Nigeria
UPDATED: Policeman commits suicide in Lagos cell
Confusion, fright and grief has enveloped the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba, Lagos, following the discovery of a policeman, simply identified as...
President Buhari appoints Saad Ahmed as CMD, Federal Medical Centre
President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday appointed Prof Saad Ahmed as the Chief Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi, Abuja. The appointment takes...
Trump administration expands travel ban to Nigeria, 5 others
President Donald Trump Friday expanded his controversial travel ban, placing immigration restrictions on half a dozen new countries, including Nigeria. The latest...
We’re incensed by your non-performance, NASS tells service chiefs
…asks Buhari to sack them … Our cup of endurance has run over, says Gbajabiamila Uncomfortable with the...
Tough time awaits bandits – President Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja said “harder times” await bandits whose disruptive activities have brought sorrow to Nigerians, kept many away from...
$82,570 internet fraud: Mother, son jailed 3 years each
Trapped in the quicksand of internet fraud, a mother and son are to spend 12 years in jail each for...
Nigeria’s central security system, a colossal failure, says Senate President
…we cannot play politics with security issues …Community policing an option — SGF Mustapha Taking a holistic view of the current centralised...
Faulty Power Lines: TCN to Acquire Helicopters
For fault detection on its transmission line network across the country, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says it plans to acquire...
News Flash: FG, Southwest Governors agree on Amotekun
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday met with the governors of the six western states of Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo and...
Corruption: Transparency International ranks Nigeria 146 out of 180
No Evidence to Back up claim, FG Reacts Nigeria has been ranked the 146th most corrupt country out of 180 countries on...
Amotekun: After weeks of brickbats, Tinubu calls for truce between Justice Minister and Southwest governors
…says regional outfit not threat to Nigeria but complementary …describes those offended as embarking on “madcap excursion’’ Amid brick-and-mortar between the Federal...
Concerns over new virus from China prompt airport screenings for passengers arriving airports in Nigeria
Passengers arriving Nigerian airports will undergo enhanced health screenings out of concern over a new coronavirus that has killed two people in Asia, the Federal Airports...
U.S Set to Expand Travel Restrictions to Nigeria, Sudan, Others – Target ‘Birth Tourism’
The Trump administration is set to add Nigeria and six other countries to a group of nations subject to travel restrictions, Per...
NNPC GMD, Kyari announces HDDT to check pipeline vandalism
As part of measures to monitor and check pipeline vandalism, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is to deplore Horizontal Directional Drilling Technology...
Lassa fever: 2 doctors, pregnant woman die in Kano
Lassa fever has reportedly claimed three persons including two doctors and a pregnant woman in Mano. The deaths were recorded at Aminu Kano Teaching...
Amotekun: The Politics of Protection by Reuben Abati
Virtually everything in Nigeria no matter how well-meaning ends up getting ethnicized, or politicized, or religionized. So it is with Operation...
