For the second consecutive day, investors in the Nigerian equities market lost N729 billion at the close of trading on Tuesday. This followed the crash in...
The Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) has suspended its planned nationwide strike. The suspension of the strike followed Monday’s meeting with the Federal Government...
Armed bandits on Tuesday afternoon reportedly abducted 26 travelers along the Gusau-Sokoto highway in Zamfara State. A resident of the area told journalists the bandits blocked...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Tuesday flood occasioned by early morning rain in Lagos affected 151 houses in the Command and Ipaja communities...
Armed men suspected to be bandits on Sunday killed six people at Nasarawa village in Faskari local government area of Katsina State. The spokesman for the...
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, said on Tuesday the Federal Government would audit the N22.7 trillion Ways and Means...
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the alleged mismanagement of the Amassoma Community Shoreline Protection Project in Bayelsa State by the Niger Delta Development...
At least nine persons died and seven others were injured in an auto crash at Kere Town in the Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State...
Troops of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Monday arrested a notorious kidnapper identified as Isah Abdul in Durbunde, Takai local government area of Kano State....
The Federal Government, on Tuesday, said it had uncovered 32 routes through which food items are smuggled out of Nigeria. This was disclosed by Vice President...
The Nasarawa State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of 109 suspected illegal miners operating in the Nasarawa Eggon local government area of the state. The...
Nigeria moved another inch closer to having state police on Tuesday, as the House of Representatives passed a bill for the establishment of state police for...
Proscribed Igbo separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has warned Nigerians of Igbo extraction not to join Nigerians from other regions of the country...
The Nigeria Police Force has agains warned against the illegal manufacture and use of its uniform and other kits by non officers, especially movie makers and...
The Nigerian government has taken steps to address its mounting debt burden, announcing an audit of the N23 trillion Ways and Means debt and a planned...
The crisis rocking the leadership of the Labour Party (LP) has continued to escalate as chairpersons of the party from all 36 states and the Federal...
The Nigerian government says plans are afoot to install biometric clearance gates for the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at all the international airports in the country...
Following the N17 trillion loss incurred by the country on tax waivers within the last five years, the Senate, through its Committee on Finance on Monday...
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi has backed the ongoing discussion on the creation of state police in...
The naira, Monday, February 19, 2024 continued its slump as the local currency slumped to N1,598.54/$1 data from the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM) window...
Here are the top 10 stories making headlines across the country. 1. EFCC grills ex-Kwara governor, Abdulfattah Ahmed, for alleged N3bn fraud The Economic and Financial...
The United Kingdom, Mauritius, Netherlands, Singapore, and South Africa have emerged as the top five sources of capital importation into Nigeria in the Fourth Quarter of...
The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has asked illegal occupants of the proposed Abuja Technology Village site along the Airport road in Abuja...
The Ogun State Assembly has summoned a former Commissioner for Information and Strategy in the state, Alhaji Waheed Odusile, for clarification on the ministry’s audit reports....
A former member of the House of Representatives, Usman Bugaje, on Monday faulted President Bola Tinubu’s decision to remove fuel subsidy without adequate plans to cushion...
Cement manufacturers in Nigeria have agreed to bring down the price of the product following the Federal Government’s intervention The federal government at the weekend met...
Investors in the Nigerian equities market lost N1.8 trillion at the close of trading on Monday. This followed a decline in the market capitalization to N56.028...
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers reportedly abducted nine travellers along the Kabba/Obajana/Lokoja Road in Kogi State on Saturday. Eyewitnesses told journalists on Monday that the victims...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday quizzed the former Kwara State Governor, Abdulfattah Ahmed, for alleged misappropriation of N3 billion while in office....
A male lion on Monday killed a zookeeper at the Zoological Garden of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. The university’s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, confirmed...
Police operatives in Rivers on Saturday killed Gift Okpara aka 2 Baba, prime suspect in the murder of a Divisional Police Officer of Ahoada Division, Bako...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives have arrested 11 suspected internet fraudsters in Abuja. The EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, disclosed...
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, adjourned the suit seeking the disqualification of the Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, and his...
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday returned home from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he attended the 37th Ordinary Session of the African Union’s Heads of State and...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday that Nigeria’s unemployment rate surged to 5.0 percent in the third quarter of last year. The NBS...
The Lagos State government has lifted the ban on activities of Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) in the state. The state government suspended RTEAN...
President Bola Tinubu and governors of the 36 states last week resolved to look at the establishment of state police in the country. The same week,...
Hundreds of angry Nigerian youths on Monday, took to the streets of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, to stage a peaceful demonstration over the unbearable hardship,...
Senator Shehu Sani has raised concerns about the potential misuse of the proposed state police system in Nigeria. He made his fears known in an online...
CLAIM: A viral video purportedly shows a foreigner physically assaulting a Nigerian worker in Nigeria. VERDICT: Misleading FULL TEXT An X user, UCHECHUKWU (@Yucee), recently posted...
Global credit rating agency, Fitch Ratings, has cautioned the Federal government over the proposed establishment of the foreign currency gateway bank recently announced by the Central...
After a trading week characterized by four days of gaining and a day of loss, Seplat, Airtel Africa, Geregu, and Bua Foods are some of the...
The Presidency has described the attack by former Nigeria’s Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on the economic policies of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu led administration as...
Here are the top 10 stories making headlines across the country. 1. Tinubu’s forex policy responsible for poverty, hardship in the country – Atiku A former...
The much awaited students loan scheme of the Federal Government will be disbursed directly to the institutions of the scheme’s beneficiaries, Akin Sawyerr, the Executive Secretary...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Mr Mele Kyari, Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to “promptly account...
In a bid to curb the growing cases of sexual harassment in schools, especially higher institutions in the country, teachers and lecturers in various institutions of...
Economic indices gathered by RipplesMetircs indicate that an average Nigerian spends more than he earned in 2023. This would mean that, if a working Nigerian earns...
The Federal Government has once again announced that the Third Mainland Bridge will be closed to the Iyana Oworonshoki-Lagos Island-bound traffic from midnight on Sunday February...
The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that students from no fewer than 155 institutions may be barred from processing Direct Entry admissions owing to...