Yahaya, Emir of Gombe, Others Observe Eid Prayers At Gombe Juma’at Mosque
Governor Inuwa Yahaya at the eid prayer ground (photo: Abdul no shaking) News Investigators/ Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, Friday joined other Muslims in the state to observe the Eid prayer More...
Angry Borno Governor To Army: ‘You said There Is No Boko Haram In Baga, Then Who Attack Us?’
News Investigators/ Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum has lambasted the Nigerian army following an attack on his convoy in Baga on Wednesday night, even as he vowed to push for the redeployment of soldiers More...
Eid-el-Kabir: FRSC To Ensure Motorists Observe COVID-19 Protocols
News Investigators/ The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Kuje, FCT, will monitor and ensure that motorists observe COVID-19 protocols during the Eid-el-Kabir celebration to prevent the spread of the virus. The More...
Buhari Mourns Maj.-Gen Sam Momah
News Investigators/ President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja sent heartfelt condolences to the family of former Minister of Science and Technology, retired Maj. Gen. Sam Momah. In a condolence message More...
We Have Secured Over 500 Convictions, Rescued Over 18,000 Victims – NAPTIP
News Investigators/ The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has secured the conviction of over 500 traffickers and rescued over 18,000 victims across the country from 2004 till More...
Senator Exposes UBA In Alleged N41b Fraud, Summons GMD
News Investigators/ The Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the United Bank for Africa (UBA), Kennedy Uzoka, has been summoned by the Senate in connection with a N42 Billion alleged fraud.Mr. More...
Mamman Daura Faults Rotational Presidency, Says It Should Be Based On Competence
News Investigators/ President Muhammadu Buhari’s influential nephew, Mamman Daura, has suggested that the most qualified Nigerian irrespective of zone should succeed his uncle in 2023. Mr. Daura made the More...
Nigeria Stock Market Loses N70bn, Amid Losses By Blue Chips
News Investigators/ The nation’s bourse returned to negative territory on Tuesday with the market capitalisation shedding N70 billion due to losses by some blue chips. The market capitalisation was down 0.54 More...
Face Your Corruption Charges, Dogara Tells Bala Mohammed
News Investigators/ Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Monday told the Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed to concentrate on corruption charges pressed against him by the Economic More...
Yahaya Signs N107Billion Revised 2020 Budget
Governor Mohammed Yahaya signing the revised budget on Monday. News Investigators/ Gombe state Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has signed the revised 2020 budget into law. The initially signed budget, More...
Northeast Terrorists Running To Northwest As Sahel Terrorists Explore Region – DSS
News Investigators/ The Department of State Services (DSS) is aware of the presence of Jihadi elements from far Burkina, Mali, Niger and Libya in Nigeria’s Northwest region seeking alliances with armed groups, More...
Why I Resigned From PDP -Dogara
News Investigators/ The immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has explained the reasons why he left the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives More...
CRA Accuses Buhari, El-Rufai Of Silence On Southern Kaduna ‘Genocide’
News Investigators/ Following renewed violence in Southern Kaduna, the Christian Rights Agenda (CRA) has accused Nigeria’s President Mohammadu Buhari and Kaduna state Governor Nasir El-Rufai of turning a More...
Oyo Inaugurates Agricbusiness Training Programme For Secondary Schools
News Investigators/ Gov Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has inaugurated the pilot scheme of an agricbusiness training programme for secondary schools. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme More...
Political Crisis: Buhari Arrives In Mali
President Muhammadu Buhari News Investigators/ President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Mali on a reconciliation mission to restore amity to the West African country, rocked by protests against President Ibrahim More...
Tolulope Arotile, Nigeria’s First Female Combat Helicopter Pilot, Buried In Abuja
News Investigators/ The remains of the Nigeria’s first female helicopter combat pilot, Tolulope Arotile, has interned at the National Military Cemetery in Abuja. Ms. Arotile, who died on July 14 in Kaduna, More...
Alleged Due Process Violations: Reps Urges Buhari To Sanction Labour Minister, PS
News Investigators/ The House of Representatives has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sanction the Minister and Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment for allegedly violating moratorium More...
NDDC Gate: Akpabio Recants As Reps Head To Court, Denies 60 Percent Contract Allegation
News Investigators/ The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has recanted on the allegations that 60 percent of contracts awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), saying it More...
Nigeria Records 576 New COVID-19 Cases, As Total Hits 37,801
News Investigators/ Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 576 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total infections to 37, 801. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known on its official twitter handle. The More...
Fani Kayode Bags Traditional Title In Zamfara
News Investigators/ The Former Minister of Avaiation, Femi Fani-Kayode has been conferred with the traditional title of “Sadaukin Shinkafi” by Shinkafi Emirate Council in Zamfara. This is contained in a More...
Just In: Ismaila Isa Funtua Is Dead
News Investigators/ Founding Managing Director of Democrat Newspaper and former President of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Mallam Ismaila Isa Funtua, is dead. He died of cardiac arrest More...
Bombshell: Akpabio Accuses Lawmakers Of Cornering 60% NDDC Contract
News Investigators/ The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, on Monday accused members of National Assembly of cornering about 60 per cent of contracts awarded by the troubled Niger Delta Development More...
Yahaya Appoints DGs For Joint Projects Devt Agency, Gombe Geographical Information System
GOMBE/News Investigators/ The Governor of Gombe State, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has approved the appointment of Engr. Idris Mohammed Mahdi as Director-General, Gombe State Joint Project Development Agency. Similarly, More...
Reps Decry Slow Pace Of Work At 2nd Niger Bridge, Other Projects
News Investigators/ The House of Representatives Committee on Works, has frowned at the slow pace of work by Julius Berger Construction Company in handling of the Second Niger Bridge, the Lagos-Ibadan and the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano More...
NASS Appoints Ojo Olatunde Acting Clerk, Dambatta Commission Secretary
News Investigators/ The National Assembly Service Commission on Friday appointed, Ojo Amos Olatunde as Acting Clerk to the National Assembly. Mr. Olatunde whose appointment takes immediate effect, replaced Sank More...
Lawal Advocates Pilgrim Commission, NAN Ties For National Dev.
News Investigators/ The Acting Managing Director of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Biola Lawal, has called for close working relations with Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) to promote national growth. Mr. More...
USAID Partners With Imo Govt. To Improve WASH, Boost Access To Clean Water
News Investigators/ U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is partnering with the Imo government to improve the management and delivery of water and sanitation (WASH) services to help people live healthier More...
Ize-Iyamu Hails BBC Yewande Adewusi’s Appointment
News Investigators/ The Candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Edo Governorship election, Osagie Ize-Iyamu has congratulated Edo-born Yewande Adewusi on her recent appointment as the Regional Director More...
North-West: Army Kill 7 Bandits, Destroy Hideouts
News Investigators/ Soldiers under special operation, Exercise Sahel Sanity, have killed seven bandits in three theater areas of Katsina, Zamfara and Sokoto states.Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Bernard More...
You Are On Your Own, Buhari Warns Ministers, Officials Against Disrespecting N/Assembly
News Investigators/ President Muhammadu Buhari has warned ministers and chief executive officers of government agencies to desist from disrespecting members of the National Assembly. The Senior Special Assistant More...
N81.5B Probe: Reps Slam Warrant Of Arrest On NDDC Ag. MD After Walk Out On Committee
News Investigators/ The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Kemebrandikumo Pondei, Thursday, staged a walk out on the House of Representatives. Even as the House issued More...
Air Chief Mourns Tolulope Arotile, Extols Her Virtues
News Investigators/ The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has said he is heartbroken over the death of Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, describing her as “one of our young shining stars.” Ms. More...
Ex-NIMASA Boss Bags Seven Years For N1.7b Fraud
News Investigators/ Justice I.N. Buba of Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a former executive director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency More...
Yahaya Orders Immediate Enforcement Of TSA In Gombe
News Investigators/ Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has signed Executive Order No. 5 of 2020, which authorizes the immediate implementation and enforcement of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) in Gombe state. The More...
Wives Of Police Special Force Protest Poor Welfare For Husbands
ABUJA/News Investigators/ Wives of the Nigerian Police Special Force have barricaded the Abuja-Kaduna highway over alleged poor welfare package for their husbands, causing serious traffic jam on the busy highway. Many More...
Israel Records First Direct Repatriation Flight From Nigeria
News Investigators/ The State of Israel has recorded the second direct repatriation flight of its citizens from Nigeria. Israeli Mission in Nigeria described the direct repatriation flight as a milestone in More...
Covid-19: Indoor Airborne Spread Possible –NCDC Warns
News Investigators/ The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has admitted the possibility that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic might be spread in the air under certain conditions after about 200 scientists’ More...
Buhari Approves New Boards For NLNG, BGT
News Investigators/ President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the newly reconstituted board of Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas(NLNG) and Bonny Gas Transport Limited ( BGT). The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, More...
Abuja World Trade Centre Razed
News Investigators/ A fire outbreak on Monday gutted part of the high rise building of the World Trade Centre, located in the Federal Capital Territory. General Manager, Operations, at the centre, Ibukun Adegun, More...
Ibadan Varsity In Search Of A New Vice Chancellor
By Sunday Saanu A recent advertisement placed in some national dailies by the Management of the University of Ibadan (UI), signed by the Registrar, Mrs Olubunmi Omobolanle Faluyi entitled “Appointment More...
Army Recovers 711 Cows, 592 Sheep From Bandits
News Investigators/ The Nigeria Army under the Operation Sahel Sanity recovered 711 cows and 592 sheep during from July 6 to July 11 in three North West states, an official said on Sunday. The Acting Director More...
Nigeria Police, INTERPOL Arrest 3 Suspects Over Cybercrime
News Investigators/ Operatives of the Nigeria Police Cybercrime Unit and the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), Abuja have arrested three suspects over advance fee fraud, money laundering and romance scam. The More...
N3 Billion To Be Spent On Malaria Prevention In Kano
News Investigators/ Kano State Government in partnership with the Malaria Consortium have earmarked about N3 billion for malaria prevention activities in the state. Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, made the disclosure More...
How Magu Used ‘Pastor’ To Launder Re-Looted Funds Abroad – Report
News Investigators/ A report by the Presidential Probe Panel has revealed details of how the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, alledgedly used a cleric More...
Magu: Corrupt Officials’ Days Are Numbered, No Sacred Cows –Buhari Warns
News Investigators/ President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the arrest and on-giong probe of the suspended Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu is an indication that More...
Rape: Don Advocates Early Sensitisation Of Boy-Child
News Investigators/ As the world grapples with rising incidences of rape, Prof. Emmanuel Dandaura says early education and training of the boy-child on the menace is a major step toward halting the trend in Nigeria. Dandaura, More...
COVID-19 Has Worsened Maternal Mortality Rate In Nigeria – NPC Chairman
News Investigators/ National Population Commission (NPC) says the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the maternal mortality rate of 556 deaths per 100,000 live births in the country. The acting Chairman of the commission, More...
Communities In Bayelsa Inaugurate N141.65m Projects
News Investigators/ The Dodo River Communities Development Association in Ekeremor Local Government area of Bayelsa on Friday inaugurated projects worth over N141.65 million funded by the NNPC/Chevron Joint Venture. The More...
Ugwuanyi Inaugurates State Community Policing Advisory Committee
News Investigators/ Governor of Enugu State,. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Thursday appointed 17 members to the State Community Policing Advisory Committee to ensure a successful implementation of Community Policing More...
Alleged $153m Fraud: First Bank Director Reveals How Diezani Removed $70m From NNPC Coffers
News Investigators/ A first prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Dauda Lawal, Executive Director, First Bank Plc, Dauda Lawal, has told Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos More...
Oyo lnaugurates Family Court To Enforce Child Rights, Others
IBADAN/News Investigators/ The Judiciary in Oyo State has inaugurated the Family Court to protect the rights of children and address increasing domestic violence in the society. In his speech during the More...
N281 Billion Released To NDDC In 4Yrs, AGF Tells Probe Panel, As Ojougboh Blames Lawmakers For NDDC’s Woes
News Investigators/ The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, Thursday revealed that a total of N281billion has so far been released to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), even as acting More...
NEC, PTF To Hold More Talks On Reopening Of Economy, Schools -Okowa
News Investigators/ The National Economic Council (NEC) says it will hold further discussions with the Presidential Taskforce (PTF) on COVID-19 about reopening of the economy and schools. Delta State governor, More...
ECO: Convergence Criteria Must Be Met For Sustainability- Onyeama
News Investigators/ The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has said that the convergence criteria, to ensure the sustainability and viability of ECO as a single currency, must be met by all ECOWAS More...
Covid-19: Nigeria’s Infection Cases Rise To 30,249
News Investigators/ The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Wednesday announced 460 new infection cases of the novel coronavirus, with the country’s total cases rising to 30,249. The Nigeria Centre More...
Arewa Journalists Honour NAN’s Acting MD, Viola Lawal
News Investigators/ Arewa Journalists Forum has conferred an award of excellence for outstanding success on the Acting Managing-Director of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Biola Lawal. Mr. Lawal, a thoroughbred More...
DSS, Police Raid Magu’s Residence
News Investigators/ Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), and the Nigeria Police Force, on Tuesday, combed the home of Ibrahim Magu, the suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes More...
Just In: Buhari Approves Magu’s Suspension
News Investigators/Embattled acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has been suspended.President Muhammadu Buhari approved the suspension following allegations of corruption More...
109,823 Beneficiaries Of N-Power Now Business Owners –Minister
News Investigators/ The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, says no fewer than 109,823 beneficiaries of the N-Power Programme are now business owners.Mrs More...
Orton’s Wife, Cooks, Others Test Positive To Covid-19
News Investigators/ The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom on Saturday announced names of some top government officials that have tested positive to the Coronavirus in the state. Secretary to the State Government, More...
Army Day: 1,000 Households Get Free Food, Fertiliser In Kaduna
News Investigators/ The Nigerian Army has distributed food items and fertiliser to 1,000 households in two communities in Kaduna State, to mark the 2020 Army Day Celebration.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports More...
Nigerian Army Shares Palliatives To 500 Residents In Enugu
News Investigators/ No fewer than 500 residents of Abakpa Nike Community in Enugu East Local Government Area have benefitted from food palliative distributed by the Nigerian Army on Saturday. The palliatives More...
Court Rejects Ex-Kaduna Governor Request For Return Of International Passport
News Investigators/ A Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna, presided over by Justice Z.B Abubakar has rejected an application made by the former Governor of Kaduna State, Ramalan Yero, seeking a return of his International More...
Flags Fly At Half-Mast In Ondo After Health Commissioner Dies Of Covid-19
News Investigators/ Ondo State Commissioner for Health, Wahab Adegbenro, has died of Covid-19 complications on Thursday at the Federal Medical Centre in Owo, Ondo State. Flags are flying at half-mast in honour More...
Abuja National Hospital Treats 50,000 Patients In 6 Months – CMD
News Investigators/ Chief Medical Director (CMD), National Hospital, Abuja, Jeff Momoh, says the hospital attended to no fewer than 50,000 patients for routine care in the past six months. Mr. Momoh, a medical More...
Court Adjourns Retrial Proceeding Against Ex-Gov Babangida Aliyu
News Investigators/ Justice A.B Aliyu of the Federal High Court, Minna, Niger State on Wednesday, adjourned hearing till October 13, 2020 on a motion filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC More...
Ignore Favour-Seeking Notes From Aides, Senators, Others, Buhari Warns MDAs
News Investigators/ President Muhammadu Buhari has again, warned Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to disregard any purported request from government officials aimed at conferring undue advantage on anyone More...
Take Advantage Of Free Covid-19 Test, Lagos Govt Urges Residents
News Investigators/ The Lagos State Government has reiterated that COVID-19 testing for residents of the state was free of charge, urging them to take advantage of it. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, More...
