Wife of Nigeria’s former President, Dame Patience Jonathan is to pay the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission the sum of N50,000 as costs after she filed for the discontinuance of her suit...

  The Kano State Government has declared Tuesday as public holiday in honour of the late elder-statesman and Danmasanim Kano, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule who died on Monday in a Cairo hospital. A statement...

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, the Ohaneze Ndigbo has lashed out at the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu over his utterances concerning the forth-coming elections in...

The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Syminton on Thursday said that  attempts to divide Nigeria will fail. He said the resilience, vision and dedication of Nigerians were essential tools which...

  The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) yesterday wrote an open letter to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, warning him to stop seeing himself as an emperor in the...

Irked by the increasing wave of insecurity in Nigeria, the governor of Niger State, Abubakar Bello has said that he no longer has confidence in the ability of security agencies in the country. The  Governor...

Nigeria’s former Military President, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has cautioned those clamouring for a break-up of the country to have a rethink. Nigeria, he reasons, is most likely to come out worse...

Sixteen people have been killed while 13 others were injured in a spate of bomb attacks by female Boko Haram suicide bombers on the University of Maiduguri and its environs. The attacks occurred between...

  General Ibrahim Babangida, Nigeria’s former Military President has described the restructuring of the country’s political economy as “an appeal whose time has come.” Babangida believes...

  Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday signed the Lagos State Kidnapping Prohibition Bill 2016 into law. The bill which prescribes life imprisonment or death penalty for the offence...

State governors in Nigeria on Wednesday said  they have resolved not to allow the country to break up and that those inciting secession and war were only wasting their time. The governors made the declaration...

  A High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the Lagos State Government to pay compensation to thousands of displaced residents of Otodo-Gbame, a waterfront slum demolished by the state authorities...

The Federal Government on Tuesday, filed an appeal against the June 4 judgment of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) which acquitted the Senate President, Bukola Saraki of 18 count charges of false and...

A prominent Islamic cleric and  respected leader in the Tijjaniyya sect, Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi has urged the Federal Government not to allow the Igbo to secede but rather sit them down with other...

  The President General of Igbo people in the northern states of Nigeria and Abuja, Chief Chikezie Nwogwu has said that the Igbo will not yield to any form of threat and  leave the North because...

The Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Jens-Peter Kjemprud has lauded the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Nigerians over the successful conduct of the 2015 general elections in...

The Directorate of State Services (DSS) yesterday night unconditionally released the Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah after a “No Case” was established against him...

  A Federal High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Monday ordered the remand of former Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam and two of his aides in Kuje Prison. Justice Gabriel...

Suspected Fulani herdsmen last weekend reportedly opened fire on 15 anti riot policemen deployed to the farm of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae in Ondo State. Reports...

  The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday called on the Presidency to furnish it with the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference for consideration to enable it proffer solutions to the rising agitations...