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Lagos doles out N39m to 248 poor residents

The Lagos State Government said it had disbursed N39 million to 248 vulnerable residents in dire need of financial assistance.…

No forex to import petrol, oil marketers tell govt

Oil marketers on Friday in Abuja called on the Federal Government to assist them in making foreign exchange available for…

NCPC boss, Mr. John Kennedy Opara fired

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the disengagement of Mr. John Kennedy Opara as the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian…
Ogbeh

No plan to remove subsidy on fertilizer-FG

Prof. Victor Chude, the Chairman, National Fertiliser Technical Committee, Ministry of Agriculture, says the Federal Government has no plan of…

Strike: Police attack Ebonyi NLC chairman

Mr Ikechukwu Nwafor, the Chairman of the Ebonyi chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has been hospitalised after being…

Adamawa Govt. distributes free radio to IDPs

The Adamawa Government has commenced the distribution of free transistor radios to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in camps in the…
Suspected pirates

Navy hands over pipeline vandals to civil defence corps

The Nigerian Navy in Lagos on Friday handed over four suspected pipeline vandals with 218 jerry cans filled with petroleum…
PDP

National Convention: Sheriff, Secondus, others undergo screening

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has assured that…
Ali Modu Sheriff

PDP will carry everybody along—Sheriff

Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the party will carry everybody along…

Organisers cancel rock festival over Islamic comment

A concert, Eagles of Death Metal, scheduled to take place during a rock festival in August in Paris has been…

4 gendarmes killed in helicopter crash

A military police helicopter crashed in South-Western France on Friday, killing four gendarmes on board, local authorities and the national…

Activist raises doubts over second rescued Chibok girl

Nigeria has claimed the rescue of a second Chibok girl, just days after the first, but campaigners on Friday cast…

Minister urges diplomats to promote Nigeria’s image

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, on Friday, reminded foreign service officers of their roles in positively repositioning…
First Lady Aisha thanks Nigerians for supporting her husband, Muhammadu Buhari, wishes incoming government of Tinubu peaceful tenure

14 widows of military personnel acquire skills

The Defence and Police Officers Wives Association (DEPOWA) Skills Acquisition Centre, Abuja on Friday graduated its first set of trainees,…
Ali-Modu Sheriff

Rivers police ready for PDP convention

The Rivers Police Command says it is ready for Saturday`s National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scheduled to…
Lagos sets humongous N2.5bn revenue generation target for LASTMA

100 LASTMA officers dismissed in one year

The Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Dayo Mobereola, said that no fewer than 100 officials of the Lagos State…

Ex-NIMASA boss, Omatseye bags 5-year jail term

Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday sentenced a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration Safety Agency, Mr.…
MACBAN alleges that killings of innocent herders by a vigilance group is going on in Sokoto State with 16 lives lost so far.

No farmers/herdsmen clash in Abuja says CP

Mr Wilson Inalegwu, the Commissioner of Police in FCT has said that the command has not witnessed any clash between…

Pastor nabbed in Ondo for hawking fetish meat

A mild drama was recorded in Akure, the Ondo State capital, when a self- acclaimed pastor with one of the…

Alleged wife killer, Shonde remanded in prison for 30 days

Alleged wife killer, Lekan Shonde was on Friday ordered to be remanded in prison for 30 days by an Ebute…

Car dealer docked over alleged N8m fraud

A car dealer, Zephaniah Okoli, 53, who allegedly converted his customer’s car worth eight million naira to his own use…

Buhari’s anti-corruption war, any results so far?

President Muhammadu Buhari recently challenged the world leaders to demonstrate the required political will to fight corruption. Speaking at London…

Serah Luka not among schoolgirls abducted-Chibok Parents

Questions are being asked on the true identity of the second rescued Chibok schoolgirl Serah Luka with many parents of…

Tinubu moves to end NLC strike, meets labour leaders

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed, national leader of the All Progressives Congress took the unusual step Friday of intervening in the Nigeria…

Governor vows to fish out killers of aide

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has vowed to fish out killers of his senior special assistant on security, Mr.…

Japanese largesse for IDPS in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa

Japan has extended a grant of $1.5 million to support food distribution and provision of agricultural inputs to most vulnerable…

Plan International seeks positive closure to Chibok School girls

A child focus organization, Plan International has expressed delight over the rescue of one of the 219 school girls, Amina…

More Chibok schoolgirls ‘ll be rescued-APC

Following the rescue of two of the abducted 219 Chibok schoolgirls by Nigerian soldiers in the last six days, the…
Real reason for fuel scarcity in Abuja, other northern states

13 Frequently Asked Questions on new petrol price

Here are some of the questions Nigerians are asking on the new petrol price. And here are the answers 1.…

Shehu Sanni blasts El-Rufai, calls him a coward

Senator Shehu Sanni representing Kaduna Senatorial District in the National Assembly on Friday came down hard on the state chapter…