President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Ogbonnaya Orji as the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative for a single term of five years. A statement...

The Niger State Government has released the names of the abductees from Government Science Secondary School Kagara. The list released by the State Ministry of Education shows 27 students were abducted...

Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State has ordered the immediate closure of all boarding schools in the bandit ravaged areas of the state. This comes after armed men attacked Government Science College...

Some students and staff of Government Science College, Kagara in Niger State were this Wednesday morning kidnapped by armed bandits who stormed their school. A student was also reportedly killed by the...

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has announced the re-opening of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos runway after its temporal closure following a landing incident. This...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has recorded 1,368 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 148,296. The NCDC disclosed this via its official Twitter handle...

The United States (U.S.) Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has disclosed that terrorists, Islamic fundamentalists and bandits killed 8,279 Nigerians in 2020. The USCIRF, an independent...

A Nigerian businessman, Obinwanne Okeke alias Invictus Obi was on Tuesday sentenced in the United States to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a computer-based intrusion fraud scheme that caused...

The Lagos State Government, on Tuesday, announced that it will vaccinate no fewer than 1.5 million dogs within the next two weeks. The government said the exercise will take place during the free anti-rabies...

The Northern Elders’ Forum has asked Fulani herdsmen to return to the north if their security cannot be guaranteed in their host communities in the south. Speaking through its Director of Publicity...

President Muhammadu Buhari has named Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He has therefore requested the Senate to confirm Bawa’s nomination. This...

The West African Examinations Council has released the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for private candidates (second series). Announcing the release at the WAEC National Headquarters,...

The former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. Okonjo-Iweala, whose tenure begins March 1, is the first woman and African...

Suspected bandits have invaded Baka village in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing  a man and his son. The deceased man, Sanusi Musa and his son were said to have resisted attempts...

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Maj. Gen. Samuel Adebayo as the Chief of Defence Intelligence. By this, Adebayo becomes the head of Nigeria’s Defence Intelligence Agency, DIA., Adebayo,...

Police have detained at least 12 people following protests over the reopening of the Lekki toll gate in Lagos on Saturday. The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on February 6 had ordered that the toll...

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has dragged President Mohammadu Buhari to the Federal High Court in Lagos  over his elongation of the tenure of the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu. Named...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a Public Private Partnership-styled Infrastructure company named Infra-Co, with an initial seed capital of N1 trillion. The Senior Special Assistant...

The meeting between the Federal Government and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU), has ended in a deadlock. It was the...

Not fewer than two persons reportedly lost their lives on Thursday in a clash between the Amotekun Corps and armed herdsmen in Ondo State. The incident occurred at the Government Forest Reserve at Ago...