The nation’s fiscal crisis may not have been overstated after all, as government paid about N844.88 billion in salaries and offset debt-related obligations that were due...
A member of the House of Representatives member and son of a former governor of Oyo State, late Alhaji Lamidi Adesina, Hon. Adedapo Lam-Adesina has said...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday said the organised labour expects President Muhammadu Buhari to submit the new national minimum wage bill to the National Assembly...
SOME apprehensive policemen in Delta State Command have pulled the plug on how some unscrupulous police officers ruin genuine efforts of the Commissioner of Police, Mr....
Hopes of reconciliation of chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, going into the 2019 general election as a united body are being dogged by...
Multinationals and high networth individuals are now engaging in double insurance by insuring same asset locally as well as offshore due to inadequate capacity of Nigerian...
The Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, has assured Nigerians that the upper legislative chamber would ensure the speedy passage of...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said that the letters of notification of strike action, which it wrote to the Ministries of Education and Labour...
No less than four lives were lost and another 15 victims injured after two fatal accidents occurred in the northern axis of Nigeria. The first involved...
Total electricity generation in the country has remained below 4,000 megawatts in recent months as low load demand by distribution companies tops the list of factors...
The low capital base of insurance companies in the country has adversely affected their capacity in the business, the Commissioner for Insurance and Chief Executive Officer,...
The Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has thumbed up the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the administration has increased power generation,...
The purported arrest and temporary release of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma has been thrown controversy...
Saudi Arabia has again been indicted in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after another report by the New York Times revealed that a member of...
It was renewed drama at the Ondo State House of Assembly on Monday as “impeached” Speaker Bamidele Oloyelogun presided over the plenary of the House. This...
The Extradition (Amendment) Act 2018 and four other bills have received President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent. The four other bills are Federal Capital Territory Appropriation Act, 2018;...
Firefighters have continued to battle blazes at both ends of the state of California as the death toll arising from the deadly inferno has risen from...
The Kano State House of Assembly has again been ordered not to go ahead with the probe of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s alleged bribe-taking video. This came...
World number one Novak Djokovic kicked off his ATP Finals campaign with a commanding win over John Isner in their group opener on Monday. The 31-year-old...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has once again lamented the state of the economy of the administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan especially between 2010 and 2015....
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… When Niccolo Machiavelli first came up with the idea that cruelty could be rightly or wrongly employed in governing a country, he may...
Two commercial banks in the country, Diamond Bank Plc and Access Bank Plc have denied reports that the two banks are in merger or acquisition talks....
Following the alleged invasion of the Ondo State House of Assembly by thugs in the early hours of Friday, two members of the assembly are said...
Court order that restrained Benue State House of Assembly Speaker, Titus Uba, and 21 other members from sitting at the Assembly complex has been vacated. This...
A report by the New York Times has revealed that Saudi Arabia officials close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed carrying out covert operations against...
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that no Nigerian leader has been as “self-deprecating and unpatriotic” as President Muhammadu Buhari. Fani-Kayode, who also said there...
There are growing concerns in the UK that firms are considering implanting microchips into their employees to boost security. Biohax, a Swedish company that provides human...
There are indications that the Federal Government is set to begin fresh negotiations with preferred bidders for three power generation plants of the National Independent Power...
A Federal High Court in Lagos has revoked the bail granted Orji Uzor Kalu, former Abia State governor and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC),...
The embattled speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Bamidele Oloyelogun who was reportedly impeached last week has alleged that the new speaker...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday published lists of Sokoto State governorship candidates for the 2019 elections. However, the name of the state governor,...
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has alleged that current Nigeria President is not the real Muhammadu Buhari citizens of the country voted as president in 2015....
By Joseph Edgar… That the Cahairman of the APC is presently flying through turbulence is no longer news. He is at the centre of controversies arising...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a suspected rapist identified as Lawal Angala, 65, and his accomplice Isah Lawal, 19, for defiling...
As the federal government resumes privatisation of some national assets, THISDAY learnt at the weekend that negotiation of fresh terms has begun with preferred bidders of...
Access Bank is set to add Diamond Bank’s portfolio to its assets in the next few months, The Nation has learnt. Talks on the acquisition are...
The workload of serving judicial officers in Imo State may remain high till further notice, as Governor Rochas Okorocha is said to have put the appointment...
Members of the Ondo State House of Assembly, who took part in the impeachment of the former Speaker Bamidele Oloyelogun and his Deputy, Ogundeji lroju, have...
The move to remove the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has split the state chairmen of the party. The state party chairmen...
A record, 84 members of both chambers of the 8th National Assembly have, so far dumped the various political parties on which they were elected during...
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and the forensic and investigative auditors in Nigeria have clashed over the bill seeking to establish the Chartered Institute...
Millions of Nigerians are experiencing a long period of hold on calls placed to customer call centres of telecommunications companies. This is because the call centres...
Eight banks in the country have been fined a total of N102.7 million by the The Nigerian Stock Exchange for the failure to file their financial...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is pushing Nigerians to the wall. It, therefore, warned that it would mobilize...
As earlier feared by officials, the severe hot and dry “devil winds’ which are fanning the flames of more inferno has raised the death toll from...
President Muhammadu Buhari has advocated for tougher measures to be taken against middlemen, especially lawyers, bankers and brokers who aid illicit financial flow as a way...
Jeremy Hunt, the British Foreign Minister has called on the government of Saudi Arabia to corporate with investigations into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Hunt...
The Chairman of the Federal Government negotiation team with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Dr. Wale Babalakin, has described as incorrect statements by...
The Federal Government has restated its commitment to the enforcement of laws banning some classes of imported goods into the country. The Minister of Labour and...
Imo State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Hope Uzodinma, has allegedly been arrested over the failure of his company to execute a contract of $12...
