[Premium Times] "I lost some of my colleagues and pupils to attacks. While some of us moved to Maiduguri, others ran to Bosso in Niger Republic," a teacher, Mr Bukar, narrates.

[This Day] A World Bank economist, Mr. Samik Adhikari has stated that the country's high unemployment rate was frustrating and forcing educated Nigerians youths to migrate to others countries of the world.

[VOA] Abuja -- In Lagos, Nigeria, the death toll from the collapse of a building Monday has risen to 22 as rescuers continue digging through the rubble in a search for survivors. Experts say the collapse was likely the result of poor construction and...

[Premium Times] The Nigerian Army says the envelope budgeting system leads to the reduction of its annual appropriation by the Ministry of Finance thereby impeding its operational efficiency.

[This Day] The federal government yesterday disclosed that the German government has expressed its readiness to return 1,350 looted Benin bronzes back to Nigeria.

[Premium Times] Many police officers invited to appear before the #EndSARS panel fail to show up.

[This Day] The six-man independent investigation team set up by Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to probe the remote and immediate causes of the collapse of a 21-storey building in Ikoyi has 30 days to submit its report. Sanwo-Olu disclo...

[This Day] Abuja -- The Nigerian Army yesterday expressed displeasure over reduction of the size of its 2022 proposed budget from N710 billion to N579 billion by the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning for the 2022 fiscal year.

[This Day] Katsina -- The Katsina State Police Command has apprehended one Jamilu Idris for allegedly abducting his four-year-old cousin brother, Umar Farouk Kabir.

[This Day] Abuja -- The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday cautioned against starting new roads and other projects, until progress is made with the ongoing projects.

[This Day] As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) moves both personnel and materials to Anambra State in readiness for the governorship election yesterday, INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, has said the commission would do eve...

[This Day] Abuja -- The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has assured that the ninth House was committed to make the Electoral Act perfect and acceptable to the majority of Nigerians.

[This Day] Abuja -- The Federal Executive Council (FEC) at its weekly meeting yesterday approved contracts worth N47 billion for various projects in the ministries of Works and Housing, Aviation and some departments and agencies.

[Vanguard] THE Senate has said that it will collaborate with the House of Representatives and the executive to bail out the Ministry of Works through an emergency fund in order to clear the N420billion owed contractors by the Ministry on road project...

[This Day] Abuja -- The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has called on leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to fashion out and pursue robus...

[Premium Times] The NCDC noted that the fatality toll in the country now stood at 2,890, with total number of 212,359 confirmed cases in the country.

[Premium Times] The committee says it is not supporting the bill because cannabis contributes to insecurity in Nigeria.

[Premium Times] 39-year old Jamilu Idris said he abducted the victim to extort money from his father

[Leadership] Anambra State government yesterday declared today and tomorrow as work-free days ahead of the Saturday governorship election.

[Vanguard] Nigeria produces about two million metric tonnes of Onions annually, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Muhammad Abubakar, has told the 4th Regional Onion annual conference and general meeting holding in Kano.

[Vanguard] The abductors of the six individuals from the University of Abuja on Tuesday have asked the families for N300m ransom.

[This Day] Nnamdi Uganwa

[This Day] In continuation of his hospital apostolate, the Vice Presidential Candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, recently visited and donated N1 million to Rex Universorum Hospital, Mmiata-Anam.

[This Day] Emma Okonji

[This Day] Warri -- Urhobo, the fifth largest ethnic group in the country, is set to demand N1.0 trillion as reparation from the federal government and international oil companies (IOCs) for years of 'resource plunder and environmental degradation'.

[This Day] The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) has commended the approval given by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for the construction/refurbishment of 21 roads under the Ro...

[Premium Times] An official said that several workshops being organised were in line with the vision of the present administration to ensure that the issue of security was taken more seriously at all levels.

[Leadership] Civil servants and other commuters were stranded on the ever busy Abuja-Keffi road yesterday as operatives of the Nigerian Army mounted a roadblock and carried out a stop and search operation of vehicles entering the Federal Capital Terr...

[This Day] The World Bank has urged Nigeria to create a bilateral migration policy that would support legal migration of Nigerians, saying that legal migration would be a boost to remittances as well foster economic growth.

[Premium Times] The government says the vehicles will bolster the operational efficiency of the Nigeria Customs Service and increase revenue generation.