No fewer than 19 people were massacred by bandits in two separate attacks in Kaduna on Saturday.

The Senate yesterday ruled out the possibility of being influenced to screen and confirm the immediate past service chiefs as non-career ambassadors.

The crisis rocking the Oyo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took another dimension on Saturday night as the governor of the state, Seyi Makinde, left the official WhatsApp platform of the party in the state.

South-West states including Ekiti, Ondo and Osun on Sunday said they had deployed Western Nigeria Security Network, Amotekun corps, in their forests and boundaries to check killer herdsmen

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari, to address Nigerians and make it known publicly that he does not support the criminal activities of some herdsmen in parts of the country.

Senior lawyer, Ndieonyema Nwankwo was found dead in his Owerri office on Sunday, a victim of a gruesome murder.

Marketers have said with the current realities in the global crude oil markets, the price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) in Nigeria should be between N185 and N200 per litre, unless the government wants to subsidise the product.

The National Assembly has reassured that it will submit the Electoral Act Amendment Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent before the end of February.

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi on Sunday said the Kano-Maradi (Niger Republic) rail project will cost the Nigerian government $1.9bn.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the World Bank President Mr. David Malpass “to exercise the Bank’s prerogative to release archival records and documents relating to spending on all approved funds

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has described the Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, as an idle governor.

A United States of America-based Nigerian has reportedly escaped from kidnappers’ den after turning the heat against one of his captors and beating him to a pulp.

The Ekiti State Ministry of Justice has dragged the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to court over the dismissal of a policewoman resident in the state, Omolola Olajide, for being pregnant out of wedlock.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as the winner of the just concluded re -run election for the Magama Rijau federal constituency of Niger State.