THE era of writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) once and making it seems to have been long gone. With an average of 1.5 million...
A scheduled meeting between the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress and the party’s caucus at the House of Representatives was unceremoniously called off...
Clara Ponsati, an ex-Catalan education minister who is a professor at the University of St Andrews in Scotland has turned herself in to security operatives after...
By Funmilola Ajala … Nothing suggests something unusual is in the offing. It appears all too perfect. Except that my female colleague (let me go by...
Nigerian equities lost N159 billion on Wednesday, paring the average year-to-date return for Nigerian equities to 6.69 per cent. Investors upped supply amidst continuing profit-taking transactions...
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, has threatened to arrest and prosecute members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) over their plan to protest the...
The body in charge of determining salaries and allowances for public office holders, Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Wednesday said only the National Assembly Service...
The National Assembly on Wednesday finally passed the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) after years of failed attempts. The bill was passed by the Senate after...
Dozens of armed police officers have laid siege at the secretariat of the Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association over the body’s decision to stage...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice Rita Nyako is resolute in its position that Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe must either produce ‘missing’ leader of...
The escape of suspects that accused Senator Dino Melaye of being their sponsor and supplier of arms from Kogi police custody, has landed the state Commissioner...
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday stated that the 2018 budget must run for 12 months, in-line with the 2017 Appropriation Act passed by...
Following the alleged escape of suspects who accused Senator Dino Melaye of being their sponsor and supplier of arms, the lawmaker has vowed to drag the...
The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has called for the immediate and unconditional release of Leah Sharibu, the only girl left in Boko Haram captivity from the...
President Donald Trump of the United States of America has signalled the end of a program that allows citizens of Liberia living in the U.S. to...
The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Wednesday overcame the Tuesday crisis that did not allow it share the statutory allocation to the federal, state and...
The drama surrounding the travails of Senator Dino Melaye, the main opposition voice to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, took a turn for the blizzare...
Scientists have identified a new human organ hiding in plain sight; in a discovery they hope could help them understand the spread of cancer within the...
The National caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved a 50-member Elders Council to replace the Board of Trustees (BoT). It was learnt that...
Though the Federal Government pegged the exchange rate at N305.25 to a dollar, the American Consulate in Nigeria exchanged N400 to a dollar in visa application...
The labour dispute between the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the oil service firms has worsened despite efforts by Petroleum...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Tuesday ordered the 11 power distribution companies to engage the services of the recently approved independent Meter Asset Providers in...
Following allegations by a former Chief of Army Staff and Defence Minister Theophilus Danjuma on the Nigerian Army, Afenifere has called for the intervention of the...
Men of the Lagos State Police Command are now on the hunt for 26-year-old domestic help identified as Daniel Ikade who allegedly burgled his employer’s apartment...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, arraigned four bankers on a twelve count charge of stealing, conversion and obtaining by false pretences a...
A prosecution witness, Tosin Owobo, an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, told Justice M.B. Idris of the Federal High Court...
The government of Taraba State on Tuesday explained how the Federal Government and the military ignored its complaints of security threats and soldiers’ misconduct in the...
President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba, has denied reports claiming that he and other leaders of the body have endorsed the “Grand National...
The public hearing on the proposed amendment to the 2018 Land Use Charge Law held on Tuesday at the Lagos State House of Assembly. The Land...
At a time the government of Kenya has constantly been accused of cracking down on the media, no less than eight leading newspaper columnists in the...
Hours after NATO followed member states in expelling Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a double agent in England, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has called...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has frowned at President Muhammadu Buhari refusal to sign the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. Obasanjo described Buhari’s action as...
The livelihood of millions of people who make a living by fishing and other activities around Lake Chad is now under threat due to the shrinking...
A suspected financier and major armourer of a dreaded kidnap gang in Kogi State identified simply as Basalube has reportedly been arrested by men of the...
The downtrend at the Nigerian equities market continued on Tuesday with more investors opting to trade their shares at lower prices. Benchmark indices at the Nigerian...
The monthly Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting which held on Tuesday was inconclusive. States aborted the meeting over discrepancies of about N37.76 billion in revenue...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has asserted that the National Assembly would not abandon Zonal Intervention Projects, criticism notwithstanding. Dogara said this...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, Tuesday backed a former Minister of Defence, Theophilus Danjuma, on his call for Nigerians to defend themselves against killer herdsmen. Ortom...
The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria has called on the federal government to prosecute a former minister of defence, Theophilus Danjuma, for calling on Nigerians...
A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari over the tenure of the party’s national chairman,...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday explained why it had to applogise to Nigerians for the mistakes it made while in power for 16 years....
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to go farther than apologizing to Nigerians to returning all...
An injunction to delay the second round of presidential election, which had been scheduled to take place on Tuesday, has been overruled by a High Court...
The Dutch foreign ministry said it has hastily pulled out one of its diplomats from Turkey after he was accused of gathering intelligence on Afrin operation....
The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague has indicated that it will investigate the September 2017 invasion of a community in Abia State, Nigeria by...
A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday said that he was busy with a group of younger Nigerians at...
President Muhammadu Buhari, in a surprise move on Tuesday backed Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu who has been in the forefront against tenure elongation for the All...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has said that no amount of blackmail from any quarters will force the National Assembly to...
The Senate in what is apparently a move to veto President Muhammadu Buhari has reintroduced the Bill seeking to amend the Electoral Act 2010. According to...
Governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and some All Progressives Congress (APC) governors have quietly thrown their weight behind the move by...
