Gunmen in Nigeria have released 42 people, including 27 students, who were kidnapped from a boarding school last week in the north-central state of Niger, the state’s governor said. Their release comes...

There was pandemonium along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Friday when a joint team of policemen and the Department of State Services allegedly attempted to arrest Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better...

The Chief Consultant Pathologist of University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH), AbujaT, Ahmed Abimiku, has debunked claims by the police that a woman, Ifeoma Abugu, who died in their custody on September...

The Ondo State Chapter of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM),has directed its members to embark on a three-day warning strike from March 1 over the percentage payment of their...

An Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has hinted on the identity of the abductors of schoolgirls in Zamfara State, saying they were not the bandits he recently engaged with in Zamfara forests. People and...

Angry protesters have reportedly taken to the streets in Jangebe community in the Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, blocking access roads to the community, burning tyres and preventing...

Gunmen have abducted about 300 students at Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Jangebe in the Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A staff of the school who spoke on the condition...

State High Court in Owerri on Thursday ordered an interim forfeiture of all properties allegedly ‘acquired illegally’ by Rochas Okorocha, while he was in office. This comes barely four days after the...

The United States launched airstrikes in Syria on Thursday, targeting facilities near the Iraqi border used by Iranian-backed militia groups. The Pentagon said the strikes were retaliation for a rocket...

The Cross River State Police Command says unknown gunmen have killed four of its officers at a check point. The yet to be identified policemen, two Inspectors and two Sergeants, were killed in the early...

The Benue State Government, Thursday, released to their owners  210 cows impounded from Fulani herders who earlier in the month violated the state Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with the newly confirmed Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa. They met behind closed-door at the Statehouse in...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Thursday, in Abuja, laid to rest the remains of seven of its officers who died in a plane crash on Sunday. The bodies were lowered into the grave at exactly 1pm and accorded...

Governors of the 19 Northern States and traditional rulers of the region are meeting in Kaduna over security challenges bedeviling the region. Report has it that the two-day meeting, which opened on Thursday,...

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Thursday, refused to grant bail to a former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team, PRTT, Abdulrasheed Maina, saying his bail application lacked...

Northern Elders,  under the aegis of the North East Elders for Peace and Development (NEEPD), has faulted a Muslim cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, for allegedly uttering provocative statements that could instigate...

The new Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Enugu State Command, Mr Africa Valentine Ezenyimuru, has commended Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s peace and development initiatives,...

The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), yesterday, accused Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State for joining the league of people it described as lgbo political saboteurs...

The Nigerian Army says it has recovered the corpses of four soldiers allegedly killed by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Orlu, Imo State. This came after the Nigerian troops on Monday...

Labour leaders in Enugu State, on Thursday, pledged to fight corruption by scrutinizing council budgets and projects within the state. The assurance was given at a one-day workshop with the theme: ‘Roundtable...