The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tincan Island Port Command yesterday seized a 40-ft container loaded with explosives.The explosives, which were imported from China were discovered during a routine check of cargoes by the Customs at the Five Star Ter...
Two gun men on thursday, stormed the Madalla market in Suleja, Niger State and shot dead five men before escaping.Eye witnesses said the killings forced the traders to flee in different directions. A trader in the market said that the incident h...
Niger State Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, yesterday took a swipe at the antagonists of the planned removal of petroleum subsidy by the Federal Government, describing them as enemies of the country. The governor also placed the nati...
Ekiti State governor Dr. Kayode Fayemi has bemoaned the failure of the federal government to impact on the lives of Nigerians. He regretted that, 51 years after the country’s political independence from Britain, Nigeria has remained a vast &lsquo...
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan yesterday dared terrorists in Nigeria, saying that the continuous terrorist attacks happening in various parts of the country could not intimidate him or his administration. The president, in his address at the ongoing...
The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA)is facing an internal crisis. Its chief executive officer, Arc. Sina Agboluaje, and the staff are now at daggers-drawn, and the matter appears beyond amicable resolution. Agboluaje ...
The arraignment of a former Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu by the federal government before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) for alleged operation of foreign accounts while in office was stalled yesterday, sequel to the objection raised by Tinubu&r...
The Senate yesterday screened and confirmed Justice Dahiru Musdapher as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). He had been acting in that capacity for a month now. Also, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Dairus Dickson as substantive mini...
Northern governors under the aegis of Northern Governors’ Forum (NGF) have said that they will work harmoniously to tackle the Boko Haram menace by addressing issues relating to unemployment, thuggery , poverty and ignorance that have helped fuel...
It was like a scene from a Hollywood movie. Shortly after the Senate and the House of Representatives adjourned their proceedings and the lawmakers returned to their respective offices yesterday, word started going round that a bomb had been planted in...
Gombe State remains one of the safest states for investors in the country, according to the state governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwambo, who said that his three-month-old administration has been able to address security challenges and other distractions t...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has agreed to offset the N450 billion owed the Federation Account. The minister of state for finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama, made this known at the end of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC)...
Ahead of today’s arraignment of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) in Abuja, the former governor of Lagos State has alleged that the evidence used against him were manufactured by the attorney-general of the federation ...
The Senate will today screen the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Dahiru Musdapher. Musdapher’s screening, which might be televised live , is in line with Section 231(1) of the 1999 Constitution as amended. Senate spokesman and Chair...
Barely 24 hours after stating the three conditions that must be met before there could be ceasefire over Boko Haram’ hostilities, following a discussion between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the family of the late Boko Haram leade...