The new President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Abubakar Mahmud (SAN), formally took office yesterday with a call for the reform of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Read More…

No fewer than five names are being pushed for the vacant ministerial slot  for Kogi State, following the death of Minister of State for Labour James Ocholi. Read More…

The senator representing Anambra North Senatorial District in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Stella Oduah, on Friday lost her son, whose name had yet to be known as of the time of filing this report. Read More…

Several senior and mid-level police officers have provided SaharaReporters with a list of grave acts of corruption allegedly committed by Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris. Read More…

The Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, today, accepted that former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, ‎should head the pan Niger Delta group that will dialogue with the Federal Government. Read More…

Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka said yesterday he has been responding to overtures from militant groups. Read More…

Yet-to-be-identified gunmen have killed and set ablaze two persons in Imo State Polytechnic, Uwuagwo,  in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government  Area of the state (formerly, Michael  Okpara  College  of Agriculture). Read More…

A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Charles Soludo, has said that the current slide in oil price was an opportunity for the nation to explore other vital sectors of the economy. Read More…

The police in Bayelsa State were, on Wednesday, embroiled in a case of alleged extra-judicial killing of a 17-year-old Ijaw youth, Master Innocent Kokorifa. Read More…

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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday labelled the Federal Government as too overbearing, with too many powers and resources at its disposal. Read More…

A  former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Henry Okah, on Wednesday asked a South African court to overturn his imprisonment over series of terror attacks in Nigeria. Read More…

During a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, Mr. Kerry discussed Nigeria’s ongoing anti-corruption efforts as well as regional and religious violence in the north and south. Read More…

SaharaReporters reliably learned that the governor and his convoy were returning from the meeting of the Niger Delta Coastal States in Warri, jointly convened by former Information Minister Edwin Clark and Mr. Okowa, at around 5-6 PM when the accident happened in Umutu community. Read More…

A brother to the Cross Rivers State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The relation, Dr. Francis Ayade was arrested on Tuesday in connection with an alleged N2.4billion contract scam. Read More…

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A wife of local government chairmanship candidate under the platform of All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming Saturday October 8 election in Ogun State, Mrs. Kudirat Balogun, has been kidnapped at the family home at gunpoint. Read More…

Troops of 33 Brigade, Nigerian Army, have killed three armed kidnappers and destroyed their camps in Bauchi State. Read More…

No fewer than eight persons were killed on Monday in Talata-Mafara community in Zamfara State  after violence erupted over alleged blasphemy against Islam by a student of Abdu Gusau Polytechnic, Talata-Mafara. Read More…

A detachment of heavily armed policemen, on Monday, barred members of the Bring Back Our Girls group (BBOG) from entering the Presidential Villa, Abuja, during a march to renew their call on the Federal Government to safely rescue the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in 2014.   Read More…

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has congratulated the U23 National Team for winning bronze at this year’s Men’s Olympic Football Tournament in Brazil, after edging Honduras 3-2 in Belo Horizonte on Saturday. Read More…