The last may not have been heard of how Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Pensions boss, was actually reinstated into the civil service as the family on...
Strong indications emerged Wednesday that the Senate may soon commence moves to scrap some “moribund departments and agencies” of the Federal Government. According to the Deputy...
There is reported tension in Kenya following the failure of the country’s Supreme Court to sit on Wednesday to decide on a petition seeking the delay...
Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted in the third and fourth quarters of 2016, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed on Tuesday. In a report...
The Nigerian Army has apologised to the family of Abubakar Alhaji, a Lagos-based commercial motorcyclist, who was allegedly killed by beating by Sgt. Taiwo Owoeye in...
Former president Goodluck Jonathan was not in court on Wednesday to testify in the trial of erstwhile national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),...
By Louis Odion… On his inaugural ride in the cultural chariot as the Yoruba generalissimo, he perhaps will first have to contend with that eerie numbness...
Apple and Samsung have been involved in a legal battle over the look and feel of the latter’s devices, since 2011. The initial verdict had gone...
For allegedly disrespecting corpse of wife, by allowing it to decompose inside their residence, a onetime wrestling champion, John Uti, popularly known as Power Uti, was...
George Charamba, spokesman for Africa’s longest serving leader, Robert Mugabe, insisted during an interview that his boss was never officially asked to take up the controversial...
Abdurrahman Amadu, 81, has landed himself in court for being in possession of 34 fake $100 notes suspected to be counterfeit which were recovered from him...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, yesterday, his broke silence on the allegation that he spearheaded the recall, promotion and...
The governors of the Peoples Democratic Party have mocked the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government under President Muhammadu Buhari, describing the party as “armed robbers calling...
Three years after a Federal High Court held that it was the right of Nigerian prisoners to vote in all elections in the country, the Independent...
In a continued bid to rid its system of homegrown radicalism, authorities in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, have arrested no less than nine men...
Super Eagles striker, Kelechi Iheanacho was on target as Leicester came from behind to win over Leeds United in a Carabao Cup fourth-round clash on Tuesday...
By Joseph Edgar… The Maina debacle has finally confirmed my suspicions that there are fifth columnists working within the precincts of the Presidency, not to only...
ANOTHER round of strike is looming in the nation’s universities as Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) counts down to the deadline for the implementation of...
The Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC) has opened up on plans to reintroduce its proposed harmonised National Code of Corporate Governance (NCCG) that was suspended...
THE Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has issued new guidelines for dredging, under water pipeline laying and drilling within the ports’ jurisdiction. In a document exclusively obtained...
Chairman of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Mr Tony Elumelu has cited entrepreneurship and gender equality as two critical areas that need urgent attention to...
The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, has asked the wanted former chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, to report to the Economic and Financial...
Ahead its coming national convention, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has emphasized that any of the three zones of the southern region of the country can...
Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of their pension payments, the Association of Retired War Affected Police Officers (ARWAPO) has come out to thank the president, while...
Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Vice President, Laolu Akande, has issued a correction to the figure stated by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo...
Oando Plc has secured a court order restraining Nigeria’s apex capital market regulator, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), from going ahead with its announced forensic audit...
Two police officers were said to have been killed while trying to prevent the abduction of an expatriate at a construction site in Obajana, Kogi State....
A former minister of education, Oby Ezekwesili has stated that the National Assembly’s lack of “individual and institutional integrity” had prevented it from being an effective...
The ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives investigating alleged revenue leakages in the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) Tuesday issued a one-week ultimatum to...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Tuesday stated that it was shocked by the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the defunct Presidential Task Force on...
More properties belonging to the former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, have been sealed by the operatives of the Economic...
The Senate, on Tuesday, warned that about 4,000 jobs may be lost, unless the relevant government agencies move in immediately to salvage the ripple effects from...
Former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), has said that he is currently in a state of turmoil and would not want to implicate himself...
Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has warned leaders of the Economic Community of West African States that caution must be taken in the sub-region’s push to have...
The Presidency has refuted the claim that President Muhammadu Buhari failed to follow due process in ordering the immediate dismissal of the former chairman of the...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Federal Government to urgently review the minimum wage in the country, vowing that it would never accept any...
Senator Dino Melaye has lambasted the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, over his alleged mastermind of the reinstatement of an Economic...
A top United States General has provided new information on what transpired on October 4, when four American and five Nigerien soldiers were killed following an...
Former president Goodluck Jonathan has been ordered to appear before an Abuja Federal High Court on Wednesday to testify in the fraud trial of former Peoples...
Ahead of Kenya’s Thursday presidential election re-run, the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has asked his supporters to boycott the poll. He said there was nothing yet...
The Senate has mandated President Muhammadu Buhari to act swiftly and bring those behind the reinstatement of the former chairman of Presidential Task Team on Pension...
Real Madrid and Portugal forward, Cristiano Ronaldo believes his personal rivalry with Lionel Messi ‘has only just begun’ after lifting FIFA’s The Best title for 2017....
By Gozie Irogboli… The said revocation of the concession agreement of the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex (LITFC) to Aulic Nigeria Limited was like a rude...
The brewing scandal around the reinstatement of discredited Abdulrasheed Maina back to office and his subsequent sack by President Muhammadu Buhari is not about to fizzle...
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), yesterday attributed effect of recurrent challenges in the nation’s economy to unavailability and high cost of investible funds, poor electricity...
The Fethullah Group in Nigeria has commenced a high level meeting to deliberate on their next line of action, in reaction to reported plans by the...
The embattled ex-chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, who has been accused of complicity in a N2bn fraud, has gone into...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has insisted that only the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government can answer to the whereabouts of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu....
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari-led government over the controversial reinstatement and sacking of Abdulrasheed Maina, an alleged criminal and fugitive...
The Federal Government Monday denied reports that Nigeria had agreed to extradite 1000 Turkish nationals on the request of the Turkish Government over terrorism. The Foreign...