The Federal Government on Thursday said the issuance of new SIM cards will resume on April 19. The Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy communicated this in a statement signed by Femi Ademiluyi,...

Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Usman Baba has ordered the immediate disbandment of the IGP Monitoring Units in Lagos and Port Harcourt. Baba gave the order in Abuja at the opening of a conference...

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after weeks in London for medical consultation. The presidential aircraft conveying the president and some of his aides landed at the Presidential Wing...

Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 89 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 164,000. The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease control...

Nigeria’s inflation rate rose to 18.17 percent on March amid accelerating increase in food prices, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday. The NBS says the consumer price index, (CPI) which...

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has replied the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, for denying that the Federal Government printed N60 billion in March to support allocation...

The Federal Government has denied it printed N60bn to augument March allocation to States as alleged by Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, told...

Nigeria on the 13th of April 2021 recorded 74 new cases of COVID-19. The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via its official twitter handle. 74 new cases of...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited the former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha for questioning. The senator was arrested about 4pm on Tuesday, April 13, at his Unity House private...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced a 37.21 % decrease in cases of pipeline vandalism across the country in the month of January 2021. This is contained in the January 2021...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NAN) has announced 44 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 163,837. The NCDC disclosed this on its official...

A fire incident, on Monday, burnt down 30 shops in Oro town in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. The incident which occurred in the afternoon at about 3:12pm at the Oro Central Market, was...

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) on Monday night announced the sighting of the moon and noted that the 2021 Ramadan will begin on Tuesday, April 13th. This is according to a broadcast...

Nigerian Army on Monday buried the remains of Captain Adeolu Adedayo and 11 other soldiers killed by bandits in Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State. The Army had on Friday confirmed the killing...

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced 11 internet fraudsters to various prison terms for fraud. The convicts were prosecuted by the Benin Zonal Office of the Economic...

A professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Lagos, Bose Afolabi, has been awarded a $2.5 million research grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The university said in a statement that...

The Commissioner of Police in Ebonyi, Aliyu Garba, confirmed on Monday that gunmen attacked another community in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state on Sunday hours after South-east governors met...

The United Nations Office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs has confirmed the attack on its facility in Damasak, Borno state yesterday. The humanitarian coordinator and head of the un mission...

Gunmen have killed eight miners at a mining site of Cabitex company in Kuru, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State. The victims, comprising five women and three men were attacked by suspected...

Governors of the South-East states have resolved to maintain a joint security outfit for the code named Ebube Agu (Wonderful Tiger). The governors made the resolution in a communique during the first south-east...