[Daily Trust] After about 10 months of diplomatic row, the highly lucrative Nigeria-Dubai air route has been restored, paving the way for the resumption of direct flights between the two countries.

[Vanguard] As the Omicron variant spread across countries, the United Kingdom on Saturday added Nigeria to its red list category even as it tightens travel restrictions in a bid to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

[This Day] Ado Ekiti -- The local government elections conducted in Ekiti State yesterday were greeted with low turnout of voters just as the polls were largely adjudged violent-free across the 2,195 polling units in the state by the electorate.

[Vanguard] A former governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, who is recuperating in London after a knee operation, has played host to 11 senators from Nigeria.

[Vanguard] The Kaduna State Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. John Joseph Hayab, has said the association paid ransom to secure the release of members of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Kakau Daji, Kaduna State, from their abductors.

[Vanguard] Red-hot Watford striker, Emmanuel Bonaventure Dennis, has come out to swiftly deny media reports quoting him to have said that he would shun any invitation to play fot Nigeria at the prestigious African Cup of Nations tournament, kicking o...

[Vanguard] The United Kingdom says Nigeria will be added to the countries on its red list as a result of the discovery of COVID Omicron cases in England linked to recent travellers from Nigeria.

[Vanguard] The Conservator-General, National Park Service, Dr Ibrahim Goni, says 60 per cent of the country's valuable forest estate has been lost to degradation and most of those left, are currently under threat.

[Vanguard] Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, says Nigeria needs not just achievers, but men and women who are bridge builders and unifiers.

[This Day] A former Chief of Army Staff, General Mohammed Inuwa Wushishi, is dead.

[This Day] Abuja -- President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the family of former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Oyegoke Bolarinwa Babalakin, who passed on yesterday, at the age of 94.

[This Day] The past week has been a historic one for Nigeria's Afrobeats superstar, Wizkid. His three-day 'Made in Lagos' concert held at the London O2 Arena saw the famed star driving fans to a frenzy in the sold-out venue. It is reported that the s...

[Premium Times] About 70 million active mobile line owners in Nigeria do not have bank accounts, the Chief Executive Officer of eTranzact International Plc., Niyi Toluwalope, has said.

[Premium Times] The army said the terrorists made futile attempts to "maintain potency with explosions at Gomari community and 1,000 Housing Estate."

[Leadership] Multiple bomb explosions early Saturday rocked Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, PRNigeria gathered from credible local sources.

[This Day] A commanding officer and a senior officer in one of the battalions of operation Hadin Kai were killed when fighters of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacked Rann, a town in Kala Balge LGA of Borno State on Thursday nig...

[This Day] The claim that the magnitude of the oil spillage in Nembe, Bayelsa State on November 3 is worse than the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, is an exaggeration; investigation has shown.

[This Day] A coalition of 60 civil society groups have vowed to defend Lagos State at all cost against those who are bent on making the state ungovernable since the state's government rejection of the Panel of Enquiry report on the EndSARS protest.

[Vanguard] Maiduguri -- At least four different explosions were recorded early morning into some communities of Gomari ward and 1,000 Housing Estate in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, Saturday morning.

[Daily Trust] A coalition of civil society organisations, Defend Lagos Coalition, has said the genuine struggle to end Police brutality has been hijacked.

[Daily Trust] A request to reopen Madobai Primary School was submitted in mid-November to authorities in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State.

[Daily Trust] The Federal Government Friday announced a review of its International Travel Protocol effective December 5, 2021, over the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

[Vanguard] Two peasants were killed and not fewer than 50 abducted yesterday when terrorists attacked the Unguwan Gimbiya community on the outskirts of Kaduna, a clergy who craved anonymity has said.

[Premium Times] The Nigerian government has said it will begin the administration of the COVID-19 booster dose for eligible Nigerians from December 10, across all states of the federation.

[Vanguard] The frenzy that has gripped the world since the emergence of the newly discovered Omicron COVID-19 variant spilled over into Nigeria on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. At the crack of dawn, Nigerians woke up to the cheerless news that the dre...

[Vanguard] Nigeria has completed the training of 62 Peacekeeping medical personnel ready to be deployed to Mali.

[This Day] Nigerian singer Wizkid continues to give his fans something to talk and boast about when it comes to his career. On Sunday November 28, 2021, same day he held a second show at the 02 Arena in London, the Grammy award-winning music star, Wi...

[This Day] Abuja -- The Dangote Group of Companies yesterday handed over to the Federal Government the rehabilitated football pitch of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja also fitted with new computerised score boards.

[East African] Abuja -- In an intense fighting between Nigerian army and Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters in Rann, North East Borno State, left seven government soldiers and 24 jihadists dead.

[This Day] Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has said the White Paper on the report submitted by the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Police Brutality is illegal.