Gun-wielding policemen on Tuesday in Lokoja paralysed activities at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Press Centre in an attempt to arrest hand-set traders protesting against alleged police manhandling of their members. The News Agency of Ni...
An Abuja High Court on Wednesday ordered the Inspector-General of Police and the Commissioner of Police in charge of CID, to arraign Abubakar Fugu and Bukar Fannami, unfailingly on May 18. Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf said that the action of the IGP in d...
A would-be bomber tasked by al Qaeda to blow up a commercial airliner bound for the United States was actually a double agent working for American and Saudi Arabian intelligence, according to recent reports. On Monday, reports surfaced that CIA agents ...
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters San Frontieres RSF), a France-based media body has condemned what it called ‘daily abuses suffered by Nigeria’s Journalists’ and rated the country one of the most dangerous nations in Africa for jo...
The South African government has said that the involvement of the Nigerian government was important and critical to the country and global development. This was contained in a just published summary of the discussion and principal conclusions that was ...
South Africa is presently having serious legal battles with the government of Zimbabwe over the recent ruling by a North Gauteng high court that Pretoria should investigate Zimbabwean officials for alleged human rights abuses. Only recently, South Afri...
On May 15, a little over a month before DMX delivers his seventh studio album, Undisputed, the rapper will release a 10-track EP titled The Weigh In. The Weigh In EP has features from artists such as Snoop Dogg and Tyrese and also includes...
Kano State government is working towards ensuring that the construction of the first set of ‘flyover’ bridges to be built in the state, meant for decongesting heavy traffic flow in the metropolis would soon take off. Governor Rabi’u M...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday accused former Gombe State governor, Danjuma Goje and four others standing trial on an 18-count charge of alleged conspiracy and N25bn money laundering of deliberately stalling their trial a...
Strong indications have emerged that the federal lawmakers may have reached an advanced stage towards scrapping the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the Federal Fire Service (FFS) and merging them with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defe...
The civil service has been described as the engine room of governance and the custodian of government business, yet it is believed to be undermining development through endemic corruption and sloth. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOS)...
The sacked director general of the Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission (NSE), Mrs. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, yesterday said that despite contrary statements, she remains the director general of the NSE, having been declared so by a High Court ruling ...
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has reiterated its commitment to the general welfare and retraining of the national team coaches. NFF president, Aminu Maigari, who stated this while declaring open the first ever Win-In-Africa-With-Africa (WIAWA) Coac...
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi and his Flying Eagles counterpart, John Sam Obuh, have set up a mouth watering friendly between both sides on Friday at the Practice Pitch of the National Stadium in Abuja. Keshi, who made the announcement to the ...
A former Nigerian teammate, Victor Ikpeba has laid to rest the speculation that some members of the USA 94 World Cup squad ganged up against Rashidi Yekini. Yekini passed away last Friday in his hometown, Ira in Iyun local government, Kwara State and w...