Five Deputy Comptroller Generals of the Nigeria Customs Service voluntarily announced their resignation from the service yesterday. No reason was given for their action. They are:...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . Madam Ebifeghe Dikoro, the 105- year- old mother of Chief Wilberforce Igiri, the running mate to the governorship candidate...
In from Smart Ali . . . Nigeria’s contribution to cybercrime worldwide has been estimated at $9.3 billion annually, President, Cyber Security Association of Nigeria (CSEAN),...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . Alhaji Sanusi Ado Bayero, eldest son of the late emir as District Head of Gwale and Ciroman Kano, was...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . The Armed Forces on Wednesday declared 100 insurgents, mostly teenagers wanted, a move it assured would help greatly to...
As part of efforts to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change the federal government through the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) in partnership with the...
Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . The Lagos State government may soon okay public holidays to commemorate the celebration of special events marking the worship of Ifa,...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . . The Senate on Tuesday mandated its committee on Marine Transport to invite the management of the Nigerian Ports...
Nigeria’s former military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, has faulted the December 2015 deadline handed the military by President Muhammadu Buhari to end the Boko Haram...
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Tuesday reacted to a recent ranking of Port Harcourt International Airport as the dirtiest and most corrupt airport in...
A retired police officer, Chris Omoben, who was in charge of the investigations into the death of a Dele Giwa, the founding Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch Magazine,...
President Muhammadu Buhari today departed Abuja for Delhi, for the 3rd Summit Of India-Africa Forum. While in India, President Buhari, the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . A retired police chief, Chris Omeben, who conducted the investigation into the murder of renowned journalist, Dele Giwa, has...
The governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima and the Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Buratai, Sunday, disagreed on insinuations that Boko Haram insurgents were holding...
Reports reaching Ripples has it that four suicide bombers were on Sunday, killed, when the vehicle they were traveling in exploded few kilometres to Maiduguri, Borno...
After weeks of in-fighting, and horse trading, the Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola has approved the appointment of Prince Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi of the Giesi ruling...
A six-man Federal Government delegation led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federaltion (SGF) Babachir David Lawal yesterday visited victims of the recent bomb...
Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka is not taking recent “unprovoked assault of public lies” directed against him lightly, as he vowed yesterday that his latest book,...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . In a bid to rid the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja of security treats, some suspected Boko Haram members...
The spate of bombings of targets in the Northeastern part of the country showed no sign of abating, as two female suicide bombers have attacked a...
Unknown to Nigerians, the Boko Haram terrorist group had perfected plans to extend its deadly carnage to the south western part of the country by causing...
Two top executives of a commercial bank, who have been allegedly managing accounts on behalf of former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) Abdulrasheed Maina,...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . Hours after suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked a mosque in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, Friday morning,...
Reports from Maiduguri have it that a suicide bomber detonated a bomb inside a Mosque located behind the Magistrates court, Polo area, during the morning Islamic...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . An enlightenment workshop organised for commercial tricycle and motorcycle riders across Ogun State on safety throughout this year’s ember...
The Federal Government is at the moment arraigning five suspects in the October 2 Nyanya, Kuje multiple bomb blasts. The suspects, Abdulazeez Muhazab, Ishaka Salihu, Mohammed...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . In apparent reaction to several complains of engaging in illegal activities, the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . The interrogation of the immediate past Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, continues today, as the Economic and Financial...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . The crisis between the Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi and the leader of the Igbo community, also referred...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . A teenager and an octogenarian were among five persons rescued on Wednesday from a three – storey collapsed building...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . A hungry male passenger aboard Air Peace Lagos-Abuja flight on Wednesday collapsed ten minutes after take-off. He was however...
Perhaps in attempt to douse criticisms that his administration has not been too gender sensitive in its appointments, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . Journalists in the commercial city of Kano, North West Nigeria, had a raw deal in the hands of guards...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,(EFCC) Tuesday, gave account of how a former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim bought his current Asokoro residence before an...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . The General Aviation Terminal, GAT, Muritala Muhammed Airport was the scene of a near death experience when two planes...
Leaders of the Okunraye Community in Ibeju Lekki area have denied being culpable for the untimely death of the Managing Director, Lekki Free Trade Zone, Mr....
A number of people on Tuesday escaped death when the convoy of the Edo state Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, was...
Protesters, under the umbrella the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, stormed Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to protest the arrest and detention of the Director of Radio...
President Muhammadu Buhari has invariably brought to an end, the civil service career of the Head of Service of the Federation, Danladi Kifasi, as he has...
Reports reaching Ripples has it that the immediate past Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, has been invited and is being questioned by the Economic and Financial...
According to a recent poll, Nigeria’s Port Harcourt International Airport is rated as the worst airport in the world. The African terminal received the unfortunate distinction...
Military authorities on Monday in Abuja stated that troops battling the Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast part of the country are having to contend with...
The Secretary, Oyo State Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Adeleke AbdulKareem, said in Ibadan on Monday that two of the 1,191 pilgrims from Oyo State who performed...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . A former Chairman of Madagali Local Government Area, Maina Ularamu, Monday, confirmed that 12 persons were killed...
The plan of a suspected female suicide bomber was yesterday thwarted in Maiduguri, Borno State, when soldiers shot at her and exploded the bomb she was...
These are indeed trying times for embattled immediate-past governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam. Barely one week after being quizzed for over nine hours by the...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . Reactions have continued to trail the arrest of acclaimed Director of Radio Biafra and the leader of the Indigenous...
The World Bank has asked for more time to make a full disclosure of the detailed breakdown of disbursement of monies recovered from the late Head...
Guinness Nigeria has handed over some essential medicines as part of efforts to empower the National Youth Service Corps Rural Dwellers’ Health Initiative. The drugs were...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . Director of Radio Biafra and the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has reportedly been...
