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Breaking: Unlawful assembly: Sowore, 4 pro-democracy activists remanded in prison

  Omoyele Sowore, the Saharareporters Publisher and four other pro-democracy activists, arrested on January 1, 2021 few hours before President Muhammadu Buhari’s broadcast, have been...

British Airways Aircraft Suffers Bird Strike While Landing In Lagos

A British Airways passenger aircraft experienced a bird strike while landing in Lagos.  The multiple impacts led to issues such as a hydraulic...

SERAP tells Buhari: lnvestigate, prosecute stealers of N3.83bn in MDAs, hospitals

    In pursuit of its mandate to expose corruption in public office, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked President...

Tinubu, APC leader, ill, flown to Paris 

  National Leader of All Progressives Congress, Chief Bola Tinubu, has been reportedly admitted in a Paris, hospital. He had  travelled to the...

Breaking: Ex-Unilag Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ibidapo-Obe, dies at 72

COVID-19 has claimed another academic icon and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe. Obe, who died on Sunday, January...

Women, men empowerment: Tony Elumelu Foundation unveils 2021 Entrepreneurship programme 

In its avowed commitment towards empowering women and men across African continent, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has unveiled the TEF Entrepreneurship programme...

Man City without five players for Chelsea trip

  Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has confirmed the club will have five players unavailable for Sunday’s Premier League game at Chelsea following positive...

Security agents arrest Sowore, pro-democracy activists in widening crackdown

  Just a few hours after President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year broadcast, the publisher of Saharareporters and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, and others...

Political, royal and academic personages fatally ravaged by COVID-19 pandemic in 2020

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh In a rarity in a century, the world is being ravaged by a global pandemic that has left...

Full text of President Buhari’s New Year message

My fellow countrymen and women, First, I would like to thank and praise the Almighty who saw us through the year 2020 and...

Buhari, in New Year message, bows to pressure, to rejig security apparatus

  “The country would continue to weather all stormy waters and emerge stronger and better where others have fallen and disintegrated …this nation, this Nigeria,...

UNICEF projects 21,000 babies will be given birth to in Nigeria on New Year Day 

      By Ajuma Edwina Ameh As 2021 rolls in, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has projected that an estimated 21,439 babies...

Breaking: Buhari assents 2021 Appropriation Bill of N13.58trn

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday initialled the 2021 Appropriation Bill of N13.58 trillion. The National Assembly had jacked up the budget by N505,...

Male nurse doffs his COVID-19 protective equipment, has anal sex with virus-racked patient in hospital

A horny male nurse in Indonesia has been apprehended after admitting that he removed his Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to “pound” a male...

NASENI gets Presidential order: Mobilize refurbished tractors to farmers to boost food production

  As a fillip to his administration’s promise to tame food inflation in 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday directed the National Agency...

Stakeholders score Buhari’s agric policies low

    A video went viral in November 2020 about a hearing session organised by a committee of Nigeria’s legislative national assembly. Zaheera...