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Ebenezer Alabi, a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, dump party over alleged extortion

PDP Confused, Ill Informed On Ambode’s Asset Declaration —APC

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has described as uninformed, hollow and laughable the statement by the…

Assembly To Pursue Special Status For Lagos

Eromosele Ebhomele Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa on Tuesday declared that one of the major…

Why Ambode Sacked Parastatals’ Boards

Kazeem Ugbodaga Indications have emerged that the Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode sacked all Boards of Parastatals and Agencies…

Buhari to meet anti-corruption watchdog head

ABUJA, (Reuters) Nigeria’s new leaders will meet the head of a leading global watchdog on corruption to see how billions…

Why Nigerians Flock To Work In Texas Prisons

John Okperuvwe flew from Lagos, Nigeria, to Boston in September 2008 after winning a visa through a lottery run by…

APC NWC members meet, discuss party crisis

The APC Board of Trustees and national leaders will meet in Abuja today to deliberate on the crisis plaguing the…

Ban condemns bombing in N’Djamena

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has condemned the bombings on Monday in N’Djamena, Chad, which reportedly killed 25 people and…

African leaders commend NEPAD

African leaders have commended the role of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) in keeping the dreams and potential…

14 dead, hundreds of zoo animals wiped out in Tbilisi floods

Tbilisi (AFP) – Nine people were missing in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi on Monday, a day after freak floods killed 14…
37 Lagos LCDAs: Why Tinubu must champion Constitutional recognition - Opadokun

Stand firm, remain united, Opadokun tells APC

Chief Ayo Opadokun, Convener of the Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reforms (CODER), on Monday urged members of the All…

IAEA urges Nigeria to ensure safety of its nuclear energy programme

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has stressed the need for Nigeria to ensure that its nuclear power programme is…

14,000 South Sudanese flee Sudan – UNHCR

The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has reported that some 14,000 South Sudanese, mainly women and children, fled into…

Work in the interest of Nigerians, Dogara urges lawmakers

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has urged members of the 8th Assembly to work in…

Bauchi elects 8th Assembly Speaker

Sani Muh’d Sani/Bauchi Lawmakers of Bauchi State House of Assembly have elected Kawuwa Shehu Dhamina as speaker of the 8th…
You have a case to answer, court tells Nyako, son, others

EFCC can arrest Nyako, court says after striking out application

An Abuja Federal High Court on Monday refused to grant an application filed by ex-Adamawa Governor, Murtala Nyako, seeking to…

Speaker Dogara approves ad hoc welfare committee

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Monday, approved the constitution of an Ad Hoc Committee on…

Scores of Boko Haram gunmen killed by Nigerian troops

The Defence Headquarters on Monday said scores of heavily armed terrorists using women and children as shield died on Sunday…

N8bn Currency Scam: Court denies CBN staff, others bail

Justice Nathaniel Ayo Emmanuel of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ibadan, today 15 June, 2015 dismissed the bail application…

Nigerian student arraigned for internet romance fraud

A 21 year-old student, Ebiechina Chikeluba has been charged with internet romance fraud, his latest heist being the N20million he…

I am not the ‘First Lady’, says Aisha Buhari

“I am not the First Lady”, said Hajia Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, the wife of the President of the Federal Republic…
2023 elections: Lamido expresses concern

EFCC to question ex-gov Lamido on Thursday

Alhaji Sule Lamido, the immediate past Governor of Jigawa state has returned to the country from his foreign trip and…

Ambode appoints Umar as Accountant-General

Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the redeployment of Mrs. Abimbola Shukrat Umar as the Accountant General/Permanent Secretary, State…

Transparency will strengthen democracy in Nigeria – NLC

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, said on Monday that a transparent democratic process had the…

Europe’s migrants including Nigerians send home $110bn in 2014

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), disclosed in a report published on Monday in Rome, that the Europe’s 50-million-strong…

Why I’m yet to appoint ministers, says Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday attributed the delay in his appointment of ministers to the late submission of the transition…

Gani Adams, OPC pull out of NNPC pipeline surveillance

The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) said it would pull out its men from guarding all Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)…

Edo police apprehend killers of Corps Member in Benin

Jethro Ibileke/Benin Two members of a suspected armed robbery gang who allegedly killed a member of the National Youth Service…

Ban Ki-Moon calls for Ramadan truce in Yemen

United Nations Secretary Ban Ki-moon, on Monday in Geneva, urged all warring sides in the Yemen conflict to silence their…

17 West African, 1 Algerian migrants die in Sahara desert

The Nigerien authorities and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Monday in Niamey, announced the discovery of the bodies…
2023 election: I have a lot of fears, says Atahiru Jega

Well conducted elections will produce good people, says Jega

Prof. Attahiru Jega, the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has stated that well conducted election will result in the…