The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, said on Friday he would commence the process for the withdrawal of surety agreement with...
The #EndSARS campaign, alongside a few other issues, spurred reactions and debates across social media platforms in Nigeria on Friday. The following topics garnered the most...
Universities in the United States have offered scholarships worth $2.17 million to 19 Nigerian students ahead of 2020/2021 academic session. The US Embassy, which announced this...
At least 15 #EndSARS protesters on Friday stormed the sitting of Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry to protest last month’s shooting of youths campaigning against...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday at least 172 persons had died from yellow fever outbreak in Nigeria. The WHO Spokesman, Tarik Jasarevic, who...
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has stated that youths must be commended for organising the #EndSARS protests that woke the nation from its lethargy. Aregbesola...
An Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed an appeal filed by Maryam Sanda who was sentenced to death for the alleged murder of her husband....
The Osun State Commandant of the South-West security network, Amotekun Corps, Amitolu Shittu, has warned against indecent dressing and abuse of the Yoruba language, He warned...
The Coalition of Public Interest Lawyers and Advocates (COPA) has urged the National Assembly to organize a public debate for the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) as...
A former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has once again been granted leave to seek medical treatment abroad by a Federal High Court in Lagos. The...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has received 63 border security equipment donated by Canada. The 63 Migration Information and Data Analysis System equipment from the Canadian...
Ex-France international, Patrick Vieira has been shown the door by French Ligue 1 club, Nice following a run of defeats in recent times. Vieira, who took...
These latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. South Africa’s inQuba lands expansion capital funding round South African startup...
Oil prices advanced by nearly 2% on Friday, approaching a fifth successive week of gains, with key producers consenting on a compromise to extend some cuts...
The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Friday condemned the killing of no fewer than 43 rice farmers in Borno State by the...
The police suit against judicial panels set up by states to probe alleged brutality and human rights abuses by officers of the force has been withdrawn....
The Lagos State Police Command has laid down the gauntlet by declaring a restriction of movement between 6am and 6pm on Saturday, December 5, as the...
Self-acclaimed ‘Port Harcourt First Son’, Duncan Mighty has accused his wife, Vivian and her family members of plotting to take his life by poisoning him and...
A cult clash that broke out on Governor’s Road in the Ikotun area of Lagos State on Thursday, December 3, has claimed the lives of a...
Arik Air has sacked over 300 workers following the Covid-19 pandemic that practically shut down the aviation industry in Nigeria for many months. The affected workers...
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) has announced an 87% fall in profit after tax for the nine-month period to September 2020 as impairment losses and other losses...
A local politician in Namibia with the name Adolf Hitler Uunona, has been elected a local government councilor for the Ompundja constituency in northern Namibia, scoring...
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has warned the police and officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) against extortion of drivers. Mohammed gave the warning...
The difference between the official exchange rate of naira to the U.S. dollar and that of the parallel market tightened to its smallest in three weeks,...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said it was looking to attract $2 billion in diaspora remittances from Nigerians abroad as the country’s foreign exchange reserves...
Runaway former former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, was on Friday remanded in prison custody. A Federal High Court in...
Authorities in France closed 76 mosques and deported 66 migrants in the country suspected of “separatism”. This was announced in a statement on Thursday by the...
In a bid to proffer solution to the challenges of pension administration in Nigeria, the Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated 16 members of the National...
Runaway former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), who jumped bail, Abdulrasheed Maina was in court on Friday to face his alleged corruption...
A female soldier identified simply as Mamman H, attached to the Letmuck Barracks in Ibadan, Oyo State, has been caught on video beating up a physically...
The House of Representatives has invited Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance, budget and national...
Former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, has called President Muhammadu Buhari a failure who should resign and beg Nigerians for forgiveness. According to him, Buhari has...
The United Nations (UN) has informed that no fewer than 22 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo are facing acute food shortage, in a...
The Nigerian Senate has warned that failure by the Federal Government to administer COVID-19 vaccines to its citizens may lead to other countries imposing travel ban...
Forty-eight families of the slain Borno farmers were on Thursday compensated with N600,000 each by the state government. No fewer than 48 farmers on Saturday were...
Nigeria incurs $12 billion in post-harvest loss every year in its agriculture industry on account of poor transportation system and storage infrastructures among other factors, the...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has recorded the highest positive cases of Covid-19 thus far with no fewer than 123 patients testing positive for the deadly...
A member of a vigilante group in the Urhokosa/Obagie community of Edo State, has been killed in a shootout between the group and armed kidnappers on...
The trial of Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) continued on Thursday at the Federal High Court, Abuja presided over...
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has reacted to the gruesome murder of 43 rice farmers at Koshebe village in Borno State by marauding Boko Haram...
Three suspected attackers of the Christian Universal Church International, Port Harcourt, believed to belong to the father of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, were on...
A former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, on Thursday began his defence in the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) scam trial before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the...
The Nigeria police has ordered for an urgent probe of the police suit to stop investigation into the allegations against officers of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you. 1. 343 fresh COVID-19 cases take Nigeria’s total to 68,303. Deaths, recoveries updated Nigeria on Thursday...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dare Adeleke, has accused a former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose of working for the National Leader...
Nigeria on Thursday recorded 343 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which disclosed this on its Twitter handle, said the new COVID-19...
The presidency on Thursday described as fake news reports that former Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, paid N12.5 million into the personal account of President Muhammadu...
The House of Representatives on Thursday resolved to summon the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and his Foreign Affairs counterpart, Geoffrey...
A former Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, said on Thursday the statement credited to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai,...
The Premier League says fans will now be allowed to return to games for the first time since the suspension of football in March due to...
