The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun has hinted of plans by the Federal Government to set up special courts to prosecute tax offenders that fail to...
The government of Russia has waved aside claims by the government of the UK that Kremlin may have a hand in the mysterious illness affecting a...
One of the newly registered political parties, Young Progressive Party (YPP) has commended Nigerians for their tolerance of the maladministration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s All...
Managing director of Elephant Group, Mr. Tunji Oweye said Nigeria’s large poultry market of 17.5 million people is facing some challenges due to dwindling naira value....
About 30 people have been reportedly killed by a strange disease in Majia town, Taura Local Government Area of Jigawa State, leaving dozens hospitalised. Investigation revealed...
Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung has set up a committee to unearth the circumstances surrounding the alleged disappearance of $150,000 grant, which world athletics ruling body (IAAF)...
The mother of the slain Zone C Chairman, Motorcycle Operators Association, Lagos State, Rasaq Bello, aka Hamburger, has accused the police of shielding the person who...
Eight companies which got N4.478 billion to supply 104 Unity Colleges Science Kits disappeared with the cash, The Nation has learnt. The Universal Basic Education Commission...
Suspected militants of the radical group Boko Haram stormed the northeastern Nigerian village of Dapchi two weeks ago and made away with 110 schoolgirls. Linus Unah...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has insisted that Boko Haram was “no longer a serious fighting force”, despite mounting attacks including the recent daring abduction of 110 Dapchi...
Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, has risen in defence of the widely criticised land use charge law recently assented to by him. According to the...
A group of physically challenged persons on Tuesday stormed the National Assembly to advocate for better treatment. The group, Association of Physically Challenged Applicants, said they...
The death toll from the Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria since the beginning of the year has now risen to 110, the Nigeria Centre for Disease...
Benue State is planning another mass burial for victims of suspected herdsmen attacks. In January, the state buried 73 persons who were allegedly killed by herdsmen...
By Louis Odion… A dialogue imaginatively ascribed to what would ordinarily pass as an innocuous photograph from a routine official event opens perhaps the best aperture...
Nigerian equities remained on the uptrend on Tuesday as large-cap stocks rallied the market to a net capital gain of N35 billion. While there were more...
Nigeria’s apex capital market regulator, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has directed forensic auditors to proceed with the audit of Oando Plc. Akintola Williams Deloitte, a...
The noticeable divide in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the tenure of its national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, seems to be growing wider with...
The Senate, on Tuesday, invited the Minister of State for Aviation, Mr. Hadi Sirika, to brief it on steps taken by the Federal Government to minimise...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammodu Buhari’s visit to Taraba State as the highest insult to the sensibility of Nigerians. According to the...
In less than one month, Russia has suffered two plane crashes after reports by the defence ministry said in a statement carried by RIA Novosti that...
Two days after he was abducted by yet-to-be identified gunmen who kidnapped him at his Shiye village home, located at Bunkure local government area, the Secretary...
Former minister of Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Godwin Emefiele, have been summoned by the House of Representatives to appear before...
Hours after Sam Nunberg, former aide to President Donald Trump said he would risk jail term by not complying with a subpoena served him by special...
Outspoken All Progressives Congress (APC) senator from Kaduna State, Shehu Sani, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for finally choosing to visit states affected in recent times...
Three months after Judge Carlos Bonadio of the High Court in Argentina ordered the arrest of former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner; judicial officials have revealed...
The American Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) has effectively halted a proposed takeover of Qualcomm by Broadcom, according to emerging reports. Reports say the CFIUS asked...
Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has said that his All Progressives Congress (APC) government of Imo State has achieved so much under seven years of being...
The Presidency has argued that declaring state of emergency in the troubled states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa will not solve the problem of insurgency in...
The ongoing onslaught of attacks by herdsmen on Benue State is yet to abate after no less than five farmers were killed and scores rendered homeless...
The Okene country home of the senator representing Kogi Central, Ahmed Ogembe, has been attacked by hoodlums. Also, the house belonging to a former member of...
The police in the United Kingdom are now investigating a possible exposure to unknown substance after a former Russian agent convicted of spying for Britain and...
The Federal Government has extended its searchlight on tax evaders with properties in highbrow areas of the country. A Presidency source told New Telegraph yesterday in...
The reserve bidder in the sale of 9mobile, Smile Telecoms Holdings, has raised concern over some perceived anomalies in the handling of the sale of 9mobile...
Road users and traders at the Ladipo Spare-parts Market at Toyota bus-stop, on Oshodi-Apapa expressway in Mushin area of Lagos State have raised the alarm over...
THE N744 million under recovery or fuel subsidy currently incurred by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, is set to drop as the landing cost has already...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says that it has been able to bring down the cost of producing a barrel of crude oil to $20....
Sam Nunberg, former aide to President Donald Trump now risks serving time in jail after he revealed in an interview that he would not comply with...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday re-arraigned a former governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala for alleged N11.5 billion fraud before the...
Some legal practitioners in the country have condemned the continued detention of the Abuja Bureau Chief of The Independent Newspapers, Tony Ezimako, by the Department of...
Reaction of Nigeria’s Federal Government to Transparency International’s (TI) ranking of the country on its corruption index was not unexpected. TI had said the country dropped...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi…. Looking at the ripple reactions that greeted the hate speech bill currently before the Nigerian senate; one will but agree with the words...
By Reuben Abati… The second wave of democratization in Africa, beginning in the 80s, and the gradual establishment of democracy as the new normal in the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed the claim by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that it spends N24 billion monthly and N774 million per...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said that he had his own way of gathering information on killings in the country, even as he claimed that the...
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has been accused of ‘disastrously’ mismanaging the federal government’s intervention in the ongoing Malabu scandal trial in...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have spent the course of two days grilling a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation,...
Former Chelsea star, Nemanja Matic scored a stunning stoppage-time winner to help Manchester United go second in the Premier League table as they came from 2-0...
Nigerian equities market continued on the upward trend as bargain-hunting for dividend-paying stocks spurred a market-wide rally that left investors with net capital gain of N229...
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s claim that Christians and southerners are the greatest beneficiaries of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government...