Former aide to ex-Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has narrated how aides, wives, concubines, family members, security details, friends and even allies, influence...
Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President Muhammadu Buhari, says Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, who recently defected to the ruling...
A Consultant Cardiologist attached to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Dr. Vincent Uhegbu Maduka has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. The doctor, Mr Maduka was...
The World Bank will Monday review an application for a total sum of $1.5 billion by Nigerian states. Shubham Chaudhuri, World Bank’s country director for Nigeria,...
Police in Akwa Ibom have arrested 40 persons suspected to be involved in armed robbery and cultism activities within Uyo, its capital city. The Police Public...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos zonal office, has arraigned two legal practitioners, Sarah Omeigha Ajibola and John Ozovehe Demide, for alleged electoral fraud....
The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) and shareholders have faulted the Nigerian government’s bid to take control of investors’ unclaimed dividends and dormant funds in bank...
The governor of Borno state, Babagana Zulu’s has called for the return of over 200,000 refugees from his state who are in neighbouring countries to return...
The Senator representing Ebonyi Central, Obinna Ogba, has raised the alarm, accusing the state governor, Dave Umahi of issuing threats of assasination to him and victimising...
Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka has given his version of the report on the alleged assault and attack on BBC reporters at his home in Enugu State....
The government of the United States of America has endorsed the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as the country gears up for massive inoculation to stem the spread...
International celebrities, politicians, activists in an open letter sponsored in the New York Times to mark the International Human Right Day on Thursday called on President...
The Federal Government has hinted at reopening COVID-19 isolation centres in Nigeria over the resurgence of the dreaded virus in the country. The Minister of Health,...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved new minimum capital requirements for payment service providers and other financial institutions in the country in a bid...
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has convicted and sentenced five Indians to one year imprisonment each for oil theft. A statement by Wilson...
There are fears that the health care system in South Africa may be overwhelmed as the country faces a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic which...
The Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi on Thursday said that insecurity in Nigeria had been made better than what it used to be seven years ago....
Governor Nyesom Wike has signed into law, the Rivers State 2021 budget of N448,660,773,476 days after presenting estimates to the Rivers State House of Assembly (RVHA)....
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has declared that all employees of Kaduna State Government must test for Covid-19 virus which has fast spread across...
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19 has accused religious organisations in the country of sabotaging the national response by the federal government to stem the...
The Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Thursday prayed to Allah to punish unknown gunmen who killed 16 Kano indigenes on the Abuja-Kaduna highway. The...
Nigerian employees of the Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell ordered the deliberate vandalisation of oil pipelines for personal gain, a documentary in the Netherlands has reported. Dutch...
The Nigerian government Thursday said it had halted the proposed retrenchment of 300 staff of Arik Air. Musa Nuhu, the director-general of the Nigerian Civil Aviation...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you. 1. 675 fresh COVID-19 infections take Nigeria’s total caseload to 71,344. Deaths, recoveries updated Nigeria on...
Football’s world governing body, FIFA has dismissed as spurious, the allegation that its president, Gianni Infantino used a private jet three years ago. “There are clear...
Nigeria on Thursday recorded 675 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which disclosed this on its Twitter handle, said the new COVID-19...
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, said on Thursday Lagos, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and two other states accounted for...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Thursday met some development partners on debt cancellation for Nigeria and other countries in Africa. The...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) extended loss for a fourth day on Thursday as profit-taking in mid and large-cap stocks led the market towards the negative...
Brazil’s richest man, Joseph Safra, is dead. He died on Thursday at the age of 82, his company, Safra Group, said in a statement. With a...
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, said on Thursday the party has not decided on the zoning for the 2023 general...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said on Thursday the Federal Government was working toward getting 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from other parts...
The Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, on Thursday presented the 2021 budget proposal of N145 billion to the state House of Assembly for approval. In his...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday threatened to mobilise Nigerian workers against plan by the state governors to borrow N17 trillion from the pension funds...
The former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Thursday described President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to honour the House of Representatives’ invitation for briefing on the...
Lagos State University (LASU) has increased the tuition fee for new students of the institution by 168 percent effective from this academic session. In a circular...
The House of Representatives said on Thursday the invitation extended to President Muhammadu Buhari was not aimed at ridiculing him over the current security situation in...
Nigeria’s social media space on Thursday feasted on a line-up of issues considered pressing and of National importance. The #EndPoliceBrutality hashtag as well as other related...
Bernice, daughter of the respected United States civil rights activists, Martin Luther King Jnr and American congresswoman, IIhan Omar, were among the 60 global activists who...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday approved the increase in the number of N-Power beneficiaries from 500,000 to one million. The president, who disclosed this on his...
Faisal, son of the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who was declared wanted by the Federal High Court, Abuja, has...
Police on Thursday confirmed the arrest of two members of a trans-national kidnap syndicate involved in the abduction of a United States citizen, Philippe Nathan Walton,...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday, announced the postponement of its nationwide membership registration exercise. The APC membership registration which was Scheduled to commence on...
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has openly admitted that the standard of education in Nigeria is on a downward trend. Adamu who made the submission...
Two journalists working with the BBC Igbo, Chioma Obianinwa and Nnamdi Agbaelo, have accused Father Ejike Mbaka, the Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN),...
World basketball governing body, FIBA has ranked Nigeria men’s national team, D’Tigers as the 22nd best team in the world. The Mike Brown team, who are...
An average Nigerian might witness a reversal of decades of economic growth and the country might slip into its worst depression since the 1980s in the...
These latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Nigeria’s Indicina secures 6-figure funding round Nigerian startup Indicina has announced...
Peter Okoye, one-half of defunct group, P Square who now prefers to be referred to in music circles as Mr P has told his fans that...
The ongoing Chief of Army Staff’s annual conference in Abuja has ended abruptly over COVID-19 scare. The Nigerian Army cancelled the remaining activities of the conference...
