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Police backtrack, withdraw suit against #EndSARS panels in 36 states

  Following the reactions that trailed its suit against the state judicial panels on police brutalities, the Nigeria Police has applied to withdraw...

Runaway alleged pension fund thief, Maina, extradicted from Niger Republic

  The erstwhile Chairman of the disbanded Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina,  has been extradited from Niger Republic  to face trial for...

Buhari is repressing human rights – and getting away with it

    By Kolawole Olaniyan   President Muhammadu Buhari is failing to live up to his promises to ensure respect for human rights,...

Exposed! How generator dealers, manufacturers rip-off Nigerians

  By Boye Ajayi with additional reports from Ayodele Akinsola   With almost half of Nigeria’s population perpetually in darkness as a result...

Osinbajo bags Madagun Jihar Nasarawa title

      …pays condolence visit to the slain state APC chairman’s wife   The Nasarawa State Traditional Council on Wednesday took Vice-President...

Parlous security situation: Northern Elders call for Pres. Buhari’s head

  Unimpressed with President Muhammadu Buhari’s perceived inability to combat increasing scale of insecurity in the country, the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has...

Another petrol tanker fire on Lagos-lbadan Expressway cuts off Lagos

    Another tanker explosion has occurred on the outward Lagos section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, bringing vehicular movement to a halt. The no-movement situation followed...

Borno farmers murders: For the umpteenth time, Senate calls for Service Chiefs’ sack

    In league with the lower chamber of the National Assembly, the Senate has also ventilated its dismay and resentment with the...

World AIDS Day: UNICEF warns of COVID-19 disruptions to HIV service delivery

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   COVID-19 has interrupted vital HIV treatment and service delivery in one third of high burden countries, putting countless more...

Forex inflow: Beneficiaries of Diaspora remittances to now receive money in dollar — CBN

  As part of efforts to boost the foreign exchange market and provide more liquidity, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Abuja, has...

Nigerian ex-Minister queries Buhari’s mental state 

  Worried by renewed wave of massacre in Northeast, banditry and kidnapping across the country, a member of the political class has called for...

Nigerian-American, 39-year-old Adeyemo, gets slot in Biden’s govt. as Deputy Treasury Secretary

  A 39-year-old, Mr Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, a Nigerian-born attorney and former senior international economic adviser in the Barack Obama administration, will serve...

110 farmers, others killed in Borno not 43, says United Nations

  The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria said Sunday that the Boko Haram jihadist group massacred at least 110 people including loggers, farmers and...

FG, World Bank roll-out solar energy for 25m homes at N4,000 monthly from December 7

  ‌ An interventionist power programme of the Federal Government tagged, “Solar Home Systems”, takes off nationwide this week. Under the programme,  an...

Grief-stricken Governor leads mourners to bury 43 farmers wasted by Boko Haram

      For Governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, who had escaped death by hair’s breath severally, conducting mass burial...

#EndSARS: Police nab two men for selling policemen’s skulls for N1000

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   Two suspected hoodlums, 24-year-old Aliu Mubarak and 17-year-old Adewale Abiodun, are now in police net in Ibadan,Oyo state for...