A bomb said to be directed at a police surveillance vehicle in Jalingo, Taraba State has exploded. This is coming fifteen hours to the local government election scheduled for Saturday in the state. The bombers threw the explosive at the van as it made ...
Unknown gunmen on Friday, shot dead Alhaji Mohammed Alli, a prominent leader of the Shiites group in Kano State. LEADERSHIP gathered that the men stormed the late Alli’s house along Gadan kaya area of Kano, to demand for motorbikes for their oper...
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal on Friday called on the leadership of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) to withdraw all its pending court cases. The Speaker, who made the...
A human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, on Friday berated the Lagos State Government for threatening to evict the recently sacked 788 doctors from their official quarters. Falana, who spoke with journalists on the issue in Ikeja, said the government'...
An Abuja Chief Magistrates’ Court has stayed proceedings in a defamation suit filed by Gov. Gabriel Suswam of Benue against Kaduna-based Power Steering Magazine. Chief Magistrate Hafsat Soso-Sadiq stayed the proceedings in Abuja on Friday followi...
The Federal Government has released allocations to four local governments currently under a state of emergency in Plateau. The emergency rule was declared by President Goodluck Jonathan in December 2011. ``Yes the money has finally been released....
The Abuja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Friday described as laudable, the National Judicial Council’s recommendation to President Goodluck Jonathan to recall the suspended Justice Ayo Salami, President, Court of Appeal. Th...
Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi on Friday advocated a change in the nomenclature of the Almajiri school to check possible stigmatisation of potential students. The governor made the call at a special meeting on the Almajiri Education Programme chaired b...
The National Chairman of Labour Party, Mr Dan Nwanyanwu, said on Friday that the party was committed to deepening its hold on ethos of democracy through the conduct of free and fair congresses. Nwanyanwu made this known in Abuja&nbs...
The police in Lagos on Friday brought two men before the Ebute Metta Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing rail tracks worth N2 million. The accused, Mohammed Sadiq and Ibrahim Sule are standing trial on a two-count charge of felony and steal...
Hundreds of Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails said on Friday they would shun vitamin supplements and prison clinics in an escalation of their mass protest against detention conditions. ``We swear we will not retreat. We are potential marty...
Alhaji Misbahu Idris, the State Commander of NDLEA in Sokoto State, said on Friday that the command arrested 13 suspects and impounded 443 kg of narcotics in less than two weeks. Idris said that the command had arrested 70 suspects, secured 15 co...
Alhaji Dayyabu Garga, the National Secretary, Petroleum Tanker Drivers, says the association will support the Federal Government to fight indiscriminate parking of articulated vehicles on major roads across the country. Garga told the News Agency...
House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs has summoned Mr Olugbenga Ashiru, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to appear before it to clarify Nigeria’s relationship with other African countries. Ashiru is to appear before the comm...
A 28-year-old robbery suspect on Friday changed his plea from guilty to not guilty as a Yaba Magistrates’ Court was preparing to sentence him. The accused, Kehinde Ola, had pleaded guilty to the charge of robbery before the court on Tuesday follo...