Police operatives have rescued four persons abducted by criminals in the state. Gunmen on Sunday abducted three Indians and a Nigerian along the Sagamu-Ijebu Ode-Benin expressway....
The Federal Government will begin the collection of Value-Added Tax of 7.5 percent on every cryptocurrency transaction from July 8. One of the cryptocurrency platforms in...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Wednesday warned politicians in the South-East against sabotaging ongoing efforts to release its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The secessionist...
A former Big Brother Naija (BBN) housemate, Tesser Waya aka Kiddwaya, has recalled how armed robbers dispossessed him of €70,000 when he visited Ibiza, Abuja. In...
The Nigerian equities market maintained its upward trend as investors made N131 billion at the end of trading on Wednesday. This followed an increase in the...
The Senate has resolved to investigate the influx of substandard Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol, and Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) or diesel into...
A 28-year-old man identified as Ufuoma Umurie on Wednesday morning hacked a priest with St. John’s Anglican Church, Okpare-Olomu in Delta State, Rev. Isaac Umurie, to...
The Lagos State government on Wednesday called for calm over the massive flooding experienced in different parts of the state. This followed a torrential rainfall which...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arraigned one of its officials, Mrs. Tosin Olagunju, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, for alleged job...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has appealed to the Federal Government to boost security in Borno State, and the country at large following the recent...
A Nigerian table tennis star, Fatimo Bello has expressed her excitement following her qualification for the Olympic Games billed to hold in Paris this summer. Before...
The Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (Kaduna Disco) has announced an increase in electricity tariffs for its Band A customers, effective July 1st, 2024. This move comes...
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, stated on Wednesday that his total allowance during his tenure as Speaker was N25 million, while...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has clarified that discussions with South-East governors in Enugu did not include deliberations on the release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the...
The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) Plc on Wednesday announced an upward review of the electricity tariff for Band A customers. The Acting Managing Director (IBEDC)...
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has come under fire from social media users following the inability of the agency to...
In the aftermath of a destructive windstorm that swept through communities in Logo, Benue State, Nigeria in May 2024, the once vibrant schoolyards and places of...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the University of Abuja branch, yesterday, lamented that, in the last five years, the institution had experienced a massive...
Police operatives in Rivers State have arrested more than eight members of ONELGA Security Planning and Advisory Committee (OSPAC), over an alleged involvement in criminal activities....
A building, located at 10, Cameroon street in Mushin part of Lagos State collapsed today’s morning, with a child feared dead. Seven other residents, however, were...
Residents and visitors to the highbrow Lekki area of Lagos have cried out following the massive floods that have taken over the Peninsula after four days...
It was 1 p.m. The sun cast long shadows across the schoolyard of Government Day Senior Secondary School, Kofar Rini, Sokoto, where seven students, all aged...
Nigerian universities could be facing a fresh round of disruption as the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has threatened to shut down institutions nationwide...
The House of Representatives Special Ad Hoc Committee on Restructuring of Government Agencies and Commission yesterday began the process of reviewing the recommendations of the Steve...
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has come under fire from Nigerian social media users following his comments that Nigerians will not recognise the country again by the...
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has distanced himself from reports accusing him of lobbying the National Assembly to tamper with the Nigeria Police...
Vice President Kashim Shettima yesterday encouraged the prioritisation of local content and patronage of made-in-Nigeria products. Shettima made this call when he declared open a three-day...
A concerning trend in Nigeria’s economic landscape has come to light. Despite generating over $1 trillion in revenue from oil and gas over the past 40...
In a bid to address the long-standing issue of delayed pension payments, the Federal Government has directed the computation of accrued pension for serving federal civil...
Recently, no fewer than 50 members of the House of Representatives appealed to President Bola Tinubu to order the release of the detained leader of the...
Nigeria’s healthcare system is grappling with a worsening cholera outbreak, with health officials reporting over 2,100 suspected cases across 33 states as of June 30th, 2024....
The former senator who represented Kaduna Central in the National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has applauded planned moves by governors of the South-East to meet with President...
Here are the top 10 stories making headlines across the country. 1. Hope for new state in South-East as bill passes first reading A bill proposing...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) Limited has declared a state of emergency on crude oil production in the country. The company also called on...
The Sokoto State said on Tuesday the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, lacks the power to appoint district and village heads in the state....
The naira shed N1 against the United States at the official window on Tuesday. Data from the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM) showed that the...
Turkey and the Netherlands have advanced to the quarter-finals of the ongoing European Championship after they won their last-16 ties on Tuesday. The Netherlands reach the...
The Nigeria Wrestling Federation has revealed six athletes who will represent the country at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The team includes five female wrestlers,...
The Nigerian equities market rebounded from the previous day’s loss with investors making N25 billion at the end of trading on Tuesday. This followed the increase...
Governors of the five states in the South-East on Tuesday, resolved to meet the Federal Government on the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra...
The Namibian government has resolved to reduce the price of petrol by 80 Namibian cents per liter (about $0.044). Similarly, diesel 50ppm will be leased by...
At 14 people died when a three-storey building collapsed in the southern Egyptian city of Assiut on Monday. The city’s Governor, Essam Saad, said on Tuesday....
A director with the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Isaiah Yusuf, on Tuesday testified against a former minister of aviation, Hadi Sirika, in his trial for...
The Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO) and Nigeria’s First City Monument Bank (FCMB) today signed a $25 million NASIRA guarantee agreement. The guarantee will enable FCMB...
The House of Representatives has resolved to probe the N1.12 trillion anchor borrowers scheme coordinated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Also included in the...
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has projected a 23 percent increase in energy demand across the world by 2045. The OPEC Secretary-General, Haitham...
Police operatives in Kaduna have rescued three kidnapped persons and killed a suspected bandit in the state. The spokesman for the state police command, Mansir Hassan,...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits in the early hours of Tuesday reportedly killed a lecturer with the Federal University, Dutsinma in Katsina State. The victim, Dr....
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 2,102 suspected cases of cholera and 63 deaths in 33 states across the country. The NCDC Director-General,...
A bill proposing the creation of a new state in Nigeria’s south-eastern region has cleared its first hurdle in the House of Representatives, on Tuesday. The...
