Category: Nigeria News

The Yobe Independent Electoral Commission (YOSIEC) said on Thursday that it has obtained updated voter register from INEC, preparatory to the local government council elections in the state in June....

Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday in Abuja reiterated that the Federal Government was committed to tackling unemployment and poverty in order to fight terrorism and other vices. Jonathan gave...

Gunmen with explosives attacked a police station outside northern  restive  city of Kano, killing a policeman and a civilian, police said Thursday. “We lost a policeman in the attack and...

THE South East zonal leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday said it has rejected attempt by  former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, to rejoin...

NIGERIA will be 100 by January 1, 2014, a date that marks the British amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, some say for administrative convenience, to form the country...

Policemen at Makinde Division in Lagos, have arrested three men who allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl, last  August in Mafoluku area of Oshodi. The victim, a Junior Secondary School student...

Increased patronage of rail services by Nigerians coupled with limited and poor service delivery by railway attendants and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC officials, have led to touting at the...

Mr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, former President of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in this interview, called for the independence of the Judiciary, in terms of its yearly appropriation, as against the...

NO fewer than 8,000 farmers in 20 of the 30 Local Government Areas of Osun state have benefited from the third national Fadama Development projects. Similarly10 persons living with HIV/AIDS...

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State yesterday said that the state government will continue to promote agriculture through public private partnership for better economic prosperity in the state and the...