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Cameroon 1-0 Nigeria: Indomitable Lionesses edge Super Falcons in WAFCON warm-up clash

Nigeria, March 1 -- Cameroon's Indomitable Lionesses struck at the death to hand Nigeria's Super Falcons a 1-0 defeat in the first of their two scheduled international friendly matches in Yaounde on S... Read More


85 Iranian schoolgirls now reported dead in US/Israeli missile attack

Nigeria, March 1 -- The death toll from a US and Israeli strike on an Iranian girls' elementary school has now risen to 85, according to local media. Al Jazeera quotes a report by Iran's semiofficial... Read More


Nigeria calls for restraint, dialogue as US/Israel war with Iran continues

Nigeria, March 1 -- The Nigerian government has called for restraint and a return to negotiation as US and Israel continue their war with Iran. In a statement on Saturday night, the Ministry of Forei... Read More


Gospel singer Taiwo Adegbodu is dead

Nigeria, March 1 -- Nigerian gospel singer Taiwo Adegbodu has died. He's one half of the celebrated gospel music duo, the Adegbodu Twins. News of his death broke on Sunday morning and was confirmed ... Read More


Islamism and jihadi terrorism in Northern Nigeria, By Majeed Dahiru

Nigeria, March 1 -- For a region that has been plagued by terror groups ranging from the Mai Taisine riotous sect in the 1980s to Boko Haram insurgents in the 2000s, the emergence of a new Islamist gr... Read More


201 people killed, 747 injured as US/Israel war on Iran continues

Nigeria, March 1 -- At least 201 people have been killed in US and Israeli strikes on Iran, Iran's Red Crescent Society has said. The Red Crescent, a health organisation similar to the Red Cross, dis... Read More


Court sentences native doctor to 12 years imprisonment

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- A State High Court in Awka, Anambra State, has sentenced a popular native doctor in the state, Chukwudozie Nwangwu, to 12 years imprisonment. Mr Nwangwu, popularly known as "Akwa ... Read More


The anatomy of a woman: A letter to my son, By Osmund Agbo

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- Dear Son, In a few short weeks, you will turn eighteen. The law will call you a man. The world will test whether you are one. I still remember the first time I held you. You were... Read More


While Arewa is bleeding, its leaders are fighting, By Kadaria Ahmed

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- Let us start with what we know. Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna State, former FCT minister under President Olusegun Obasanjo, and one-time director-general of the... Read More


CCB summons Federal High Court Chief Judge Tsoho over undeclared accounts

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- Nigeria's Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has summoned the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, John Tsoho, following a PREMIUM TIMES investigation that revealed he failed to declar... Read More