A new crisis appears to be brewing within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as members of the ‘New PDP’ bloc who moved to the party...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Wednesday made claims as to why suspected Fulani herdsmen have continued an unending killing spree in some parts of...
About ten persons have been reportedly killed, in Numan, Adamawa State by suspected militiamen. Details later… Read also: Reps give Police deadline to umseal, vacate Peace...
Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has been given 21 days to unseal and vacate the National Headquarters of Peace Corps of Nigeria. The House of Representatives gave...
Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has been ordered not to begin any developmental work on Ekeukwu Owerri Market. The order was handed to him on Wednesday...
A list of the world’s most powerful people has been released by Forbes with unassuming Chinese leader Xi Jinping rated as the most powerful man on...
Presidency has pointed accusing fingers at Islamic State (IS) and some individuals within and outside Nigeria as being behind the endless killings of Ngerians especially in...
The Senate on Wednesday went into a closed door session, to take a decision over the refusal of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris...
American space agency NASA and Uber have joined forces in a project which could lead to the creation of a super-advanced new taxi. The pair signed...
A governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and Minister of Mines and Steel, Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday walked out of a meeting with a...
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Tuesday, rescinded Vice President Yemi Osinbanjo’s statement over the payment of fuel subsidy, saying the federal govoernment is responsible...
The Petroleum Act 1969 (as amended) grants powers to the Ministry of Petroleum, acting through the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to administer the licensing of...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has laid the blame on the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, for the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the government of President Muhammadu Buhari of becoming more intolerant to dissenting voices and behaving as if Nigerians are...
A fresh attack on Azara and Kadarko areas of Keana Local Government of the state by unknown gunmen has left no less than three victims dead....
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the country with no less than 17 people...
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has condemned the attacks in Kaduna State that left several people dead. In a statement through his spokesman,...
Probably, one of those who seemed not to understand the body language of the presidency and its abhorrence of criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari and his...
Iran is fuming over the decision by the US to back down from the nuclear deal and has described the move as ‘unacceptable’. Speaking from Tehran,...
A ruling of the Court of Appeal recently held that Senator Buruji Kashamu can be arrested if there is need to do so, reversing an earlier...
THE Akwa Ibom State government has allegedly laid out plans to instigate a fresh round of crisis in the state’s chapter of the All Progressives Congress...
A platform that will be the arrow head of a democratic movement against President Muhammadu Buhari will emerge in a month’s time as forces opposed to...
Judges who have twice served on various election petition tribunals in the country will not be re-appointed for the same assignment in 2019, The PUNCH has...
No fewer than 20,000 children in both primary and secondary schools have been reportedly forced out of school in Nasarawa State following persistent attacks by suspected...
Dr. Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has disclosed that the downstream subsidiary of the corporation, the NNPC Retail Limited,...
United States President, Donald Trump, has announced that the United States is withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, ignoring efforts by America’s European allies to halt...
Reacting to the recent ban on the importation of cough syrups with codeine, the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Tuesday called on the Federal Government to enact...
The police have confirmed the arrest of some suspected suppliers of arms to those perpetrating the killings in Benue and Taraba states. The police paraded some...
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State made good his boast of successfully plotting the course of victory for his deputy in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has called on political elders and leaders in the country to go home and take a...
A World Bank Mission, comprising of 10 Executive Directors, is expected in Nigeria on Wednesday. While here they are billed to hold high-level discussions with the...
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday afternoon left Abuja for the United Kingdom (UK) to meet with his doctors for what the presidency said, is a routine medical...
It is no longer news that the “codeine” containing cough syrup has to a great extent been abused excessively over the years in Nigeria, prompting the...
The Presidency dare not reveal President Muhammadu Buhari’s state of health, nor does anyone have such right, except the President himself. This old excuse was revisited...
Ekiti Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary is moving on well with a winner expected to emerge possibly before the end of today. Meanwhile, the senator...
Armenia’s opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan has been elected as the new prime minister two weeks after Serzh Sargsyan resigned following widespread anti-government demonstrations. Reports say the...
Accreditation for the governorship primary to pick a governorship candidate for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State is presently ongoing. Delegates dressed in uniform...
Lawyer and human rights activist, Festus Keyamo has been nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari into the board of a federal parastatal. Buhari names Keyamo and six...
Nigeria has been advised to widen its tax revenue base to fund infrastructural projects and social development programs capable of spurring growth in the nation’s economy....
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said the $36.37bn Federal Government spent on the importation of petroleum products between 2013 and 2017 greatly contributed to...
Not-for-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of digital rights groups have called on big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google, to explain decisions...
Recently, some senior lawmakers, led by Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara in a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari alleged that...
Three companies namely Emzor Pharmaceuticals Ind. Ltd., Peace Standard Pharmaceutical Limited and Bioraj Pharmaceutical Limited, have all been shut down by the National Agency for Food...
A fresh angle into the murder of Otike Odibi, who was stabbed to death by his wife Udeme Odibi for allegedly engaging in extra-marital affairs has...
Former governor of Plateau State and a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator, Jonah Jang, has been dragged before a High Court in his state over alleged...
Zamfara State Governor, Alhajji Adul’azizi Yari, is working with some other members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to sabotage the re-election bid of President Muhammadu...
Chairman, Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Yakubu Umar, may be charged for contempt of court today. This followed a ‘notice of consequence of disobedience to...
The second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport may suffer some delay due to delay in passing the 2018 budget, New Telegraph has learnt. The...
Sun Zhengcai, the former Communist Party boss of the southwestern city of Chongqing, has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in China over...
MIYETTI Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, yesterday faulted the implementation of the anti-open grazing bill by the Benue State government on grounds that its...
