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Investigations into these cases are still pending, and no arrests have been made in the past months.

“You know, when I first asked and said that PREMIUM TIMES said you are the same person, he said, 'Yeah,...

The police say attack lasted about seven hours.

The police said the victims were targeted “through sophisticated online relationships used to defraud them of their money.”

Nigerian parliament said the decision was not intended to undermine the existing diplomatic relations between Nigeria and South Africa, but...

Police said they also rescued four children, aged two, three, six and nine years from the suspect.

The latest development follow a separate arrest of seven child-stealing suspects across Oyo, Ogun states.

The health ministry noted that at full capacity, the facility is expected to produce about 10 million nets annually and...

The equipment is part of a foreign military sales agreement that furthers the US-Nigerian partnership..."

The US was the only country that voted against a recent Africa-sponsored resolution at the UN.

The committee said it would scrutinise relevant records, including the basis of the outstanding liabilities, the period covered, payments already...

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that suspected political thugs disrupted Mr Obi's visit to Benue State on Tuesday after they blocked...

A Wednesday statement by army spokesperson Appolonia Anele said the deployments were approved by the Chief of Army Staff, Waidi...

An online campaign defending cutting, which is still legal in Mali, recasts the practice as a means of protecting girls.

“Many people did not farm rice this year because of what happened last year. And what happened has started happening...

The soldier whose identity was not disclosed sustained gunshot injury to his left arm, and was being treated, according to...

The incident is the second reported disruption of Mr Obi’s visit to the state after Governor Hyacinth Alia stopped one...

Early momentum is real, but AU member states, private capital and wary US investors have yet to be brought on...

The commissioner of police said seven suspects have been arrested in a coordinated operations across Oyo, Ogun, and Delta States.

The exercise aims to help Nigerians obtain new passports, renew existing ones, and resolve pending passport applications.

Nasir El-Rufai’s lawyers said the ₦10 billion demand was a proposed settlement, not damages awarded or agreed by a court.

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man and owner of the 700,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) plant, led the sign-off ceremony in Lagos on...

 The police said the arrest of the new suspect, Kosisochukwu Ibekwe, 26, exonerated the landlord of the deceased, earlier interrogated...

Laudable for its attempt at improving the transparency around public finances, the finance ministry’s accounting, sadly, fails to balance a...

Mr Koroma fled to Nigeria in January 2024 after a high court in Sierra Leone allowed him to travel on...