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Former NIMASA director Captain Ezekiel Agaba sentenced to prison for N1.5b theft

  A former director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Captain Ezekiel Agaba, was sentenced to seven years in prison Wednesday for...

Veteran sports journalist Henrietta Ukaigwe dies

    The founder of the Female Football Interest Group, FFIG, Henrietta Ukaigwe has died.   The Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) announced...

First Covid-19 vaccine tested in US poised for final trials

  The first coronavirus vaccine tested in the US caused people to produce antibodies in the way scientists have hoped, as the shots...

Nigeria’s first female fighter pilot dies in auto accident

  Tolulope Arotile, Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot is dead.   She succumbed to injuries sustained in a traffic crash Tuesday in...

Horny village pastor lures neighbour’s 10-year-old girl to his room, rapes her

A demonic and frisky Christian cleric, who allegedly tricked a co-tenant’s 10-year-old girl to his room and raped her, is now cooling his heels...

Manchester City win appeal to overturn Champions League ban

  Manchester City football club will compete in next season’s Uefa Champions League after the English club had their two-year ban from European...

FG restates commitment to lift 100m Nigerians out of poverty in the next decade

      Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, has assured Nigerians that the Federal Government is...

Auction of seized vessels: My approval is legal — Malami

    Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, says the approval he granted some operators in...

COVID-19: There is no policy somersault on WASSCE, says FG

  The Federal Government has said there is no policy somersault as regards it’s decision to stop students in the 104 unity schools...

Per Second News Launches Reporters’ Center for Citizen Reporting And Engagement

  Per Second News, a transnational news medium, has unveiled a new app to empower citizens with tools to publicly document quality of...

Lagos National Theatre to employ 10,000 on completion of its restoration by CBN, says Minister

    The iconic National Theatre, Lagos, will provide at least 10,000 jobs during and after its upgrade and restoration, the Minister of...

Federal Fire Service spent over N19m in fraudulent and misleading rent payment for Comptroller-General’s residence

    The Socio-Economic Rights Accountability Project (SERAP) Monday morning in a series of tweets exposed multi million Naira fraud and infractions inside...

Troops rescue kidnapped victims in Sokoto, Zamfara

      Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji have rescued three kidnapped victims in Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State and two...

Former NSA Dasuki denies report he campaigned for APC, Buhari in 2015

Sambo Dasuki, former National Security Adviser, NSA, on Sunday denied a report that he campaigned for the APC and Buhari while serving as NSA...