Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 1,138 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 134,690. The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control...

Angered by the take-over of their farmlands by armed herdsmen, the women of Epie and Atisa communities in Bayelsa State have staged a peaceful protest. The women barricaded the Edepie roundabout axis...

The Federal Executive Council has approved a memo from the Ministry of Education for the establishment of 20 new private universities across the Nigeria. The 20 new private universities are to be given...

Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 1,634 cases of COVID-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 133,552. 107551 cases have been discharged and 1613 deaths in total have been recorded...

The Ekiti State government has said it has begun the implementation of the state’s Anti-Grazing Law. The state’s Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Olabode Adetunji who spoke on behalf of...

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for giving the Corporation’s Management free-hand to deliver...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, adjourned the arraignment of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu over alleged N7.1bn fraud. Council to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, Mr Chima Okoronma...

Nigeria has recorded six new cases of the B117 strain of COVID-19 bringing the number of cases in the country to seven. Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Chikwe Ihekweazu...

The Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the sum of N200m to support the ongoing COVID-19 patient management and treatment efforts of the two Federal Treatment Centres in the state. This,...

The ongoing National Identification Number and Subscriber Identity Module integration exercise has been extended by eight weeks, the Federal Government announced on Tuesday morning. The new deadline is ...

The Lagos State Government on Sunday banned the gathering of more than 50 persons in an enclosed space as the state continues to battle a second wave of the pandemic. This was disclosed in a statement...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 1,883 new cases of COVID-19 infections, bringing the total number of infected people in the country to 130,557. The NCDC disclosed this...

The Lagos State Government says it has reduced the tuition fees for students of Lagos State University. The information was conveyed on Friday via the Twitter handle of the Office of the Special Adviser...

President Muhammadu Buhari has communicated the appointment of the new military Service Chiefs to the National Assembly and is seeking the confirmation of the Senate. The communication was done through...

After 13 years of legal wrangling, an appeals court in The Hague has ruled that Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary must pay compensation for oil spills on land in two villages named Goi and Oruma It also...

Four hundred and twenty-four more Nigerians stranded in Saudi Arabia were flown back by the Nigerian government to Abuja on Friday. The Chairman, Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa,...

Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 1,861 new coronavirus cases bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 126,160. The latest numbers were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for disease control...

The Nigerian Customs Service has seized Pangolin scales, elephant tusks and bones from endangered species worth about N952 million and which were bound for export to Vietnam. Area Comptroller, Mr Mohammed...

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met with the country’s new Service Chiefs. The meeting was held behind closed doors at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the...

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Coronavirus Disease Health Protection 2021 document which makes the use of face masks in public places compulsory to curtail further spread of COVID-19. The Chairman...