NATIONAL NEWS

The Supreme Court has fixed March 13, 2024, to hear a suit filed in 2008, by the Attorney General of Lagos State against the Federal Government in respect of who controls and regulates the gaming and lottery sector. Ekiti State was joined as co-plaintiff in the suit following an order of the court made on […]

Armed men alleged to be police officers and suspected political thugs on Sunday night invaded the residence of the factional Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Edison Ehie, in Port Harcourt. It was reported that Ehie, who was the Leader of the State House of Assembly, had announced himself as the  Speaker in […]

Barely 24 hours after President Bola Tinubu cancelled the controversial deduction of 40 percent of Internally Generated Revenues (IGRs) from federal universities across the country to avert crisis, the president has said his administration will take all necessary actions to ensure that universities do not embark on strike actions again. He said constructive dialogue and […]

The Economic Financial Crimes Commission has disclosed it would charge personnel of the Nigerian Air Force released on administrative bail by its Kaduna Zonal Command to court upon completion of its ongoing investigation. The anti-graft agency made this known on Monday in a release signed by its Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, and […]

The Nigerian police on Monday, November 20, said the command has uncovered a plan by some political parties in Kano state to violently protest the Appeal Court judgment which upheld Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf‘s sack from office. The state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Usaini Gumel, said the plan is to enter the streets in form […]

President Bola Tinubu, again in Berlin, Germany, assured international investors that Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, is a secured destination for their investments. President Tinubu gave the reassurance on Monday, November 20, while speaking as a participant in a panel discussion on fostering local value chains and investments in Africa, at the 4th […]

At least two people are feared killed in the Kaduna state capital on Thursday as police operatives attempted to disperse the proscribed Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shittes, during a protest over the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian war. Pandemonium broke out following the alleged killing of two passers-by as security operatives tried to disperse […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released one serving officer of the Nigerian Army and seven Nigerian Air Force (NAF) operatives allegedly linked with Internet-related fraud.  The suspects were arrested by the Kaduna State zonal office of the anti-graft agency on Monday and remanded in the custody of the commission for further investigation […]

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Lagos State Command, has averted an oil pipeline explosion that would have led to the destruction of lives and properties in Alimosho, Lagos State. This is contained in a statement signed by the state command’s Public Relations Officer, DSC Oluwaseun Abolurin, on Friday. Abolurin said that the incident […]

The High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory has ordered that the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, be remanded in the Kuje Correctional Centre pending the determination of his bail request. Emefiele is standing trial on an alleged procurement fraud. The trial which had been stalled on three occasions […]