Sahara Reporters

The Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is deepening in crisis, following protests in the Irepodun Local Government Area over allegations of manipulation and imposition of party executives. Aggrieved party members staged a protest on Sunday at the Irepodun Local Government Secretariat, accusing the state leadership of altering ward and local government […]

The crisis around political appointments in Rivers State deepened on Monday as the state House of Assembly rejected four out of the nine commissioner-nominees submitted by Governor Siminalayi Fubara for screening and confirmation.  The lawmakers, however, approved five nominees for appointment into the State Executive Council after subjecting them to a screening exercise that lasted

Troops of the Chief of Army Staff Special Intervention Battalion 7 and the 8 Division Strike Team have carried out an operation against suspected terrorists in Kadam Forest in Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The troops were operating under the Joint Task Force North West Operation FANSAN YAMMA during the operation. According to

Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has defected from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in a dramatic political development that has further deepened the crisis rocking Nigeria’s political opposition. SaharaReporters gathered on Monday that the governor dumped the PDP alongside his deputy, Mani Malam Mummuni, and several

An extensive report has exposed a web of “bastardisation of TETFund interventions, academic fraud, administrative malfeasance, and abuse of office” at the Federal College of Education (FCE), Eha-Amufu, Enugu State.    The allegations centre on the Provost, Dr. (Mrs.) Pauline Ngozi Ikwuegbu, who is accused of converting the institution into a personal estate characterized by

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has condemned the alleged assault of a lecturer from the University of Ibadan at a train station in Ibadan, announcing that an investigation has been ordered into the incident. In a press release issued in Lagos on Monday, the railway authority said it had taken note of media reports concerning

A yet-to-be-ascertained number of persons, including soldiers, were killed on Sunday by suspected Boko Haram militants in Borno State. SaharaReporters learnt that a military base in Kukuwa town came under a highly coordinated attack on Sunday.

Human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has asked the new Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu, to investigate the alleged organ-harvesting ring linked to officers of the Nigeria Police Force in Anambra State and to immediately halt the “sham prosecution” of a whistleblower, Nnamdi Emeh, who is currently in prison after exposing the