country may already have run into a hitch, following the stringent...
The Nigerian Police Force spends N1.9billion annually on the salaries of 1,300 ‘redundant’ officers recruited as specialists six years ago, according to findings by Daily Trust....
The authorities of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have enlisted about 100 candidates into its service without the recruits undergoing paramilitary training, The PUNCH...
Disagreement between the Senate and the House of Representatives on harmonisation of certain aspects of the Code of Conduct Amendment Bill, recently passed by the two...
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has said that at least 20 000 men, three helicopters and 20 gunboats would be deployed to Rivers State...
Nigerian business mogul, Adebayo Ogunlesi, has been named as one of those who will advise US President-elect Donald Trump on the American economy. The 63 year-old...
There is an ongoing battle of supremacy between the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and Olugbo of Ugbo, Oba Obateru Akinruntan, over which throne is...
The Nigeria Police Training College, which is located at Nowa-tia, an agrarian Ogoni community in Tia Local Government Area of Rivers State, is in a terrible...
There were indications on Saturday that the Federal Government is no longer interested in pursuing the case of forgery of the Senate Standing Orders, 2015, allegedly...
The Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said that local governments are under absolutely control and ambience of states, and that the only organ...
Former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Mrs. Farida Waziri, has described as reckless and irresponsible the statement credited to Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, that she...
Leaders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State have sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged irregularities and lopsidedness in recent...
The UK Embassy in Nigeria has adopted a new visa application process, the British High Commission said yesterday, in a statement. The spokesperson of the commission,...
The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mallam Abba Kyari, is ill. A top government official confirmed this to our correspondent Friday night. The official,...
Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar of Bauchi State has effected a cabinet reshuffle redeploying commissioners from their ministries to others and approved the creation of a new...
Five senior lecturers and seven other workers at the Auchi Polytechnic have been sacked for offences bordering on sexual harassment and extortion of female students in...
A 26-year-old man, Oluwasegun Ayoola, has lost the use of his two hands after he was allegedly tortured by a herbalist in the Oke-Aro area of...
A 35-year-old man, Jamilu Adamu, was on Wednesday electrocuted at Kawon Maigari, Hotoro Area of Kano, Kano State, while trying to vandalise a fenced-electricity transformer. The...
The board chairman nominee for the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has finally declined the offer. After weeks of speculations over his disposition, Prof. AKintunde Akinwande...
There is confusion among many of the 200,000 candidates selected for the Federal Government’s N-Power programme concerning their place of assignment as the scheme officially takes...
The traditional ruler of Atijere community in the Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, Oba Samuel Edema, has been chased out of his palace by...
A middle aged man, Chidobe Nkem, was on Monday shot dead by a four-man armed robbery gang who intercepted his vehicle at the Government Reserved Area...
The police in Ogun State yesterday arraigned an oil magnate, Chief Salimon Abiodun Ajayi, at a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta for fraudulently obtaining...
FORMER General Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Chief Frank Kokori, has lambasted Chief Tony Anenih over his comments that...
The detention of a millionaire (name withheld) at the Awka Prison in Anambra State has raised the fear of jailbreak in the area. A prison source,...
The gale of suspension in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as expected by many, has hit 22 Ali Modu Sheriffs faction members in Ondo State. The...
Two young men were on Monday set ablaze in Umuguma in the Owerri West local Government area of Imo State for allegedly stealing a brand new...
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday approved death sentence for kidnappers, whose victims died in their custody. The approval followed the adoption of a...
Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo has directed caretaker committee chairmen in the 27 Local Government Areas to allocate land to 1,545 corps members deployed to the...
A widow, Mrs. Florence Ede, has been strangled by suspected robbers on her farm in Chikanda, a border community in the Baruten Local Government Area of...
No fewer than 2,000 persons have been displaced by the activities of cattle rustlers in Niger State within the past three weeks, an emergency official said...
The Nigerian Army has said that a woman who was arrested wearing military uniforms, with a fake identity card, was travelling alone and was not carrying...
