The Nigerian National Assembly on Thursday passed the 2017 budget of N7.441 trillion as against the N7.28 trillion earlier proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari about four months ago. The Senate also...

The Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has said he will listen to any advice given to him by Second Republic Vice President of Nigeria, Dr Alex Ekwueme. Kanu made the remark...

  A panel of investigation has been constituted by the Kano State House of Assembly to look into various allegations leveled against the embattled Emir of Kano, Mohammed Sanusi II. The eight-man...

The Federal government has almost tripled the budget for amnesty programmes for militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta region of the country. In a statement released by the presidency, an additional...

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday night, flew back to London for medical attention from his doctors. The trip came after a lot of speculation in the public domain about his health. For three...

The newly released 82 Chibok girls were on Sunday evening received by President Muhammadu Buhari in his residence at the Presidential Villa. The girls who were driven into the villa in two luxury buses...

  1. Kwatah Simon 2 Grace Dauda 3. Jummai Paul  4. Tabita Pogo 5. Yanke Shetima 6. Jummai Mutah 7. Juliana Yakubu 8. Mary Yakubu 9. Ruth Kolo 10. Marianwa Yahaya 11. Rachel Nkeke 12, Fibi Haruna 13....

Wife of Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari, has broken her silence over the sentiments and concerns which lately, have been loudly expressed in various quarters over her husband’s health. This week, there...

The immediate past governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido was on Tuesday docked for allegedly inciting his supporters to violence ahead of the state’s local government elections slated for July 1. Lamido,...

No fewer than 50 persons were reportedly killed after invaders, suspected to be from Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross Rivers State, in the early hours of Tuesday, raided fishing communities in...

  Chief Bisi Akande, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and erstwhile interim National Chairman of the party has said he is greatly disturbed and saddened by the health of President Muhammadu...

Nigeria’s  Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said that ailing President Muhammadu Buhari will for the time being operate from home instead of his office. He made the disclosure...

  Barely 48 hours after 7 persons were reportedly killed in separate suicide attacks in Maiduguri, three suicide bomb attacks in Muna community of Maiduguri, has claimed another 5 lives and injured 11...

The Nigerian Army says it has recovered a lot of arms and ammunition in Southern Kaduna in its recently-launched Operation Harbin Kunama II. Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier-General Sani Kukasheka...

  A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, this Tuesday granted bail to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu on health considerations. Delivering ruling on the bail...

 Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly summoned the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II over his expenditure since his appointment in 2014. Sanusi,...

  Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity has said the President’s spokespersons were not consulted before Punch Reporter, Olalekan Adetayo was...

A Lagos trader, Mrs Titilayo Balogun who attempted to jump into the Lagos Lagoon on March 24, has been arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court at Ebute-Metta. Her offence, according to the prosecutor,...

  A total of 745 deaths have been recorded since the outbreak of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM) in some parts of Nigeria. According to figures released by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)...

  Officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) have arrested a woman, Fatima Kabir, believed to be an ex-wife of a factional leader of Boko Haram, Mamman Nur in Maiduguri. The 15-year-old...