President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo as the substantive Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE). This was disclosed in a statement...

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari is seeking to borrow another $6.1billion from bilateral and multilateral organisations to fund the deficit in the country’s 2021 budget. The president, in a letter...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has sacked all nurses below grade level 14 in the state for embarking on strike in solidarity with the Nigeria Labour Congress. The governor directed the Ministry...

Germany has agreed to return by 2022 all Benin artefacts taken from the Benin Royal Court following the British incursion in 1849. This was announced on Tuesday at a press briefing in Abuja, the nation’s...

Nigeria has received the £4.2million seized from the associates of convicted former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori from the United Kingdom. This is according to the Minister of Justice and the Attorney-General...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Tuesday approved Janssen (Johnson and Johnson) COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use for Nigerians from 18 years and above. Director-General...

The Kaduna State Government has declared the National President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba and other members of the union wanted. They were declared wanted for alleged economic...

The immediate past governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Sources say that the former governor has been under interrogation...

Gunmen have attacked the Apumiri Ubakala Police Station in Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia state, killing two officers. The gunmen stormed the police facility in the early hours of Monday,...

Nigeria on Sunday recorded seven new cases of COVID-19. The latest numbers were stated by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via its official twitter handle. 7 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Niger-5 Rivers-2 165,709...

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Paris for the Financing Africa Summit. The president left Abuja Sunday for the summit which is being hosted by President Emmanuel Macron of France. According...

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and its affiliate unions will on Monday embark on a five-day warning strike over the recent disengagement of civil servants by the state government. The planned move...

Unknown gunmen have attacked the Nsukwa Divisional Police Station in the Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta state, killing three officers. The attack occurred in the early hours of Sunday as...

The Management of Kaduna Electric has said that the current total power blackout in Kaduna State was due to the ongoing five-day warning strike embarked by labour unions. Abdulazeez Abdullahi, Head of...

The headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Enugu State, was on Sunday night gutted by fire. The latest incident occured barely one week after another INEC office in Obollo-Afor,...

About ten persons have been confirmed killed by suspected herdsmen in Bornon Kurkur community, Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State. Confirming the incident to Channels Television on Sunday via a...

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari is now in a meeting with the President of Chad’s Transitional Military Council, General Mahamat Idriss Deby, in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari received General...

Sequel to the statement by the Lagos State Police Command about an impending attack on the city of Lagos by IPOB, and the consequent rebuttals by IPOB and many Yoruba groups, the Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo Worldwide...

The Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has hinted at the possibility of the postponement of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), which is slated to hold between June...

Power has been restored to all the 330kv transmission stations across the entire grid, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said on Thursday. The company disclosed in a statement that electricity...