Plateau Youths, under the aegis of Plateau Youths G17 Peace and Progressive Forum, have called on the Federal Government to secure federal roads across the country...
Nigerian Afro-fusion singer, Damini Ogulu, better known as Burna Boy, has lost the Best World Music Album trophy to Beninese ace singer, Angélique Kidjo, at the...
The Federal Government has commended Kano State Government for taking proactive measures to curb Lassa fever in the state. “We can see that the level of...
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has conferred Mr Baba Garba, the Nigerian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco, with one of the highest honours of the...
The founder, Society of Performing Arts of Nigeria (SPAN), Mrs Sarah Boulos, has said the Dance and Music Academy has trained over 3,400 students. Boulos said...
The Operatives of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Command in Lagos, has apprehended seven girls allegedly being trafficked. The Service Public Relations...
Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA’s all-time greats whose international stardom transcended basketball, was killed on Sunday in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles along with...
Rangers International Football Club stunned hosts Pyramids FC of Egypt 1-0 to record their first win in Group A of the CAF Confederation Cup at the...
Following are the results of Match Day 17 fixtures in the 2019/2020 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) played on Sunday: Adamawa United 2-1 Kwara United MFM...
Retired basketball star Kobe Bryant and four other people died in a helicopter crash at Calabasas in California on Sunday morning, the city of Calabasas reported....
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says 700,000 candidates have so far been registered for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) nationwide in two...
Norbert Okolie, the Media Officer of Rangers International Football Club of Enugu, says the club’s players deserve praise for their 1-0 win over Pyramid FC of...
Popular Nigerian Singer, Sidney Esiri also known as Dr Sid and wife, Simi, may have parted ways following allegations of abuse and domestic violence. Simi, who...
Dr Mercy Ekele, a public health expert, says raising awareness on leprosy disease and dispelling misinformation are key to reducing the stigmitisation of victims. Ekele spoke...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the National Assembly to upon resumption on Tuesday urgently use its legislative instruments to intervene in the deteriorating...
Lazio’s 11-match winning run in Serie A ended on Sunday following a 1-1 derby draw with AS Roma that was decided by two goalkeeping errors. Thomas...
Sunshine Stars Football Club of Akure on Sunday maintained their five-match unbeaten run in spite of playing a 2-2 draw at home against Kano Pillars FC....
Premier League leaders Liverpool were given a huge scare by third-tier Shrewsbury Town as they squandered a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 away in a pulsating...
World Health Organisation (WHO), Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says he will meet with Chinese government and health experts supporting the coronavirus response. Ghebreyesus said this on...
Few weeks after Chief Daisy Danjuma, a member of the PDP Board of Trustees (BOT), openly declared support for Gov Godwin Obaseki’s second term bid, another...
A Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Kingsley Ferdinand, has encouraged Christian faithful to emulate the life of Jesus Christ as light of the world by living in...
A Consultant Psychologist, Dr Kafayat Ogunsola said that paedophiles should be given rehabilitative incarceration rather than allowing them languish in jail. Ogunsola made the suggestion in...
A cleric, Rev. Fr. Abba Daniel, on Sunday urged Christians to emulate the exemplary life of Jesus Christ. Daniel gave the advice in his sermon at...
The Chief Executive Officer of Sujimoto Group, Mr Sijibomi Ogundele, says the true asset of Nigeria is not in crude oil but in the potential of...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit, Zone B, has seized three trucks carrying cartons of sweets, green tea and cosmetics smuggled into the country....
Gunmen on Saturday attacked vehicles conveying travellers shortly after arriving Rigasa railway station from Abuja, injured some of them and abducted several others. News Agency...
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Sunday said his administration was nurturing youths to become responsible politicians and effective leaders by seeing politics as a platform...
Mr Oke Okoroafor, a major cashew value chain investor in the country, has called on government at all levels to ensure the strict implementation of policies...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in Saturday’s rerun election for Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency, Abdulmuminu Jibrin, has alleged that his mandate was stolen at the polls....
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the repeated attacks by bandits on communities in Niger State and its environs, directing the Nigerian Air Force to deploy its...
Dr Ramalan Yero, a former Governor of Kaduna State, on Sunday called on youths in the state to join active politics, but play the game without...
Seventy-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, 75 candles were lit on Sunday at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a field of...
Police fired tear gas in clashes with several thousand protesters demanding the resignation of Gambia’s President Adama Barrow on Sunday, an opposition leader told dpa. Demonstrators...
Devastating floods and landslides in Brazil’s Minas Gerais State have killed at least 37 people. The country’s emergency services made this known on Sunday in...
The death toll from a magnitude-6.8 earthquake in the eastern Turkish city of Elazig rose to 38 on Sunday, Turkish catastrophe agency Afad said as...
Adamawa United Football Club of Yola on Sunday defeated visiting Kwara United FC of Ilorin in a Match Day 17 fixture of the 2019/2020 Nigeria Professional...
Bauchi State Police Command said it had apprehended a man, Solomon Peters, who alledgedly stabbed his girlfriend, Miss Patience Zakari, to death in Bauchi following a...
Manchester United thrashed English football league third tier Tranmere Rovers 6-0 on Sunday to join Manchester City in the fifth round of the FA Cup. A...
Mr Dokun Olatunde, the Executive Director of Self Reliance Economic Advancement Programme (SEAP), has urged the Federal Government to adopt a flexible policy to promote Small...
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo, on Sunday made an unscheduled inspection visit to the Ambrose Alli University (AAU) administrative building under construction in the Ekpoma campus...
Gov Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has tasked journalists to be defender of the nation’s democracy. Makinde gave the charge on Sunday during the inauguration of...
the suspects stole a Toyota corolla saloon car at a church in Shagari Estate Ipaja and moved the vehicle to Ijagba village in Sango Ota, Ogun...
China has withdrawn as host of an Olympic qualifying tournament next month because of concerns about the outbreak of the new coronavirus in the country, Asian...
The Deputy Governor of Bauchi State, Sen. Baba Tela, on Sunday said that he does not consider himself a spare tyre in the governance of the...
Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has stopped any celebration and advertisements to mark his 60th birthday. The governor gave the order on Sunday in Ilorin in...
The Lagos State Government says the FADAMA model is worth emulating by various levels of governments as the policy is efficient and productive in improving the...
The Eggon Cultural and Development Association (ECDA), Wakama Chapter, Nasarawa State, says it will continue to promote unity and peaceful co-existence in the state and neighbouring communities....
Second-placed Inter Milan were held to a third successive 1-1 draw on Sunday in their Serie A match against Cagliari. But their misery came from within...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates as the winners of the re-run elections for Sokoto North/Sokoto South and...
Holders Manchester City served up an attacking masterclass as they thrashed Fulham 4-0 in the FA Cup fourth round on Sunday, with Gabriel Jesus scoring twice...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted persistent dry atmosphere and dust haze condition for Monday. NiMet’s weather outlook on Sunday in Abuja predicted dust haze...
Mr Mike Igini, the Resident Electoral Commissioner of Akwa Ibom has commended the Police and other security agencies for successful rerun elections in Essien Udim Local...
There is no crisis rocking the game of rugby in Nigeria, a member of the Nigeria Rugby Football Federation (NRFF) board said on Sunday. The federation...
The Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Lokoja in Kogi, has confirmed three cases of Lassa fever with one recorded death at the facility in the last one...
Rev. Tajan Moltok, the Jos Resident Pastor of Shepherd House Assembly International ,has urged Christians to obey the instructions of God in order to access His...
Mrs Uche Chukwurah, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC),Oyo State Command, has warned officers and men of the corps to refrain from taking bribes...
A coalition of Civil Society Organisations on Sunday faulted the judgment of the Supreme Court that sacked Emeka Ihedioha and declared Sen. Hope Uzodinma as governor...
Rev Maxwell Onyia of the Anglican Church of Ascension, Church of Nigeria, Enugu has urged Christians to always seek God genuinely for the salvation of their...
Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly church now renamed Citadel Global Community Church, Lagos, has appealed to the Federal Government to redouble efforts on...
The Committee of Youth on Mobilisation and Sensitisation (CYMS), a domestic election observer group, has described the just concluded Okigwe North Federal Constituency election in Imo...
The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) in Anambra, has called on politicians and supporters to shun politics of character assassination in the country. The CLO Chairman, Mr...
The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) said it has arrested 36 persons for allegedly crossing the highways indiscriminately. The Corps Marshal of the Agency, Mrs...
The Sokoto State Government says arrangements were on high gear to tackle the resurfacing Lassa Fever in some parts of the state. The State’s Commissioner for...
Nigeria has called on African leaders to make deliberate policies that would improve women access to agricultural inputs and boost their returns to farm owners. The Minister...
The Ogun Government has confirmed a case of Lassa Fever in the state, with a firm assurance that all was being done to contain it. Commissioner...
World Health Organisation (WHO) Goodwill Ambassador, Yohei Sasakawa, says early detection and treatment of leprosy will prevent patients from disabilities. Sasakawa, WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy...
Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha, representing Taraba South Senatorial District and Senate Deputy Minority Leader, on Sunday voiced his endorsement of ‘Operation Amotekun’ recently launched by governors in...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Alhaji Aliyu Datti-Yako as the winner of the re-run election for Kiru/Bebeji...
The Nasarawa State Government, has restated commitment to collaborate with the State Fire Service, to curb fire outbreak in schools. Mrs Fatu Sabo, the Commissioner of...
Rev. Fr. Kizito Fogos, the Parish Priest of Church of Assumption Chongo’Pyeng, Jos, has urged Christians in Nigeria to submit themselves in true and total repentance...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the Okigwe North Federal Constituency in Imo comprising Isiala Mbano/Okigwe/Onuimo Ms Miriam Onuoha has defeated her closet opponent Mr...
A Cleric, Rev. Fr David Ajang,on Sunday enjoined Christian faithful to always study the Holy Bible and daily meditate and apply God’s Word in every areas...