Three women and a child on Tuesday drowned when a boat carrying migrants from Afghanistan and Iran sank off the Turkish coast, the Turkish coast guard...
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) has called on the Federal Government to remove taxes on sanitary materials used by women. This call was...
A new public survey released on Tuesday by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) reports high levels of corruption in public institutions in Nigeria for the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has swiftly fixed a date for supplementary governorship elections in Adamawa State. The electoral body has now fixed March 28...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday announced that it has reduced the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 14% to 13.50%. This was disclosed by...
The battle of who becomes the president of the 9th Senate is threatening to throw the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) into a fresh crisis. This...
The Senate caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on their counterparts in the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop dragging the name of...
Bauchi State governor-elect, Bala Mohammed, has said that he defeated incumbent Governor Mohammed Abubakar because the people rejected him. He explained that the rejection was because...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been given the go-ahead to conduct supplementary polls in Adamawa State. A Yola High Court lifted an interlocutory injunction...
Airbus (EADSF) announced in a statement on Monday that it will make a huge order from China as Boeing struggles with the 737 Max crisis. The...
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has denied claims making the rounds that he gave the sum of N200 million as bribe to the deputy governorship candidate...
Hours after news made the rounds that Senator-elect under the platform of Young Peoples Party (YPP), Ifeanyi Ubah, has dumped the party for the ruling All...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said the obligation to ensure electricity consumers have meters rests on the shoulders of the Distribution Companies (Discos). This...
In a sudden twist, the Association of Resident Doctors, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (ARD, UNTH) has withdrawn petitions it wrote to the Economic and Financial...
The trial of a Lagos-based trader, Mrs Vivian Onwuka, and her company, A.V.K Investment Limited, for alleged N36 million fraud over supply of rice continued at...
The Chairman, Oyo state Tradesmen and Artisans, Alhaji Hamzat Kolayode has appealed to the contending factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in...
By Chiemeka Iwuoha… So now, where are the all-too powerful ex-Nigerian military generals who, prior to the 2019 general elections vowed over their dead-and-dying-bodies in letters,...
The inability of the Lagos State Government to continue with its case against Danish national, Peter Nielsen, accused of murdering his Nigerian musician wife, Zainab Alizee...
A group that represents French Muslims is suing Facebook and YouTube for streaming video of the March 15 shootings at two mosques in New Zealand that...
Three tertiary institutions of learning in Osun State, shut on March 18, in the wake of violent protests that rocked Ilesa, have been ordered to reopen....
The Police Command in Anambra State on Monday paraded a suspect named Monday Onyikwa from Umuefi Village, Nteje in Oyi Local Council Area for allegedly selling...
Detectives attached to the Zonal Intervention Squad, Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos on Monday, arrested an herbalist attempting to sell human parts. The Zonal Police Public...
A 45-year-old man, Aduragbemi Idowu, on Monday was remanded in Ilesa Prison by an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly assaulting a four-year-old girl with a...
After emerging senator under the platform of Young Peoples Party (YPP), Ifeanyi Ubah, has dumped the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Ubah won...
The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu has revealed that the sum of N1.3 trillion was stolen under the watch...
Zamfara State governor, Abdulaziz Yari, has refuted reports that the Sokoto Division of the Appeal Court nullified all primary elections of the All Progressives Congress (APC)...
The Anambra State Police Command have rescued a six-year-old girl who was allegedly sold for N100,000, to be used for ritual purposes. One Monday Onyikwa from...
By Reuben Abati … The 2019 general election in Nigeria has been described by international and local observers, stakeholders, direct participants and the electorate themselves as...
In reaction to the accusations levelled against it by the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the APC to stop “their...
A man, Chukwudi Onweniwe, has been sentenced to death by an Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, for killing his girlfriend, Nifemi Adeyeoye Adeyeoye, a...
Justice Tanko Muhammad, the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, has ordered the inspection of all Sharia, Area and Customary courts in the country, to ascertain the...
The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Monday, appealed to the Senate for the approval of an additional $461.8 million loan for the completion...
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin, has called on stakeholders and agencies in Nigeria’s security architecture to think out of the box in order...
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 Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Senator Bala Mohammed, the winner of the March 9 governorship election in Bauchi State. Bala, a former minister...
The politics of which zone produces the House of Representatives Speaker in the incoming 9th Assembly is getting more intense with South East All Progressives Congress...
By R. B. Dagogo-Jack… FACTS: In the 2015 elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), controlled the Federal Government of Nigeria FGN, and the All Progressives Congress...
Vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi, has expressed worries over the incidences thuggery, rigging and other electoral irregularities that took place...
The Technical Committee on the implementation of the new minimum wage has officially handed President Muhammadu Buhari a report on how the newly increased pay will...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has petitioned the Nigerian Police and Department of State Security (DSS) to invite, interrogate and probe leadership of...
Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has given an insight into how things will be run in the 9th National Assembly....
Opposition political parties on the platform of Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has applauded court ruling on the collation of Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area...
The trial of the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat, has been adjourned indefinitely by Kaduna State High Court....
A summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed on Monday that US President Donald Trump’s campaign did not conspire with Russia during the 2016 election....
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State has accused Jimi Agbaje, its governorship candidate in the just-concluded general election, of allegedly hijacking funds meant for...
A father, mother and two children have been knocked down by a bit and run driver along Abuja-Lokoja road in Kwali. The family members who sustained...
Renowned lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana SAN, has said the practice of allocating crude oil blocks to individuals and International Oil Companies (IOCs) by the federal government...
Federal Government’s inability to periodically review power sector’s Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) has resulted to a loss of over N1.4 trillion. Executive Secretary, Association of...
TV personality and Big Brother Africa Season 5 winner, Uti Nwachukwu, has revealed what he hates most about pastors, especially those resident in Africa. The reality...
Researchers are set to launch trials of technologies that could improve vehicle identification and combat number plate thefts and misuse. One technology being tried is Radio...
