The Federal Executive Council has approved contracts for the rehabilitation of Warri and Kaduna refineries at a cost of $1.4 billion. The breakdown shows that $897 million is earmarked for the Warri...

US President Joe Biden has called on Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign Tuesday, following an official report that said Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women. “He should resign,” Biden...

World Soccer ruling body, FIFA has banned its former interim president, Issa Hayatou on Tuesday for alleged wrongdoing in a commercial deal for African soccer. Hayatou, who was Confederation of African...

Nigeria on Tuesday recorded three more deaths and 505 new cases of COVID-19. This was disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in an update on its website, on Tuesday night. The agency...

The Department of State Services on Wednesday produced the 12 detained aides of Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, before the Federal High Court Abuja. Justice Obiora Egwuatu had ordered...

Three more abducted students of the Bethel Baptist Secondary school in Kaduna State have been found. The three students (all male) were found by troops at the Kankumi forest general area in Chikun Local...

Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu on Tuesday won a silver medal in the women’s freestyle 68kg wrestling category at the ongoing Tokyo Olympic Games. She had guaranteed Nigeria a medal on Monday after beating...

Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has appointed Tunji Disu, a deputy commissioner of police, to replace the suspended head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Abba Kyari. Mr...

Nigeria has its first medal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after Ese Brume, in the early hours of Tuesday, claimed a bronze medal after finishing third in the women’s long jump event. She achieved the...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation will declare its first dividend to Nigerians as it prepares to release its 2020 financial statements in the third quarter of this year, the Group Managing Director,...

The Federal Government on Monday took delivery of another tranche of COVID-19 vaccine doses. The latest tranche, about 4.8 million doses of the Moderna vaccine, was donated by the US government. Representatives...

The Federal High Court Abuja on Monday adjourned the suit brought by the 12 detained aides of  Yoruba nationalist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, to August 4. In the suit, the plaintiffs...

Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has recommended the immediate suspension of  Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. Kyari who bears the accolade of ‘Super Corp’...

Popular Nigerian actress, Racheal Oniga is dead. The veteran actress reportedly died today, Friday, July 30, 2021 at the age of 64. The cause of her death is unknown as details were sketchy at the time...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar has declared Mr Jarigbe Agom as the duly elected Senator for Cross River North. A three-man panel of justices, led by Justice Chioma Nwosu, made the declaration in...

The Kaduna State government has filed fresh charges against the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. This latest development comes less than 48 hours after the embattled...

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has assured that the ongoing 614kilometres Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project would be...

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on Thursday announced it has registered more than 60 million Nigerians for the unique National Identification Number (NIN) records in the National Identity...

A Kaduna State High Court has freed the embattled leader of the proscribed Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife from incarceration. In a ruling, the presiding judge, Justice...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the re-election of Rotimi Akeredolu as Governor of Ondo State. In the majority judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, four of the seven-member panel, dismissed...