Tag: Abuja
Supreme Court throws out Wike’s application
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the application of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State challenging…
Breaking: Tribunal sacks Wike as Rivers Governor
The Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal has sacked Nyesom Wike as the Governor of Rivers State. The Governorship Election Petitions…
270 competitors arrive in Abuja for taekwondo tournament
At least 270 competitors have arrived in Abuja for the 3rd Chika Chukwumerije Sports Foundation (CCSF) taekwondo tournament scheduled to…
WHO DG visits Abuja to delist Nigeria as a polio endemic country
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria is at the verge of eradicating polio as the World Health Organization (WHO) is set to formally…
Man jailed for N1.2m stock fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, October 22, 2015, secured the conviction of Bashir Olumuyiwa, Managing Director,…
How Ex-Gov Ohakim paid N270m cash for Abuja property
Proceedings in the trial of former Imo State governor, Ikedi Ohakim, before Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court…
NBC boosts public education with ‘Back to School’ initiative
Daniels Ekugo In demonstration of its support for educational development in Nigeria with emphasis on supporting pupils’ enrolment and retention…
Serial adultery lands Nigerian based in S/Africa in prison
Cyriacus Izuekwe A Nigerian based in South Africa who brought back his family to Nigeria from South Africa has landed…
Bomb blasts: Buhari receives briefing, vows to end Boko Haram
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in Abuja reaffirmed the determination of his administration to rid the country of extremism as…
Buhari condemns latest terror attacks in Abuja, Borno, Adamawa
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned in the strongest terms the latest terror attacks in Abuja, Borno and Adamawa. This was…
Abuja blasts: Soldiers not among casualties – Army
The Nigeria Army on Saturday dismissed reports that soldiers were among casualties of Friday’s bomb attacks in Kuje and Nyanya…
Buhari’s team visit bomb blast sites, as death toll rises to 18
Malam Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari and David Babachir Lawal, the Secretary to the Government of…
Cowardly attacks in Abuja, elsewhere will not save Boko Haram – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned Friday night’s bomb attacks in Kuje and Nyanya areas of Abuja that…
UPDATE: 15 confirmed dead, 39 injured in Abuja bomb blasts
The multiple bomb blasts on Friday night in Nyanya and Kuje, two suburbs of the Nigerian capital, Abuja killed 15…
UPDATE: Bomb blast in Nyanya, kills 2, injures 19
A bomb blast on Friday evening in Nyanya, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has killed two persons…
Twin explosions rock Abuja, many dead
Two bombs went off in the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja late on Friday, an official said. There was…
EFCC raids homes of Jide Omokore, Diezani in Lagos, Abuja
The arrest of Diezani Alison-Madueke in London today may just be the tip of a well coordinated international operation to…
Police beef up security at Millennium Park, Abuja
The Nigerian Police have tightened security at the Millennium Park, Abuja to safe guard the lives and properties of fun…
We support embattled Saraki, says Nigerian Senate
Eromosele Ebhomele The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday declared its support for Senate President Bukola Saraki shortly after he was docked…
IGP harps on intelligence policing
The Inspector-General of Police, (IGP), Mr Solomon Arase, has said that intelligence-led policing is the ultimate for Nigeria. This is…
Over 200 exhibitors register for Abuja trade fair
The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry Limited (ABUCCI) says more than 200 exhibitors have registered to participate in Abuja…
Flood victims in Abuja seek NEMA’s assistance
Flood Victims at Sheda in Kwali Area Council of the FCT have called on the National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA) to…
Abuja bishop kidnapped, N40m ransom demanded
Bishop of Gwagwalada Diocese, in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, has been kidnapped. Reverend Moses Tabuwaye, was on his way to Awka,…
Group wants FG to probe alleged Centenary City project scam
The Nigerian Unemployed Youth Vanguard (NUYV), an NGO, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the alleged fraud perpetrated…
Nigeria to host World Pension Summit in Abuja
Mrs Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, the Director-General, National Pencom Commission (PenCom), said on Friday that Nigeria was ready to host the second…
Ambode urges ICAN to support Buhari’s anti-corruption war
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday urged members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)…
N2.6m at stake at Chukwumerije Taekwondo Open
Over N2.6m is at stake the 3rd Chika Chukwumerije Sports Festival (CCSF) International Taekwondo Open this year. The three-day championship…
Sambo Dasuki in court, granted bail
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), was on Tuesday granted bail on self-recognition following his…
NOUN matriculates 1,000 in Abuja, 187 in Lafia
At least 1,000 new intakes of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Abuja Study Centre participated in the 2015…