The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has frowned at a claim by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu that fake policemen undermined...
The murder of Salome Abuh, a woman leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Wada Aro, Ochadamu Ward in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi...
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who was defeated by Governor Godwin Obaseki in 2016, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has officially declared he would dump...
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Wednesday night advised the National Assembly to hold a public hearing on the hate speech bill to ensure that views...
The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari, on Wednesday, presented a budget estimate of N249.5 billion to the state House of Assembly for the 2020 fiscal...
The embattled former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, has again been arraigned in court over alleged N738.6 million contract scam. The...
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has stated that Nigeria will overcome the many challenges facing it when democratic and economic institutions are strengthened. Ortom...
The United Nations and the European Union have called on the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai to put an end to the spread...
The following piece which you are about to read was originally published November 9, 2019. Did we anticipate the global outrage around the issue of Nigerian...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you this Thursday morning, November 21, 2019. 1. Buhari signs Executive Order on open defecation into law...
Amnesty International has declared the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, his compatriot, Olawale Bakare and a journalist, Agba Jalingo as prisoners of conscience. It said...
The Divisional police officer (DPO) in charge of Mubi North Local Government Area of Adamawa state, Ahijo Mujeli has been kidnapped. The DPO was reportedly kidnapped...
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law an executive order 009 entitled, ‘The Open Defecation-Free Nigeria by 2025 and Other Related Matters Order’ into law. The...
Founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj Ji, Wednesday declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Bola Tinubu, was fit and suitable for presidency...
Only corrupt elites see no positive difference in the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s anti-graft crusade, the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof....
The Federal High Court, Abuja, will Friday rule on the application for bail variation filed by a Briton, James Nolan, who is standing trial for alleged...
The Electoral Act Amendment Bill passed Wednesday scaled through its second reading at the Nigerian Senate. The bill which was read for the first time on...
Justice A.A. Deemi-Ajayi of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin refused to grant an order restraining David Imuse from parading himself as chairman of the...
A group, the Centre for Social Justice, Wednesday said there were about N150.07 billion expenditures that were frivolous, inappropriate, unclear and wasteful in the 2020 budget...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the post-election violence in Kogi State that led to the death of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) woman leader,...
The chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Yahaya Oloriegbe, on Wednesday, said that about 50 million Nigerians suffer some form of mental illness. He stated this...
Senator Dino Melaye has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the last Saturday’s Kogi West senatorial election. He made the call on...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said that former President Goodluck Jonathan’s legacy of humility and patriotism would continue to resonate and inspire generations to come. He...
Members of the Lagos House Assembly on Wednesday told the State High Court sitting in Ikeja that the suit filed by the immediate past governor of...
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has urged Governor Seriake Dickson to stop brooding over the loss of the Peoples Democratic Party at last Saturday’s governorship elections...
A bill intended to regulate social media use in the country, has passed second reading at the Nigerian Senate. The bill entitled, ‘Protection from Internet Falsehood...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, overruled a British national, James Nolan, on his application for adjournment of the trial over his counsel’s inability to...
The Governor of Zamfara State, Mohammed Matawalle, has again suspended the District Head of Gummi, Alhaji Abubakar Bala Gummi (Bunun Gummi), who is a senior district...
After missing four consecutive Federal Executive Council (FEC) meetings, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presided over the meeting in Abuja. Buhari’s long absence at FEC followed...
President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmed Lawan has said that the Senate will from the next budget circle increase funding for security agencies and anti-corruption bodies...
The outgoing governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson has appointed a new head for the state civil service and 32 new permanent secretaries. He said the...
The Appeal Court has sacked two Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the Kaduna State House of Assembly. The appellate court sitting in Kaduna, the state...
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, said on Tuesday, that the Commission has discovered inflation of...
Nigerian Senators on Tuesday shot down a suggestion by Senator Francis Fadahunsi for a five year ban on the importation of generators into the country. Fadahunsi...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he would not refrain from speaking out when things are not right in Nigeria. He said at his age, he...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you this Wednesday morning, November 20, 2019. 1. 2023: What S’East govs, Senators, Rep members should do...
The House of Representatives has ordered another round of investigation into the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over allegations of spending without approval...
The Senate has mandated its Committee on Power to investigate the activities of power generating and distribution companies with a view to unraveling the cause of...
The office of Archbishop of Canterbury has acknowledge receipt of an open letter by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on the continued detention of...
The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Perterside Dakuku, on Tuesday, claimed that the agency has remitted the sum of N16...
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has called for the defection of three governors of Southeast states, nine Senators and 20 members of the House of...
The crisis between the Olubadan of Ibadan land and High Chiefs elevated to beaded crown kings by the immediate past government of Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has...
The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu has replied his political godfather, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole over...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, adjourned the fraud trial of a former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, till November 25 and 26. Justice...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) insisted on Tuesday that the results of last Saturday governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States cannot stand given the massive...
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has described Saturday’s governorship election in the state as a military coup. He claimed that the election was a charade and...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Tuesday upheld the election of Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha. A five-member panel chaired by Justice Oyebisi Omoyele...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has insisted that ‘policemen’ alleged to have disrupted the governorship poll in parts of Bayelsa and Kogi States were “fake”...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday, lamented that the Deputy Governor of Edo State, Phillip Shuaibu, betrayed him. The...
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday ordered the prosecution to pay N100, 000 for stalling the alleged falsehood trial...
