Category: Nigeria News

< President Jonathan has appointed Mrs. Roli Bode-George as the new Director-General of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The appointment was announced this evening by Presidential Spokesperson, Reuben...

A three-member panel of the National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday sat to grill a Federal High Court judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, over his purported controversial handling of a bail granted...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Liechtenstein is returning $227 million looted by Nigeria's late military dictator after the Nigerian government made a deal and dropped corruption charges against his eldest son,...

Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, has pledged to provide land for the im­mediate take-off of the proposed 500 units of housing project being pro­moted by the Federal Gov­ernment in...

  An Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) attached to the Central Police Station, Nnewi in the Anambra State Police Command, yesterday reportedly slumped following a directive from the Office of...

 The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday said the federal government had put plans in place to restore the destroyed means of livelihood...

 Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State yesterday commenced his annual vacation. The vacation, according to a statement from Commissioner for Information, Chuks Ugwoke, commenced from June 18. The statement, which...

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, has dismissed as untenable, the rumours in some quarters of a possible coup d’etat in the country. He therefore...

 The Yobe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam, has described the Tuesday attack on a television viewing centre in Damaturu, the state capital, where 14 persons were killed and several others...

 A socio-cultural group, the Jukun Development Association (JDA), has called on the people of southern Taraba in Taraba State to defend themselves by any means possible against external aggression aimed...