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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Sunday, said its operatives have launched massive raids across Lagos, Edo and Ondo state leading to

Yobe State Governor, Hon Mai Mala Buni has approved the payment of one month palliative bonus of N10, 000 for civil servants and N5,000 for pensioners in the

A 300-level student of Geography Department at the Federal University, Gashua (FUGA), Shamsiya Murtala yesterday lost her life and three others injured when

Others for specialized bodies of knowledge and skill include the Federal University of History and Archelogy, National Research Institute for Chemical Technology, Nigerian Aviation and Aerospace University, Federal College of Aviation Technology, Federal College of Geological and Cement Studies Iselu, Yelwa-North Ogun State, Federal College of Forestry, Wawa Zange, Dukku, Gombe State, Federal University of Transportation, Daura, Katsina State, Chartered Institute of Training and Development of N...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to obey a court judgment ordering the Nigerian government to recover pensions collected by former governors. SERAP asked President Tinubu "to emulate the good example of governor Alex Otti of Abia State by immediately obeying the judgment ordering the Federal Government to recover pensions collected by former governors, and to challenge the legality of states' pension laws permitting those invo...

Borno State governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has subsidised pump price of petrol to N500 per litre against the market price of N730, for farmers in Damasak,

SERAP agrees with former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s conclusion that states’ pension laws are ‘acts of daylight robbery’.

Isolated thunderstorms are expected over parts of Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Bayelsa, Rivers, Lagos, Edo, Delta, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Abia and Imo States later in the day.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized over 44,948.1 kilograms (44.9 tonnes) of illicit drugs in massive raids across Lagos, Edo and Ondo states. A statement on Sunday by the Director of Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said during the operations, eight suspects were arrested and 11 vehicles owned by the drug cartels were confiscated. It said a total of 7, 687.8kg of cannabis was destroyed in a warehouse in Ala forest, Akure, Ondo State while another 670kg of the drug wa...

The Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, has claimed that its fighters killed a Nigerian soldier in Yobe State. According to ISWAP in a statement, the soldier was killed when the terrorists attacked a military base in Gujba town in the Gujba Local Government Area of the state on Saturday morning.  Gujba is about 30 kilometres away from Damaturu, the Yobe State c...