Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has signed an executive bill empowering the state’s transport ministry to impound vehicles and impose a N50,000 fine on travellers who...
The House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation Friday cautioned Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) against tampering with the 2020 Appropriation Act. The Chairman of the committee,...
The Osun House of Assembly on Friday passed an amendment bill which will prevent councillors in local councils in the state from impeaching their chairmen. The...
The Cross River State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Betta Edu, said on Friday the sample of a suspected COVID-19 case in the state had been sent...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s handling of COVID-19 issues as an “unpardonable manifestation of leadership failure.” The opposition party was responding...
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged government officials and other Nigerians not to pay him the usual Sallah homages. Government officials, political leaders and other Nigerians usually...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has once again called on President Muhammadu Buhari to respect the rule of law and constitutionalism of the country,...
The senator, who represented Kaduna North in the 8th Senate, Suleiman Hunkuyi has appealed his suspension by the Kaduna State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party...
A Pakistan plane Airbus A320 carrying nearly 100 people en route from Lahore has crashed in a residential area near the airport in the ever busy...
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has denied being engaged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prosecute Senator Godswill...
A family court in Akure, the Ondo State capital has ordered an Islamic cleric, Alhaji Yusuf Lateef to stay away from a 16-year-old secondary School student...
The federal government of Nigeria is making moves to reopen the economy which has been on lockdown for over a month due to the outbreak of...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Friday said it had dismantled a clandestine laboratory, where hashish oil, a derivative from Cannabis sativa, was produced...
Nigeria’s capacity for rapid and increased testing for COVID-19 may receive a boost soon as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has successfully validated the...
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State met practically deserted local government secretariats when he visited secretariats of six local government areas on Thursday. The chairmen and...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Netflix to deactivate old, unused accounts Popular video on-demand platform...
Naira traded at N460 to the U.S. dollar on the parallel market Thursday, having stayed at the same rate of exchange for two days without budging,...
Contractors yet to be paid the N17 billion balance of the jobs awarded them by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in 2018 are...
The Katsina State Government on Thursday said 51 COVID-19 patients have so far been discharged in the state while 13 others have died in connection with...
Ex- governors, their deputies and ex- speakers in Imo State have been stripped of receiving pensions and other entitlements after the state House of assembly on...
The government of Edo said the number of persons to have died as a result of COVID-19 in the state had risen to six. The state...
Oil prices weakened early Friday following China’s refusal to perfect an economic growth plan for this year, stoking fears that the impact of the coronavirus pandemic,...
A young housewife in Bauchi, 18-year-old Salma Hassan of Itsas Gadau in Bauchi State has been arrested for allegedly killing her husband, Mohammed Mustapha, 11 days...
Brazil is fast approaching Russia to become the world’s second COVID-19 hot spot, behind the United States, with 20,000 deaths and more than 310,000 infections recorded...
The opposition party in Burundi, National Freedom Council (CNL) has lamented the arrest of no fewer than 200 members of its party during Wednesday’s general elections...
The Federal Government on Thursday said speculations in some quarters that schools nationwide would reopen in two weeks time were not true. The Minister of State...
A former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has again engaged in a hot exchange with The Church of Satan on Twitter which has since gone viral...
Nigerian government’s earnings from oil and gas sector dwindled by N125.52 billion in the first quarter of this year as oil receipts came in trickles into...
The Imo State Police Command has arrested a serving soldier, and an army deserter amongst others for the killing of a 22-year-old undergraduate, Micah Isiah, after...
The order by many governors in the country for worship centres to reopen has been frowned at by the Federal Government. It said the order by...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Friday morning. 1. FG to dispatch experts to engage Kogi govt on COVID-19 The Minister of...
The Kano State government led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has arrested no fewer than 45 vehicles inbound from other states for allegedly defying the lockdown order...
Oil marketers in Nigeria are ramping up the campaign for full liberalisation of the downstream segment of the oil and gas industry as Africa’s biggest oil...
The Federal Government on Thursday said it would prosecute Nigerian citizens who fail to pay tax on their properties in foreign countries. The Attorney-General of the...
Kaduna State recorded 18 more cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, of which 10 were members of the same family. This was announced by Governor Nasir El-Rufai...
Allies of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State have called on a former National Chairman of the party, Chief John...
The Kaduna State Police Command Thursday confirmed the arrest of suspected killers of peasant farmers during the recent attacks on communities in Kajuru local government area...
The primacy of the media in any society is indubitable. The media is the iron curtain between tyranny and democracy. It is the bastion of the...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday night confirmed 339 new COVID-19 cases in the country. In the daily update on the pandemic situation in...
The Chairman of Maradun local government area of Zamfara State, Alhaji Ahmad Abubakar and his deputy, Alhaji Shehu Muhammad Faru have been impeached by councillors in...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has arrested 14 Togolese and 10 Nigerians at Ajilete and Ilase border posts in Ogun State. The Comptroller, Ogun State Command...
The Federal Government said on Thursday the first and second batches of Nigerians evacuated from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United Kingdom had completed...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Thursday, charged state governments to intensify sample collection and testing for COVID-19....
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, said on Thursday the Federal Government would dispatch a ministerial team of experts to engage the Kogi State government on...
Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare has extended the hand of support to the mother of late Captain of the Flying Eagles, Ali Jeje Ibrahim....
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Thursday rescheduled its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting slated for next week due to the public holidays declared by the...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said on Thursday that 13 more COVID-19 patients had been discharged from various isolation facilities in the state. The governor, who...
The Ekiti State government said on Thursday a 75-year-old woman had died from complications arising from COVID-19. The government said on its Twitter handle that the...
The Federal Government Thursday appealed to traders and transport operators not to hike prices of food items and transportation fares following the outbreak of COVID-19 in...
Buy pressure in blue-chip stocks lifted the market higher Thursday as market capitalisation expanded by N159.553 billion The Insurance Index posted the biggest sectorial gain, going...
