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...

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...

Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba on Tuesday ordered the posting and deployment of 24 Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs) to Zonal Commands and formations. A statement by...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced an end to the weekly allocation and sale of foreign exchange to Bureau De Change (BDC) operators in the country. CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, made the...

President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Bill submitted to the National Assembly in June. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters,...

  President Muhammadu Buhari is set to travel to the United Kingdom on Monday, said his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. Adesina, in a statement, said that the President would...

Armed kidnappers in Nigeria have released 28 of the more than 120 students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi. The attackers...

The Federal Government has approved the extension of the deadline for the National Identification Number (NIN)-SIM data verification to October 31. This was disclosed in a statement jointly signed by the...

An outbreak of Cholera has killed at least 33 people in both Yobe and Jigawa states. In Yobe State, three deaths have been recorded with two other victims hospitalised at Girgir Community in Jakusko Local...

Armed men on Wednesday killed five persons in Gidan Sule village which lies along the Lafia-Makurdi Road in Nasarawa State. Police authorities who confirmed the incident noted that they were informed about...

The arrival of the Super Tucano is a major boost to the country’s fight against insurgency. Nigeria has received the first batch of A-29 Super Tucano aircraft procured from the United States of America. The...