An attempt by policemen to disperse illegal miners from a mining site in Taraba State turned bloody on Thursday after the suspects launched a violent resistance....
Nigeria had the second largest HIV epidemic in 2016, with over 196,000 adolescents representing 10 per cent of the global burden said to be living with...
Former Super Eagles skipper, Kanu Nwankwo has expressed disgust over the neglect accorded the Internally Displaced Persons(IDP) by all strata of political office holders and cooperate...
No fewer than 6,520 farmers from five north-central states and Abuja have been selected to participate in this year’s dry season farming under the Anchor Borrowers’...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday commended the leadership of ECOWAS Commission for demanding accountability from its headquarters staff, which made it to invite Nigeria’s Economic and...
Alhaji Abdulhamid Oyewo, President, Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Management of Nigeria (CIPSMN), has called for proper procurement process in Nigeria in line with the...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Friday disclosed his plan to train no fewer than 200 children orphaned due to the insurgency in...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday described the approval for the release of $1billion to the APC-led Federal Government to fight insurgency in the North...
Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has called for improved collaboration with the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, in checking the...
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Friday said it had sanctioned 10 petrol filling stations in Zamfara for selling fuel above official pump price. The...
Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology, has said that the Federal Government is committed to investing N180 billion to ensure successful implementation of the...
Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi yesterday presented N267,436,357,912.19 budget proposal to the House of Assembly. The figure is N60.4 billion higher than the 2017 budget of...
Ibadan Authentic Mogajis (family heads) have told the city’s 21 new obas to withdraw their 21-day dethronement threat against the Olubadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji. They issued...
The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) says it require $1.1 billion dollars to fund the 2018 humanitarian interventions in North-East. The UN Humanitarian...
Chief Aloysius Bush, the President of Igboezue, a South Africa-based socio-cultural organisation, on Friday urged governors of the South East states to implement programmes aimed at...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says a total of 1,317 Nigerians have voluntarily returned from Libya in the last 10 days having been stranded in...
Three hundred Nigerian doctors left the country in 2016, the National President, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Prof. Mike Ogirima has revealed. He said more doctors have...
The Federal Road Safety Corps says it arrested at least 6,000 offenders in its ongoing Operation Cobra launched in July to check life threatening traffic offences....
The Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) on Thursday rejected Department of Petroleum Resources’ (DPR) proposal of N355 million for foreign trips in the 2018 fiscal year....
An Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa has declared that the change of name of the state to “State of Osun” by Gov. Rauf Aregbesola...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, on Thursday disclosed that it recorded new national peak electricity transmission capacity of 5,155.9 Mega Watt, MW, on December 8....
An update of the ongoing forensic audit of revenue accrued from revenue generating agencies and meant for the Federation Account was given today at the National...
The House of Representatives Committee on Oil and Gas on Thursday gave 10 indigenous oil companies in the country two weeks to remit 250 million dollars...
Before the coming of the present administration, the major security challenge confronting the country was the menace of Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria including Abuja. Kidnapping...
The Minister for Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, has denied any rift between him and Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, describing the governor as one of his...
Sometime we are exasperated by the internal politics of the Peoples Democratic Party that we forget that there will be no way to simply ask PDP...
Dismisses staff guilty of double registration, registers 21 political parties To act on court ruling on Anambra Senate seat The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has...
EFCC boss dismisses notion of street fight between operatives of agencies The cold war between the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr. Lawal...
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the European Union (EU) on Thursday facilitated the return of 249 more Nigerians from Libya. The News Agency of...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has approved the registration of 21 new political parties, bringing the number of registered parties in the country to 67....
The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, says the party remains one big family committed to credible processes that guarantee...
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has urged the Federal Government to ensure transparency and accountability in the handling of recovered loots of former Head...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Abuja Operation Office, on Thursday in Abuja, embarked on sensitisation of stakeholders to boost their level of preparedness in mitigating...
The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that the current fuel scarcity would end by Saturday. Disclosing this on Thursday at a meeting of the National Economic...
Governors yesterday backed the Federal Government’s plan to spend $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) to fight the Boko Haram insurgency. Edo State Governor...
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ( ISIS )has threatened attacks on U.S. soil in retaliation for the Trump administration’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the...
The management of the some beaches located in Lagos, said they have upgraded their facilities ahead of the Yuletide, to make them more befitting for fun...
Mr Babajide Soyode, the Technical Consultant on Refinery to Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said the Dangote Refinery, Petrochemical and Fertilizer projects would solve half of Nigeria’s crude...
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Apo, Abuja, has ordered that 86 luxury vehicles, together with four houses and a quarry plant in...
Disney has acquired 21st Century Fox’s film and TV studios in a historic deal worth over $52 billion. The arrangement covers the movie studio 20th Century...