Tag Archives: local news from Nigeria

By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the sack of a Permanent Secretary, who has been allegedly using his office to defraud the Federal Government through the award of phantom contracts worth billions of Naira to ...

A National Assembly Clerk, Mohammed Shuaibu has, Monday, slumped and died at the National Assembly complex, Abuja. Late Shuaibu who hails from Zaria, Kaduna State reportedly slumped at about 12.noon while walking on a staircase and was rushed to the ...

Former Military governor of Edo State, Dr. Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, passes on. He reportedly died about 11pm yesterday.

Maiduguri – A teenager, Amina Yusuf, paraded by the military on Wednesday in Maiduguri said she failed to detonate her explosive because she did not subscribe to Boko Haram ideology. The 17-year-old told newsmen in Maiduguri that she was abducted ...

By Esther Onyegbula The father of three, Sakiru Bello, who is currently being investigated at the homicide unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID, has denied the allegation that he murdered his ex-wife, Sherifat Bello. According to ...

Photo shows NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba [right] and Minister for Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Nwabueze Ngige.  The federal government and the Nigeria Labour Congress [NLC] have agreed to review the new minimum wage, according to NLC President, Mr ...

The Cross River police command, has paraded a 35-year-old man, Sunday Ushie, who confessed to killing his girlfriend identified as Nnena Samuel and went ahead to have sex with the corpse. Mr Hafiz Inuwa, the acting Commissioner of Police in ...

Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, yesterday blamed officers and men of the Nigeria Police, Army and the Nigeria Customs Service at road blocks in the country for the skyrocketing prices of food items. The Minister, who stated this while ...

Two night watchmen in an Ibadan filling station, paraded by Oyo State Police Command, weekend, confessed to have raped a stranded woman inside a mosque, after dispossessing her of her personal effects. . While parading the suspects, Olajide Olakanmi and ...

The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, says it will deploy drones to check vandalism of its transmission lines and equipment in the country. The TCN Managing Director, Atiku Abubakar, said this why fielding questions from the News Agency of Nigeria ...