News

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has gven all South Africans and their companies operating in Nigeria to shut down within seven days and move out of the country, following the increasing number of Xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South ...

A Nigerian lawyer has shared photos of the injuries he sustained while allegedly preventing the abduction of his ailing father from their home in Aba, Abia state on Wednesday August 7th.   The lawyer with the handle @ChrisEcia on Twitter, said the ...

The presidency has said that President Buhari remains the best hope to grow and develop the Nigerian economy.   The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in a statement he released yesterday August ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a serving youth corps member, Ademola Babajide Adeniyi, and Onabuke Adedokun Kenny, a graduate of the North American University, for alleged Internet fraud.   A statement from the antigraft agency says the ...

Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), has revealed that a trip she took to the Indonesian prison some years back revealed that out of the 21 Nigerian drug peddlers on death roll, 20 of them were from Anambra ...

The Vice Chancellor of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Muhammad Abdullazeez, while receiving the state’s Governor Bala Mohammed who paid him a condolence visit, alleged that 30 students were taking selfies when the bridge they stood on in the school collapsed.   ...

On Wednesday, August 7th, the Nigeria Police Force accused soldiers of killing three of their personnel while freeing a kidnap suspect in Taraba state.   The Nigerian army has now admitted that its men killed three police operatives and a civilian ...

An attack launched by bandits at the residence of a district head in Sokoto State left one person dead and another kidnapped as confirmed by the Police.   The Sokoto State Police Command revealed that one Maude Salisu was arrested over the ...

Abacha, a notorious armed robber and kidnapper, that has terrorised residents of Rivers state for many years, was killed by men of the Rivers State Police command during a shootout in Rumuakunde in Emohua local government area of the state ...

Human rights activist and lawyer, Femi Falana, has criticised the Kaduna State government over the stringent conditions it issued with regards to the permission granted by the court to Sheikh Ibrahim El-zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, to embark on medical trip ...

A Twitter user has exposed the method a woman allegedly used to get people to cook her meals for free for two years.   According to @ThatPHCBoy, the woman sends out job adverts, informing the public she wants to hire ...

The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has accused the South-West of attempting to overthrow President Buhari through the RevolutionNow protest called by former presidential candidate of African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore.   CNG claimed that the RevolutionNow was a SouthWest ...

Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) stated that dictatorship has dividends while responding to questions from newsmen after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday August 7.   The former Governor of Edo State made the ...

A Twitter user has told of a man who went for an interview only to discover that the employer is a man he once insulted on Twitter.   @chikanels tweeted:   Femi walked into the office for his job interview, ...

Five men have been arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service Onne Area Command, for stealing tramadol and other drugs from a sealed 40-foot seized container which they loaded in two vehicles.   Area Controller of the command Aliyu Saidu, revealed that the five suspects are ...

A man who had been living with HIV reportedly died after showing off his faith by taking a break from the drugs meant to push down the viral load.   @T0_0lu in her tweets which revealed why the HIV patient died, ...

The Central Bank of Gambia began distributing new 50, 100 and 200 notes of its dalasi currency on Tuesday August 7, following the removal of Yahya Jammeh’s image from its national bank notes.   The image of former president Yahya Jammeh which was ...

A tragic incident occurred yesterday at Opobo Junction area of Aba, as a commercial motorcyclist popularly known as Okada was allegedly shot dead by a soldier.   The Okada rider was reportedly shot dead by the soldier over his refusal to give ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it is set to arraign former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Maurice Iwu, over alleged N1.2bn fraud and money laundering.   The commission said Iwu would be arraigned at ...

The Kaduna State government says it will be challenging the state High Court’s decision to grant the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) aka Shi’ites, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, permission to travel India for medical attention. ...

The Nigeria Police Force have accused soldiers of killing three of their personnel while freeing a kidnap suspect in Taraba state.   According to a statement released by Frank Mba, the spokesperson of the force, he said police officers from ...

Operatives of the Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have arrested the Chairman of Rice Farmers’ Association of Nigeria, RIFAN, Gummi Local Government Chapter, Ibrahim Rijiya for alleged involvement in the diversion of three trailer ...

Saudi Arabia’s Director General of Passports Major General Suleiman bin Abdulaziz Al-Yahya on Wednesday August 7, revealed that 1,819,790 pilgrims arrived the Kingdom to perform the annual Hajj rites. Addressing a press conference in Jeddah, Al-Yahya said1,708,152 people arrived through ...

Tayo Faniran, a former Big Brother Africa housemate, on Wednesday, August 7th met Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman of the Nigerian Diaspora Commission over his assault at the hands of South African police.   Dabiri stated that the issue is currently being ...

A boat cruise in Canada’s Montreal went sour as a Nigerian man drowned on the outing with his friends.   The 25-year-old Nigerian man identified as Uchenna Stanley Nnaji drowned in Lac des Sables in the Laurentian community of Ste-Agathe-des-Monts on July 13, ...