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Abia state gets $240 million foreign loan for road, erosion projects

Abia state government will receive $240 million ($185 billion) in foreign loan to finance...

Dozens killed as communities in Taraba fight

Dozens of people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in...

Marina Resort Calabar: How Nigeria’s second deadly boat accident in weeks happened

Nigeria recorded a second deadly boat accident in two weeks on Saturday when three...

Understanding the Bulkachuwa case as sign some Nigerian courts are manipulated

Calls have grown for the investigation and prosecution of former Bauchi senator Adamu Bulkachuwa...

SSS says suspended EFCC chair Bawa has turned himself in

The State Security Services (SSS) says the suspended chairman of the Economic and Financial...

EFCC chairman Bawa suspended on ‘weighty allegations of abuse of office’

President Bola Tinubu has suspended AbdulRasheed Bawa as chairman of the Economic and Financial...

As Tinubu is criticised over killings, APC deploys Buhari era tactic

​The ruling All Progressives Congress on Wednesday deployed a familiar strategy the party and...

Buhari signed doctored NDIC bill without reading, top official says

A senior Nigerian official has accused former President Muhammadu Buhari of signing a bill...

Nigerian student who defrauded German man will clean EFCC office as punishment

A Nigerian student who posed as a female Caucasian and succeeded in getting a...

NLC and TUC back off: No fuel subsidy strike again

Nigeria’s major labour unions say they are stepping back from their initial plan to...

Subsidy removal: Kwara civil servants get two days off each week

Civil servants in Kwara state have the government’s permission to work for three days...

At N557 a litre, margin of petrol price increase widest in 30 years

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has confirmed increasing the price of petrol across...

Know the new names of 15 airports Buhari assigned

One of former president Muhammadu Buhari’s final acts before leaving office today was the...

Bola Tinubu sworn in as Nigeria’s president

Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos state and longstanding kingmaker in Nigerian politics, has...

Buhari arrives Eagles Square to hand over to Tinubu as president

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived the Eagles Square in Abuja where he is to...

Set to go, Buhari restores a once-condemned Jonathan ID plan

The federal government has announced that banks are now permitted to provide customers with...

Three men jailed for life for kidnapping Nigerian journalist

Three men have been jailed for life in Adamawa state for kidnapping a journalist...

Gunmen attack US convoy in Anambra, kill 4

Gunmen attacked a convoy of U.S. Embassy staffers in Anambra on Tuesday, killing two...

Big win for Nigerian media as court blocks ‘illegal’ NBC fines

A federal court has barred a Nigerian government regulator perpetually from imposing fines on...

Eight Sri Lankans held in Nigeria since 2022 over oil smuggling released

This is a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Sri Lanka Eight...