The Nigerian Government has taken over the prosecution of four suspected killers of the traditional ruler of Amanze Obowo Autonomous Community of Imo State, Basil Njoku....
The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Ogun State Command, says it will impound any vehicle found carrying human beings together with animals. The FRSC Sector Commander...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has promised the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, of the FCT Administration’s support to...
Veteran actor Hanks Anuku has urged his fans and friends to celebrate him while he is alive. In a cryptic post, the actor shared a new...
The Federal Government has arraigned the leader of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Bodejo, before a Federal High Court in Abuja. Bodejo is being charged...
The National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, says the Joe Ajaero-led Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and those they led to picket the party’s national secretariat...
A bill seeking to revive and provide a framework to regulate the Igbo apprenticeship scheme popularly known as ‘Igba Boi’ has passed through the second reading...
The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, and the National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, have moved to boost their partnership to curb illegal migration via the Lagos State...
The Nigerian Navy on Thursday deployed seven ships and two helicopters to provide effective maritime search and rescue services on the country’s waters. The Flag Officer...
Controversial influencer, Kesari Okala, has revealed why he did not beat up Nigerian singer and rapper, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable. Kesari has broken his...
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has said the average retail price of a litre of kerosene rose from N1,329 recorded in January 2024 to N1,340...
The Labour Party, LP, Presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi, has appealed to the Federal Government to support private universities in the...
A divorce-seeking woman, Taiwo Olaniyan on Thursday begged a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her five-year-old union to her estranged husband, Michael...
An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, detective, Mahmud Tukur, has denied promising the former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, leniency in exchange for...
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, met with the leadership of the striking unions on Wednesday in Abuja to discuss ending the warning strike. The...
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has said that the average retail price of a litre of petrol rose from N263.76 in February 2023 to N679.36...
The Nigerian Navy’s Forward Operating Base, FOB, Ibaka, in Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, has arrested two suspected cultists and handed them over to...
The Directorate of Road Traffic Services, DRTS, in the Federal Capital Terrritory, FCT, says its Special Task Team impounded 1,408 motor vehicles, 3,712 commercial motorcycles and...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says it arrested no fewer than 605 drug users and traffickers in 2023 across Ogun State, out of which...
Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed two farmers in Onipi community, Adoka District of Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State. According to locals, other...
An early morning fire on Monday razed some shops in the Nnamdi Azikwe and Docemo section of the Idumota Market in Lagos State, destroying goods worth...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Maiduguri Zonal Command has secured the conviction and sentence of two internet fraudsters. The convicts are Omachile Gabriel also...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Wednesday invaded the secretariat of the Labour Party to protest the party’s national convention planned at the end of March....
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of four internet fraudsters. A Kaduna State High...
A 27-year-old man, Haruna Akinlolu, on Wednesday appeared before an Ota Magistrates ‘Court, Ogun, for allegedly defrauding a man of N580,000. The Police charged Akinlolu, whose...
Civil society organizations, CSOs, and a security expert have berated Senate President Godswill Akpabio for linking Thursday’s killings of 16 military men in Delta State to...
Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has approved the appointment of John Paul Akinduro as spokesperson to the Deputy Governor of the state, Olayide Adelami. Prior...
Ondo State Deputy Governor, Olaide Adelami, says he is not a sworn enemy of the late state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu. Adelami gave the clarifications in the...
Bashir Ahmad, a former aide to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has mocked Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, following his breaking of Ramadan...
Public affairs commentator and media entrepreneur, Atunyota Akpobome popularly known as Alibaba, has said that some of Nigeria’s 36 states should be local government areas. The...
The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has delisted a number of secondary schools in Abia State from participating in the regional body’s exams over involvement in...
A man, Stephen Moses, has expressed shock after paternity tests disclosed that he is not the biological father of his two-year-old son. He said he had...
An Abakaliki Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered the remand of two men for allegedly defiling an 11-year-old girl in Ebonyi. The police charged Okpara Chidiebere, 36,...
Secretary of Council to the American Chartered Institute of Management and Leadership, Prof Asiwaju Busari Akande has warned the federal government of Nigeria against unnecessary borrowings...
The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested 58 suspected criminals after a raid in different locations of the state. The state police commissioner, Dankombo Morris, revealed...
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, sentenced a 29-year-old bar attendant, Samson Timothy, to eight months imprisonment for stealing his employer’s N372,000. The convict, a...
Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has emphasized the need to create state police, saying vigilantes are ill-equipped to face bandits who carry sophisticated weapons. He...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State, Stanley Ekezie, says the prevailing economic hardship across Nigeria is due to the choice the...
The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, says President Bola Tinubu will struggle to get two per cent votes in the...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has issued a stern warning to Nigerians against the use of underage housemaids. The agency’s...
Troops of the Nigerian Army have stormed Igbomotoru community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, razing houses and allegedly killing about 11 people....
Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, has visited Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state, where military officers and civilians were killed in...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday fixed April 18 to hear a N1 billion compensation suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the...
The Benue State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has expressed concern over the increasing number of articulated trucks parking on the Katsina-Ala bridge....
Ekiti State Police Command has arrested seven suspects over alleged offences, including stealing, armed robbery, burglary and attempted murder. While parading the suspects at the police...
A 60-year-old herder, Audu Usman, was on Monday arraigned before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defiling his 14-year-old daughter. The police also charged a...
Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has asked for a total review of the 2024 budget, citing grave worries over the...
The Committee of Diaspora Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress, CDC-APC, has called on President Bola Tinubu to wade into the brewing crisis over the conduct...
The Federal Government has commenced the mass metering of Nigerian Army barracks across the country. The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, during the flag-off of the...
About 183 former Niger Delta agitators have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government over allegations bordering on alleged stoppage of their monthly allowance. The 183...
Terrorists on Sunday night abducted 87 people after launching a fresh attack on the Kajuru-Station community in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. A member...
The Northern Senators Forum, NSF, has commiserated with the Nigerian Army, the Chief of Defence Staff and the Chief of Army over the loss of personnel...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has called on the Federal Government to put an end to the reprisal attacks by soldiers of the Nigerian Army...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has destroyed over three tons of cannabis, Indian hemp, in a forest in Edo State. A statement by the...
Several houses in the coastal and rustic Okuoma community, in the Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, were on fire hours after 16 soldiers on...
The senator representing Delta North Senatorial District, Ned Nwoko, has condemned the killings of soldiers by yet-to-be-identified youths of Okuama community, Ughelli South LGA, in Delta...
Terrorists on Saturday attacked the Dogon-noma community in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, kidnapping 15 women and one man. A local, Istifanus, told newsmen...
Police in Lagos State have rescued at least 50 foreigners, from neighbouring African countries, some of them children, from a duplex on Omola Road, in the...
Former Benue State governor, Gabriel Suswam, has indicated interest in the national chairmanship of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The former Senator of Benue North East...
The Kaduna State Police Command has arrested a 35-year-old man over alleged kidnapping in the state. A statement by the spokesman of the command, ASP Mansir...
The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Tukur Gusau, says some allegedly youths ambushed and killed 16 officers and men of the 181 Amphibious Battalion of the...
The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a suspect notorious for robbing residents using a toy gun. The command’s spokesman, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, stated this on...
The Federal Government has urged state governors to set up Safe School Response Coordination Centres to forestall attacks and kidnappings in schools. The Minister of State...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday struck out a suit challenging the appointment of 12 judges for the High Court of the Federal Capital...
The police commissioner in the state, Waheed Ayilara, who revealed this in a news conference in Uyo on Friday, said that some of the crimes were...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, Edo Zone, rescued more than 100 victims of Edo and Delta extraction in 2023. NAPTIP’s...
The former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, highlighted on Friday the crucial role of the political party in ensuring good governance, saying the government belongs...
A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, has remanded Governor Ademola Adeleke’s appointee, Oyeyemi Olalekan, over alleged acts of terrorism. Olalekan, popularly called ‘Emir’,...
The Anglican Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev. David Onuoha, says although the Nigerian situation remains extremely dire, protests and violent acts are not the...
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, says the aggregate Value Added Tax, VAT, in Q4 2023 stood at N1.20 trillion. This is contained in the VAT...
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, says the aggregate Value Added Tax, VAT, in Q4 2023 stood at N1.20 trillion. This is contained in the VAT...
The Senate has passed for second reading, a bill seeking to authorize issuance of N1.1trillon from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT, statutory revenue account. The passage...
The Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, has requested for cooperation of Illela border community, marketers and stakeholders to improve safe and efficient trade movements in Sokoto state....
The House of Representatives has asked the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to immediately lift the ban placed on the production...
The Chairman of Benue ethnic leaders and President General of Mzough U Tiv, MUT, worldwide, Iorbee Ihagh, has said that over 147 persons have been killed...
The Lagos State Police Command charged five defendants before a Federal High Court on Thursday over alleged possession of firearms. The defendants, Esther Newman, aka Candy,...
The Defence Headquarters said troops have eliminated no fewer than 213 terrorists and arrested 283 others in different theatres of operation across the country in the...
The Conscience of Yoruba Nation, an affiliate group of Afenifere, has rejected the federal government’s proposal for the provision of grazing zones in the South West,...
The Kogi State Police Command has admitted complacency in the killing of Barrister Elias Ugwu last week Friday. It admitted that the Nsukka-based lawyer was killed...
The All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Wednesday, disagreed over the security alarm raised by Governor Ademola Adeleke on the alleged...
There is anxiety in the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as a Federal High Court in Abuja will on Thursday (today) commence...
The Federal Government and the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, have disagreed on Nigeria’s average daily crude oil production. Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday at...
The House of Representatives has lanented the recurring destruction of oil and gas pipelines in the country. The Chairman, Special Committee on Oil Theft, Rep. Alhassan...
Senate Chief Whip, Ali Ndume, has called on the Inspector General of Police to withdraw orderlies attached to lawmakers in the National Assembly and other politicians...
Plateau State Police Command has arrested two suspected car snatchers in the state. The command’s spokesman, Mr Alfred Alabo, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday...
The Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, has called on the Federal Government not to stop funding the National Senior Secondary Education Commission, NSSEC. The Union’s Secretary-General,...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the Benue State University chapter, has suspended the strike it recently embarked upon. This is according to a statement...
A former Managing Director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, NIRSAL, Aliyu Abdulhameed, was arraigned on Wednesday at a Federal High Court...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has assured residents of Abuja of robust security and more infrastructure. Wike gave the assurance while...
The Rivers State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Tony Okocha has accused Governor Siminialayi Fubara of spending frivolously, the money meant for the development...
The Speaker of Edo House of Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku, says the decision to serve an impeachment notice on the Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, was a unanimous...
President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting Senate President Godswill Akpabio, the deputy president of the senate, Jibrin Barau and some other lawmakers at the State House...
Suspected terrorists have attacked the Buda community in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, abducting about 61 people. The state and police authorities are yet...
Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris, has okayed the reduction of official work hours for civil servants in the state in the spirit of Ramadan. The State...
The Ondo State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has reiterated its resolve to prosecute motorists without the speed limit devices installed in their...
Bandits have demanded the sum of N40 trillion to release the 16 residents recently abducted from the Gonin Gora area of Kaduna State. According to TheCable,...
Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP-Bauchi Central) on Monday in Abuja denied saying President Bola was operating two different budgets for 2024. BBC Hausa had reported that Ningi...
Benue State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on Governor Hyacinth Alia to use the state’s security votes to fight insecurity. The Publicity...
The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the 2023 general elections, Prince Adewole Adebayo says increasing the wage of workers would not have...