Bandits have attacked Bethel Baptist School, a private college located at Maraban Rido area of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, abducting an unspecified number of students. The kidnappers...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit, asking the court “to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to disclose spending details of the overdrafts and loans obtained...

Oyo Police Command on Sunday confirmed five persons dead and others injured when a gas tanker rammed into Bode market in Molete, Ibadan, capital of Oyo State. The accident occurred around 9:00 am on Sunday...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), said its operatives have arrested one Mrs Anita Ugochinyere Ogbonna, a Nigerian based in Brazil with 100 pellets of cocaine concealed in her private part...

The government of Kenya on Friday denied involvement in the arrest of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, saying it “does not want to be dragged into Nigeria’s internal affairs.” Nnamdi Kanu’s brother,...

The Department of State Services has declared Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho wanted. The DSS also confirmed that its operatives carried out a midnight raid on his...

The Nigerian Senate has passed the Petroleum Industry Bill also known as PIB. The bill was passed during plenary on Thursday after careful consideration of each of the clauses. The Senate approved three...

The Petroleum Industry Bill moved one step closer to becoming law after Senators on Thursday began to consider its provisions after a committee report. Senator Sabo Mohammed (Jigawa South-West) who chairs...

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved the sum of N74,773,601,916.30 as the 2021 budget of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund. The approval  followed the presentation of the harmonized report of both the...

Bandits have killed the member representing Shinkafi Constituency in the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Alhaji Muhammad Ahmad. Ahmad was reportedly killed by bandits along Sheme- Funtua Road in Katsina...

The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has been re-arrested and brought back to Nigeria to face his trial, Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar...

The Nigeria Center For Disease Control (NCDC), has said Nigeria has no case of the COVID-19 Delta variant that was first detected in India. The NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this...

The Federal Government on Monday said flights to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are yet to resume due to the discriminatory nature of protocol introduced by the UAE. The Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi...

President Muhammadu Buhari has written the House of Representatives to seek approval of N894.842bn supplementary budget to fund purchase of COVID-19 drugs and weapons for the Armed Forces. In a letter...

The Senate on Tuesday received a joint committee report on the petroleum industry bill. The bill aims to modernise the petroleum industry and attract more investors into the sector. The bill was laid...

The Federal Government on Monday said it has approved the extension of the deadline for NIN-SIM data verification to July 26. This was communicated via a statement signed jointly by spokespersons of the...

The Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, on Tuesday explained why the national oil company is purchasing a stake in Dangote Oil Refinery. In May, the NNPC announced...

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has threatened to shut down all filling stations across the country over the alleged illegal invasion of its national secretariat by...

 Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, will defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, his aide has said. The governor’s Director-General, Media, Yusuf Idris, disclosed this to journalists...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, will on Monday, swear-in 18 justices into the Court of Appeal bench. President Muhammadu Buhari had in April, approved the appointment of 18 new...