Security operatives at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau State, on Wednesday night repelled another attempt by suspected armed assailants to breach the Institute’s security perimeter, killing one of the attackers during a gun battle.

ABUJA— PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has said as part of the reform of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, corps members would now be deployed to security-challenged states, guided by risk assessment.

ABUJA — The Department of State Services, DSS, yesterday, arraigned five alleged associates of a former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, for concealing his whereabouts after he was implicated as a financier of an alleged plot to overthrow the administration of President Bola Tinubu through a coup d’état.

By Luminous Jannamike ABUJA — The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has detailed its case against former Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Geoffrey Uchechukwu Nnaji, saying it is investigating allegations that he submitted a forged degree certificate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), and a false National Youth Service […]

The Presidency has restated that Adeyemi Adeniyi Matthew, who allegedly posed as the Director-General of a non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, is an impostor facing criminal prosecution over alleged forgery, impersonation and obtaining by false pretence. Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made the clarification in a statement posted […]

By Soni Daniel, Abuja Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday arrested former Minister of Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, as he was preparing to board a private jet to Abuja. Security sources said Nnaji, who resigned in October last year under controversial circumstances, was […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revoked the operating licences of 46 Microfinance Banks (MFBs).

The union directed all public primary and secondary school teachers across the state to resume official duties from Thursday, July 2, 2026, bringing an end to the industrial action that was declared in response to the kidnapping of teachers and students in Oriire Local Government Area.

“We are repositioning the NYSC from a mobilisation scheme into a national development platform for skills, employability, productivity and enterprise.”

federal government has said it would seek from its South African counterpart compensation for Nigerians forced to abandon businesses and other valuable properties as they returned home, following renewed anti-immigrant tensions in the country.

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s historic bid to restrict birthright citizenship.

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, restored the bail it had earlier granted to activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore.

The National Leader of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Henry Seriake Dickson, has announced that the party has been granted access to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) portal to upload the names of its qualified candidates for the 2027 general elections. Dickson made the disclosure on Monday in a statement posted on his X […]

“We will continue to empower them by adding to their resources so their businesses can become sustainable.”

The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, on Monday said the recent disclosure by the United States on the killing of 199 jihadists and the recovery of a massive cache of ISIS arms, ammunition and electronic equipment was not a fresh operation but the declassification of a successful joint Nigeria-US counter-terrorism mission carried out in May 2026.