The coalition of Niger Delta militants which issued an October 1 quit notice to Yorubas and northerners living the region, Friday withdrew the notice. The Pan...
Analysts expect Nigeria’s inflation rate to decline further when the August 2017 report is released, making it the seventh consecutive month that the country will witness...
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has called for the total restructuring of the country, noting that moves to split the country were already too late to...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigerians must see themselves as a people of shared heritage, like one big family that cannot be broken. Buhari made these...
Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has been asked by Muslims in the state to work towards ensuring that his successor in the 2018 governorship election...
Boko Haram terrorist group reportedly killed eleven people and wounded two on Friday at a camp for internally displaced persons situated in Banki, bordering Cameroon. The...
Nigerian star, Kechi Okwuchi, has reached the semi-final of the hit reality show, America’s Got Talent. She was voted into the next stage after a stunning...
United States authorities are investigating China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation known as Sinopec over an alleged $100 million bribe paid to some Nigerian officials. Bloomberg is...
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, on Wednesday reiterated the commission’s position that the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU)...
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has said that would heavily sanction broadcast stations that engage in or facilitate hate speech especially as the build-up to the...
The death toll involving Nigerian pilgrims performing the ongoing Hajj exercise in Saudi Arabia has risen from five to seven, officials have revealed. The Chairman of...
The Nigerian Army said on Thursday it had killed a number of top Boko Haram commanders and many of their foot soldiers in the counter-insurgency operation...
A Nigerian youth group, Youths For Change NG, has called on the government and the media to hold former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, to account for...
In response to the devastating flood in Benue State that has so far led to the displacement of more than one hundred thousand people in twelve...
Ahmed Makarfi, Chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has enjoined party members to be guided by the knowledge that power came from...
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, while swearing in new commissioners on Wednesday, lamented the state’s high indebtedness, noting that the economic situation was dire. Akeredolu said...
The Association of Resident Doctors on Wednesday stated its readiness to embark on an indefinite strike on Monday, September 4, 2017, over alleged failed promises by...
Unknown gunmen, suspected to be militants, have reportedly killed four soldiers and a civilian in Bayelsa State. The suspects were said to have laid an ambush...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that the ‘ineffective’ and ‘selective’ fight against corruption by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was also indicative of corruption....
As it marked International Day of the Disappeared, Amnesty International revealed that hundreds of people are being held in secret detention facilities in Nigeria. The group...
The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has expressed his shock over President Muhammadu Buhari’s reported expression of satisfaction on the state of the economy, stating...
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has observed that with the way the war against corruption was being prosecuted, it...
As the lingering heated dispute between the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, and Senator Isah Misau continues, the Police Service Commission (PSC) has invited...
The South-East governors who met Wednesday with Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) said dialogue and not confrontation was the only way...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) Wednesday approved the construction of Mambilla Hydro-Electric Power plant at the sum of 5.792 billion dollars. This was disclosed following the...
Nigeria’s apex capital market regulator, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) have granted pre-merger approvals to the world’s largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch...
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has said the reported rift between him and the Acting Chairman of the...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Tuesday said the Federal Government could not arrest issuers of the quit notice...
The Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Lai Mohammed, said on Tuesday that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was already restructuring the country based on its understanding...
Some Igbo leaders under the aegis of Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF), Monday dragged Arewa youths and their alleged sponsors, including officials of governments in the Northern...
A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Adamu Kamale, alleged on Monday that the Nigerian military often fed President Muhammadu Buhari with the wrong information...
The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are scheduled to meet Tuesday in another round of negotiations on how to resolve issues...
Senator Stella Oduah, one of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirants in Anambra, said she made good on her threat to withdraw from the party’s...
The Pentagon has notified the U.S. Congress of the decision to sell to Nigeria, 12 Super Tucano A-29 planes and weapons worth $593 million, needed for...
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Sen. Ita Enang, has stated that the Federal Government’s directive to check hate speech...
Nigerian equities reopened on Monday with a resurgent sell pressure shaving off N113 billion from market values of quoted companies. With more than three decliners to...
Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has disagreed with the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, over claims of...
An eight-member Congressional delegation from the United States is due in Nigeria Monday and will remain until Thursday. During their stay, they will assess the destruction...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said Monday that the present administration had contacted the United States government to increase its assistance in ensuring that corrupt officials did...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has, in continuation of its naira intervention policy, injected $250m into the interbank foreign exchange market. Isaac Okorafor, Acting Director,...
One of the Big Four consulting firms, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), has in a recent report laid out the external debt-associated risk to the devaluation of the naira....
The Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, on Sunday echoed the criticism of the Federal Government by Ohanaeze Ndigbo over the planned re-arrest of the leader of the...
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) on Sunday condemned Ohanaeze Ndigbo for criticising the Federal Government’s plan to re-arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra...
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has criticized what it described as President Muhammadu Buhari’s double standards and ill-handling of agitations by the Indigenous People of...
The Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has advised the Federal Government against the use of force in...
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has entered into collaboration with the European Union and Germany on a €24.5m energy efficiency project, even as it has...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Sunday announced that scammers were behind about 98 per cent of all documents involved in the marketing of crude...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said he was willing to place his life on the line in order to prevent an All Progressives Congress (APC)...
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, Sunday said anyone who attempted to arrest him would die. He made this threat in...
Reacting to claims that President Muhammadu Buhari had been hijacked by a cabal and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo sidelined as a result of the undue influence,...