The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) said Nigeria aspires to expand its oil reserves alongside its condensates enormously to 40 billion barrels by 2025, London-based energy...
The recent demonstrations that characterized the Nigeria’s 60th Independence day’s anniversary and the continuous persecution of Nigerians in some countries abroad show that the country needs...
Nigerians have been asked to report COVID-19 and other health issues via a newly launched online portal by the Federal Government. The Ministry of Health’s Permanent...
The Nigerian government has set up a stakeholders’ engagement on internal security and conflict. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, launched the meeting in Maiduguri, Borno...
A wave of protests has spread through Nigeria as citizens call for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit of the Nigeria police. This...
The Minister of State for Education, Dr. Chikwuemeka Nwajiuba, and executive members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) met on Tuesday in Abuja, in...
Nigeria has become Africa’s biggest rice producer, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Sabo Nanono said in Abuja on Tuesday at an occasion commemorating the 2020...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari was wrong to nominate his aide, Lauretta Onochie,...
Finally, the backs of the teeming youth population have finally hit the wall. They have been brutalized, maligned, raped and rendered totally inconsequential. They have even...
The Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has had his position on President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2021 budget proposal seriously opposed by many of his colleagues. On Tuesday,...
Canada has issued a stern warning to China against its “coercive diplomacy,” repressive measures in Hong Kong and detentions of Uighur Muslims which it said are...
Trouble is brewing in Mali again after heavily armed militants killed dozens of civilians and soldiers in a series of attacks in Mali with two of...
In its bid to reduce maternal mortality to the barest minimum, the federal government has set up the Nigeria Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent and Elderly...
The Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu has stated that if his estranged deputy governor, Hon Agboola Ajayi has honour, he should resign and if he...
Nigerian government’s wage bill climbed by 150 per cent in the five-year period between 2015 and 2020, Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed said Tuesday at the...
Reno Omokri, a former media aide to ex-president, Goodluck Jonathan has kicked against the proposed formation of a new unit to replace the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery...
The Kwara State government has told the labour movement in the state, that the government cannot meet its demands as it has other pressing matters to...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of eight Justices of the Court of Appeal as Justices of the Supreme Court. President Muhammadu Buhari recently...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecasted that the Nigerian economy will slow down by 4.3% this year, reversing it from its earlier projection of -5.4%. The...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of his special assistant on social media, Ms. Lauretta Onochie, as a national commissioner in...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you this morning. 1. FG shifts commencement of 774,000 public works programme to November 1 The Federal...
Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 225 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which disclosed this on its Twitter handle, said the cases were...
The Federal Government has rescheduled the commencement of the Public Works Programme aimed at engaging 774,000 unemployed Nigerians to November 1. The programme was initially slated...
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has shut down seven examination centres in Bayelsa State over alleged violation of rules and regulations guiding Unified Tertiary...
The Federal Government said on Tuesday it might consider the adoption of the University Transparency Account System (UTAS) presented by the Academic Staff Union of Universities...
The Nigerian bourse managed to make a slight advance on Tuesday following days of straight losses as profit-taking efforts limited gains. Stanbic, Nigerian Breweries, International Breweries,...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday warned security agents against killing of Nigerians as protests against brutality and extortion by police, particularly the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery...
Justice Samuel Bola of the Ondo State High Court, Akure, on Tuesday, sentenced a panel beater, Modupe Oni, to life imprisonment for defiling a four-year-old girl...
Governors of the 36 states of the federation will on Wednesday meet with the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on the current security situation in the...
The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said on Tuesday the Federal Government would double the number of airports in Nigeria before the end of 2023 to...
The Ogun State Assembly on Tuesday directed the immediate past Managing Director of Ogun Property and Investment Corporation (OPIC), Jide Odusolu, to supply details of the...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday met with President Muhammadu Buhari on the ongoing #ENDSARS protests in various parts of the country. During the meeting...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has summoned officers of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to Abuja for psychological and medical examination. The IGP also...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday called for stronger commitment among members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of future elections in the country. The president...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, made a dramatic U-turn from his earlier position on the ongoing #ENDSARS protest and joined the protesters on Tuesday. The protesters...
A former Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Tuesday, urged the Federal Government to adequately prepare the nation’s healthcare system against the second wave of...
#EndSARS protesters, on ground and across social platforms, continued their agitations on Tuesday, calling for an end to police brutality, and the scrapping of the Special...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said on Tuesday the state government had set up a N200 million compensation fund for families of people killed by the...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has set up a new unit to replace the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The Force Spokesman, Frank Mba, disclosed...
The Senate on Tuesday began debate on the 2021 Appropriation Bill of N13.08 trillion. President Muhammadu Buhari presented the proposed 2021 appropriation bill before a joint...
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, on Tuesday paid a thank you visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Akeredolu was re-elected for another...
The trial of a former governor of Zamfara State, Mahmoud Aliyu Shinkafi before Justice Fatima Aminu has been adjourned till November 17 and 18, 2020 for...
The House of Representatives has set in motion moves to compensate families of victims who died while protesting against the brutality meted out by operatives of...
The Nigerian Senate has ordered the immediate arrest of those responsible for the killing of scores of protests during demonstrations against the perceived brutality meted out...
Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani has mocked the move by President Muhammadu Buhari to nominate Lauretta Onochie, his personal assistant on Social Media as a...
Social-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has frowned at President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of his aide, Lauretta Onchie, as a commissioner of the Independent National Electoral...
Foremost poet and playwright, John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo, the younger brother of former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, is dead. The...
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams, has condemned the actions of the Nigeria Police Force over the killings of some protesters across...
The ongoing protests against police brutality in Nigeria gathered more momentum in Enugu State on Tuesday with the state’s Deputy Governor, Lolo Cecelia Ezeilo, joining EndSARS...
The Federal Government has announced that it was ready to meet the five-point demand of the EndSARS protesters, which include halting use of force against protesters...
