[The Conversation Africa] There has been a rising wave of attacks on police stations and police officers in some southern states in Nigeria. At the last count, 127 cops had been killed and 25 stations razed in the past five months. The Conversation A...

[The Conversation Africa] The Nigerian military says it is investigating claims that the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is dead. His death has not been independently confirmed. It is also not the first time a claim like this has been made. The rep...

[Premium Times] The move is expected to allow further economic growth, despite four-year high inflation, after the country exited recession last year.

[Premium Times] The facilities are to serve as the point for stacking, weighing, and evacuation of cashew nuts from Niger, Edo, Benue, Kwara, and Kogi States for export.

[VOA] Escalating insecurity and communal violence in Nigeria appear to be strengthening separatist movements across the country. Among those movements is the Indigenous People of Biafra, a group that advocates an independent state in a part of Nigeri...

[Premium Times] A total of 30 oil companies spilt 41,216 barrels of oil in Nigeria between 2019 and May this year.

[This Day] President Muhammadu Buhari is opposed to open grazing of cattle, the presidency said yesterday in an apparent effort to douse the rising critique of its statement on Monday, quoting the president as querying the legality of Southern govern...

[Premium Times] The latest coup is Mali's second coup in nine months.

[Premium Times] The 440,000 health workers represent 23 per cent of people that have received first shots of COVID-19 vaccines.

[Premium Times] The official said the state suffered huge damage to critical public property which affected it economically.

[Premium Times] The leaders would be discussing the growing security threats in Sahel and Lake Chad region, political relations and economic ties as well as the situation in Chad.

[Vanguard] It is prohibited at Ossiama, Egbopuloama, Aweama and Ogbunuana and Koluama riverine communities in Sagbama and Southern Ijaw Local Government Areas, Bayelsa State, for any person to slaughter and cause injury to crocodiles.

[Leadership] The people of Ilorin Emirate have expressed delight over the commencement of academic programme at the newly established Police Secondary School, Ballah.

[Leadership] Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) Brig. General Buba Marwa (retd) has said that politicians seeking public office and students seeking admission into higher institutions must undergo drug integrity test.

[Leadership] Chief executive officer of Perfect Estate Developers Limited, Arc. Dayo Babatunde, has raised the alarm that politicians have begun to take credit for privately built infrastructure in their localities.

[Leadership] Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against an order directing the commission to unfreeze the frozen account of Chief Mike Ozhekome (SAN).

[Leadership] General Sani Abacha, who was born on September 20, 1943, died three months to his 55th birthday on June 8, 1998. Before his death, Gen Abacha had risen to the rank of a full military general, as well as the military head of state of Nige...

[Leadership] The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the inspector general of police to immediately invite and question leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the burning of the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commissi...

[Leadership] The federal government through the Debt Management Office (DMO) has raised N801.53 billion from the local bond market in the first five months of the year as a total of N63.2 billion matured Treasury Bills is expected to be rolled over t...

[Leadership] The police in Kano State have arrested 297 suspects, before, during and after the festive of Eid-el-Fitr celebrations.

[Leadership] President of Dangote group, Aliko Dangote, has assured the new President of Tanzania, Samia Suhulu, that his company will increase its investment in the country and inform investors all over the world, that Tanzania is now a good place t...

[Leadership] Wife of Lagos State governor, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday presented three utility vehicles to critical agencies of government as part of efforts to rev up their capacities to adequately fight the menace of sexual and gender-based v...

[Leadership] A non-partisan political youth movement, the Afenifere for Collective Transformation, has expressed support for the presidential bid of Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello.

[Leadership] Community leaders in Ile-Ife and Modakeke in Osun State have described apprehension by residents over viral social media reports of purported renewed hostility between the two communities as unnecessary.

[Premium Times] The suspects have been handed over to the police, according to an official of the electricity company.

[Premium Times] "We hold that its implementation will curb the galloping rate of criminality, reduce tension across the country, and reset the button of development."

[Leadership] In Kaduna, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) went on strike on 17th May, 2021 in Kaduna, causing paralysis of economic and social activities in the state.

[Daily Trust] The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has conducted an aircraft crash and rescue simulation exercise at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

[Leadership] The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has officially adopted the Nigeria Autonomous Foreign Exchange (NAFEX) rate, devaluing the naira to N410 to the dollar even as the value of the naira depreciated to N486 at the parallel market.

[Daily Trust] The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Jigawa State has expressed concern over the rising rate of hard drugs consumption, especially among students of tertiary institutions, in the state.