The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari be probed for allegedly diverting funds meant for the military to pursue his presidential ambition....
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has removed the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi. Also removed by the IGP were the three Deputy...
Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown that the manufacturing sector made the highest contribution to the Value Added Tax (VAT) generated...
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has assured of victory for President Muhammadu Buhari in the state. The governor who has been at loggerheads with the...
Authorities in Somalia have ordered a UN envoy to leave the country immediately for interfering with its national sovereignty. The order given to Nicholas Haysom, the...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has assured of the victory of his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari who is the presidential candidate of the...
A coalition of civil society organisations has raised worries over the travail of Abuja-based activist, Deji Adeyanju who is being remanded in the Kano Central Prison....
Daily production of crude oil by Nigeria increased by 9 percent in 2018 to 2.09 million barrels compared to the 1.86 million barrels daily production in...
The umbrella body of legal practitioners in the country, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has lamented the disrespect for the rule of law under the present...
UK-based Privacy International revealed on Sunday to the 35th Chaos Communication Congress a glimpse of the extent to which app developers are handing data to Facebook,...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said none of the country’s refineries has undergone Turn Around Maintainance (TAM) in 42 years. The Group Managing Director,...
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) may have split over support for court-declared presidential candidate, Professor Jerry Gana, and the supposed winner of the party’s national convention...
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has hit the ground running following his appointment as co-chairman of the All Progressives Congress...
As 2018 maritime year comes to an end, sector stakeholders and operators have indicated that regulatory and operational environment worsened during the year gone by. They...
DESPITE its 202 trillion standard cubic feet, scf, gas reserves, Nigeria has not been able to harness enough of its gas for power generation, as a...
Officials of the Nigerian Prisons Service attached to the Ikoyi Prison in Lagos have arrested members of a three-man drug syndicate for attempting to sell marijuana...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ahead of its Friday’s meeting with the Independent National Electoral Commission, has said that its ongoing seven-week strike is in...
State governors in the country may find themselves at the receiving end of workers’ wrath over their insistence on not paying N30,000 as the new minimum...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has blamed members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) within and outside the government for the many security challenges faced...
Documents from the Debt Management Office (DMO) showed that the Federal Government spent a whopping N2.21 trillion to service domestic debts in the first nine months...
There is palpable tension in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after the country’s ruling coalition and opposition both claimed victory in the just concluded election...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the new year message delivered to Nigerians by President Muhammadu Buhari on the last day of 2018. The...
The total number of member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been reduced by two after the official withdrawal of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, says has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to adopt the peaceful approach of former president Goodluck Jonathan who...
The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), on Tuesday expressed its worry over the spate of banditry in Zamfara State and the resurgence of Boko Haram in parts...
Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari has reversed her threat that she was unlikely going to campaign for the reelection President Muhammadu Buhari. She had criticised...
Samuel Ortom, Benue State governor, says his administration has performed well. The governor also revealed that he joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because it was...
Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says Nigeria has made progress under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari. The former Lagos governor...
Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central, has urged geo-political zones that have been promised power in 2023 to demand a written agreement. The senator said...
A member of House of Representatives, Mr Kinsley Chinda who led 71 other lawmakers to sponsor a bill to revert the county to parliamentary system says...
As attacks on Borno State by Boko Haram continue, the state Governor, Kashim Shettima, has expressed his wish not to hand over a state ravaged by...
Few weeks before the 2019 general elections, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), John Gbor, has advised Nigerians to ignore the call...
Roger Federer’s Switzerland beat Serena Williams’ USA as the two tennis greats met on court for the first time at the Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia....
Dapo Abiodun, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun state seems to be deepening the controversies surrounding his certificate submitted to the...
The Nigerian Army has expressed frustration in its fight against Boko Haram, saying on Monday that some persons have politicised efforts of the government to keep...
A NASA spacecraft has gone into orbit around an ancient asteroid, setting a pair of records. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft entered orbit Monday around the asteroid Bennu,...
Nigerians from across different social strata, who expressed expectations and apprehension for the New Year to The Guardian, said ensuring a credible general election and security...
The Federal Government has set aside N2 billion to compensate those dislodged on the Right of Way (RoW) of the Second Niger Bridge, The Nation has...
Despite the upcoming general elections in the country, some chief executive officers (CEOs) have predicted that the Nigerian economy will perform better in 2019 than last...
Over 10,000 contract staff on the employment of international oil companies (IOCs) and local crude producers will not be confirmed in 2019, New Telegraph has learnt....
Controversial Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh has admitted that most people live their lives on social media, including her. According to the mother of one who penned...
Nigerian workers have been asked to be ready for a prolonged strike action in the new year by organized labour over the failure of government to...
LEADERS of Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, an umbrella body of traditional rulers, leaders and stakeholders of states of Niger Delta were in a dilemma, yesterday, over...
THE execution of Nigeria’s 2019 budget will likely encounter a serious threat as the price of Bonny Light, the nation’s premium oil grade, yesterday, hovered at...
Some residents of Baga, who fled from Boko Haram attacks to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Monday, narrated their ordeals to The PUNCH. The residents,...
The Federal Government budgeted N1,001,318,171 for President Muhammadu Buhari’s local and international travels in the proposed 2019 budget. The budget proposes N250,021,595 for the President’s local...
An Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Modakeke has sentenced a 40-year-old man to three years in prison for raping an 80-year-old woman. Arraigned on two...
Embattled French leader Emmanuel Macron has pledged that his government is willing to do better in his highly-anticipated New Year’s Eve address. Macron made the pledge...
A package of bills that would re-open the federal government without approving money for President Donald Trump’s border wall is set to be introduced by US...
The hope of Nigerian workers to have a new minimum wage of N30,000 may be hanging in the balance as the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, has...
