Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says President Muhammadu Buhari is well within the law to confer national honours on deserving Nigerians, dead or...
In what was the third of its kind in a single week, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with service chiefs and other heads of security...
The family of the late MKO Abiola has written to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for awarding the nation’s highest honour to their patriarch who is the...
United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. William Stuart Symington, Thursday, announced additional donation of $102m in humanitarian assistance to help address shelter, health and food security...
The National Conscience Party (NCP) on Thursday reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration of June 12 as Democracy Day, and the proposed posthumous award to the...
The Senate on Thursday reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to honour the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, late Chief Moshood Kashimawo...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said it has given “No Objection” approval to another set of nine firms seeking to procure and install meters for...
In furtherance to the recent bilateral currency swap deal signed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) with the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), the CBN...
By Prince Singa Edward Zhattau… The President was at it once again when he pronounced that “…after due consultations, the Federal Government has decided that henceforth,...
Worried by the recent resolution of the Senate against him, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja. He...
The House of Representatives was on Thursday thrown into a rowdy session as members disagreed with the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari declaring June 12 as...
The National Industrial Court (NIC) on Thursday ordered the Yaba College of Education (Yabatech) to immediately reinstate Mr Olu Ibirogba who was sacked for exposing alleged...
Management of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday called for more partnerships with Dangote Cement in terms of Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) projects. The call...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s proposed national honour to be conferred on the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 presidential...
The duo of Chairman, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Ibukun Awosika, and Managing Director, Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, both risk going to jail. A Federal High Court...
Cucumber juice was probably one of those things you’d never have tried as a kid. You wanted coke and lemonade. You didn’t want to drink a...
Social media giant Facebook has been called out for allowing a number of tech companies, including smartphone manufacturers, access to a sea of data about its...
President Muhammadu Buhari is often accused of aloofness, reticence and mutism. But whenever he speaks seldomly he hits the bull’s eyes. Today, three years after historically...
There is chaos at Umudagu Mbieri, in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State after a suspect identified as Ifeanyi Ibeawuchi reportedly murdered his 22-year-old...
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has said it would be selling some of its assets like Arik Air, Aero Contractors, Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN)...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved two Executive Orders and five tax policy Amendment Bills as it aims at reducing tax burden on Nigerians and...
Electricity Meters Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (EMMAN) has advised the Federal Government to break the monopoly of electricity distribution companies (DisCos) in the sale of meters...
Employers have expressed their readiness to pay the minimum wage whenever it becomes law. The national umbrella body of the employers stated this on the sideline...
Work has resumed at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi, following the suspension of the six week old industrial action embarked upon by the Joint...
No fewer than 3,000 containers are said to be trapped inside the Lagos Port Complex Apapa as a result of the lockdown created by a new...
The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) has insisted that Senate President Bukola Saraki must appear before it to answer question over the April 5, robbery attacks in...
As members of the European Union move to stress their commitment to upholding the nuclear pact, France has warned Iran that it risked sailing close to...
Tragedy struck in the eastern part of Kenya when no less than five police officers lost their lives after their patrol vehicle hit an improvised explosive...
The Distillers and Blenders Association of Nigeria (DIBAN) has rejected the new excise duty imposed on alcoholic beverages and tobacco products in the country. The Chairman...
BY an executive order, President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, proclaimed June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day. With same stroke, he cancelled out May 29, which since 2000...
The Federal Government says it has recovered about N30 billion from the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS). The amount was realised from individuals and...
The total value of goods exports from Nigeria to foreign countries rose in the first quarter of 2018 to N4.69 trillion, causing a strong growth in...
Kolapo Olusola Campaign Organisation (KOCO) has attacked the All Progressives Congress (APC) over its comment on the deputy governor’s visit to public schools in Ekiti State....
The long clamour for June 12 to be declared Democracy Day in Nigeria has come to a fruitful end as the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government...
The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has praised the National Assembly for Tuesday’s joint resolution to sanction the President. The group stated that the move was an...
The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) on Wednesday claimed that more suspects from the Offa, Kwara State bank robbery have indicted Senate President Bukola Saraki. Police Public...
The Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has reacted to the call by the Federal Government that states operating anti-grazing law should suspend its implementation to reduce...
A bid to allow enough recuperating time for both baby and nursing mother, the Federal Government has increased maternity leave for any female member of staff...
The Minister of Defence, Brig.-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali (retd.) on Wednesday received knocks from both chambers of the National Assembly over his anti-open grazing law comment. The...
House of Representatives member, Abdulmumin Jibrin, may have gotten himself in trouble again with his colleagues. Jibrin only just recently returned from a 180-day suspension which...
By Femi Fani-Kayode… History teaches us that there is only one thing that is more painful to the victims of mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide...
One of President Muhammadu Buhari’s fiercest critics, former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to the threats by the National Assembly to impeach the president. He...
Doctors in the UK are preparing for the first womb transplant operations to take place this year. The pioneering medical technique could see the first baby...
A Kano State Federal High Court on Wednesday considered the bail application of the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Ramalan Yero, who was remanded in...
A policeman said to be seeking bribe was beaten up by some angry Nigerians in Lagos State in a video gone viral. The incident was said...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Tuesday said it has commenced the process of reviewing the financial model that would determine the electricity tariff payable...
Nigeria’s Minister of Defense, Mansur Dan-Ali, has advised states which have enacted the anti-open grazing law to suspend implementation of the law so as to reduce...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday kicked against the move by the House of Representatives to criminalise estimated billing by...
The Federal Government has said Nigeria would increase its gas supply to the West Africa Gas Pipeline Project. This is as the country continued to enjoy...
The Police said, yesterday, that 48 hours after the Offa bank robbery that claimed the lives of over 30 persons, including nine policemen, four of the...
