Year: 2016
Court overrules govt over lawyer’s access to Dasuki
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja: An Abuja High Court has overruled the Federal Government in its decision to confine the detained former National…
Present difficulties will yield a greater future for Nigeria- Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has described the difficulties Nigerians are going through as “the birth pangs of a great future”. Buhari,…
Pictures: Buhari receives Amosun at State House, Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday received the Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun in his office at State House, Abuja.…
Boko Haram’s Chief bomb maker confirmed dead
The Nigerian Army on Monday confirmed the killing of Boko Haram’s Chief bomb maker by his colleagues in one of…
Nurse crushed to death in Ijebu-Ode
Abiodun Onafuye, Abeokuta: Tragedy struck in Ijebu-Ode Monday when a truck loaded with granite crushed a lady to death. Another…
Navy in C/River offers free medical services
The Nigerian Navy has offered free medical treatment to no fewer than 500 residents of Ugep community in Yakurr Local…
ASUU donates foodstuff to IDPs in Adamawa
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has donated assorted foodstuff and detergents to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Damare…
Ministry of Interior to partner with Nigeria Scouts Federation
The Ministry of Interior says it will partner with the Nigeria Scouts Federation in addressing youth restiveness and building a…
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NFF sensitizes clubs, media to FIFA’s new rules on football
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), said on Monday that it will soon begin to sensitise clubs and other stakeholders to…
Ambode’s achievements in one year laudable, says Buhari
…Commissions Emergency Rescue Centre, Security Equipment, Ago Palace Way …Our Govt Will Continue To Raise The Bar Of Security, Gov…
Enugu govt apportions land for commercial farming
Mr Michael Eneh, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, said on Monday that the Enugu State Government has allocated…
Passport: PDP spokesman, Metuh knows fate May 25
A Federal High Court on Monday fixed May 25 for ruling on PDP spokesman, Olisa Metuh’s request for his international…
Husband prostrates in court, begs wife not to leave him
A respondent in a divorce petition, Mr Taiwo Salami, 54, on Monday prostrated in an Ikorodu Customary Court to implore…
2 seized boats of smuggled rice handed over to customs
The Eastern Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said the Nigerian Navy had assisted in intercepting two boats laden…
Fayose bans cattle grazing in Ekiti State
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has today made illegal cattle grazing in the state after suspected Fulani herdsmen killed…
Fani-Kayode to spend another 3 weeks in custody
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday ordered the remand of Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation…
Wike to Army Chiefs: We will help you fish out militants
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has declared that nobody will be shielded from the military operations…
Chocolate City Music births two new music label imprints
During a press conference this morning, the Chocolate City Group unveiled two music labels- Super Cool Cats and JagzNation as…
Air pollution kills 7m people annually
Air Pollution kills seven million people across the world annually and of this household pollution kills 4.3 million, particularly women…
NUJ threatens to boycott PDP, police activities over attack on journalists
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Rivers State Council has condemned the unwarranted attack on journalists who…
Cameroonians mark National Day in Lagos
About 2,000 Cameroonians in Lagos, Abuja and Calabar, at the weekend came all-out to celebrate their country’s 44th National Day…
Delta govt creates 17,173 jobs
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, on Monday, said that his administration had created 17, 173 jobs directly and indirectly in…
Boy, 15 in court for stealing
A 15-year old boy was on Monday docked before a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with stealing a…
Patients in danger as hospital runs out of anti-snake venom
The Snake Bite Treatment Centre in Kaltungo, Gombe State, has run out of anti-snake venom, its Medical Officer, Dr Abubakar…
Procurement officers save Nigeria N680b in 5 years
The Acting Director-General, Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Mr Ahmed Audu, on Monday said the Federal Government had saved N680b…
Jungle justice on the rise
An Abuja-based Legal practitioner, Mr Olamikanra Ogunyemi, has decried the incessant rise in `jungle justices’ in some parts of the…
FG set to battle future flooding- Minister
Mrs. Amina Mohammed, Minister of Environment has said that mechanisms to respond to the future incidence of flooding in the…
UN chief says many people need aid to survive
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, said a record number of people are in need of aid and the…
Nigerian youths in diaspora kick against N145 petrol
Nigerian youths living abroad have supported the removal of petrol subsidy by the Buhari government, but simultaneously opposed the price…
Kaduna PDP vows support for Makarfi
Kaduna State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Hassan Hyat, has pledged support to the new National Caretaker…