A Kaduna Chief   Magistrates’ Court, on Thursday, ordered that a 32-year-old man, Francis Godwin, be remanded in  a correctional centre pending legal advice. The defendant who resides at Constitution...

The camps of the Eastern Security Network,ESN, in Orlu, Imo State, have been burnt down by military operatives. The camps were situated in some parts of the forest Umunna in Orlu and Orsu Local Government...

Less than 24 hours after the Kagara school attack, gunmen have again attacked other communities in Niger State. Some of the communities in Gurmana ward of Shiroro Local Government Area of the state, including...

The immediate past Service Chiefs on Thursday stormed the Senate for screening as non-career ambassadors. The former Service Chiefs were led to the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs by the Senior...

The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Aghughu Adolphus Arhotomhenla as Auditor-General for the Federation. This followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Public Accounts. The Chairman...

A senior secondary school girl in Cross River State. has been arrested after she attempted to shoot her teacher with a pistol. The student  was arrested last week at the Government Secondary School,...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr. Mojisola Adeyeye...

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...