The contractor handling the 156 kilometre standard gauge rail line from Lagos to Ibadan has assured communities along the corridor that it will address all their concerns before completion and handover of the project. China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) ...

The Kogi State Local Government Service Commission has disclosed that 19,950 of the 24,959 council workers have been cleared for payment after the screening exercise. Executive Chairman of the commission, Professor Shuaibu Ahmed Ibrahim, who made this known in Lokoja ...

Unidentified gunmen have killed Chairman of Bunu Hunters in Kogi State, Caleb Oshe and his son, Sunday at his village, Suku in Kabba Bunu Local Government Area of the state. Reacting to what he described as a dastardly act, Kogi ...

Two herdsmen are currently receiving treatment at emergency unit of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri, Imo State, after clashing and inflicting wounds on each other yesterday. The incident led to traffic heavy gridlock along the Owerri-Aba Road in Agbala, ...

A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has alleged that Fulani herdsmen have killed no fewer than 3,400 persons in the country between January and August this year. Consequently, he cautioned Christians and all Nigerians to heed former President Olusegun ...

Disturbed by the damage caused to the environment by fossil fuel extraction, Oil Watch Africa, a network of 15 African countries, has urged continental leaders to end the opening of new reserves for the product. The network, in a declaration ...

The Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has alleged that the Federal Government was frustrating the emergency treatment of its leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, at Medanta Hospital, New Delhi, India. The movement’s Head of Media and Publicity, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to improve the lot of the poor and those in the lower rung of the society during his second term in office. Addressing leaders of the various communities from the five council areas of Daura ...

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has put operators on red alert over further spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Africa. In a letter to the airlines, the apex regulatory body urged regional and international carriers to exercise ...

The Lagos State Police Command said it foiled an attempted bank raid by a suspected team of robbers in Ejigbo area of the state and arrested its ringleader with his arms. The police public relations officer in the state, Bala ...