Condemnations have continued to trail the alleged N50,000 bribe that operatives of Enugu State Police Command allegedly demanded from some robbery victims in the state. It...
A 14-year-old school girl has died allegedly from drug overdose in Kurudu area of Abuja. The teenager (name withheld) died on Tuesday night. Neighbours who spoke...
Following a hint by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, that President Muhammadu Buhari might dissolve his cabinet before...
The Senator-elect for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District, Engr. Chris Ekpenyong, yesterday declared that money, federal might, intimidation and violence failed to deliver for former...
Although it has opted for legal action over last Saturday’s election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has other plans, The Nation has learnt. With some opposition...
A strong march reportedly led by women from the 12 local government is ongoing in Imo State over the alleged involvement of the Army in the...
The incidence of wide-spread ballot snatching recorded in Akwa Ibom State at the last presidential and National Assembly polls has been condemned by international observers who...
The seizure of donkey skins by the Federal Operations Unit, FOU, of the Nigeria Customs Service allegedly from the territory of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport...
Atiku Abubakar will not concede the presidential election to President Muhammadu Buhari as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has assembled a team of lawyers to challenge...
Protesters yesterday barricaded the ever-busy Zuba-Gwagwalada road, for several hours, over an allegation that a piece of land opposite Tunga Maje community in Gwagwalada area council...
The results of the Akwa Ibom South Eket Senatorial District has been released by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) with Mr. Akon Eyakenyi of the Peoples...
Twenty four hours after the conclusion of Presidential and National Assembly elections in Lagos State, flights operations at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA) are yet to...
Food and water vendors enjoyed brisk business at various polling units during Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in the FCT. Our reporter, who went round...
Police have arrested an Islamic cleric for allegedly defiling a six-year-old girl in his single room apartment at Bariga area of Lagos State. The suspect, AbdulLateef...
High tension has enveloped the political space of Nasarawa State over the inability of INEC to announce the official results of both presidential and national assembly...
A retired Deputy Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Custom Service who is also the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ), Chief Francis Fadahunsi has...
A woman, Momodu Abibat, said to be the woman leader of a party in Ward 2, PU 4 and 6 of Etsako West Local Government Area,...
Operatives of the Bayelsa State Police Command have arrested a notorious 31-year-old cult leader identified as Victor Meremunyu alias Y B Lee and five others over...
A former Nigeria Football Federation President, Aminu Maigari, has categorically stated that the Super Eagles have to stamp their authority as one of the top teams...
Bandits have attacked two more communities in Batsari council area of Katsina state in the wee hours of yesterday morning, bringing the total number of communities...
Five persons have been killed in various locations in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. Among those shot dead at the separate incidents were one Diyelaimi Ben-Walson,...
The Inter-Governmental Action Against Money Laundering and Terrorists Financing in West Africa (GIABA) has said it is not aware of the European Commission’s adding of Nigeria...
The Osun State coordinator of Buhari Media Advocacy (BMO), Comrade Adeboye Adebayo was on Thursday abducted by unknown gunmen in Osogbo. Though details of the kidnap...
Stakeholders in the maritime and shipping sector of the nation’s economy have called on the federal government to commence the disbursement of the $124 million (N45.26...
The poor remittance levels of the 11 electricity distribution companies (Discos) in Nigeria’s privatised power market may have defeated the aim of the N701 billion bailout...
Two people were reportedly injured Thursday during an alleged attack on the convoy of Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo in Ilorin, Kwara State capital Osinbajo was...
Anti-corruption operatives in Abuja are currently grilling the Assistant Director of Finance at the country’s secret police agency otherwise known as the SSS, Kunle Kadri, for...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is working to ensure that firms, which applied to serve as meter asset providers under the new metering arrangements, begin...
Again, several but new studies have provided evidence how Western diets are increasing the risk of death among all populations. Before now, local scientists including a...
Disconnection of buildings along power lines in the Southeast by the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) triggered lamentations yesterday. The distribution company had, last year, issued...
The struggle over who becomes the next Chief Medical Director of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) has assumed an ethnic dimension with a group...
The first Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Godwin Omene, has insisted that the Nigerian economy will continue to depend on oil production,...
The State Security Service (SSS) has backed down from its summon of top officials of the electoral commission, INEC. PREMIUM TIMES reported how the SSS summoned...
Fostering regional technology ecosystem in Africa, Nigeria’s Co-creation hub (CcHUB), on Monday, unveiled the ‘CcHUB Design Lab’ in Kigali, Rwanda. The lab is expected to further...
Deceleration in farm produce and imported food, reflecting waning impact of festive period induced demand for grains and imported items may have impacted positively on the...
FOUR hundred and thirty-seven former elected councilors, supervisory councilors and local government secretaries in 20 council areas of Anambra State have turned to prayer warriors, asking...
Former President of Botswana Mr. Festus Mogae yesterday said it was better the 2019 general elections were postponed than for it to be conducted in such...
Fifth Largest shipping company in the world, Hapag-Lloyd, has increased its freight rate with the review of Peak Season Surcharge (PSS) on all container types originating...
Gunmen last Sunday shot dead four men of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Ondo State Command on Sobe -Ifon Road in Ose Local Government...
At last, Sea Trucks Group Limited, STG, a British Virgin Island company and West African Ventures Limited, WAV, a 100 per cent Nigerian company have resolved...
Fifty vehicles and several shops were vandalised yesterday in Oworoshoki, Lagos, in a cult war. Twenty persons have been arrested over the clash, which started around...
Lawyers on Sunday were divided in their opinions over the directive to political parties by the Independent National Electoral (INEC) suspending their rallies and campaigns when...
Micro pension has been identified as one of the channels that can be applied to drive financial inclusion in the nation’s economy, the Managing Director of...
The Oro Festival is a festival celebrated in South-West Nigeria by the Yorubas. It is an event celebrated by towns and settlements of Yoruba origin. It...
AS the crises over transfer of all annuity assets under the management of life insurance companies to Pension Fund Custodians, PFCs, finally settles, growth in annuity...
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members engaged by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as adhoc staff for the 2019 elections are threatening to boycott the...
The National Leader of All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has promised to give a substantial amount of money to the party faithful if their votes...
By midday, yesterday, the colossal loss to the nation’s economy, arising from the postponement of the general elections, hours before the exercise was scheduled to begin,...
AFTER the Aguleri-Umuleri war that claimed many lives and property in 2000 over land, another one is brewing in the area, this time, over the breaking...
The record of foreign inflow into the country in 2018 at $16.81 billion has shown that investors targeted portfolio investments also known as “hot money” rather...
