BREAKING: Tinubu rages over mass killings in Plateau, Kaduna, orders security forces to strike

Follow Us: Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube
LATEST SCORES:
Loading live scores...

Headlines

Aisha Buhari unveils LNG vessel in South Korea

Wife of Nigeria’s president, Mrs Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled a new vessel of the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas company…

Buhari urges OIC to support FG to resettle IDPS

President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday in Mecca that the Federal Government will welcome support from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation…

FG encouraging judges corruption – Adamu

Marwan Adamu, the president of Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) has suggested that the Federal Government led by President…
Ali-Modu Sheriff

PDP NWC approves March 14 for Edo congress

The National Working Committee (NWC), of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has approved March 14 for conduct of the party’s…

Money Laundering: Metuh knows fate March 9

Justice E.O Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday February 25, 2016 reserved ruling on a…

Nigerian, two others jailed for assaulting elderly woman in UK

Three care workers have each been jailed for four months for assaulting an elderly woman in a residential home. The…

PDP crisis: Dickson meets ex-ministers, backs Modu Sheriff

Bayelsa State governor, Henry Seriake Dickson on Thursday had a meeting with the Forum of Former Ministers calling on them…

Explosion rocks Jimeta Police Division

An explosion has occurred at the Jimeta Divional Police Headquarters in Yola, Adamawa State, Northeast Nigeria. Witnesses confirmed the powerful…
Ali-Modu Sheriff

APC, FG plan to arrest Ekweremadu, Akpabio, says PDP

The main opposition party party in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party has claimed that the ruling political party, the All…

Boko Haram defeated, Chibok girls rescue underway, says Buratai

Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai says military has entered mop up phase in fight against Boko Haram that…

APC top guns meet to resolve national, party matters

Some top officials of the ruling APC met in Abuja on Wednesday to dialogue on certain matters concerning the party.…

EFFC arrests ex-PDP national chairman, Uche Secondus

secondus The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arrested and detained the deputy national chairman of the Peoples…

NCC Fine: MTN to settle out of court, pays $250m

South African mobile phone operator MTN Group withdrew its lawsuit against Nigeria’s regulator over a $3.9 billion fine and paid…

IMF calls on Buhari to lift forex restrictions

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on Wednesday for Nigeria to lift foreign exchange curbs and let the naira reflect…

Budget Padding: Buhari vows to punish culprits

President Muhammadu Buhari vowed late Tuesday in Riyadh that all those involved in the “padding” of the 2016 National Budget…

Troops kill 20 Boko Haram terrorists, capture their gun truck

Nigerian troops in conjunction with Cameroonian troops have killed 20 Boko Haram fighters and have captured a gun truck belonging…

FLASH: Ecobank sacks 50 top managers

Kazeem Ugbodaga Ecobank Nigeria Plc has sacked 50 top managers of the bank as it struggles to stay afloat in…

Why NTA, other govt-owned media will be restructured —Minister

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that government-owned media organizations will be restructured and reinvented…

Senator Abe’s liaison office bombed in Ogoni

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The liaison office built by Senator Magnus Abe for the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers South…
Benue South Senator Patrick Abba Moro confirms that he is bidding for the position of minority leader in the 10th Senate.

Ex-Interior minister, Abba Moro arrested, quizzed by EFCC

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arrested former Minister of Interior, Comrade…
Ali-Modu Sheriff

Nobody can force me out as PDP national chairman – Sheriff

The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ali Modu-Sheriff vowed on Monday that he will not resign…

Fayose begs PDP members to support Sheriff

Eromosele Ebhomele As anger grows in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over the appointment of Ali Modu Sheriff as National…

Niger president talks to Al Jazeera on Boko Haram, Democracy

Yesterday, polls closed in Niger, where, in the second election after the 2010 military coup, sitting president, Mahamadou Issoufou is…

Zaria massacre: Shiite members shun panel of inquiry

Femi Adi/Kaduna Shiite members on Monday refused to appear before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry, which hearing in Kaduna on…
Aisha Alhassan also known as Mama Taraba

Taraba: Why we dismissed Alhassan’s appeal – Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday said the All Progressive Congress (APC) and its governorship candidate in Taraba, Aisha Alhassan, had…
Ali-Modu Sheriff

PDP stakeholders want Ali Modu-Sheriff to resign now

A group of concerned Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders and elders has called on the new National Chairman of the…

Boroffice to FG: Mimiko’s N11bn demand on federal roads conflicting, deceitful

The senator representing Ondo North senatorial district, Prof. Ajayi Boroffice has called on the Federal Government to undertake thorough and…

Buhari heads to Saudi Arabia, Qatar

Eromosele Ebhomele President Muhammadu Buhari is to begin a week-long official visit to Saudi Arabia and Qatar from 22 February,…

Fayose lectures Buhari on the naira, economy

Eromosele Ebhomele Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state on Sunday joined those who have called for the devaluation of the…

N225,000 Bribe: SERAP drags NJC, NBA before UN

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to Ms. Monica Pinto UN Special Rapporteur on the independence…