Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has announced the immediate dissolution of the State’s Pensions Board, directing the State Accountant General’s office to temporarily assume its functions until a new board is constituted. The directive was contained in a Government Special Announcement issued in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Friday by the State Head […]

Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed a suspected arms courier who was ferrying assault rifles into a Kwara State community and recovered a large cache of weapons hidden inside a sack of charcoal. According to a military statement obtained by SaharaReporters, the operation was carried out by troops of 22 Armoured Brigade under Operation

Residents of Ikota and parts of Lekki on the Lagos Island have cried out in frustration after Tuesday’s downpour turned their neighbourhoods into flood zones, leaving homes, shops, and entire streets swallowed by water. Videos and pictures seen by SaharaReporters showed residents wading through knee-deep water, salvaging personal belongings while businesses were destroyed. “This is

The absence of Justice Ademuyiwa Oyeyipo of the High Court of Justice of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Jabi, has stalled the hearing of the criminal case brought by the Inspector-General of Police against one Shitta Waliu Aderibigbe and a Lagos-based travel agency, Fanzine Educational Consult. The IGP, on behalf of a United Kingdom-based

The Osun State chapter of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) has called for the immediate removal of the Attorney-General of the Federation, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and the Accountant General of the Federation, accusing them of conspiring to divert public funds to pay sacked Osun local government chairmen and councillors. In

President Bola Tinubu on Friday called on the family of late former Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, to uphold the values that defined him as an exceptional Nigerian statesman. Tinubu, who was represented by Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, spoke during Ogbeh’s burial in Otukpa, Ogbadibo Local Government