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A father of three, Muftau Omobolaji, was on Monday sentenced by a Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo to nine months in jail without...

Emeka Nwajiuba, Nigeria's Minister of State for Education, has said schools in the country may reopen after the ban on interstate travels had been...

ONE Bolaji Owolewa has been declared dead following deadly clashes involving members of Odua Peoples Congress and Oodua Peoples Congress Initiative in Ikoyi, a...

Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo State, has banned all football viewing centers in the state for violating restrictions put in place to stop the...

Seven Nigerians have been arrested in Vietnam for allegedly cheating many people of more than $5.2 million. They were arrested alongside four Vietnamese suspects, according...

The Kano State government has announced that one coronavirus death has been recorded in the State. The State’s Ministry of Health disclosed this in a...

The new fence erected in front of the White House to keep protesters away has been turned into a Black Lives Matter mural. Protesters demanding...

The National Association of Resident Doctors NARD has threatened to embark on an indefinite strike action beginning from June 15 over unpaid COVID-19 allowances...

Bonnie Pointer, of The Pointer Sisters, has died at the age of 69. The Grammy-winning Motown artist, who was originally part of the popular quartet...

Senator Ali Ndume has called for salary slash for civil servants who no longer go to work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ndume who is...

The bail of Derek Chauvin, the white police officer charged with murder in the killing of George Floyd two weeks ago, has been increased...

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has terminated the appointment of Aliyu Ahmed-Tijani as the Secretary to the State Government. Ahmed-Tijani served as the Commissioner...

Nigeria has recorded 315 new cases of Coronavirus, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced. NCDC, on its verified twitter handle on Monday...

Minister of State Education, Hon. Emeka Nwajiuba who dismissed social media reports regarding when schools would be reopened said the government would only reopen...

Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has warned that...

As feud between the Nigerian Senate and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Ministry deepens over the alleged NDDC N40 billion scam, the Upper Chamber...

A Federal High Court on Monday, in Kano State, dismissed a case filed by the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, seeking to...

The Federal Government has declared Friday June 12, as public holiday to mark 2020 Democracy Day Celebration. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola who...

Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, says the agency has received N5.620 billion for the fight against coronavirus. He said...

A man of God has been killed by the deadly coronavirus disease after testing positive in Ondo. Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has confirmed the...

President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem as President of the Court of Appeal. Buhari sent Justice Dongban-Mensem’s name to the Senate for confirmation...

The United States Embassy staff in Abuja, Nigeria, went on one knee on Monday to show support for the Black Lives Matter protesters who...

Five members of the Gombe state House of Assembly have tested positive for COVID-19. Chairman of the state task force on COVID-19, Prof Idris Mohammed,...

A Federal High Court in Benin City, Edo state on Monday granted an order restraining the All Progressives Congress and its national chairman from...

Operatives of Osun State’s Amotekun have arrested five suspected armed robbers who carried out an operation at Iragbiji on Saturday. Earlier, two of the five-man...

Detectives from the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, Area Command in Warri, Delta State have arrested the Founder and General Overseer of the Victory Revival...

THE Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has refuted claims by some N-POWER beneficiaries that they were being owed up to three months...

The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development has refuted claims by some N-POWER beneficiaries that they were being owed up to...

President of Customary Court in Taraba State, Justice Donatus Yantau Shidda, has been kidnapped, SaharaReporters can report. A family member told SaharaReporters that the Shidda...

The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria will commence a nationwide strike on Monday, June 15, 2020. Dr Aliyu Sokomba, National President of NARD,...