The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has issued six new power generation licenses to investors willing to invest in the nation’s power sector. According to the...
Current underpricing of fares could make local routes some of the cheapest in the world with the affected airlines having one of the least chances of...
In what appears to be an emerging battle for the control of Lagos State, the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has...
The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports, Mr Olusade Adesola, says the entire budget of the ministry is not sufficient enough to...
For the umpteenth time, the controversy surrounding the use of hijab (head scarf) by Muslim female students as part of their school uniforms, last week reared...
The multi-million dollars local gas cylinder manufacturing sub-sector in Nigeria is facing the rocks, threatening geometric growth recorded in the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) also known...
Mixed reactions on Monday trailed the Sunday inauguration of the campaign documents of President Muhammadu Buhari and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji...
Professor Wole Soyinka has taken a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari over his disregard for court orders. The Nobel Laureate, who described the action of the...
In a bid to rebalance the ratio between local and foreign debts, the Federal Government has said it plans to increase borrowing from foreign sources in...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has said that the nation’s federally collected revenue for the third quarter of this year rose by 8.9 per cent...
Fire broke out in the ICT department of the Abuja office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), with two officials escaping death while equipment...
National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday mocked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, over...
The Governors of South East states have resolved to discuss ways of ensuring the speedy completion of the Second Nigeria Bridge and the state of the...
The Presidency has tried to explain why the nation’s service chiefs showed up at a political event meant to kick start campaigns for President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
Three men suspected of planning a terrorist attack in the city of Melbourne, Australia have been arrested by local police. According to police officials, the three...
A prosecution witness, Damola Otuyena, has given details of how a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro ferried N1.2 billion in cash to the...
The police in Chicago are now seeking the motive of a gunman who opened fire at a police officer before gunning down two other victims at...
Federal High Court Abuja on Monday ordered that former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col Sambo Dasuki (retd), be prosecuted in absentia. Justice Ahmed Rahmat Mohammed gave...
The Monday meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and the representatives of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) ended without achieving a definite result. Buhari had met with NGF...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday opened its case against immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose. The commission is prosecuting Fayose...
Authorities in Germany have banned 18 Saudi Arabia nationals who are believed to be linked with the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi from entering...
A former deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has warned Nigeria not to allow themselves to be deceived by President...
Senator Shehu Sani has described security chiefs attending President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign launch as outright violation of their neutrality and a bad signal to free, fair...
A damning report by WaterAid Nigeria, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has revealed that over 120 million Nigerians have no access to decent toilets in their homes...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, this Monday launched his campaign for the 2019 election. He tagged it “The Atiku Plan,” assuring that he...
The Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has mocked the campaign plans of President Muhammad Buhari of the APC and Alhaji Atiku...
One of the world’s youngest billionaires Mark Zuckerberg fiercely defended Facebook in a question-and-answer session with employees on Friday afternoon, pushing back against criticism of the...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Did Presidential Candidate Atiku Abubakar just preach floating Naira and devaluation again? Just when one is staying away from the major old...
The campaign organisation for President Muhammadu Buhari’s reelection has said the poor performance of the country on the corrupting perception index was inherited from the past...
A Federal High Court in Osogbo has remanded Prof Richard Iyiola Akindele, a former lecturer with Obafemi Awolowo University accused of demanding sex from his student,...
The Nigerian Army said it has discovered a new terrorist group operating in the Northeast geopolitical zone. The Army, in a Facebook post, gave the names...
There are indications that some insurance companies in the country may face hard times in the nearest future as the Federal Government is about releasing new...
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) disbursed a total of N6.226 trillion to federal, states and local governments in the country in the first three quarters...
Oil marketers in the country have cried out over the continued delay by the Federal Government in paying subsidy arrears accrued to them. According to the...
The Nigerian power sector said it lost approximately N1.287 billion on Saturday due to insufficient gas supply, distribution and transmission infrastructure. On the same day, average...
Airline passengers should brace for a hike in the cost of flying as the authorities get set to hike Passenger Service Charge (PSC). Some of the...
Indications emerged, yesterday, that the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, queried the embattled Director-General of National Management Emergency Agency, NEMA, Mustapha Maihaja, over allegations of fraud...
There was anxiety yesterday in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following the discovery that the policy plan of its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has extended to...
Banks have confiscated multibillion naira worth of assets, including 79 filling stations and nine tank farms from fuel marketers as the lenders intensified collateral take-over spree...
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has rejected Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s loyalists’ conditions for peace in the party....
THERE are indications that a fresh crisis is looming in the Plateau State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party over the choice of the party’s deputy...
The ongoing probe of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of...
The management of Pinnacle Communications Limited has reacted to a press statement by the spokesperson of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC),...
More revelations have emerged of how powerful forces have been shielding the embattled Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mustapha Maihaja. According to...
A serving senator who represents Ogun East senatorial district, Buruji Kashamu, is now the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the state. Kashamu’s...
Rescue officials have continued a grim search for any signs of the 993 people now listed as missing after the Camp Fire tore through the mountain...
Hundreds of Salvadoran migrants and refugees fleeing poverty and violence, have began their journey to the US-Mexico border despite obvious threats. Reports say nearly 250 Salvadorans...
Bukola Saraki, Nigeria’s Senate President, has denied a leaked audio linking him to cash-and-carry politics. In the trending audio recording, Saraki was allegedly caught berating President...
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has promised to create three million jobs per year if elected in 2019. Atiku, a former...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday said should Nigerians choose him to continue as President by re-electing him in 2019, he was going to overhaul the education...
