Football legend  Maradona has been removed as ambassador for FIFA and will no longer be paid over his poor conduct during the Argentina and Nigeria match.

Over 20 vehicles held in traffic, have been reportedly burnt to ashes as petrol tanker catches fire along the Otedola roundabout axis of Lagos Ibadan expressway.

The Federal Government says it will commence disbursement of the recovered 322 million dollars Abacha loot through Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) to 302,000 poor households in 19 states in July.

FOR daring to declare a seven day mourning over the recent killings of over 86 people in Plateau State, the presidency on Thursday released what may be described as checklist on the number of people killed during the 16-years administration of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, 92, is feeling unwell and will not attend a special service on Thursday at St Paul’s Cathedral, Buckingham Palace said. “The queen is feeling under the weather today and has decided not to attend this morning’s service at St Paul’s Cathedral marking the 200th anniversary of the Order of St Michael and […]

High Court sitting in Dutse, Jigawa State, yesterday, discharged and acquitted the former governor of the state, Sule Lamido, who was standing trial since 2017, following a suite instituted against him by Jigawa state government.

Following series of allegedly atrocities committed by operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an immediate  restructuring of the unit. 

Violent protests, yesterday, rocked Plateau State Government House, Jos, following last weekend’s killing of over one hundred persons in three local government areas of the state.

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari faced calls Wednesday to improve security or resign, after more than 200 people were killed in the latest bloodletting between herders and farming communities.

The monthly Federal Accounts and Allocation Committee, FAAC meeting could not be concluded on Wednesday for an undisclosed reason.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday held a closed-door meeting with the President of Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara at his official residence, Presidential Villa Abuja.

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Wednesday, fixed September 25 to deliver judgment in a suit seeking to quash the May 9 resolution of the Nigerian Senate which declared the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, “unfit” to retain his position.

ABUJA—Comrade Adams Oshiomhole yesterday assumed office as national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, vowing a revolution in party administration, even as he pledged that former President Olusegun Obasanjo must return the $16 billion he alleged was allocated to the power sector during his Presidency.

wo soldiers attached to the Operation Whirl Stroke, a military spike operation to stem herdsmen killings in Benue State were early yesterday shot dead by suspected militant herdsmen in an ambush along Bakin-Korta, Mbadwem Council Ward of Guma local government area of Benue State and Keana in Nasarawa State.

Mr. Sunday Akinniyi, former Chief Whip of Ekiti State House of Assembly, has defected from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the state governorship election on July 14