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Buhari to security operatives: Shoot on sight carriers of AK-47

  In what looks like Federal Government’s readiness to contain banditry and criminalities, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday has directed security operatives to...

Breaking: Former Benue governor, Gabriel Suswam’s elder brother shot dead

  Dr. Terkura Suswam, the elder brother to the former Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswan, has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen. He...

Tragedy as mother, four children perish in house fire

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   A 35-year-old woman, Ebere Precious Ogbodo, and her four children have been killed in a deadly house...

Army headquarters in Abuja hit by fire

  The Nigerian Army Headquarters in Abuja has been gutted by fire. An electrical fault caused a minor fire at the complex on...

Nigeria takes delivery of COVID-19 vaccines shipped by COVAX

  Nigeria on Tuesday morning received about 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, shipped via the COVAX facility, a partnership between CEPI,...

317 abducted schoolgirls finally let off the hook, says Zamfara governor

  Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara said on Tuesday that no ransom was paid to abductors of the 317 students of Government Girls...

WTO DG, Nigeria’s Dr Okonjo-Iweala, takes office, to hit the ground running

    Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Monday assumed office as the helms person at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) amid hopes of...

Group to Buhari: You called for Jonathan’s resignation but you were not arrested and detained

  The arrest of the media aide to the Kano State Governor, Alhaji Salisu Tanko-Yakasai by men of the Department of State Services...

Breaking: Nigeria takes delivery of COVID-19 vaccines March 2 — PTF Chair, Mustapha

  Barring any last-minute hitch, Nigeria’s allocation of 4 million doses of the COVAX vaccine will arrive on March 2, according to the...

No petrol price increase in March for now, says NNPC

  Contrary to speculations of imminent increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) in the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...

Itsey Sagay: When Selfish Agenda Thrashes National Interest

    By Phillip Ashaka   There is certainly a connection between Prof, Itsey Sagay, the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC)...

BREAKING: 317 kidnapped Zamfara schoolgirls breathe air of freedom

  The 317 girls of Government Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State, may have been released, Persecondnews learnt. The schoolgirls were on Sunday...

Child hostage taking: Soyinka blasts Buhari, says your government has failed

  Outraged by the latest abduction of hundreds of school girls in Zamfara State, Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday concluded that...

Petrol: Deregulation reversal will lead to scarcity of product, CSOs tell FG

  A Coalition of Nigerian Civil Society Organizations for Petroleum and Energy Security (CONCSOPES), has called for the sustenance of deregulation of the...

Ganduje’s Media Aide, Yakasai, given the boot for criticising Buhari

The Special Adviser on Media to the Governor of Kano State, Mr Salihu Tanko Yakasai, has been sacked for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari’s...