Tragedy struck yesterday in Kano when unknown assailants strangled to death Hajiya Hadiza Usman, the wife of the Director of Information in the Kano State Ministry of Information and Sports. [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The appeal case filed by Emeka Ugwuonye, a Maryland-based attorney accused of stealing $1.55 million in tax refunds to the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, has suffered [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Ahmadu Bello University Student Representative Council (ABUSRC) has criticized Reuben Abati, President Goodluck Jonathan’s spokesman, for his verbal attack Nuhu Ribadu who last week presented [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, who has been accused by critics of abdicating his constitutional duties, yesterday upgraded the Bayelsa Liaison Office in Abuja and [...]
One of Nigeria's oldest highlife musicians Fatai Olagunju "Rolling Dollar" has died. Mr.Olagunju died in Lagos according to family. read more Read full story on author website »
By SaharaReporters, New York Leaders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) met in Abuja on Tuesday, but failed to name the officers of the party as was widely expected. read [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Local government chairmen and members of the Kaduna State House of Assembly are helping themselves to funds of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) in [...]
A Lagos State High Court judge today remanded high profile fraud suspect, Fred Ajudua, in prison custody until June 24 2013. read more Read full story on author website »
One of the ways to succeed in life is to be talented. If you are talented, it will open doors of opportunities before you thereby making you succeed faster. But [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York SaharaReporters has learned that Kenneth Okpara, Delta State’s Commissioner for Economic Planning, has been accused of pocketing N150 million from the state’s Vision 2020” funds. read [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Malam Nuhu Ahmed Ribadu, pioneer chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has just replied President Goodluck Jonathan’s outburst that Ribadu is suffering of ‘ethically [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York In a furious response today, President Goodluck Jonathan dismissed as ‘false, hypocritical and self-serving,” the criticism by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu that under his leadership, Nigeria is [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Save Nigeria Group (SNG), the well-known pro-democracy organization, will on Wednesday, June 12, audit the state of Democracy in Nigeria since the June 12, 1993 elections [...]
By Akin Kuponiyi Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has filed 56-count amended charge of money laundering against the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi [...]
Nigeria’s Consumer Protection Council has requested Ethiopian Airlines to urgently investigate reports of poor service delivery by the airline on an Abuja-Addis Ababa flight on May 18, 2013, and report [...]
By Vanguard Newspaper, Lagos Former chieftain of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) and Second Republic minister, Dr Wahab Dosunmu, is dead. read more Read full story on author website »
By SaharaReporters, New York The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned that the ongoing electoral campaigns by individuals and political parties violate the law and threaten Nigeria’s democracy. read [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Security sources have told SaharaReporters that five persons died in yesterday’s armed assault on the hapless residents of Goron-Dutshe in Birnin-Gwari local government area of Kaduna [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Barely four months after armed bandits inflicted a massive attack on banks, police stations and settlements in Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State, the area has come [...]
Following the alleged murder of Ibrahim Momodu on May 27 in Benin City, the Inspector-General of Police, MD Abubakar, has directed the Edo State Commissioner of Police “to take urgent [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Accident Investigation Bureau [AIB] has released its first report on its investigation activities on last year’s crash of Dana flight 0992 in Lagos, with no [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Oluwaseun Ogunbambo, one of the notorious oil marketers currently standing trial for swindling Nigerians of several billions of naira in fuel fraudulent fuel subsidy claims, has [...]
By Amina Mohammed The Nigeria Police has redeployed the Divisional Police Officer of Ogida Police Station, Carol Afegbai from the post. The police announced on Friday that the re-deployment was [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Nigeria Police Force will next Monday deploy a unit of 140 officers and men to Mali in support of the ECOWAS and the African Union-led [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa today awarded a contract valued at N3.6 billion for electronic surveillance in the state. The project involves the installation of cameras at designated locations. Read full story on author [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York A bomb found in Kaduna town this afternoon caused panic and pandemonium in the city. read more Read full story on author website »
By SaharaReporters, New York A surveillance contractor in the Niger Delta is disputing the "high intelligence work" of the security officers who placed him under arrest for the April murder of [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor, appears unable to shake off a report that he funneled public funds to Maryam Yaro, a married mistress whom [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Peoples Democratic Party has said it decided to suspend Governor Aliyu Wamakko because he refused to pick calls made to him by the party's national [...]
As controversy, uncertainty and dissension cuts a path through the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a majority of the 19 Northern Governors today shunned the Northern States Governors’s Forum in [...]
