Category: Nigeria News

An Abule Egba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday remanded a 35-year-old Islamic scholar (Alfa), Muideen Bilau, at Kirikiri Minimum Prisons for allegedly defiling a minor inside a mosque. The...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has said that “the unlawful and unnecessary killings of many Nigerians today at the Nyanya Motor Park, Abuja show that the measures the government...

Bomb blast , Monday, rocks crowded bus station near Abuja the capital city of Nigeria, official said . A loud blast rocked a bus station packed with commuters heading to...

LAGOS (AFP) – A  man who was arrested for tweeting pictures of an attempted jail break at the headquarters of the intelligence agency Department of State Service DSS in Abuja...

BENIN — A National Youth Service Corps member in Asaba, Delta State, Mr. Osaro Edeghonghon, was weekend murdered by unknown assailants at Ekpoma, the administrative headquarters of Esan West Local...

MAIDUGURI—Barely 48 hours after suspected Boko Haram terrorists massacred more than 200 persons including students who were writing their Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, in Borno, the insurgents, yesterday, continued...

In a bid to prevent any tension that may arise over the sharing of committees to delegates at the on-going National Conference, President Goodluck Jonathan, weekend, summoned the Chairman and...

ABEOKUTA—The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 2, Mamman Tsafe, weekend, claimed that the refusal of governors to provide required support for security agencies, was responsible for the...

LAGOS—Nigerian banks have expressed concern over the possibility of losing about N1 trillion they invested in the acquisition of the privatized assets of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN....

BENIN — TWO legal practitioners in Edo State, Mr. Olayiwola Afolabi and former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association in the state, Mr. Razaq Esenalumhe, have described the statement credited...