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#BBNaija: Khafi faces investigation by MET police for participating in reality show

  Metropolitan Police officer and one of the housemates of the ongoing Big Brother Naija season 4, Khafi Kareem, will be investigated after...

MRA calls for the release of detained journalists, dissidents

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) Tuesday condemned the arrest and continued detention of Mr. Ibrahim Dan Halilu, a journalist and former Political Editor of...

An open letter to President Buhari from doctors in Iran, India, Pakistan, others

A group of doctors from Pakistan, India, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq in an open letter to the President of the Republic...

PDP sweeps Bayelsa LG poll, wins all chairmanship seats

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has won all the eight Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State in the just concluded election organised by...

Detention: Kefas Sues el-Rufai, Others For Rights Violation

…Claiming N20m as damages Social Media Activist, Steven Kefas has dragged Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state to a Federal High Court in...

CBN injects $280.04m, CNY 28.3m into Retail SMIS

Nigerian central bank offered dealers in retail secondary market $280.04 million to meet demands in the agricultural and raw materials sectors as well...

Buhari orders Investigation into killing of three police officers in Taraba

The Security Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, has set up a committee to investigate the killing of three police intelligence officers...

We have uncovered plot to allow Zakzaky, wife die in detention- CUPP

  The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), says it has uncovered plots by the APC led Federal Government and the Kaduna state...

Breaking: Court grants application by DSS to detain Sowore for 45 days

A Federal High Court in Abuja as granted the request by the Department of State Services (DSS) to detain the convener of #RevolutionNow...

‘RevolutionNow’: SERAP seeks UN Human Rights Council Special Session over attacks on journalists, protesters

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to all member and observer states of the United Nations Human Rights...

#RevolutionNow: Sowore desperate to oust Buhari’s government, says Oshiomhole

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has condemned the #RevolutionNow protests, describing it as ironic. He further added...

Buhari, Ramaphosa to meet over Xenophobic attacks on Nigerians

President Muhammadu Buhari is scheduled to meet with South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa over the continuous xenophobic attack on Nigerians living in South...

El-Zakzaky set for release from detention.

The leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky will be released from detention to travel to India for medical attention. The...

EDHA crisis: Can Obaseki run the gauntlet?

By Sufuyan Ojeifo The aphorism by the Yoruba that “whoever does something that is unusual will experience a consequence that is unusual” perfectly...

Update: El-Zakzaky, wife granted permission to travel abroad for medical treatment

A Kaduna High Court has granted the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife Zeenat, bail...

Buhari approves induction retreat for ministers designate after Sallah break 

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an induction retreat for Ministers Designate to be held at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja from August...