The Nigerian military on Friday deployed 197 personnel for the peacekeeping mission in the Gambia. The Chief of Operations Nigerian Army, Maj-Gen. Boniface Sinjen, announced this...
Troops of Operation Whirl Punch on Friday killed six suspected bandits in Birnin-Gwari local government area of Kaduna State The state’s Commissioner for Home Affairs and...
Troops of the 2 Battalion, Kaduna, have rescued one more National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member abducted by bandits in Zamfara State. The hoodlums in August...
A few days after showering praises on Afrobeats singer, David Adeleke, also known as Davido, controversial singer, Habeeb Okiliola, popularly known as Portable, has fired shots...
American multinational technology company, Amazon has revealed its plan to spend the sum of $230 million on start-ups building generative AI-powered applications. The investment intends to...
Nigerian singer and songwriter Michael Adebayo Olayinka popularly known in music circles as Ruger has recounted a ghastly auto crash that almost claimed his life in...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, discharged Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, two executives of the crypto currency firm, Binance Holding Ltd from...
Super Falcons of Nigeria have retained the 36th position in the latest FIFA World rankings released on Friday. The nine-time Women’s Africa Cup of Nations champions,...
Investigative journalist, David Hundeyin has accused former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello of making a fortune through engaging in illegal mining, drug trafficking and gun running...
The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has formally confirmed the eventual qualification of Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna and Algeria’s Lynda Loghraibi from Africa for the singles events...
A joint security operation involving the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command and military personnel successfully thwarted a bank robbery attempt in Abaji Area Council of...
President Bola Tinubu has departed the nation’s capital, Abuja, for Lagos State, ahead of the Eid-el-Kabir festival. According to a statement on Friday by his spokesman,...
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has delivered ordered the Kano State Government to pay the sum of N10 million as compensation to deposed Emir...
Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has alleged that criminal elements are actively working to prevent Kanu’s...
An announcement made by African premium Pay-TV operator, Multichoice Group, blaming Nigeria’s harsh economic condition as active DStv subscribers in the country has declined by 18%...
Claim: Four female members of staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have accused the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Ibrahim Adamu Lamuwa, of sexual harassment....
The proposed increase in the minimum wage to N62,000 may witness another round of crisis as the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), on Thursday,...
A 39-year-old man, Guy Mukendi, has been sentenced to four years and three months in prison for allegedly removing his condom during sex with a woman....
The Nigerian Senate, on Thursday, addressed concerns regarding the low number of bills passed into law in recent years. The Senate Leader acknowledged that the number...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has come out in opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment that would extend the presidential and gubernatorial term from...
The Defence Headquarters has strongly rejected allegations made by Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, that the military9 and police are not doing enough to combat banditry...
Nigeria has received the approval of two major “financial support packages” from the World Bank totalling $2.25 billion, Wale Edun, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating...
Here are the top 10 stories making headlines across the country. 1. LG Autonomy: Supreme Court reserves judgement in FG’s suit against 36 state govs The...
The Delta House of Assembly on Thursday recalled the lawmaker representing Ughelli North 1 Constituency, Mr. Matthew Omonade. The Assembly suspended the lawmaker for alleged gross...
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Mr. Tanimu Yakubu as the Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation. This followed the expiration of...
At least three persons died and one other was injured when a mining pit collapsed at Bazakwoi, a village in the Adnun community of Niger State....
A former federal commissioner for information, Edwin Clark, has demanded the implementation of the 2014 national conference report. In a letter dated June 13 and addressed...
The naira depreciated against the United States dollar on the first trading session after the Democracy Day celebration on Thursday. Data from the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign...
In the first trading session after the country’s Democracy Day celebration, investors in the Nigerian equities market gained N114 billion at the end of business on...
Justice O.I.O Ogunyemi of the Ekiti State High Court, Ado- Ekiti, on Thursday, sentenced a pastor with Winners Chapel Church, Omuo- Ekiti, Mr. Enoch Gbinyiam, to...
Troops of Operation Whirl Punch have killed a bandit leader, Buharin Yadi, along with dozens of his fighters in Kaduna State. The state Commissioner for Internal...
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday adjourned till June 26 hearing of a suit seeking the removal of Abdullahi Ganduje as...
Police operatives in Kaduna on Tuesday arrested four suspected kidnappers and rescued a victim in the state. The spokesman for the state police command, Mansir Hassan,...
The Kaduna State government has dismissed a report of shooting and kidnapping along the highway linking Abuja. The Overseeing Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs,...
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, said on Thursday the Federal Government would not go back on its resolve to upgrade the nation’s correctional centres. Tunji-Ojo...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has filed a motion in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja to discontinue lawsuit...
The Federal Government has requested a $500 million loan from the World Bank for the development of rural roads and agricultural marketing. This fund is expected...
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Thursday paraded six suspects who specialise in registering Subscriber Identity Module cards with other innocent citizens’ identities and selling...
Comrade Oginni Olaposi Sunday, the National Secretary of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), has dismissed the Kano State High Court order obtained by Senator Rabiu...
The Supreme Court of Nigeria, on Thursday, reserved judgement in the suit the Federal Government filed to secure full autonomy for the 774 Local Government Areas...
The Nigerian military have reportedly killed one terrorist, Buharin Yadi, said to be one of the deadliest bandit leaders terrorising the North in the last decade....
Self-proclaimed Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE), Simon Ekpa has warned the Nigerian government against construction of bases for the Army and...
Police operatives in Delta State have arrested one suspected self-kidnapper, Nelson Eserada, and his accomplice, Jerry Lawrence. The state police Spokesperson, SP Bright Edafe, who disclosed...
A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, on Thursday, posponed the scheduled arraignment of former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello on charges of N80.2 billion fraud....
Eccentric former President of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN), Charles Oputa aka Charly Boy has apologised after receiving backlash from social media users for...
Emeka Ugwuonye, the legal counsel representing May Edochie, the estranged wife of Yul Edochie has accused the actor of refusing to take care of his children....
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has warned of a growing trend of cholera cases across the country, with 1,141 suspected and 65...
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, on Wednesday, displayed his sense of sarcasm when he threw veiled jabs...
The European Union’s highest court has slapped Hungary with a substantial fine of €200 million (approximately $216 million) and a daily penalty of €1 million for...
“The world is facing a terrible indictment with a staggering 120 million people living in forced displacement due to war, violence, and persecution,” the United Nations...
