Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Sunday stormed Afaka village in Kaura local government area of Kaduna state killing 19 people. The unknown gunmen took the community by surprise [...]

President Goodluck Jonathan’s first Easter Sunday service and celebration in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city was marred by an embarrassing power outage at the Our Savour’s Church Marina, where the President [...]

At least fourteen suspected terrorists including one woman and one female child have been killed during a raid by operatives of Joint Task Forces (JTF) at Ryan’ Awaki area at [...]

Pope Francis used his first Easter Sunday address to call for peace in the world and appealed for a diplomatic solution to the crisis torn countries and regions of the [...]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday visited the Ikenne country home of the late Sage, Obafemi Awolowo, to condole the matriarch of the Awolowo family, Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo, for the [...]

The Former Chief of staff to the Imo state Governor, Mr Eze Madumere (MFR), has been sworn in as the new Deputy Governor of Imo state. The swearing in ceremony [...]

Christians globally on Friday commemorated Good Friday, the Friday before Easter Sunday and the Christendom in Lagos were not left out as the crucifixion procession was re-enacted by Catholic faithfuls. [...]

A legal practitioner and public affairs an*lyst, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has blamed the Nigerian justice system for the pardon granted to former Bayelsa state governor, Mr Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, former [...]

The Chief of Staff to the Governor of Imo State, Mr. Eze Madumere, has been cleared by the state House of Assembly to replace the impeached Deputy Governor, Jude Agbaso. [...]

Barely hours after the High Court dismissed the suit by the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Mr. Jude Agbaso, asking it to stop his impeachment by the state Assembly, the [...]

World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) and Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) have dragged the Federal Government to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) expressing “serious concerns about the state [...]

 A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday vacated the arrest warrant issued by the senate against the sacked chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina. The [...]

Activist lawyer, Festus Keyamo has described the trial and judgement of Henry Okah, leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) as political. Mr Keyamo, in [...]

Out of 1,000 members of the National Youth Service Corps in the Batch A deployed to Kano State, about 900 of them have been redeployed to other states due to [...]

Former member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah was on Tuesday jailed for 24 years by the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg. [...]

Gunmen have killed one police officer following an attack on Bara Divisional Police Station in Yobe State on Monday. The attack on Bara, the headquarters of Gulani Local Government Area [...]

Two petrol tankers exploded in Kano on Monday resulting in the death of at least 4 workers on board. The explosion which according to eyewitnesses, occurred at about 6am on [...]

The journalist with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) in Akure, Olubunmi Oke, who was kidnapped on Thursday, has been released. Mrs Oke was reportedly returning from her office located along [...]

Two separate bomb attacks targeted at the Joint Task Force checkpoint at Maiduguri road and police check point at eastern bypass, both in Kano metropolis have claimed the lives of [...]

Nigerians have been reacting to the death of the literary giant, Prof Chinua Achebe. Authors, Lawmakers and state governors from across the country top the list of those that have [...]

Renowned Nigerian novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, has passed away at the age of 82. Professor Achebe died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. An unnamed family [...]

The House of Representatives has insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan should implement the resolution of the House by removing the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Arunma [...]

As the death toll in Kano bombings continue to rise, one of the senators representing Kano State, Kabiru Gaya has warned of a military takeover of government if solutions are [...]

Former minister of education and co-founder of Transparency International, Obiageli Ezekwesili has said that the oil economy has been mismanaged by the government of Nigeria over a decade now. Ezekwesili [...]

The Federal Government has no powers to deregulate the downstream petroleum sector and must always fix the price of petroleum products sold across Nigeria, a Federal High Court in Abuja [...]

The number of casualties from Monday’s bomb blast in a luxurious bus park in Kano state, has risen to 70. Tobias Idika, the President of the Ohaneze Ndi Igbo and [...]

Over 60 passengers were killed while dozens got injured following an explosion that hit an inter-state luxurious car park in Kano State North West Nigeria. A member of Igbo traditional [...]

The Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah on Monday said that the suspension place on Dana airline operation has been lifted and that the company can resume flights immediately. In a [...]

Henry Okah Former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), who was recently convicted for masterminding the Independence Day Bombing in Abuja, Henry Okah on [...]

A case filed by a group of seven lawyers seeking an order of the court to compel the National Judicial Council (NJC)to reinstate suspended president of the appeal court Justice [...]