Category: Nigeria News

The political situation in Oyo State  Thursday assumed a dangerous dimension in Ibadan, the state capital, as some members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers and Action Congress...

The north has kicked against a recommendation of the Senate in the ongoing efforts to amend the 1999 Constitution for a single tenure of six years for the president and...

The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE)  Thursday urged the federal government to create a ‘harmonious working atmosphere’ for journalists to operate in order for President Goodluck Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda to...

With over six million Nigerians suffering from albinism along with its numerous challenges, the Albino Foundation Thursday commenced additional measures aimed at saving those with the condition  from cancer and...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)  Thursday in Abuja  condemned the killings and  declared that government should not have allowed it to happen. NBA President, Okey Wali, said: "The NBA has...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. The board, however, withheld 12,110 results for possible disciplinary action. The Registrar of...

Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari, late this morning spoke about his anguish over the failure by his people to allow the breakaway...

For the umpteenth time, officials of the Enugu State government  Thursday dismissed the rumoured death of Governor Sullivan Chime in far away India. News of the governor’s purported death had...

An FCT High Court on Thursday fixed May 10 for ruling in an application seeking to quash charges against Farouk Lawan, former Chairman, House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on...

A 25-year-old commercial motorcyclist, known in local parlance as okada rider,  Etenuwoma Oghenero, has been sentenced to death by hanging by an Isiokolo High Court of Justice, for armed robbery....