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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, on Monday refuted reports that he was absent at an intended meeting with investors in the U.S. alongside other ministers. A statement in Abuja by the spokesman for the…

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted partly cloudy to cloudy weather conditions over the Central states of the country on Tuesday morning. NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Monday also…

Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, say constituents can challenge the suspension of their lawmaker either in the national assembly or in any of the state house of assembly. In a statement on Monday, the senior advocate of Nigeria…

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has described the controversial comment made by President Muhammadu Buhari regarding some Nigerian youth as “apt, precise and succinct”. Speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster on…

Saudi Arabian authorities are threatening to block Nigerian pilgrims from attending this year’s Hajj exercise. Nigeria has one of the largest contingents in the annual religious exercise with about 95,000 pilgrims. The National…

Delta North senator, Peter Nwaboshi, has been in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for days, the anti corruption body says. The EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed that the lawmaker is in…

Protesters are currently in front of the house of Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, demanding that security operatives leave the place. Armed security personnel comprising policemen and operatives of the Department of…

The country is in mourning after another of its citizens was shot to death by unknown assailants in the Philippines. According to online reports the Nigerian, one Didicus Ohaeri aka Udelo, was killed in broad daylight by…

The Edo State Caucus of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has endorsed former governor of the state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for the position of the National Chairman of the party. The APC caucus also called on the former Labour…

The Lagos State Government saved a total of N4.5billion in the last three years as a result of the decision of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to stop the sponsorship of people for religious pilgrimages to Israel and Saudi Arabia, Commissioner…

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Monday ordered the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed; and the Federal Government to stop further mention of the name of Prince Uche Secondus, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic…

A member of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) also known as Shi’ites has reportedly been shot dead during a clash between IMN members and the police. The protesters, who were denied access to the converged on a spot in the…

We asked the Google Image search engine for this question and you won’t believe what we found. Amidst the whole reality drama and intrigue of passion, emotion and fun games of 85 days, Cynthia Nwadiora, aka Cee-C, has clinched the…

Combat ready policemen have laid siege to the Sangha Street, Maitama, Abuja residence of ‎Senator Dino Melaye. Melaye had in a hushed tone notified ‎our correspondent of the siege on the telephone at 1:43 pm. The security…

Nigerian Senator representing Sokoto North Senatorial District, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, who was also Sokoto State governor between 2007 and 2015, has reacted to allegation that he misappropriated N18billion with Senator Rabiu Musa…

A yet to be identified Nigerian has been killed in South Africa. Local media reported on Sunday that he died in Rustenburg after his vehicle was set ablaze by unknown persons. The South African police confirmed the incident but…

Dino Melaye, lawmaker representing Kogi west senatorial district, has been released hours after he was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.

Diaspora Nigerians wired $22 billion home in 2017, an African record and the fifth largest remittance by immigrants, according to the World Bank. Egypt received $20 billion from its citizens abroad, according to figures published by…

The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has confirmed the arrest of Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west. Melaye was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Monday morning. The lawmaker was on his way…

The U.S. says it will in 2020 deliver the 12 Super Tucano fighter jets and other weapons it agreed to sell to Nigeria to combat Boko Haram insurgents and other extremist groups. A senior U.S. Department of State official made the…

Bamikole Omishore, a media aide to Senate President Bukola Saraki, has declined to confirm or deny reports that he fleeced the public treasury using his wife as a ghost worker. The Punch newspaper reported earlier on Sunday that Mr…

A magistrate’s court in Ekpoma, Edo State where two former students of Ambrose Alli University (AAU) were arraigned in August, 2012, on eight counts charge bordering on alleged conspiracy, stealing, unlawful detention and frivolous…

Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo came under fire last weekend, during the 80th posthumous birthday for Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN), in which Soyinka, Falana, former Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Lagos State Governor…

The Senator representing Kogi west in the Senate, Dino Melaye has just announced that he has been arrested at Abuja international airport on his way to Morroco for an official engagement.. See his tweet below…