As part of efforts to curb the lingering problem of illegal mining in Nigeria, which the country is said to be losing $500million from, the federal...
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the sack of a Permanent Secretary, who has been allegedly using his office to defraud the Federal Government through the award...
About 20 construction workers escaped death on Thursday when a building believed to be owned by the Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Edward...
The Yoruba socio-cultural group, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has fingered former Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwanso, for the spate of arrests of suspects in...
Nigerian equities closed almost flat on Thursday after losses by highly capitalised stocks counterbalanced widespread bargain-hunting. With 20 advancers to 14 decliners, the market showed growing...
The Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, hugged the limelight again Thursday for the wrong reason. This time, the Senate Ad Hoc Committee...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has described as unfortunate the call by his Rivers State counterpart, Governor Nyesom Wike that a state of emergency be declared...
Rivers State’s Governor Nyesom Wike has called for a state of emergency in Benue State over incessant killings in the state. Wike argued that Governor Samuel...
By Pius Adesanmi… A fallout of Dinogate: some ABU students and alumni have been roaming the internet with the good news of ABU’s greatness. I have...
Governor Ayodele Fayose was seen recently doing justice to IRESI INU EWE (Rice served in leaves) gotten from a roadside food seller at Moferere area of...
The family of Cynthia Osukogu may have finally gotten justice, as two men accused of killing her about five years ago were on Thursday sentenced to...
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the attack at the British Parliament in London that killed three people, and left...
By Tayo Demola…. I was really astonished to hear the news of the medical doctor who went all the way to the third mainland bridge right...
The Senate, on Thursday, rejected two, out of the 47 non-career ambassadorial nominees, sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari on January 12th, 2017. The two...
In what looked like a surprise action, four trade unions said they have embarked on indefinite occupation of the corporate headquarters of one of the local...
For the first time in seven months, the dollar fell below the psychological N400 barrier, when the greenback traded at N399 to the dollar in Lagos...
President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded 27 names of Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) to the Senate for approval. The names read on the floor of the Senate,...
Scientists at the MDI Biological Laboratory and Novo Biosciences have identified a drug to restore heart muscle function following a heart attack. Their research on the...
Barely a day after the Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr David Lawal, told the Senate that he would not honour an invitation extended...
The Senate on Wednesday raised the alarm that the failure of the executive to answer legislative summons would end democracy in the country. The Chairman, Senate...
Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has said it will assemble over 100 lawyers to defend the 20 indigenes of Ile-Ife, who are being held for their alleged...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday resolved to investigate the operations of the Nigerian Bottling Company Limited to ascertain the safety of its soft drinks for...
SENATOR Dino Melaye will this morning Thursday, file a N5 billion libel suit against an online media platform, SaharaReporters,Vanguard gathered late yesterday. Dino Melaye, the senator...
Lawyers of controversial US President Donald Trump have asked a U.S. court to quickly hear its appeal of a ruling that blocked the president’s revised travel...
Someone once said in a song that we should “always look on the bright side of life.” But what are the benefits of smiling and seeing...
The board of directors of Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc on Wednesday announced that the bank would be paying a 5.0 kobo dividend per share for the...
Nigeria produced about 43.5 million tonnes of solid minerals in 2016, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its report on the performance of...
The board of directors and management of Zenith Bank on Wednesday stepped down the consideration for a new capital raising by the bank, putting a lid...
The board of director of Lafarge Africa Plc on Wednesday played a bitter-sweet on shareholders of the cement company as it recommended payment of N5.47 billion...
For the second consecutive trading session, Nigerian equities continued on the downtrend on Wednesday as investors sought to rebalance their portfolios in view of recent price...
Former Senate President and current chairman of the Electoral Reform Committee, Ken Nnamani has described Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose’s criticism of his committee as ‘senseless’....
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N8 billion for the construction of roads and bridges across 12 states of the federation and the Federal Capital...
Hours after discovering the corpse of Dr. Allwell Orji at the Onikan end of the Lagos Lagoon, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni has...
Three years after it sadly sank killing no less than 304 people, most of them children on a school trip, a South Korean ferry which capsized...
The death toll arising from an attack outside the UK Parliament which saw a knife-wielding man shot dead by cops outside the UK Parliament after he...
Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr David Babachir Lawal, on Wednesday, told lawmakers that he would not honour an invitation extended to him by...
The Senate, on Wednesday, approved the request of President Muhammadu Buhari to raise additional $500 million Eurobond from the international capital market to fund the 2016...
One person has been reported dead after a knife-wielding man was been shot by cops outside the UK Parliament after he stabbed a police officer in...
Senators and members of the House of Representatives, elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday, gave conditions to Governor Henry Seriake...
The Nigerian police have confirmed that the real body of Dr. Allwell Orji who took his life when he plunged into Lagos Lagoon has been found....
The Nigeria Customs Service seems not to be deterred by the sequence of drama surrounding its policy on vehicle duties. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed...
The Federal Government has developed an International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) compliant accounting software suite “OneBook”, to reduce financial leakages and improve Public Financial Management,...
Nigeria recorded above average in its maritime sector, having achieved about 59.5 per cent increase in vessel traffic at the various sea ports in 2016. The...
The ongoing face-off between the Senate and the Comptroller-General of Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (retd), resurfaced on Wednesday, on the floor of the...
Senator Dino Melaye (APC Kogi) has sponsored a bill seeking to outlaw tribal marks and other facial mutilation. The bill which has passed a second reading...
Social media giant Twitter has revealed that it has suspended the accounts of 636,248 users on its platform as the company steps up efforts to counter...
The troubled north-eastern city of Maiduguri in Borno State boiled again when multiple suicide bomb blasts claimed the lives of no less than eight people and...
The government of South Korea and the United States are furious about the defiant government of North Korea which again launched another missile that appeared to...
Some graduate commercial farmers from Oke Ako –Ipao axis of Ekiti State have embarked on a protest march against herdsmen in the state. They are complaining...
The office of the British Prime Minister, Theresa May has banned large electronic devices on direct flights of passenger cabins coming from six Muslim-majority countries. The...
