Latest news from Nigeria on Nigeriaa2z.com. catch up with A-Z news and information from Africa’s most populous country in West Africa via our teams in Kaduna, Warri, Lagos, Abuja and Kano.
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday restated that electioneering campaign ahead of the July 14 governorship election in the state must be issue based. This is just as he urged the electorate to ask the opposition Peoples Democratic ...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has yet to conduct a re-run election to fill the vacant seat of the Oguta State Constituency as ordered by the Federal High Court Owerri, Imo State. Justice F.A Onabanjo had on Dec 12, 2011 ordered t...
Reactions were mixed as some Nigerians reacted to Monday's sack of 788 striking doctors by the Lagos State Government. Founder, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr Frederick Fasheun, on Tuesday in Lagos told NAN that there was a need for the governmen...
The Bauchi State chapter of the CPC has obtained an interim order restraining the Bauchi State Government and two others from spending the local councils' funds apart from payments of salaries. The order, signed by Justice Ibrahim Zango, Chief Judg...
The 90 ex-militants from Niger-Delta that were recently brought to Cape Town by the federal government to train in Oil and Gas Drilling have complained of poor treatments, saying that the Jonathan-led administration is not sincere with the running of t...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has linked Farouk Abdumutallab, the 25-year-old Nigerian who was recently sentenced by a US court for trying to bomb a Detriot-bound airline on the December 25, 2009, with the attempt made by Al-Qeada to bomb a...
No fewer than four persons on Monday night, sustained various degrees of injury when a bomb exploded at People’s Hotel in Bayan Gari area of the Bauchi metropolis. The event that occurred at about 9pm threw the residents of the state capital into...
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi and his Flying Eagles counterpart, John Sam Obuh, have set up a mouth watering friendly between both sides on Friday at the Practice Pitch of the National Stadium in Abuja. Keshi who made the announcement t...
R&B-Pop singer Tiwa Savage has landed a major endorsement deal with popular beverage company Pepsi, a deal we are told is worth a couple of millions of Naira. We are told that the endorsement deal was sealed with Tiwa’s current managem...
Few years ago, no one would have believed that Nokia, former world’s largest handset maker would be in deep trouble. The Finnish company had in the past few years seen its stranglehold on the phone market eroded first by the likes of ...
The administrative board of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has called for a special prayer pilgrimage (meeting) for Nigeria to overcome its insecurity challenges. The statement, issued by the President of CBCN, Most Rev Ignatius Kaigama ...
The Lagos State Police Command said on Monday that it would soon deploy tracker dogs at event centres and social gatherings. The command's spokesman, SP Joseph Jaiyeoba, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the measure was part of efforts to ...
The Kano State Police Command on Tuesday discovered three bombs planted at the old campus of Bayero University, Kano following a tip-off. LEADERSHIP gathered that the bombs were found hidden at the faculty of law and faculty of sciences respectively. T...
Sen. Jubril Marthins-Kuye, the former Minister for Commerce and Industry, said on Tuesday that every effort was being made to resolve the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State. Marthins-Kuye made this know...
The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta has arrested 21 Ghanaians and five Nigerians at Awoba, Degema Local Government Area of Rivers for alleged illegal bunkering. The task force also recovered more than 250,000 tons of crude oil f...