Politics

23 members of the Kwara State House of Assembly have defected to PDP. This massive defection comes barely 24 hours after the state governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed and senate president Bukola Saraki, defected form APC to PDP. Reading out a joint ...

  The northern Nigerian state of Zamfara is “at the mercy” of armed bandits who have killed at least 371 people this year, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Daily kidnappings and raids across the state have left villagers in constant ...

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Seme Command, said it repatriated 414 irregular immigrants in the first six months of the year. The command’s spokesman , Yusuf Salman, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Seme that 159 ...

Some 46 people from the Coast have gone missing as the war on terror and criminal gangs intensifies. Human rights lobby, Haki Africa, said the missing, who are from six Coast counties, could have been abducted by security agencies. “We ...

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has said he is not afraid of suspension in a party in which he is a founding member. He was responding to the threat issued by the Chairman of the All ...

Violence in Nigeria between semi-nomadic cattle herders and settled farmers has killed around six times more people than deaths related to the Boko Haram insurgency in the first half of 2018, and poses a major threat to the country’s stability, ...

A prosecution witness, Chuks Igboerika, a manager with Access Bank Plc, on Monday, July 23, 2018, told Justice M.S. Hassan of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how a  suspected fraudster, Ifeanyi Nwaneri, had carried out fraudulent transactions ...

Lagos state Governor Akinwunmi Ambode who was a guest speaker at this year’s Executive Intelligence Management Course participants of the Institute for Security Studies in Abuja, on said the state has become one of the safest cities in Africa. The ...

The Benue youths have prevented Governor Samuel Ortom from traveling from Makurdi to Abuja to honour a meeting with the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Sun reports that the youths numbering over 2,000 on Wednesday, July 25, ...

Yusuf Abdulwahab, the Chief of Staff to the Kwara state governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, arrested for his alleged involvement in the April 5, 2018 Offa bank robbery, has been granted bail in the sum of N10 million by a state High ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday, July 24, called for criminalisation of vote-buying to stop the trend in the political system of the country. Adedeji Soyebi, National Electoral Commissioner in charge of southwest, made the call in Abuja ...

Supporters of Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso burnt their brooms today as the senator defected from APC to PDP.

President Donald Trump is considering revoking the security clearances of at least half a dozen well-known former national security officials, his spokeswoman said Monday, in an extraordinary expression of his desire to punish increasingly vocal critics from past administrations. Among ...

There are indications that a former governor of Benue state, Gabriel Suswam, may have concluded plans to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of 2019 general elections. Leadership reports that Suswam on Monday, July 23, held a meeting ...

Suspected Boko Haram militants killed 18 farmers and kidnapped nine. Women in western Chad, authorities said, part of a wave of violence that has spread from neighbouring Nigeria across the region. Gov. Mahamat Saleh told Reuters that the attackers came ...

President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has read a letter from 13 members of the All Progressives’ senators declaring their defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party. The lawmakers include Rabi’u Kwankwaso (Kano-Central), Dino ...

43-year-old Hajiya Saratu, daughter of former Executive Secretary Science and Technology Education Kebbi State and later Permanent Secretary, Alhaji Kindi Zauro, were among the victims of Sunday’s armed robbery attack along Kaduna -Abuja highway. Unspecified number of people,  including ding ...

According to reports, the suspect made the plan in connivance with one Ifeoluwa Ogunbanjo, her friend, who provided location and a phone to contact her parents.   The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, said that the suspects were arrested ...

Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Monday that Russia is “never going to be our friend,” but downplayed concerns over President Trump’s meeting and press conference last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We don’t trust ...

The footage, which was released by BBC Africa Eye, was captured by Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in September 2017.  In the video, Yusuf was seen taking cash from men posing as football agents.   Yusuf, who is the chief ...

A 20-year-old woman confessed to killing four people between December last year and last week after she was arrested by police operatives attached to Ilasa Division, Lagos.   Mariam Abiola on Monday said she joined the Eiye confraternity after fleeing from ...

Yesteday, fire gutted the office of the Osun State governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.   According to reports, the fire was devastating because the security doors leading to the office could not be opened as the fire raged.   Aregbesola was reportedly ...

It’s been reported, just over two months after Harry and Meghan tied the knot, the Queen has finally presented her understated and subtle wedding gift to the newlyweds in the form of a picturesque, extremely extra new home. Suddenly, your ...

North Korea appears to have started dismantling key facilities at a rocket-engine test center, a group of experts said Monday, potentially marking a significant step after last month’s summit between Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump. According to ...