President Muhammadu Buhari has renamed the Abuja National Stadium as Moshood Abiola National Stadium. He made the declaration in his speech during the first Democracy Day...
The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries has suspended one of its ministers, David Onyekachukwu, for allegedly molesting and impregnating a sixteen-year-old girl. Onyekachukwu had earlier...
By Gideon Arinze… It was 10am somewhere in the ever bustling city of Mararaba, Abuja- Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory. While many went about their daily duties, Mama Baraka, 43 sat on one side of a flyover, constantly stretching...
In demonstration of their protest, members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria who are popularly known as Shiites on Friday set ablaze flags of the United...
Several members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, who are known as Shiites, barricaded the roads around the National Mosque, Abuja, while requesting the release of...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has explained that the closure of the road leading to the Court of Appeal, venue of the Presidential Election...
A traditionalist, Dada Oluwafemi, has been arraigned before a grade 1 area court sitting in Nyanaya, Abuja for allegedly swindling his client of N635,000 after performing...
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has summoned the Chairman of Abuja Environmental Protection Board, AEPB over the invasion of nightclubs and relaxation centres in Abuja....
The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command, has arrested eight person for their alleged involvement in the stabbing of a lady to death in Karmo area...
The acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Adamu Mohammed, has said men of the Nigeria Police Force involved in the raping of women suspected to be prostitutes...
The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has said it has raised a high power panel to investigate alleged rape of convicted prostitutes by policemen attached...
The FCT police Command has set up a team to investigate the allegations of rape levelled against some of its personnel. Some of the 27 women...
27 women arrested for prostitution by a task force raised by the Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have been sentenced one month in prison....
The Abuja Court of Appeal has set aside a Special Military Court Martial’s conviction of a former Chief of Transformation and Innovation at the Nigerian Army...
To condemn the continued detention of its leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), on Monday, held a massive free El-Zakzaky...
The Defence headquarters in Friday gave an update on its several operations across the country against insurgency, terrorism and bandits. Top on the operational successes is...
The Office of the National Productivity Centre (NPC) which is located at Cape Town Street, Zone 4, Wuse, Abuja, was on Wednesday gutted by fire. The...
The Federal Executive Council, has approved the sum of N1.4 billion for the design of the Abuja headquarters of the Department for Petroleum Resources, DPR. The...
The planned arraignment of a former Comptroller of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko, was on Monday adjourned till May 9 by a Federal High Court...
The Police on Wednesday arraigned a cleaner, Luke John, in a Karmo Upper Area Court, Abuja, for allegedly stealing his employer’s laptop. John, who resides at...
Some agents of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were distributing money to electorates at Polling Unit 001, Pilot Primary School, Bwari Central. The polling unit, which...
Reports show that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is taking the lead in some polling units in Gwarinpa Estate in the Local Council elections in Abuja...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all polling units for both chairman and councillorship elections at the presidential villa, Abuja. However, Unlike the February 23...
The Nigeria Police has claimed that 323 persons within the country fell into its net for various electoral offences during the February 23 Presidential and National...
A 14-year-old school girl has died allegedly from drug overdose in Kurudu area of Abuja. The teenager (name withheld) died on Tuesday night. Neighbours who spoke...
About 130 vessels have been apprehended by the Nigerian Navy between 2018 and February, 28, 2019 for crimes committed in the maritime sector. While hosting Hassan...
Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the most votes in the just concluded presidential poll which held February 23, 2019....
Twenty four hours after the conclusion of Presidential and National Assembly elections in Lagos State, flights operations at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA) are yet to...
The Head of ECOWAS Election Observer Mission to Nigeria, Mrs Ellen Jonhson Sirleaf, is supervising a delegation of election monitors to 8 polling centres and Durumi...
Some of the best fighters in the world will from today (Friday) converge at the Abuja National Stadium for the maiden Nigeria International Taekwondo Open. The...
Members of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) on Tuesday held a peaceful protest on the streets of Abuja in continuation of their demand for the release...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has started an emergency meeting in Abuja to deliberate on the suspension of the Chief Justice of the Nigeria (CJN), Walter...
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed a new executive order that permits companies in the country to fund the construction of major roads in the country. The...
There was panic at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Sunday evening when the tyre of an Air Peace aircraft blew off and made a...
The new international terminal of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja has opened for flight operations with the arrival of Asky Airlines flight ET-AVP from Lome,...
The Federal Government and its agencies will spend N3.29bn on sewage, cleaning and fumigation in the 2019 fiscal year, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. The details of...
Justice N. E Maha of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has refused the request of Senator Dino Melaye to order the police out of...
The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports, Mr Olusade Adesola, says the entire budget of the ministry is not sufficient enough to...
The National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has turned into a graveyard, as staff of the party’s secretariat, complain of being idle. The party...
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has summoned the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Mr. Peter Obi to a crucial...
The Federal Government may have ordered security agencies to begin search of private jets and their passengers as the 2019 campaigns and other electioneering activities begin....
No less than four lives were lost and another 15 victims injured after two fatal accidents occurred in the northern axis of Nigeria. The first involved...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the new national minimum wage of N30,000 proposed by the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage. The report of the committee...
The Nigerian Army has explained the reason for its deployment of troops troops to the Three Arms Zone area of the Federal Capital Territory, where the...
Fresh facts have emerged on the circumstances surrounding the killing in Abuja of Anita Akapson, said to be the daughter of a former Minister of Finance,...
Outspoken Senior Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, has condemned religious leaders who have been visiting President Muhammadu Buhari without using the opportunity to...
AFTER years of waiting for the payment of their terminal benefits, with many dying prematurely during the protracted agitation for the entitlements to be paid, former...
The African continent is said to be losing over $80 billion to illicit financial flows every year, according to South Africa’s former President, Thabo Mbeki. The...
Senator Peter Nwaoboshi has denied that an Abuja court has ordered his arrest contrary to media reports. The Senator representing Delta North in a statement by...
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is expected to meet President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, Nigeria on Friday. Merkel will on Wednesday begin a tour of three West...
