[VOA] Nigeria's broadcasting regulator on Friday announced it will revoke the licenses of 52 media organizations over unpaid fees, in a move the country's journalist union says is "ill advised."

[Premium Times] The police granted bail to Mr Jalingo on Saturday night.

[Premium Times] Mr Nwoko says there was no basis for agitation by the NGF concerning deductions from the Paris Club refund paid to the consultants they hired.

[This Day] The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the revocation of the operating licenses of 52 broadcast stations owing debt amounting to N2.6 billion in licensing fees until August 23, 2022.

[Leadership] The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Education Institutions (NASU), has announced the suspension of the Unions' ongoing strike for...

[Daily Trust] More pressure has been mounted on the Federal Government over the $464m trapped funds belonging to foreign airlines flying Nigerian routes.

[Premium Times] However, on child labour, the survey recorded a 19 per cent reduction within the same year under review

[Premium Times] "In the armed forces, we have increased our strength as much as possible, reviewed our training tactics and procedures and reviewed our order of battle."

[Premium Times] The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has investigated 31 state governors for corruption and taken 11 of them to court, but the agency has recorded only two convictions, both of whom were pardoned without completing thei...

[Vanguard] Nigerians at home and abroad are rightly scandalised by the recent expensive gifts of the Federal Government to Niger Republic and Afghanistan.

[Premium Times] While Usyk clearly dominated the first fight against Joshua, it was a bit different in Saturday's rematch

[Premium Times] The Navy said MT HEROIC IDUN entered the Nigerian maritime environment and headed for Akpo Field without any form of authorisation or clearance by the NNPC.

[Premium Times] NBC, which regulates the broadcast industry, has been criticised in the past for arbitrarily imposing fines on TV and radio stations over controversial programmes.

[The Conversation Africa] Nigeria's National Broadcasting Commission recently imposed a fine of N5 million (about US$11,922) each on MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, NTA-Startimes and Telcom Satellites Limited for airing a BBC Africa Eye documentary titl...

[This Day] No fewer than 55 communities in four local government areas of Edo State yesterday protested the acquisition of the communities' rainforest reserve and farmland by the state Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, in spite of pending court cases on ...

[This Day] President Muhammadu Buhari has stressed that the stability of Chad and other neighbouring countries to Nigeria is in the overall interest of the nation.

[This Day] Following the controversy generated over the discovery of 20 mummified bodies in a private facility in Benin City, capital of Edo State, the state Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has given the police seven days to carry out a comprehensive i...

[This Day] The United Nations (UN) has revealed that humanitarian assistance was delivered to five million people in North-east Nigeria in 2021.

[This Day] The Bauchi State Government has disclosed that no fewer than 69 persons that were abducted by bandits have been rescued by a combined effort of security agents and vigilantes, after raiding the bandits' hideouts and intensifying patrols on...

[This Day] The leader of the terror group that abducted some of the Abuja-Kaduna train passengers have threatened to forcefully marry 21-year-old train abductee, Azurfa Lois John.

[This Day] The Chairperson, Committee on Social Affairs, Gender and Women Empowerment of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, Ayamba Laadi Ayii, has appealed to West African presidents to ensure the 30 per cent affirmative a...

[This Day] Amassive US$418 million. That's what six consultants have been battling to grab from the 36 Nigerian states and 774 local governments, supposedly for facilitating refunds of the over-deductions against states and local governments, in obli...

[Nigeria Health Watch] Katakpa is a rural farming community in Lapai Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State. Due to years of neglect, the only health facility in the community is now barely functional.

[This Day] The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa has said that Nigerians in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) affected by the mass deportation of illegal aliens are being profiled for evacuation.

[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- Supporters of free speech in Nigeria are expressing concern after a federal court ruled this week that a singer appealing his death sentence for blasphemy must have his case retried in a Shariah court.

[This Day] The World Bank has identified conflict as one of the critical drivers of food insecurity in West Africa, especially in the north-western part of Nigeria and the Liptako Gourma region, which borders Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Republic.

[Vanguard] The Federal Government's inability to allow foreign airlines operating in the country's airspace to repatriate their funds might in the coming days force them to suspend their operations in Nigeria.

[Premium Times] Mr Mamu, in a statement, said the abductors threatened to marry off one of the hostages.

[Premium Times] The police said that he is being taken to Abuja.

[CPJ] Abuja -- Authorities in Nigeria should immediately drop any criminal libel investigation into journalist Ifreke Nseowo or TheMail Newspaper and pay damages to the newspaper distributor whom they illegally detained to compel Nseowo to appear for...