The rescued Chibok girls will not be going back to their rural hometown to complete their schooling, Nigeria’s minister for women said on Tuesday. Speaking at a ceremony welcoming 82 newly rescued girls to a government rehabilitation facility in Abuja, Read more
The Federal Government has started a N100 billion Family Home Fund – an initiative of the Federal Government’s social housing project that provides inexpensive mortgages to Nigerians who can afford N30, 000 per month, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has Read more
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday passed an executive bill seeking mutual assistance in criminal matters between Nigeria and foreign states. The bill, Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters between Nigeria and other Foreign States, 2017 (SB. 224) was read for the Read more
It was a black Democracy Day in Lagos, as another three-storey building at No. 9, Daddy Alaja Street, Oke Arin, Idumota on Lagos Island, collapsed yesterday morning with two people confirmed dead and 14 others rescued. This is the fourth Read more
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) on Monday said it had dismissed 20 of its personnel over corrupt practices. LASTMA’s Head of Public Affairs, Mr Mahmud Hassan, confirmed the dismissal to newsmen in Lagos. He said that the action Read more
It was a story of violence, stabbing and death yesterday at the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries held for councilors in Oshodi, Lagos State yesterday. According to sources, no election held at Agege and Orile Agege centres as fighting erupted Read more
The sit-at-home protest called by pro-Biafran groups has finally collapsed in Ebonyi following the intervention of government officials and security agencies in the state. There have been earlier reports that most shops at the Abakpa main market in Abakaliki were Read more
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, says his administration has concluded plans to send 200 students to India and other countries to study medicine. The News Agency of Nigeria( NAN) reports that Tambuwal made the disclosure in Sokoto on Monday Read more
The Bayelsa State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the killing of a police sergeant at a police station in Yenagoa. The spokesman of the command, Mr Asinim Butswat, confirmed the killing in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria Read more
Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since an independent republic of Biafra was declared, sparking a brutal civil war. In Onitsha, the economic hub of Anambra state on the banks Read more