The National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the Chairmanship of Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, yesterday met with the party’s caucus of both the Senate and the House of Representatives, with a vow to drag the All Progressives Congress, APC to court over the just concluded Edo State gubernatorial election.

A Gombe Federal High Court sitting in Jos on Wednesday adjourned the five-year-old case against former governor Danjuma Goje till Nov. 22.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ondo state on Wednesday, said it had distributed a total of 1,201,073 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to registered voters in the state.

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday voted against a bill seeking special status and federal grant for Lagos State.

The Federal Government has finally agreed to consolidate the criminal charges filed against former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki and others before two different High Courts of the Federal Capital Territory Judiciary. This followed a complaint by the former NSA that putting him on trial in two different courts on the same issues would […]

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) prosecuted no fewer than 274 traffic offenders for 352 offences in Onitsha, Anambra State.

An appeal panel appointed under the Code of Sports-related Arbitration of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has reduced the sanction imposed on Maria Sharapova by an Independent Tribunal.

FORMER West Ham and Liverpool footballer Rigobert Song is critically ill in hospital after suffering a severe stroke. The 40-year-old was raced to hospital in Yaounde, Cameroon, yesterday with a brain aneurysm.

Zimbabwe is losing at least $1 billion annually to corruption, with police and local government officials among the worst offenders, Transparency International has said in a report .

Globacom, Nigeria’s leading telecommunications firm has been ejected from a parcel of land belonging to the Agbereowei family of Bolou-Orua community in Sagbama area of the state. The landowners had leased the land to the farm to locate its cell station in the area.

The Nigerian military has expressed support to the ongoing negotiation with militants to restore peace in restive Niger Delta region.

Bad loans in Nigeria’s banking system soared to more than double the limit set by the regulator as the industry struggles with an economic downturn.

The University of Ilorin in Kwara State has emerged the 2016 most preferred institution by candidates going by current analysis. It emerged as the foremost citadel of learning as analysed among 16 others by the Economic Confidential.

Mr Shehu Koko, the Aide-de-camp (ADC) to former governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shema, on Tuesday, explained to the Judicial Commission of Inquiry how he disbursed N680.2 million to security chiefs in the state during the 2015 general elections.

Internet technology giant Yahoo reportedly built a custom software program last year to scan all users’ incoming emails so as to comply with a classified order from U.S. intelligence.