An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Ikot Ekpene has sentenced Peter Ogban, a professor of soil science at the University of Calabar, to three years in prison for manipulation election results. Ogban...

  The Katsina State Police Command has arrested 34 persons in connection with looting during the Monday morning inferno at the Katsina Central Market. Disclosing this to newsmen, the Command’s Public...

The Minister of the Federal Capital  Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammed Bello, has said that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of N82 billion for the completion of infrastructure projects...

Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the federal government to tender, Thursday, the sum of one million, thirty thousand dollars allegedly recovered from Air Commodore Umar...

A police officer has reportedly shot dead his colleague in Aba, Abia State, while trying to arrest a suspect. Reports say the incident occurred yesterday at the Bata Junction, as the killer policeman...

The Ondo State Government has ordered the principals of public secondary schools in the state to refund the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination fees collected from the pupils to them. Governor...

Google announced on March 24 it has signed licensing deals with numerous Italian media publishers to pay for news content, in the U.S. tech giant’s latest move to tamp down media anger over lost advertising...

The White House on Wednesday announced that President Biden has assigned Vice President Harris the task of overseeing the administration’s efforts to stem the flow of migrants at the Mexican border,...

The Delta State Government has asked the Federal Government to return the £4.2 million James Ibori loot being repatriated to Nigeria by the United Kingdom to the state. In an appearance on Channels TV...

Brazil’s death toll from COVID-19 passed the 300,000 mark on Wednesday, according to its Health Ministry. A total of 300,685 people in Brazil have now died of Covid-19, the health ministry said, as...

Gunmen have attacked a police patrol team at Ashaka, Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State, stabbing an inspector to death while inflicting injuries on others and setting a patrol vehicle ablaze. The...

The kidnapped Olori Ilu of Imope, Imope-Ijebu in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Chief Tajudeen Omotayo, has regained freedom. Omotayo was abducted on Saturday afternoon while returning...

The Nigerian Senate will proceed on a-19-day Easter break beginning from Thursday, March25. This was disclosed by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, at the end of plenary on Wednesday. He said that standing...

The House of Representatives on Wednesday resolved to pursue a comprehensive audit of funds expended on the maintenance and rehabilitation of the nation’s refineries. The refineries include the Port...

FIFA said Wednesday it had extended the ban on its former president Sepp Blatter and former secretary-general Jerome Valcke by six years and eight months, in relation to the receipt of huge bonuses. Blatter,...

The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Mr Haliru Nababa as Controller General (CG) of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS). This followed the adoption, Wednesday, of the report of the Senate Committee...

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent to the Senate a list of 16-man nominees for confirmation and appointment as chairman and members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). This...

A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered an extension by two months, the deadline to link National Identification Number (NIN) with Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). The extension was ordered by Justice...

A 34-year-old Chinese businessman, Arvin Wu, Wednesday, was sentenced to three months imprisonment for receiving stolen railway sleepers belonging to the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC). A panel of...

The Edo State Government has, Tuesday, pulled down three properties at the Government Reservation Areas (GRA) within the state capital, Benin City. one of which belongs to the immediate past Deputy Governor...