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The lawmaker representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, has been granted bail by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday. Ndume has been in prison detention since Monday for failing to produce Abdulrasheed Maina believed to have jumped bail.…

The National Democratic Front (NDF) has welcomed the United Kingdom's parliament's intervention on the EndSARS protests in Nigeria, describing it as confirmation of the Nigerian Army's progress under Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Tukur…

Football legend Diego Maradona was buried on Thursday in a private ceremony attended by only 20 people but tens of thousands of weeping fans filed past his coffin for hours earlier in the day in an observance that mixed head-of-state-like…

PRESIDENT Buhari on Monday said the Federal Government proposed in the 2020 Finance Bill to exempt minimum wage earners. The President noted that the decision was part of the move to reduce the…

United States President-elect Joe Biden has been formally given the go-ahead by a federal agency to begin his transition to the presidency, shortly after the battleground state of Michigan certified him as the winner there. With the…

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, on Monday said Nigerians should rather be proud that the Federal Government was set to resume the importation of petroleum products from neighbouring Niger Republic, instead of…

THE Federal Government has formally petitioned CNN over the airing of its investigative report on the Lekki toll gate shooting of EndSARS protesters titled ‘How a Bloody Night of Bullets Quashed a Young Protest Movement.’ The report was…

THE Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said a total of 138 members of the National Youth Service Corps have tested positive for Covid-19. The NDDC Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this today in Abuja, while briefing the…

Three warrants of arrest for different rape cases have been issued for self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri, who fled South Africa earlier this month. TheNigerian can confirm that the three warrants were issued on 19 November by the…

Gunmen on Monday invaded the staff quarters of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in Kaduna State and abducted staff of the university. The incident took place around 1:00 pm. A lecturer of the university, his wife and daughter were…