A Federal High court in Akure has ordered the Nigerian Police to pay a sum of N10m to the former Special Adviser to former President Goodluck...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of state governments are hampering access to telecommunications in the country. Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder...
Candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun and Ondo states have scheduled a meeting for the weekend to discuss their fate. This followed their...
No less than three members of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) have denied endorsing the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar,...
GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the Chief Cyril Ogodo led faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, Prof Patrick Utomi, has described the recent peace...
WHEN the Governor Abiola Ajimobi led administration mooted the idea of making religious and worship centres in Oyo State pay mandatory security levies, many people took...
The All Progressives Congress is worried by the decision of some aggrieved members, including the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibukunle Amosun, and his Imo State counterpart,...
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Thursday, said it has so far generated N1.1tn revenue and seized contraband goods worth more than N40bn between January and November,...
Men of the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a man who belongs to a local vigilante group and one other suspect over the shooting to...
The Federal Government and petroleum marketers have finally reached an agreement on how outstanding subsidy claims would be settled by government. The oil marketers and representatives...
The gains recorded on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) were reversed on Thursday as sell-offs resumed. The market capitalisation of equities listed...
US President Donald Trump has moved to replace outgoing American ambassador of the United Nations, Nikki Haley who will be stepping down from her role before...
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared his readiness to sign the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill into law once the bill was presented to him. The president made...
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) may find it hard convincing Nigeria to accept a crude oil production cut, as the Minister of State for...
Authorities in France have moved to close the Eifel Tower and the Louvre following the recent wave of violent protests over the increase in diesel tax....
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has appointed new commanders for Operation Lafiya Dole, the military task force in the North-East. The Director of...
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja said he respects the feelings of Nigerians. Receiving letter of credence from the Ambassador of Finland to Nigeria, Jyrki Juhani...
The National Assembly leadership has told protesting staff that their mode of protest, which saw them picket the assembly, is against the law. Abdulrazak Namdas, spokesman...
The Lagos chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says Wale Oluwo, ex-commissioner for energy and mineral resources in the state, who defected recently from the...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) says it is examining the farmers-herders crisis in Nigeria to determine whether associated crimes fall within its jurisdiction. Fatou Bensouda, lead...
A Kano High Court has barred the state house of assembly from inviting or investigating Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of the state, over any alleged criminal case....
Nineteen out of the twenty-seven lawmakers of the Imo State House of Assembly have joined Action Alliance (AA). The lawmakers denounced their memberships of the All...
A Federal High Court in Awka, the Anambra state capital has sacked Mr Emeka Ibe as chairman of the All Progressives Congress congress in the state....
Nigeria’s former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, on Thursday said those above 70 years should leave the political stage for the younger ones. Both incumbent...
The clamour for a society which respects the fundamental human rights of its citizens cannot be achieved, if persons living with disabilities are still suffering violent...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has assured stakeholders in the oil and gas sector that the National Assembly will ensure that all...
Nigeria’s Federal Government has said it was looking to completing the second Niger Bridge project by 2022. This was as it revealed that a total amount...
Nigeria’s lower federal legislative chamber, the House of Representatives on Thursday approved June 12 as a day to be marked as Democracy Day in the country....
Coming behind war rattled Iraq and Afghanistan, the 2018 Global Terrorism index (GTI) has ranked Nigeria as the third country, most impacted by strife globally. Nigeria...
A search team is now on the look out for five U.S Marine officers who have been declared missing after two Marine Corps aircrafts collided in...
Aisha Buhari, the wife of the President has disclaimed any association between her and an alleged impersonator, Justina Oluoha also known as Amina Villa. Ms Oluoha...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has said that the country’s Exchange Traded Products, ETPs, recorded cumulative average growth rate of 8 percent over the last four...
The chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei has been arrested in Canada. Canada’s Department of Justice said Wednesday (local time) that Meng Wanzhou, 46,...
The faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) backed by Ogun East senator, Buruji Kashamu, remains recognised as the authentic leadership of PDP in Ogun State....
Sell pressure occassioned by the fast approaching yelutide celebrations and the 2019 general elections caused the net worth of investors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE,...
By Joseph Edgar…. Let me touch the tiger’s tail. You know I have murdered sleep. I can’t sleep anymore. May be I should try the anaesthetic...
Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha has said that the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole needs to advise on how to talk...
A primary school teacher identified as Ebenezer Adeyeye will remain in prison custody pending more findings over his alleged rape of a five-year-old pupil. The detention...
President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Paul Usoro (SAN ), has been accused of committing N1.4 billion fraud and dragged to court. The Economic and...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the use of a new technology, TV White Space in a bid to extend broadband internet coverage, especially to...
A scathing resolution to hold Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman accountable for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been launched by six top US...
If delegates to Thursday’s meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have their way, Nigeria and Libya would join in proposed crude oil production...
The Federal Government has made the National Identification Number (NIN) compulsory for all workers under the Contributory Pension Scheme. According to a circular from the National...
Senate President Bukola Saraki has warned President Muhammadu Buhari against heeding the advice of those he branded as anti-democratic elements who are putting pressure on him...
The Spokesman for the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation, Festus Keyamo (SAN), has criticised the adoption by 45 political parties of the presidential candidate of the Peoples...
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje, have hailed the resignation and defection of the Commissioner for...
Ibrahim Idris, Inspector-General of Police (IGP), has spoken against the senate confirming the appointment of an IGP. Idris said this while demanding that the senate expunge...
By Churchill Okonkwo… On the weekend that Fr. Mbaka was shamelessly trying to extort money by harassing and blackmailing Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, you, Bishop...
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has asked Nigerians to return the opposition pary to power. He claimed that the best years...
The members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) are set to join their academic counterparts of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in...
