Category: Nigeria News

A Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday struck out the N77 million fraud charge brought against the Oyo State, former commissioner for Trade, Investment and Cooperatives, Mr. Kazeem Adedeji by the Police....

ONE of the few surviving nationalists and former Minister of Aviation in the first republic, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi has revealed how he hid the foremost South African nationalist and former...

ENUGU-IGBO leaders held a crucial meeting on the proposed National dialogue in Enugu yesterday where they emphasized the need for the South East to harmonize their position on various national...

A 15-feet (4.572 metres)- snake has been killed by a 23-year-old herdsman, Bayo Ibrahim, close to the Ado-Afao-Ekiti road in Ekiti State. Spectators called it various names, including “Aminurin”, “Ojola”...

In a new national survey conducted by the federal government for the 2012 National HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Survey-Plus (NARHS Plus) Nigeria’s HIV/AIDS prevalence rate is now 3.4 per cent....

ABA- A truck driver Thursday, at Ogbor Hill area of Aba, Abia state, lost control and rammed into a classroom killing 7 school children. Fifteen other school children also sustained...

President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday conferred the Nigerian National Order of Merit awards on three professors.   The professors are Seth Sunday Ajayi, award in Science category, Francis Abiola Irele, award...

Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Martin Elechi, Thursday maintained that his state will never support the clamour for state police as they would be doomed, noting that Nigeria has remained one...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has embarked on moves to get five of its governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) back under its umbrella.   THISDAY gathered...

The Senate Thursday confirmed the re-appointment of Professor Oba Abdulraheem as the Chairman of Federal Character Commission (FCC) despite stiff opposition to his return from Senators Bukola Saraki (Kwara Central)...