Category: Nigeria News

The former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has been appointed as an Ambassador-at-Large by President Goodluck Jonathan. An Ambassador-at-Large is an envoy who is assigned...

The United Nations International Children Education Fund (UNICEF)  monday raised the alarm that the North-east geopolitical region which has always remained educationally backward may be further drawn back into the...

The Adamawa State Commissioner of Police, Mr. John Abakasanga, yesterday arrested and arraigned three of the four commissioners who failed to appear before the state House of Assembly last Thursday...

With the 2015 general election around the corner, THISDAY investigations revealed weekend that weak systemic checks within the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and...

National Population Commission (NPC) Monday solicited for the support of President Goodluck Jonathan for the conduct of 2016 census. NPC Chairman, Eze Duruiheoma (SAN), stated this when he spoke to...

Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi of Ado-Ekiti High Court yesterday adjourned the case seeking to stop the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Mr. Ayo Fayose, from contesting the Saturday governorship election...

The death toll in the ethno-religious clashes that erupted in Wukari and Ibi Local Government Areas of Taraba State on Sunday has risen to 44. The state Police Public Relations...

The Director General of the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, John Ayoade Shamonda, yesterday said the agency had placed some states in the North-east, North-west and some parts of the North...

The federal government yesterday said the abducted Lebanese national,  Khaleel Diyab, who was held in Latang area of Plateau State has regained his freedom. The Coordinator of the National Briefing...

The Director General of Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS), Prof. Epiphany Azinge, yesterday identified low budgetary allocation, corruption, impunity, lack of efficiency among judicial officers and law enforcement...