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Fashola’s Scandal: Tinubu is laughable, jittery, says PDP

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described a statement credited to former Lagos State…

Ambode commissions 46 ambulances, hands over 10 Hilux vans to police

Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday commissioned 46 ambulances and handed over 10 Hilux vans and…

$6.9m campaign stage contract: My hands are clean, says Obuah

Gordon Obuah, former Chief Security Officer to former President‎ Goodluck Jonathan has denied accusations that he initiated a memo for…

Investigate Akwa Ibom finances, EFCC, ICPC urged

Former Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Information, Ita Awak, has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Debt…

Winners Golden Bet hails D’Tigers’ feat at AfroBasket

Leading Nigeria’s sporting betting company, Winners Golden Bet, has joined sports-loving Nigerians in felicitating with the new African basketball champions,…

Fayose apprehends 30 civil servants for lateness

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has frowned and warned civil servants in the state to shun every act of…

Buhari swears in SFG, NSA and SA Media

President Muhammadu Buhari will today, August 31, 2015, preside over the swearing-in-ceremony of the Secretary to the Government of the…
Nigeria's basketball team, D'Tigers celebrate their victory

Buhari congratulates D’Tigers, assures full support ahead of Olympics

President Muhammadu Buhari congratulates the national men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, on their victory over Angola in yesterday’s final of the…

UNIPORT students close down UPTH, protest death of final year female student

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Angry students of the University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, in Rivers State,southern Nigeria, in the early hours…

Woman sacked, paid N2,500 as benefit at Catholic school

Cyriacus Izuekwe Crisis is brewing in a Lagos Catholic school after a woman who had worked for nine years in…

Ogun Gov. Election Tribunal rejects ballot papers as evidence

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The Ogun Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Isabo court, Abeokuta, has rejected ballot papers packed in…

Imams back Buhari’s loot recovery campaign

The Council of Imams and Ulama in Kaduna State, on Sunday said the effort by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration…

“What are Jonathan’s Ministers afraid of?” Presidency asks

The Presidency has asked Ministers who served under former President, Goodluck Jonathan, what they are afraid of in President Muhammadu…

Diezani, Okonjo-Iweala, others say Jonathan is not corrupt

Ministers who served under the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, have condemned what they described as concerted effort by the Buhari…

Donnier 228 crash: Buhari commiserates with families of victims

President Muhammad Buhari has commiserated with the families of victims of the ill-fated Donnier-228 which crashed in Kaduna on Saturday.…

UK, US legislature more expensive to maintain than Nigeria – Institute

The National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS) says it is much more expensive to maintain legislators in the U.S. Congress…

Buhari will balance appointments, ex-lawmaker tells Nigerians

Dr Nya Asuquo, a former House of Representatives member, has appealed to Nigerians to be patient with President Muhammadu Buhari…
RMAFC on Tuesday reacts to ongoing controversies over the salaries and allowances being paid to members of the National Assembly.

Frequent recess by NASS not unusual, says NILS

The National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS) says the frequency with which members of the National Assembly go on recess…
12 people escape death on Ondo road

Accident kills 7 on Ogbomoso-Oyo road

Seven people lost their lives on Sunday when a commercial bus and an articulated vehicle ran into each other on…

Boko Haram: 57,743 Nigerian Refugees in Cameroun, Niger, Chad

Nigeria National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA said Boko Haram attacks have resulted to displacement of about 57,743 into three neighbouring…

Sanitation: We won’t spare offenders – LASG

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has reiterated that the law on the monthly environmental sanitation and restriction of movement…

Bayelsa Police repel pirates’ attack on passenger boat, recovers arms

The Bayelsa Police Command on Sunday said its Marine Division in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state had…

Dealers of second-hand clothes record profit in Calabar

Dealers on second-hand clothes and shoes in Calabar, Cross River capital, have expressed joy over the high sales they now…

How INEC, Udom tried to frustrate our case, says Umana’s lawyer

Counsel to Umanan Umana, Akwa Ibom governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Victor Iyanam has accused the Independent…

Boko Haram trying to hit Lagos – DSS

Nigeria’s Islamic extremist rebels Boko Haram are trying to extend their violent campaign across the country including Lagos, the country’s…

Missing man, 65, found dead in well

The body of a 65-year-old man, Mr Dele Ogundeyi, was on Saturday recovered from a well on the Aperan Way…
DSS raises alarm over plan to disrupt peace in Nigeria

DSS arrests Boko Haram members that executed Potiskum, Kano, Zaria, Jos bombings

The Department of State Services (DSS) said it has arrested some members of the ruthless Islamist sect, Boko Haram that…

APC lists new cases of massive looting

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has listed new instances of the insane looting of the treasury by some officials of…

Parents of Chibok girls get N100k each, materials from Borno Govt

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno on Saturday presented N100,000 cash assistance and clothing materials to each of the parents of…

Wike used to pose as a Muslim, says Amaechi

Former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi has hinted that his successor, Nyesom Wike might have converted from Islam to Christianity.…