The Federal Government has continued to receive accolades for the approving excise duty for alcoholic beverages and cigarettes. The new regime, which took effect from yesterday...
Activities have started picking up at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) in Idi-Araba. This followed the end of the strike by the Joint Health Sector...
Contrary to a directive by the Abia State Government, pegging tuition in its schools at N5, 200, public schools in the state appear to have ignored...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Tuesday announced that Nigeria has cleared the $600 million trapped funds belonging to foreign airlines operating in the country....
There was a mild drama on the Banana Island Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos State, on Saturday after residents waylaid the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur...
There has been heavy security presence in streets of Calabar, Cross River State after a renewed cult clash between Vikings and Black Axe confraternity claimed no...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has commended US President Donald Trump for his planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. According to Putin, the move...
There are expressed fears that the worsened crisis in Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC) may result in some aggrieved members dumping the ruling party in...
The request by embattled former South African leader Jacob Zuma to delay the probe of a $2.5 billion arms deal has been turned down. Reports say...
Easily given to ceremony than substance, it is no surprise that we seem carried away yet again by the enactment last week of the “Not-Too-Young-To-Run” Act....
Following what appeared a great show of unity by members of the National Assembly on Tuesday as they took a unified position in a joint session...
Muhammadu Kazaure, an All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives member from Jigawa State, has come out strongly against the reported plan to impeach President Muhammadu...
By Joseph Edgar…. It is so sad that people like Segun Osoba, Ray Ekpu and Dan Agbese are still alive to witness the violent death of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday said that the resolution of the joint session of the National Assembly against President Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidency vindicated its...
Minister of Defense, Mansur Dan-Ali, on Tuesday advised states where there is anti-open grazing law to suspend implementation of the law so as to reduce killings....
By Ekene Odigwe… Benue, a North-Central Nigerian State becomes more prominent in recent times for so many wrong reasons. It is a state with a population...
Senator Buruji Kashamu may have to, at least for the time being, forget the issue of being extradited to the United States of America (USA) for...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, has hit hard at Nigerian senators, describing some of them as junks. She stated this on...
The fragile peace between the Legislative and the Executive arms of the Nigerian government seems to have finally collapsed as members of the National Assembly rose...
A Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice John Tsoho on Tuesday ruled on a suit demanding information on President Muhammadu Buhari’s London treatment...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has moved to decongest prisons in the country after it disclosed that plans are underway to construct 3000 capacity building in...
Imo State governor and chairman, Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) has lambasted the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief John Odigie-Oyegun. He regretted that...
Wife of the Lagos State Governor and founder, Hope for Women in Nigeria Initiative (HOFOWEM) Mrs Bolanle Ambode on Tuesday flagged off the distribution of shoes...
The Senate and the House of Representatives on Tuesday held a joint session at the National Assembly. The session was presided over by the Senate President...
A group of international astronomers have uncovered over 100 giant exoplanets that could potentially have life-hosting moons. Typically, researchers search for such moons around planets that...
A former Director-General, Mounir Gwarzo and an Executive Commissioner, Corporate Services, Zakwanu Garuba, in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were on Tuesday arraigned before a...
Yakubu Dogara, Speaker house of representative on Monday, received the delegation of All Progressives Congress (APC) National Convention Committee led by the chairman Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar....
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday hosts some Governors to Break of Fast in the State House, Abuja. In attendance were, Nasir Elrufai , Abiola Ajimobi, Rauf...
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus on Monday inaugurated the National Campaign Council for the guber campaign in Ekiti State. The Council...
The Federal Government on Monday gave reasons on its recent ban on smoking of tobacco products with characterising flavours including Shisha (flavoured tobacco), saying the products...
THE Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, has ordered shipping companies to vacate the off-dock terminal charge of N70,000 per container which they introduced about a month ago....
Former chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Paul Unongo, on Monday told some journalists to let the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government know in...
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court has ordered the detention of a commercial bus driver identified as Atake Benjamin, 52, who reportedly killed a bride-to-be, Destiny Yahaya. Reports...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has told a Lagos based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), that it cannot respond to his request on fuel...
The National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF)being championed by over 100 elder statesmen, including a former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, has dismissed rumours that...
A pupil of the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Kawo, Kaduna State, died at the weekend following the outbreak of cholera in the school. About 40 others...
Finance and economic experts on Monday expressed mixed reactions on the implementation of a new excise duty rates on alcoholic beverages and tobacco products. Under the...
Days after confirming that the proposed meeting with Kim Jong Un will be staged on June 12 in Singapore, the US has informed that its policy...
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim on Biafra war as the “most wicked and despicable lies” that the Nigerian leader ever...
President Muhammadu Buhari said his administration has spent $9 billion on develop power, roads and railways infrastructures in the country in the last 2 years. The...
Travails of Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha continues to mount by the day with the latest being a call on him to leave the All Progressives...
Some weeks before the kingdom lifts a ban on female drivers, Saudi Arabia has gone ahead to issue its first drivers’ license to ten women. Reports...
But for the intervention of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Nigeria Police would have reined in President of the Senate of the Federal Republic, Dr. Bukola...
By Reuben Abati… Nigeria is on the road to Babylon: a place of confusion. Three years ago, the people were convinced that they had found a...
The Nigerian Army Monday revealed that it rescued 75 children, as well as 58 women, including two pregnant teenagers, used as sex slaves by Boko Haram....
President Muhammadu Buhari has said fighters on the Nigerian side exercised restraint during the civil war because they well aware that the secessionist forces were technically...
The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, Monday inaugurated chairmen of the party in states, but he left out Lagos, Ogun and...
The Ekiti State Police Command said Monday that the officer who fired the shots that injured former lawmaker, Opeyemi Bamidele, and five others at the campaign...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday reduced the rate at which Bureau De Change (BDC) operators in the country buy dollar from the bank...
After bearish performance was sustained at the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) for 11 consecutive trading sessions, the equities market rebounded on Monday to halt the longest...
