By SaharaReporters, New York Former Nigerian lawmaker, Dino Melaye, has sued ex-Governor Ibrahim Idris of Kogi State over alleged corruption, looting and massive misappropriation of state funds. The former lawmaker [...]

BY TUNDE ODESOLA, OSOGBO For stealing a N50,000 Sony Ericsson phone belonging to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, a 31-year-old Kelvin Ighodalo has been sentenced to 45-year imprisonment by an Osogbo High [...]

Directors at Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs are refusing to retire after attaining the mandatory retirement age of 60 years, sources have said. Several Ministry workers confirmed that the directors, [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Nigeria's First lady's Patience Faka Jonathan, has deteriorated again, becoming so critical that she has been from a proposed official visit to Namibia and South Africa [...]

The political conflict within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Nigeria’s oil rich Rivers state took a new turn today with the suspension of the speaker of the state assembly [...]

By Ola' Audu About five police officers were killed in an attack in Bama Town of Borno State. read more Read full story on author website »

By SaharaReporters, New York Gunmen in the Sagana waterways in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State today kidnapped another five expatriate crew aboard an oil services support vessel, MV [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has called on the Federal Government to expedite action at prosecuting former President Olusegun Obasanjo for the financial malpractices he [...]

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described the grounding of the Rivers State Government's private aircraft by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) as a glaring case of political [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied newspaper reports that it has rejected a bid by some political parties to merge into the All Progressives [...]

By Premium Times The battle for 2015 in Akwa Ibom has assumed a deadly dimension. An Akwa Ibom state senator, Aloysius Eyok, has accused the state governor, Godswill Akpabio, of [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Nine employees of Octopus Clan Nigerian Limited and the Deck Oil Services have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen along the Ilebiri Creek in the Southern Ijaw [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Joint Task Force in Niger Delta says its officials arrested 76 suspects who may be involved in oil bunkering. The force also disclosed that it [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Joint Task Force Operation’s (JTF) in Borno State today warned the public about the existence of a special kidnapping squad set up by the Boko [...]

By Nnenna Ibeh The Federal Government on Saturday intensified its attack on the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, with the National Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, banning the Rivers State-owned bombardier [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The notorious Boko Haram operative, Mohammed Chad, was yesterday evening killed in a gun battle with JTF. The fight occurred at Ruwan-Zafi area of Maiduguri metropolis [...]

By Premium Times Boko Haram were paid N500 million ($3.15 million) to free seven French hostages kidnapped in February, a confidential document from the Nigerian government available to Reuters states. [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The crisis in the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) over the 2015 presidential ambition of Mr. Goodluck Jonathan threatened to erupt into the open today as the [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York   A former pianist at the Household of God Church run by Reverend Chris Okotie, today filed a motion at a Lagos Magistrate court, asking for [...]

The Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) has called on the United Nations to investigate the mass killings in Baga, Borno State by troops of three of its [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The political disagreement between Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan and Rivers State governor Rotimi Amaechi took a new dimension today as aviation agencies prevented the aircraft of [...]

By Sani Tukur The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, has approved the suspension of Justice Abubakar Talba of the FCT High Court, Gudu, Abuja. The 12-month suspension [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Fear has gripped students and lecturers of Delta State Polytechnic in Ozoro, Isoko North local government area following an alleged discovery that some incoming students have [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has appealed to Dr. Ahmad Datti and Comrade Shehu Sani to reconsider, in the interest of the North, their withdrawal from [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York A security source has just told SaharaReporters that suspected Boko Haram sect militants   last night invaded Mayo Belwa in  Adamawa State and engaged security agents guarding the [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York By the demands of his office, Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State is supposed to be resident in the state capital of Yenogoa in order [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York As political calculations towards the 2015 elections take centrestage, victims of the 2011 post-election violence in nine States, one of them in the South, may be [...]

  Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect this afternoon in Bama, Borno State, killed a Divisional Police Officer and scores of police officers. Our source said the militants attacked [...]

By Ogala Emmanuel Here is a very important information from PREMIUM TIMES for the 47 million Nigerian Internet users. Big Brother, in the form of the Jonathan administration, is watching [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram militants in the early hours of today attacked and engaged soldiers of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Gashua, Yobe [...]