Most critical rail projects listed for execution in the 2018 budget are to be funded by financiers, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, said yesterday. Amaechi said...
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu yesterday said the days of impunity are over. He urged Nigerians to unite against...
There were protests in some major cities yesterday – for and against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), the police anti-violent crimes fighting machine. The unit has...
A 42-year old man Sani Shuaibu has been arrested by the police at Alimosho for allegedly raping a four-year old girl. The incident occurred at 2,...
The UN has allocated $13.4 million dollars for Nigeria Humanitarian Fund (NHF) to support over one million people in need of critical life-saving assistance in the...
The prevailing hazy weather over major parts of the country has continued to disrupt flight operations, especially in the southern part of the country. The News...
The Federal Ministry of Science and Technology on Monday called for collaboration with state governments, private sector and development partners to make the nation’s economy technologically...
The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), on Monday, said the council had resolved its internal differences and now united as a body to achieve its...
The Federal Government on Monday said it released N1.2 trillion to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government for implementation of capital projects contained in the...
Mr Bimbo Ashiru, the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry in Ogun, on Monday said that the ministry had put in place machinery to generate N4billion in...
Some kidnappers have allegedly killed three people and kidnapped 10 others at the weekend, along the Kaduna-Sarkin Pawa road in Munya Local Government Area of Niger...
Kenyan opposition has postponed plans to swear in its leader Raila Odinga as an alternative president, easing political tensions and opening a window for possible talks...
Women Friendly Initiative (WFI), an NGO, has called for more sensitization and education of the public, especially parents on the importance of immunization of children against...
Former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari for the arrest of one Usman Sharau. Auwal Usman Sharau, whose recent post had...
MainOne and Tizeti today announced the completion of a joint development project with Facebook to enable the expansion of internet services in Lagos. According to a...
The Korean Cultural Centre says that Nigeria and Korea can use the promotion of their arts and culture, especially drumming, to strengthen bilateral relations between the...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and counsel to Neconde Energy Limited, Mr. Uchechukwu Val Obi, has written to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff...
Challenges Aregbesola, Afikuyomi, others Two weeks after he formally defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has...
The Islamic Movement of Nigeria at the weekend held a lecture in Abuja to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the massacre of its members in Zaria,...
Member of the House of Representatives representing Ibadan Southeast / Northeast federal constituency, Hon Adedapo Lam-Adesina, has urged leadership of the National Assembly to interface with...
ABUJA—The Federal Government has raised a fresh alarm over Nigeria’s rate of population growth; saying if unchecked will impact negatively on the country’s economy and welfare....
lagos—A cross section of supporters of Govenor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State, on the aegis of Akin Ambode Campaign Group, AACG, has called on Governor Ambode...
LAGOS—THE Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has rallied Nigerian youths to be in the vanguard of the fight against corruption, saying unbridled corruption...
The Imo State Police Command has arrested a six-woman-child-trafficking syndicate, which allegedly specialised in stealing children from churches and selling them to buyers. Parading the suspects...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, has said President Muhammadu Buhari is bereft of the understanding of how a government should be run. He...
A security aide to Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State on Saturday allegedly assaulted a Federal Road Safety Corps officer for delaying the governor’s convoy at...
The police have arrested 28 suspected kidnappers, armed robbers and car snatchers terrorising the Abuja-Jere-Kaduna highways. The suspects were said to have been apprehended by the...
A notable member of the Presidential Media and Publicity Campaign team in 2015, Austin Braimoh, has declared that should President Muhammadu Buhari decide to contest in...
The Edo State House of Assembly, on Wednesday, dissolved the Edo State Oil and Gas Producing Area Development Commission (EDSOGPADEC) board over an alleged gross misconduct....
Suspected armed robbers on Friday night shot and severely wounded Miss Onisofie Owei, a journalist with the African Independent Television (AIT) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The...
The new leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been jittery over the success of its...
Chief Raymond Dokpesi, founder of Daar Communication, who contested the PDP National Chairmanship position and lost, has congratulated the winner, Prince Uche Secondus. Dokpesi, who had...
Lagos businessman, Dr Ambrose Orjiako, whose arrest was ordered by a Federal High Court in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, over an alleged disobedience of the court’s order...
A report released by the Nigeria Watch Project says Lagos recorded 837 violent death in 2016. The report is the 6th Annual Report on lethal violence...
•Says no assets re-looted by EFCC operatives •Maina’s $2m property, six properties in EFCC’s custody THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC’S), Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu...
The Nigerian Army says it firmly believes that human rights are an essential component of its military operations. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai,...
The management of Rosellas Amusement Park in Lagos has appealed to the Lagos State Government (LASG) to clear the dumpsite oozing out stench close to that...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Kogi chapter, says it has extended to December 31, the two-week ultimatum it gave to the state government to meet its...
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has attacked his former party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, describing it as the ‘enemy’ of his new found...
The ruling All Progressives Congress has likened the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the leopard, which cannot change its spots. It was the APC’s first...