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On this day, 13 February 1976, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed, Nigeria’s then Head of State and Commander-in-Chief, was assassinated in Lagos, Nigeria’s then federal capital city.

The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II has declared that Fulanis are not terrorists or criminals as perceived by some Nigerians.

A 500-level Applied Geophysics student at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Tunji Agboola, has reportedly slumped and died while playing football on Saturday at FUTA South Gate ...

A House of Representatives adhoc panel investigating operational activities of service of telecommunications companies In Nigeruia, has issued an arrest warrant against Billionaire businessman and chairman of Globacom Nigeria, Mike ...

A civil society organization, Good Governance and Transparency Initiative has demanded for a timely resolution of the nagging clashes between farmers and herdsmen in Benue, Taraba States and other parts ...

The Coalition for Nigeria (CN) has described the letter purportedly written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Muhammadu Buhari as a desperate attempt to relaunch himself into politics saying ...

Two motorcycle riders were reported dead and at least seven others injured after an accident on Adeboye Road, Odorasanyin, in the Ijebu Igbo area of Ogun State on Tuesday.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019. Obasanjo offered the advice in a special press statement issued in Abeokuta on Tuesday.

As reactions continue to trail the recent attack on Benue communities by suspected Fulani herdsmen were over 80 people were killed, a civil society group has slammed the state governor, ...

Aspiring female presidential candidate, Professor Olufunmilayo Adesanya-Davis has said that she want her ambition to be realised under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019.

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday (today) meet some leaders from Benue State over the recent killings recorded in the state.

BY NNEKA OBI - The last time I visited Nigeria was in 2013. My husband approved my request to visit home to celebrate the Christmas and New Year. I came ...

Presidency claims Buhari's tweet on herdsmen that has gone viral is fake. The Nigerian presidency has alerted Nigerians  about a fake Twitter handle purportedly belonging to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Mr. Governor Sir, we have keenly and closely monitored your actions proceeding events of January 2018 and what appears to be your disguised posture of silently nurturing the crisis and ...

The police in Benue State have arrested eight herdsmen over the killing on Monday of 20 residents of Guma and Logo Local Government councils.

Labour leaders and civil servants led by the Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Osun State, Mr. Tunde Adekomi, on Wednesday started an indefinite strike to protest the plan ...

The Lagos State Police Command in a recent interview has explained why PRAIZ who has since been released was arrested.

A married couple living at no 26 Aunty Toyin street, Kodeibo Estate, Ijegun Road, Isheri Oshun, Lagos have been arrested by the Lagos state police command for sexually assaulting and violating ...

The police, the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Air Force, the Nigeria Immigration Services, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Department of State Services on Monday literally took ...