The police in Malaysia have arrested a Nigerian man in Danau Kota, Setapak, Malaysia, after he allegedly threw his step-grandson, aged four, out of an apartment window. According to Malay Mail, the Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department Chief, Nik Ros [...]
The estimated 25 million Nigerians that will benefit from the Federal Government’s Solar Home Systems that commences this week will be expected to pay about N4,000 monthly, the presidency has said. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on [...]
Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, a social enterprise that builds an ICT-enabled support system and advocates digital rights in Africa, has written a Freedom of Information request to the Nigerian Communications Commission demanding information on the alleged secret blocking of the domain [...]
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Sadiya Umar Farouq, was on Wednesday involved in a heated argument with her Communications and Digital Economy colleague, Isa Ali Pantami, during the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that Nigerian women are stabilizers of peace in all parts of the country. He made the declaration yesterday when he hosted the representatives of women at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Nigerian leader therefore urged [...]
A magistrate court in Wuse, Zone 6, Abuja, has sentenced a member of the House of Representatives, Victor Mela, to one month imprisonment for perjury. Mela, who represents Billiri/Balanga Federal Constituency, was, however, given an option of fine. He is [...]
The Federal Government, yesterday, said it was in touch with officials of the British government to present its side of the #EndSARS story. This comes after the resolution of the United Kingdom Parliament to impose sanctions on some Nigerian officials [...]
A team of policemen has opened fire on traders in Bayelsa, leaving four people terribly injured. The policemen went berserk and opened fire on traders at Tombia Market after claiming their activities led to traffic that affected their passage through [...]
prosecuting witness, Mrs Rouquayya Ibrahim, has narrated how a former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, stole over N14bn from the federal pension account. Testifying before the Federal High Court in Abuja as the ninth prosecution [...]
Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s former military head of state from 1966 to 1975, has described allegations of fraud levelled against him by a British member of parliament as concocted. MP Tom Tugendhat while proposing sanctions for the Nigerian Government officials complicit [...]
Boss Mustapha, chairman of the presidential task force (PTF) on COVID-19, has asked Nigerians not to travel during the festive season to limit the risk of contracting the coronavirus. Speaking at the PTF media briefing on Monday, Mustapha said such [...]
Months after a group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, asked the Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, to explain to Nigerians why he made a total payment of N173bn into various government accounts without proper schedule on what the funds [...]
Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information, has again lashed out on international news broadcaster CNN for exposing the true events of what happened at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20 when Nigerian Army personnel attacked peaceful protesters with live [...]
One of the Hoodlums who went viral after he Hijacked the #endsars protest in Benin City Edo State, burnt down a police station (Oba Market Station) and stole an AK47 has just been arrested after he formed his own Robbery [...]
Northern Elders Forum under the leadership of Prof Ango Abdullahi has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed as far as tackling insecurity in Nigeria was concerned. The Forum disclosed this in a statement on Monday by its Director of [...]
There is currently tension in Ibadan, Oyo State, following a clash between Agodi Prison officials and commercial motorcycle riders popularly known as Okada on Tuesday morning. According to sources and eyewitnesses on the ground, the unrest started after a prison [...]
The Nigerian army admitted on Saturday that soldiers were given both live and blank bullets when they were deployed to protests at Lekki toll gate on October 20. The admission seems to confirm a key finding of a CNN investigation into the [...]
The Federal Government says popular disc jockey, Obianuju Catherine Udeh, fondly referred to as DJ Switch, “will be exposed” soon over her claims on the alleged shooting of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki toll plaza on October 20, [...]
Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, is set to resume the importation of petroleum products from a neighbouring country, Niger Republic. The Ministry of Petroleum Resources announced on Thursday in a statement that the two countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding [...]
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Judicial Inquiry probing the alleged killing of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate on the night of October 20 on Saturday resumed the viewing of a CCTV footage submitted by the Lekki [...]
The Nigerian economy has again slipped into its second recession under the Muhammadu Buhari-led government as the gross domestic product contracted for the second consecutive quarter. The same happened in 2016, making it the second recession in a space of four years [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with former President Goodluck Jonathan on his 63rd birthday. Jonathan turns 63 on November 20, 2020, and Buhari congratulated him for a life of service that has brought honour and goodwill to the country. A [...]
The Kaduna State Government has suspended Chairman of the kingmakers of Zazzau Emirate, Wazirin Zazzau, Alhaji Ibrahim Aminu. The government also threatened Aminu and three other kingmakers to change their lawyers to the state Attorney-General in a legal suit against [...]
Officials from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, states, agencies and non-governmental organisations on Thursday said Nigeria was spending about $500m annually on oil palm imports. At the national workshop on oil palm organised in Abuja by Solidaridad, [...]
Activist, Eromosele Adene, has finally regained his freedom from unjust detention of the Nigeria Police Force. Adene was arrested by the police on November 7 from his home in Ikeja, Lagos. He was taken to Abuja for interrogation before he [...]
Bashir El-Rufai, son of Kaduna governor, has responded after he was dragged by Muslim community on Twitter, for sharing loved-up photos with his bride, Halima Nwakaego Kazaure. Bashir was under fire yesterday, November 18th after he shared new photos of [...]
The Zamfara State Commissioner in charge of the Ministry of Solid Minerals, Dr. Nuruddeen Isa, said the state government did not own any gold field. Addressing journalists in his office on Wednesday, Isa said, the state government was not directly [...]
The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund has allocated $15m to avert famine in north-east states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. The annual food security assessment projection in the region shows that 5.1m people would be at risk of starving [...]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said it will be meeting the Nigerian government for another round of negotiation over its ongoing strike. The strike has lasted for about eight months as the union insists that the government must [...]
Inside details of how Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, secured reappointment for a second term in office have emerged. Yakubu, who was first appointed as head of the electoral umpire on October 21, 2015 by [...]
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