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Senate approves N10bn loan refund to Kogi State two days to Guber poll

  With just two days to the Kogi state gubernatorial election, the Senate has approved the loan refund of N10.069 billion to Kogi...

Soyinka to DSS: Release Sowore now, stop the violence

  … resist demolition engines of state security agencies, tells CSOs     Outraged by the “intransigence’’ of the Department of State Services...

How 23-year-old Nigerian woman was strangled and dumped inside trash bin in a room in America

New details were revealed in court documents in the murder case of a woman found dead in a recycling bin. Prosecutors in the...

Hate Speech: Nigerian Senate reintroduces death penalty bill

    Barely a week after the Nigerian Senate reintroduced a bill on social media regulation, the country’s Upper Chamber has resurrected another...

Ban on petrol sale at borders: House of Reps fumes, says it’s unacceptable

  Unimpressed by the ban on the sale of petrol about 20km to the country’s borders, the House of Representatives has asked the...

Free Sowore protesters: Lethal weapons, pepper spray used to disperse Abuja sit-in

    Scores of Free-Omoyele Sowore-protesters, who had massed near the precincts of the Department of State Services (DSS) headquarters office in Abuja...

20-Year-Old Man Arrested In Texas For Killing His Nigerian Mother

  Police in Texas arrested a 20-year-old man Eyitoluwa Olayeye, on Wednesday for murdering his mother in a downtown Austin hotel. 48-year-old Kehinde Olayeye,...

Money-for-mark: Polytechnic lecturer bags 20 years

  A gratification-for-mark examiner at the Polytechnic, Ibadan, has reached the dead end and is to spend the next 20 years behind bars....

SERAP writes to Archbishop of Canterbury, seeks his intervention in Sowore’s release

  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Portal Welby urging...

BREAKING: Prof. Tam David-West, Buhari’s ex-Oil minister, dies at 83

    Prof. Tamunoemi Sokari David-West, erstwhile Minister of Petroleum Resources, has passed on at the age of 83.   The deceased had...

Abia: Ikpeazu Retools Govt Machinery

Simon Nwachukwu   Undoubtedly, the task of governance in a state as Abia is a daunting challenge. Residents of a state like Abia...

Climate change: Atrocious weather sweeps Jos, Plateau

  For the first time, change in global weather patterns has hit Jos, Plateau State capital and Nigeria’s coolest zone, sometimes dropping to...

Resign now, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths tell Osinbajo

…Don’t resign, Yoruba elders   In spite of the humiliation and sidelining of the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the Yoruba Council of Elders...

Chief MKO Abiola’s personal physician, Dr Ore Falomo, is dead

Chief MKO Abiola’s personal physician, Dr Ore Falomo, is dead. It was reported that Falomo died in the early hours of Saturday after...

Lagos Gov. Sanwo-Olu lays 2020 Money Bill of N1.16trn before lawmakers

  A jumbo-size 2020 Lagos State Appropriation Bill of N1.16 trillion has been unveiled by the governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu. It is about...

Osinbajo in Niger Republic to represent Buhari at ECOWAS summit

  The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday morning jetted off to the neighboring Niger Republic. While there, Osinbajo is scheduled to represent...