News

All the 36 state governors and their deputies will receive the COVID-19 vaccine in public on March 10. The decision was reached on Thursday, after an emergency meeting to discuss the distribution of the vaccine. […]

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu will commission the 1.4km Pen Cinema Bridge, Agege on Friday, 5 March 2021. The Agege Pen Cinema Flyover project started in 2017 under the last administration of former Governor Akinwunmi […]

A federal high court sitting in Lagos has set aside its interim order of forfeiture made against Bukola Saraki, former senate president. The court had, in October 2019, granted the request of the Economic and […]

Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, has called on the federal government to meet the demands of the Amalgamated Union of Food and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN). Bello spoke after the union met with the […]

(In the second part of this series on extrajudicial killings during the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria, Kemi Busari investigates the killing of an awaiting trial inmate at the Kaduna Correctional facility and why prison authorities […]

By EricJames Ochigbo Northern Nigeria Cattle and foodstuff traders have agreed to lift food embargo on southern Nigeria, following the intervention of Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi and a former aviation minister, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode. […]

Stakeholders in agriculture and farmers in the South West, yesterday, allayed fears of food scarcity following the alleged stoppage of food supply to the region. But they were quick to challenge state governments in the […]

The former Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has compared Nigeria to a vehicle with a knocked engine, insisting Nigerians should devote more of their energy towards […]

Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos, says hoodlums stole $2 million and N17 million during the invasion of his palace. On October 21, 2020, after the #EndSARS protest had degenerated into a crisis in some […]

Nigerian actor and former broadcaster Sadiq Daba, who is best known for his role as “Inspector Waziri” in the film October 1, has died. Daba passed away on the evening of Wednesday, March 3, 2021, […]

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has convened a meeting with commissioners for health in the 36 states as part of efforts to ensure effective sharing and distribution of COVID-19 vaccine. The Plateau State […]

Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, has said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has given specific orders to military commanders to shoot non-security personnel armed with AK-47 […]

Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra state, has faulted the alleged payment of ransoms to rescue persons abducted by bandits. Obi, who was a vice-presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, said Nigeria is not […]

Northern traders have agreed to begin the supply of perishable food items to southern states and end the blockade of food trucks that began on February 25. TheCable gathered that traders agreed to a partial […]

Petrol scarcity in Abuja and neighbouring Nasarawa and Niger states persisted on Tuesday and provoked an over 100 per cent rise in transport fares in many locations of the affected areas. Also, hundreds of black […]

By Abujah Racheal The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has said that Nigerians under the age of 18 years will not receive the COVID-19 vaccines in the country. Minister of State for Health, Dr […]

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) says it has jammed the signals of a pirate radio claiming to be “Radio Biafra” in most parts of Lagos. Ekanem Antia, the Deputy Director, Public Affairs of NBC, made […]

The kidnapped schoolgirls of Government Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State, have been released, SaharaReporters has gathered. Last Friday, suspected bandits attacked the school in Talata-Mafara Local Government Area and kidnapped many students. The police […]