THERE are now has as many as 6m illegal weapons in Nigeria spurring the incessant cycle of violence sweeping across the country according to former military head of state General Abdusalami Abubakar.
Of late, Nigeria has been plagued by unprecedented violence including a Boko Haram insurgency, murderous attacks by Fulani...
MEMBERS of the Plateau State caucus in the Federal House of Representatives have passed a vote of confidence in deputy speaker Hon Idris Wase despite calls for his removal after he insulted Nigerian diasporans by saying that have no business in the affairs of the country.
On March 10, Hon Mark Gbillah, the lawmaker...
NIGERIANS living in the diaspora have been told by the deputy speaker of the Federal House of Representatives Hon Idris Wase to stop sending petitions to the National Assembly on issues happening within the country because they are not affected by any of it.
As the security situation in the country has deteriorated over...
NIGERIAN government ministers are considering introducing another total lockdown in several major cities across the country as the number of Covid-19 cases soars across the country during this second wave of the pandemic.
Although Nigeria has been spared the worst of the global pandemic, the country has had more than 127,000...
GOVERNORS of Nigeria's 19 northern states have undertaken to be the first ones to receive the new Covid-19 vaccine when it becomes available to help dispel any fears that it is not safe or is part of a plot to infect people.
Next month, Nigeria intends to take delivery of the first batch of the Pfizer vaccine and after that,...
NIGERIA'S federal government will not introduce a fresh coronavirus lockdown despite the outbreak of a second wave of the virus unless it is totally necessary and unavoidable with no other option available.
In April, President Muhammadu Buhari introduced a lockdown in Lagos and Ogun States and the Federal Capital Territory,...
FORMER head of state General Yakubu Gowon has responded to allegations that brought half of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to London with him when he was in office between 1966 and 1975.
On November 23, the UK House of Commons debated the Lekki Toll Gate massacre, with members of Parliament demanding that tough sanctions...
PLATEAU State government has denied asking looters to return stolen palliatives as claimed by the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) pointing out that the looted food items belong to the people and there was no need asking them to return them.
Last Tuesday, Nigerian Army troops opened fire on unarmed protesters at the Lekki Toll...
MEMBERS of Nigeria's Northern Governors Forum (NGF) have asked security agencies to investigate the claim that one of their members is sponsoring the Boko Haram insurgency raging across the northeast of the country.
Earlier this week, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and a...
