Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that supplementary elections will be conducted in 18 states of the Federation on  March 23, 2019. This was revealed via INEC’s...

Mr Awal Yakassai, a retired director at the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, on Thursday, testified as  the second prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter...

The Coalition of United Political Parties has alleged that there are plans by some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to depose the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III and the Emir of...

A foremost traditional ruler in Kwara State, The Etsu Patigi, Alhaji Ibrahim Chatta Umar has died after a brief illness. The monarch, who died on Tuesday night in Abuja was buried on Wednesday by 2 pm...

The Nigerian Senate has just passed the new National Minimum Wage Act CAP N61 LFN (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill, 2019. The bill which was laid and presented by Senator Francis Alimikhena, sets the new...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission not to go ahead with its plan to collate, conclude and announce the results of the governorship election...

A Federal House of Representatives member recently elected to represent Kura, Madobi and Garun Mallam constituency in Kano State, Garba Muhammad Butalawa is dead. Garba, who contested in the February...

Following Wednesday’s collapse of a three-storey building which killed over ten persons and injured many, the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LABSCA) on Friday morning commenced the demolition of...

The Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Mrs. Dominion Anosike has raised an alarm that some politicians in...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday pledged that his administration will do its best to correct and reverse the terrible mismanagement the country has experienced in the past. Speaking while receiving...

  The Oyo State Police Command has arrested the Chief Whip of the state’s House of Assembly, Honourable Wasiu Olafisoye Akinmoyede in connection with the assassination of the senatorial candidate...

The Senate Ad Hoc Committee on a New National Minimum Wage Bill has agreed with the House of Representatives which recommended ₦30,000 as the accepted minimum wage for workers in Nigeria as against the...

The United States government says it is currently compiling reports on the just concluded general elections in Nigeria with a view to giving a proper response on it. The US Assistant Secretary of State,...

The Oyo State Governor-elect, Seyi Makinde has raised the alarm that officials of the state government have been moving millions of naira from state coffers in the last 72 hours. The allegation, which...

President Muhammadu Buhari has set up an audit committee mandated with the task of investigating and appraising the policies, programmes and projects undertaken under his administration. According to a...

The Federal High Court Abuja, on Tuesday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other security agencies not to arrest Femi Fani-Kayode and Yinka Odumakin without following due...

A 5-storey building which accommodates a private school in the Itafaji area of Lagos Island collapsed on Wednesday morning, leaving hundreds of school children trapped underneath the rubbles. At the time...

Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has blamed President Muhammadu Buhari of being responsible for the delays experienced in passing the country’s budget in the last four years. Ekweremadu,...

The Indepenedent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced March 23 for supplementary elections in states and constituencies where elections were declared inconclusive. The  governorship elections...

European Union (EU) observers have said that soldiers deployed to Rivers State stopped them from monitoring Saturday’s Governorship and State Assembly elections in the state. According to the preliminary...