The Senate may soon abandon the contentious Grazing Reserve Bill. The bill is currently before the Senate and has already been read for the first time....
The Labour Party has called on Nigerians to reject the request by President Muhammadu Buhari to borrow $29.9 billion external loan to execute key infrastructural projects...
The suspended former chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Honourable Abdulmumin Jibrin, has denied fleeing into exile, insisting that he left the country to mobilize...
A few moments after Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton lost the US election to her fierce rival, Donald Trump of the Republican Party, Nigerian singer Asa took...
The Appeal Court in Lagos has declared the environmental sanitation exercise held monthly in the state as illegal. Justice Ugochukwu Ogakwu made the declaration while delivering...
The Police Command in Enugu State on Wednesday said that it had arrested three armed robbery suspects ridden with bullet wounds through hospitals’ surveillance in Nsukka...
Nigerians on social media have called on Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, to tear his green card, following the vow he made, should U.S Republican candidate...
Oluwafemi Fagbemi, 84, a herbalist has been sentenced to death by hanging by Justice Kudirat Akano of an Osun State High Court, Ilesa, for allegedly snuffing...
by Yusuf Alli, November 09, 2016 at 12:09 am in Featured, News FacebookTwitterSMSWhatsApp Gunmen have invaded Bindin village in Zamfara State, killing over 36 gold miners....
When Princewill Jumbo, a 300-level student of Rivers State University of Science and Technology, and his friends were returning to Port Harcourt from a burial in...
The Federal Government, has slammed fresh charges on the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. The 11 count charge was filed before...
Voting in a California neighbourhood near two polling units were suspended when a gun man with an assault rifle opened fire killing a man and critically...
The anti-graft war, spearheaded by President Muhammadu Buhari, may have reached a crisis head. No thanks to the current face-off between the Presidency, led by the...
Ahead the September 10, governorship election in Edo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said it is ready and set for the election. Professor Mohammad...
The Nigerian Army has explained why the men of the Army Headquarters Garrison, Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja, took over the premises of a company belonging to Mr....
Stephen Adeuti has emerged Labour Party’s (LP’s) candidate for the coming governorship election in Ondo State. The party party’s primary took place at the Royal Bird...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has declared Monday, Sept. 12 as the Eid-El-Kabir Day, 1437 AH. This followed the announcement of Saturday, Sept.3...
Kingsley Agbaire, a Warri, Delta State-based businessman, allegedly killed his business partner and then broke down as the deceased’s body was exhumed to beg his ghost...
Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State former chairman, Niyi Pirisola has been assassinated by unknown gunmen. According to report, he was killed in the early hours of...
The Abagana Welfare Association, AWA, in Anambra State has declared four prominent traditional leaders of the community missing. The Onowu (traditional Prime Minister) of Abagana, High...
Gombe State executive committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been dissolved by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party. The National Secretary of...
Electricity consumers in Ijeshatedo in SuruLere Local Government Area, Lagos State, have threatened not to pay their monthly electricity bills to the Eko Electricity Distribution Company...
Sporadic gunfire caused pandemonium at Kuje Prison, Abuja, on Monday, following a riot by some inmates, who resisted the attempt by prison officials to search their...
Two persons were feared dead as a four-storeyed building collapsed at Gwarimpa Estate, Abuja, on Monday. Six construction workers were rescued and taken to the Gwarimpa...
A human rights activist in Rivers State, Bar Ken Aswuete, was on Monday morning murdered in Aluu, Ikwere Local Government Area (LGA) of the state by...
A 43-year-old teacher, Gbemisola Edward, and her 11-year-old daughter, Dolapo, have been confirmed dead at an Ogun State hospital after suffering from severe burns. The woman’s...
Another victim of the last Thursday’s dawn attack by herdsmen on Ndiagu, Attaukwu in Akagbe-Ukwu community, Nkanu-West Local Government Area of Enugu State, Mrs Ifeoma Agbo,...
Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the appointment of Emmanuel Olajide Adesoye, a native of the state as...
The Federal Government is considering probing the tenures of two former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governors, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo and Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi....
Yet-to-be-identified gunmen have killed and set ablaze two persons in Imo State Polytechnic, Uwuagwo, in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of the state (formerly, Michael Okpara College ...
Tension is said to be heightened at Oleh, headquarters of Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State owing to the bombing of the National Secretariat...
Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad attached to the Abia State Police Command have uncovered a suspected baby factory at Ogbor Hill, in the Aba area...
Professor Charles Soludo, on Thursday in Kaduna State, took the Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government, to the cleaners detailing what the government must do...
The former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff has dismissed the allegation that he is the sponsor of Boko Haram terrorist organisation as “rubbish” saying...
The Kwara State police command on Wednesday paraded a Fulani man for allegedly killing his 65-year old mother and elder brother’s wife in Patigi, Patigi local...
Alhaji Musa Jidawa, the Executive Secretary, Yobe State Emergency Management Agency, on Wednesday, said that over 300 houses, farmlands and livestock were destroyed by flood in...
Angered by anti-workers stance by three government officials, the Adamawa state civil servants on Tuesday shut the entrance to state government house for several hours,...
Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Sunday night reportedly killed three persons among them, one Pastor Luka Ubangari of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, ...
A fresh case of Lassa fever, has been recorded in Asaba, Delta State capital, after the death of a doctor owing to the deadly disease. The...
The Lagos State Government on Monday expressed its resolve to fully enforce the Properties Protection Law recently signed by the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, just...
The police on Monday arraigned an ex-employee of First City Monument Bank, Seun Awosanya; and an auto spare parts dealer, Amechi Osita, for an alleged scam...
The Lagos State Drivers’ Institute (LASDRI) on Monday urged bus conductors in the state to be civil in their dealings with commuters and other road users....
Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG), advocacy movement protesters, were denied access to the Presidential Villa on Monday by Security operatives. As part of its strategic 14-day...
Boko Haram insurgents have sacked a village, Shawa, in Askira Local Government Area of Borno State, the leader of the youth vigilance group in the area,...
The Sokoto State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the alleged murder of a 43-year-old woman, Yemisi Adio, by her husband, Taiwo Adio. This is contained in...
A coalition of Christians under the aegis of Patriotic Christian Youths of Nigeria has labelled as ‘enemies’ some persons who purportedly want to pull out of...
A splinter Niger Delta ex-militants group, the Reformed Egbesu Avengers, REA, on Saturday vowed to go after those who have recently begun a smear campaign against...
The Jigawa State Police Command said over the last three weeks, it has charged 53 people to court over rape and sodomy highlighting the spate of...
For flouting the directive of the headquarters against mounting of roadblocks, the Bayelsa State Police Commissioner, Mr. Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, has ordered the arrest of two errant...
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), oil pipelines were blown up in the delta region on Friday in attacks alleged to have been carried out by the...