The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria over the 2024 Hajj exercise has found the commission guilty of several infractions. Chaired by the member representing Jibia/Kaita Federal...

Operatives of the Department of State Security have arrested two principal suspects involved in the killing of 16 Nigerians of northern extraction in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government, last week. According to a...

 Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is guiding the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the petition for her recall. Akpoti-Uduaghan, who defied the Kogi government’s convoy ban by...

The police have asked Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan to cancel her planned Sallah rally in Kogi State’s Central Senatorial District. Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Miller Dantawaye, stated this in a statement released on Tuesday...

A large number of defectors from various political parties, including the All Progressives Congress (APC), Labour Party (LP), New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), and Social Democratic Party (SDP), have joined the Peoples Democratic Party...

Several communities around Old Ilushi Road, Opere, and Good Will Junction in Uromi, Edo State, have been deserted as residents flee over fears of reprisals and arrests. This follows the lynching of 16 travellers...

     Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan on Tuesday received a rousing homecoming by her supporters and residents of the Ihima community of Kogi despite the state government’s ban on convoys. As early as 8 a.m.,...

The socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Godswill Akpabio, Senate president, and Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the House of Representatives, “to immediately withdraw the oppressive bill which contains repressive provisions to jail...

Edison Ehie, the Chief of Staff to the suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has alleged that he was offered N5 billion to coordinate the impeachment of his principal. Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has just announced new guidelines that will make it easier and cheaper to import some important materials needed to make essential healthcare products. This decision was approved by President...

The remains of the slain northern travellers in Uromi, Edo State have been laid to rest, amid heavy tears on Saturday. A now-viral video of the funeral rites posted on X by a security...

The two Labour Party aspirants for the Anambra governorship election, George Muoghalu and John Nwosu, have been screened and confirmed for the party’s primaries slated for April 5. The party’s national publicity secretary, Obiora...

Attorney Russ Ferguson for the Western District of North Carolina confirmed the plea, highlighting the devastating financial toll on unsuspecting victims. Three Nigerian nationals based in the United States—Olumide Olorunfunmi, Samson Amos, and Emmanuel...

The call for justice comes amid growing concerns over the rising cases of mob justice, ethnic violence, and unlawful killings by security forces in the country.   Human rights activist and former presidential candidate...

A deal with ByteDance to sell Toktok would be struck before a deadline on Saturday, President Donald Trump has said. Trump set the April 5 deadline in January for TikTok to find a non-Chinese...

Nearly a week after seven opposition governors reportedly filed a lawsuit at the Supreme Court challenging President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s emergency declaration in Rivers State, the Federal Government says it has yet to be...

A deadly mob attack in Edo State highlights Nigeria’s deepening insecurity, tribal war crisis. At least seventy travellers were killed and others injured after vigilantes and locals profiled them as kidnappers, raising concerns about...

The Anambra State security outfit, codenamed Operation Udo Ga-Achi or Agunechemba, has demolished the Udoka Golden Point Hotel and Suites, popularly known as “La Cruise Hotel,” located along the Onitsha-Owerri Road. Authorities revealed that...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared socialite Aisha Achimugu, Governor Sanwo-Olu Babajide’s ally, wanted for alleged money laundering. “The public is hereby notified that Aisha Sulaiman Achimugu is wanted by the Economic...

According to Atiku’s media team, the former Vice President does not know Sanwo-Olu in person and has never met the Lagos governor before. Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has denied some media reports that...

The commission stated that the group is not registered in its records as a legally recognised entity. The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has denied the existence of a group named Kogi Central Political Frontier,...

  The Peoples Democratic Party, the Coalition of United Political Parties and the Social Democratic Party have condemned the House of Representatives’ move to impose age limits for the offices of the President and...

President  Bola Ahmed Tinubu has officially released a gazette on the highly controversial “State of Emergency” declared in Rivers State, a move widely criticised nationwide and beyond. The gazette, signed by President Tinubu, outlines...

The Federal Government has declared Monday, March 31 and Tuesday, April 1, 2025, as public holidays to mark the Eid-el-Fitr celebration. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made the declaration on behalf of the...

The Lakurawa group on Tuesday killed two Customs officers and a local at Bachaka border in Argungu Local Government Area of Kebbi state. The latest attack came barely 24 hours after combined security forces...

Six constitutional amendment bills have scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. The bills which the Green Chamber considered for second reading during Wednesday’s plenary, included the bills seeking review of the framework...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday confirmed that it has received the contact addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of representatives of those who submitted the petition for the recall of Senator...

The Northern Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, has expressed its firm rejection of the proposed bill for the conversion of 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, into Local Government Areas. The proposed bill recently...

The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, passed for a second reading a bill seeking to recognise the 37 Local Development Area Councils of Lagos State as full-fledged Local Government Areas. If this proposal scales...

The Government of Rivers State has announced the immediate suspension of all political officeholders and appointees throughout the state. The development was confirmed in a statement released on Wednesday, March 26, by the Chief...

The proclamation of a state of emergency in Rivers was more or less a replay of  some misdeeds in the defunct Western region, contends CHIDI ANSELM ODINKALU In Nigeria, history tends to repeat itself...

The opposition coalition in the country has accused the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of frustrating the registration of new political parties ahead of the 2027 elections. One of its arrowheads and a former...