Year: 2018
INEC registers 23 new political parties
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday announced the registration of 23 new political parties, raising the number of…
Fake News Aggravated Recent National Assembly Crisis – Minister
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has attributed the escalation of the recent crisis in the National…
Rotary Club inducts new members
Dedeigbo Ayodeji The Rotary Club of Egbe, Alimosho Local government area, Lagos State, has inducted eight new members into the…
PDP vows to resist attempt to rig it out in future elections
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it will, henceforth, resist any attempt to rig it out in future elections, beginning…
Police arrest 2 suspected robbers in Lagos
Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday said it had arrested two suspected criminals who terrorised and robbed motorists and pedestrians…
Contemplation is African: A Conversation with Teju Cole
I stopped worrying about that stuff a while ago. I think we do have a responsibility to project stories in…
CBN injects $210m into foreign exchange market
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has sustained its intervention in the inter-bank foreign exchange market by injecting 210 million…
Cholera kills 28 in Kano in seven months
The Kano State Government says it has recorded 400 suspected cases of acute watery diarrhea with 50 confirmed cases of…
NASS blockade: Osinbajo saved Nigeria from embarrassment-Tinubu
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday commended Acting President,Yemi Osinbajo for his intervention in the…
Tinubu to Obasanjo: You’ve spent your time, leave Buhari alone
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday warned former President Olusegun Obasanjo to…
IGP overhauls SARS, names commissioner as new head
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim idris on Tuesday ordered the immediate overhaul of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS to address…
No foreign pressure on Buhari to drop 2nd term bid – Presidency
The Presidency on Tuesday said there is no foreign pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari not to contest the 2019 presidential…
APC releases date for Primaries
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has released dates for its primary elections to choose its candidates for the 2019 general…
2019: All Lagos APC aspirants to face direct primaries – Tinubu
National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Tuesday said all aspirants for various elective positions…
I am not desperate to be President – Atiku
Nigeria's former Vice President, Abubakar Atiku, on Tuesday said he is not desperate to be President of the country.
WHO to donate Yellow fever vaccines to Nigeria
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has pledged to donate 12 million doses of Yellow fever vaccines in 2018 and 19…
Osun Guber: Traditional council endorses APC candidate
Ahead of the Sept. 22 governorship election, the Osun Traditional Council in Boripe Local Government Area of the state has…
Ecuador bus accident kills 23
No fewer than 23 people died in a bus accident in Ecuador on Tuesday.
35 people killed as bridge collapses in Italy
A motorway bridge has collapsed in the northwest Italian city of Genoa, killing at least 35 people as vehicles plummeted…
South Korea to ban 20,000 BMW vehicles after engine fires
South Korea Transport Ministry on Tuesday said it would ban some 20,000 BMW vehicles from the streets amid mounting public…
Man drags father in-law to court over alleged abduction of wife
A 35-year-old man, Haruna Ali on Tuesday, sued his father in-law, Adamu Mai-Takaima at a sharia court ll sitting at…
France, Spain, others agree to take stranded migrants
France, Spain, Germany, Portugal and Luxembourg have agreed to take some of the 141 migrants on the Aquarius humanitarian ship,…
Army uncovers Boko Haram recruitment link on social media
The Nigeria Army on Tuesday, said it had uncovered a facebook and other social media accounts allegedly used by a…
Flood destroyed over 50 houses in Kebbi
More than 50 houses were destroyed in Dakingari town in Suru Local Government area of Kebbi on Monday night by…
NNPC to establish 2 additional refineries in Warri, Port Harcourt
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it has plans to establish 100,000-barrels-per-day brownfield refineries in Port-Harcourt and Warri to…
Osinbajo Orders Immediate Overhaul Of SARS
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has directed the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to immediately overhaul the management and activities…
HIV testing: Kenya launches modern diagnostics lab
Kenya’s Ministry of Health and private sector partners on Tuesday launched a state-of-the-art laboratory to enhance screening of the HIV…
Conspiracy against Buhari heightens: Bafarawa visits IBB, Dankwabo visits OBJ
Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, Peoples Democratic Party(PDP)’s presidential aspirant, on Monday visited the former military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, in Minna,…
NLC urges Bayelsa to pay 3 months’ salary arrears
The Bayelsa Chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the state government to pay the three months’ salary arrears…
BBNaija’s Koko By Khloe Becomes Ambassador For “A Girl Project”
Abiri Oluwabusayomi popularly known as a Koko By Khloe is the latest Goodwill Ambassador for “A Girl Project”. The former…