Category: Nigeria

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal Government to “disclose within seven days the exact amount

The family of Adebayo from Wakajaiye, Ayeda-Ade Local Government Area in Osun State has appealed to the police to fish

Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State on Friday staged a protest against the sacking of erstwhile

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has presented the certificate of return to the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has recorded 48 convictions and recovered N8.5 billion in cash and

passportAlmost six years after Nigeria was declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organisation, the Kingdom of Bahrain has refused to

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has publicly destroyed over 34, 560 kilograms of hard drug in

•Businessman for arraignment April 2 Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday adjourned till April 2 the arraignment of the Chairman

Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday remanded four directors of Petro Union Oil and Gas Limited in custody of the

• Military integrates 136 B’Haram ex-terrorists • Senate talks tough on killings The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has called for

THE Supreme Court judgment on Bayelsa State election has created mixed feelings in the state ahead of today’s expiration of

• Minister, NCAA apologise • Govt to retool Lagos airport for better visibility For the second day running, air travel

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last night received the enrolled order of the Supreme Court’s judgment on the Bayelsa

Taraba State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the state House of Assembly to invoke Section 190

AS the row over restriction of okada and keke on some routes in Lagos continues, Eze Ndigbo and Chairman Council

• Bill on security outfit scales second readings in Ekiti, Oyo Assemblies • Ogun Assembly receives law on security network

• Confirms 472 cases, 14 health workers affected • NACA explains prevalence of HIV/AIDS among youths The Nigeria Centre for

Reactions have continued to trail yesterda’s judgement of the Supreme Court that sacked the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governor-elect in

President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the departure of highlife maestro, Dr Victor Olaiya, saying his place in history is guaranteed.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has re-arraigned activist and convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore, on a fresh two-count charge

The Presidency has accused opposition politicians of paying miscreants to boo the presidential motorcade in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital,

A Federal High court sitting in Calabar, on Thursday morning, granted bail to the detained journalist, Agba Jalingo. Justice Sule

MORE Houses of Assembly in the Southwest on Wednesday got the drafts of the Bill on Western Nigeria Security Network,

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu yesterday appealed to the Federal Government to ensure that the ongoing rehabilitation of Lagos-Badagry Expressway

Pandemonium and anxiety enveloped Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, as strange fire erupted in the house of former President Olusegun

Some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders in Kwara State have pledged their loyalty to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. They said the

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Slyva, said on Wednesay that about one billion Barrels of Crude oil

The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned in strong terms last Sunday’s reported killings of over

The Presidency yesterday described reports that daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari, Zahra, had secured employment with the Petroleum Products Pricing

The Federal Government has said that it will soon put in place a law that will stop illegal mining in

Factional president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Fegalo Nsuke, has alleged the mismanagement of

To ensure flawless operation of the South-West Security Network, codenamed Operation Amotekun, the Ondo State Government has approved a draft

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a contract of N318 million for engagement of a lead consultant for the

Efforts to find a lasting solution to escalating security challenges facing the country reverberated again yesterday as Osun State Governor

The approval for the Southwest security outfit code-named “Operation Amotekun” was on Wednesday approved by the Ogun State Government. The

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and a former Nigerian lawmaker Shehu Sani are at the Abuja High Court at the resumed

THE Group Managing director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, on Tuesday lamented that electricity remains a luxury and

DETAILS of the operational guideline of the Southwest security outfit, Operation Amotekun, has emerged. According to the draft bill for

The Supreme Court has put off hearing in the appeal filed by former Finance Minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iwuala against a

The Pathology laboratory of the ISO-certified 37 Military Hospital in Ghana has finally released the autopsy report for revered Nigerian

Over 3000 athletes from the 12 Zonal Police Commands and the Force Headquarters will compete for laurels at the 12th

The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has inaugurated its last entrant to complete the 26-member legislature. Swearing in the

Imo State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Contracts has indicted former Governor Rochas Okorocha over the alleged fraudulent award of

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has approved the recruitment of 7,000 teachers, 2,000 non-teaching staff, 1,600 night-guards into the post-primary

The Ekiti State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday said that it might take former Governor Ayodele Fayose

Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Emmanuel Ehanire, yesterday confirmed that two suspected cases of Coronavirus have tested negative after diagnosis

Terrorists now use social media as a medium for communications and recruiting new followers in perpetrating crimes in Nigeria, minister

Aisha Buhari and Patience Jonathan Photo: Twitter/Aisha Buhari The First Lady Aisha Buhari has met with her predecessor, Mrs Patience

Each week, there seems to be a new revelation that hugs the spotlight on social media. Just days after the

All victims of abductions by terror groups, including Leah Sharibu, the remaining Chibok, and Dapchi schoolchildren, will regain their freedom,

There was panic in Nekede community, Owerri, Imo State, when a giant hyena escaped from the Imo State Zoological Garden

Member, Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Wisdom Fifa (left); House of Representatives member representing Yenagoa/Kolokuma-Opokuma Federal Constituency, Prof. Steve Azaiki;

• TETFund clarifies late submission of three years’ accounts The House of Representatives has flayed the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory

The Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) has urged the Federal Government (FG) to declare Lassa fever a public health incident

A Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin on Monday granted N200 million bail to the immediate past Commissioner for Finance

Hundreds of women in Katsina State that were to benefit from the N10 billion Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) micro-grant have

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) on Monday increased its Lagos-Ogun Mass Transit Train Services (MTTS) to two trains daily to

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it has neutralised some key Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) leaders at Alafa Yagayaga on

The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has constituted a committee, headed by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore

The Borno government on Sunday reopened the Maiduguri-Dikwa road, five years after it was closed as a result of the

The South East Governors Forum (SEGF) has promised to provide the Federal Government details of its joint security programme at

Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong has promised that the youths who voluntarily gave up small arms in Lantang North and

Seeks N3b compensation for victims Access to Justice has filed a N3.215 billion suit against the Federal Government over alleged

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Benue State Chapter, has advised Governor Samuel Ortom to put a stop to what it

Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire and the Lagos State Commissioner of Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, have disclosed that the

Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Muhammad Adamu yesterday said the solution to insecurity in the country is to take policing back

Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) yesterday raised the alarm over alleged importation of weaponised drones into the country,

Nigerian authorities seized $8 million in cash stashed in six plastic bags on a bus at the international airport in

It was a session marked by protests in the Senate yesterday as the upper chamber approved N238.15 billion budget for

The United States and Nigeria voiced hope Tuesday that the Trump administration would soon lift onerous visa restrictions slapped on

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said violent attacks, kidnappings and killings by Boko Haram insurgency group are not in

Mrs Theresa Nwosu, Head, Public Affairs Department of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Uyo Zonal Office, on Tuesday

A pipeline explosion has occurred at Etekwuru community in Ohaji Egbema Local Government, Imo State. The public Relations Officer of

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has announced the seizure of $8 million cash at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport Ikeja,

Organised labour in Niger state on Monday, directed workers to embark on an indefinite strike from February 4, over non-implementation

Members of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG), on Tuesday, suspended its one-day picketing of the headquarters

THISDAY Newspaper said it has suspended of two of its editors over a report about general overseer of Living Faith

• ’No Nigerian in China has been infected’ • Lagos moves to contain disease outbreak The Chinese government yesterday expressed

Denies further hike in train tickets Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said the new Maritime Security Infrastructure will be

Three persons were yesterday feared killed and many others injured as policemen and tricycle operators clashed in the Ijora area

(Anyone who reduces the okada anomie to provision of employment does not wish Nigeria well. If employment for the youths

United Nation Children Economic Fund (UNICEF), has disclosed that Nigeria requires an average of $5.7billion to provide water and sanitation

APC leaders suspend Idahosa Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde yesterday dismissed purported violence in Saturday’s ward congresses of the party

Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari returned from London after a one-day UK-Africa Economic Summit organized by the British Prime Minister Boris

There is an air of optimism blowing around the Lagos Polo Club, venue of the NPA International Polo Championship, which

The Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has decried the level of acrimony and slander that currently dominate the nation’s social

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC office at Orlu, Imo State has been set ablaze by unknown persons suspected to

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi on Monday said the Lagos state government might face unemployment and uptick in crime

The Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) says bandits have displaced no fewer than 4,030 persons from their communities in

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will arraign the Chairman of the House Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Development

The National Union of Agriculture and Allied Employees (NUAAE) in Cross River, Nigeria, has discredited the allegations that 50 pregnant

Huawei Technologies Company Nigeria Limited as part of its commitment to further contribute to driving ICT skills and capacity building

A founding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Tony Momoh, has warned that the party risks losing