The death toll in a gas explosion that occurred in Kano State on Tuesday has increased to nine. The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs made this known while announcing the arrival of the Director-General of the National Emergency Agency, Mustapha Read more…
Operatives of the Nigeria police force have arrested and paraded three suspects in connection with the criminal conspiracy and the gruesome murder of one Terungwa Stephenie, a 26 years old National Youth Service Corps member serving in Abuja. The commissioner Read more…
Former national vice chairman (South West) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has warned the party against accepting the congress carried out by its former Lagos State chairman, Deji Doherty, saying the court ruling against him may cost Read more…
Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi has described former Vice President, Abubakar Atiku as a committed and detribalised Nigerian. Speaking during the meeting with the Anambra State PDP stakeholders, yesterday, at Uche Ekwunife Event Centre, Awka, Obi said he was contesting to be the Read more…
When the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) first declared every Monday a sit-at-home holiday in the South-east of Nigeria in August last year, Emmanuel Ndu did not take it seriously. Mr Ndu, a businessman in Ogbete Main Market in Enugu State, thought Read more…
The president of Africa Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, has rejected a presidential nomination form bought for him by a group from northern Nigeria. He said he is fully engaged and committed to his work at the regional bank. A coalition reportedly Read more…
Four members of Nigeria’s cabinet, including the junior petroleum minister, said on Tuesday that they will not run in next year’s elections as planned after President Muhammadu Buhari gave them a Monday deadline to resign from their posts. The information Read more…
Two students were on Monday charged in court with conspiracy and inciting public disturbance after a college student was beaten and burned by fellow students who accused her of blasphemy in the northwestern state of Sokoto last week. The death Read more…
President Buhari’s personal assistant on New Media, Lauretta Onochie in an article she titled “The Habitual Greed Of The Academic Staff Union Of Universities, ASUU, Is Targeted At The Great Nigerian Students” berated the members of the Academic Union of Read more…
he Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) said about 32 of their utility vehicles were destroyed when gunmen attacked its facility located inside the headquarters of Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. Suspected arsonists attacked the council headquarters in the early hours of Monday Read more…
South East Elders Council has described the growing insecurity in the region as unacceptable and one requiring urgent attention. The elders expressed their concern after their meeting in Onitsha, the commercial capital of Anambra State, saying the worsening insecurity in the South Read more…
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has confirmed the promotion of former Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mustafa Ibrahim Magu as an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG). AIG Magu Ibrahim who is proceeding on retirement is the Read more…