The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved N654million for the procurement and rehabilitation of COVID-19 screening machines at the nation’s airports. The Minister of Information...
The Senate on Wednesday passed the 2021-2023 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) for the fiscal years. The passage followed the adoption...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians of a credible governorship election in Ondo State on Saturday. The president, according to a statement issued on Wednesday by...
Precious Chikwendu, the wife of former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has finally confirmed that her marriage to the chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, October 7, presented its first prosecution witness against a self-acclaimed social media influencer, Rukayat Adedamola Adewale, aka...
I saw him linger in our estate. There was something quite regal about him. He is young and quiet and had on the beads that suggest...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the deployment of a hybrid spectrum monitoring system to the South-East to help detect illegal frequencies. The Minister...
The Kogi State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement (NDLEA) has confirmed the destruction of large Cannabis Sativa farms stretching over four KM of land...
The Onitsha seaport was on Tuesday commissioned after several years of construction works. The declaration was made by Tolu Ogunlesi, the media aide to the president,...
The Kaduna State government led by Governor Nasir El-Rufai has appointed Alhaji Ahmed Nuhu Bamali as the 19th Emir of Zazzau, thus succeeding the late Shehu...
The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed has sworn in a new Head of Civil Service (HoS), Dr Bala Lukshi in an acting capacity filling the...
The National Assembly has said that it would limit the number of people to accompany President Muhammadu Buhari to its chamber during the 2021 budget presentation...
The Lagos State Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu, has issued fresh directives to curtail the excesses of the much talked-about Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit better known as...
Senate President Ahmed Lawan on Wednesday argued that the recent ban placed on Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS) would not solve problems of extrajudicial killings by...
In a bid to defeat Boko-Haram, the governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum has advised the military to launch a first attack against the insurgents and...
The House of Representatives was on Wednesday thrown into a rowdy session as lawmakers of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) protested after two of their members...
These latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Uber announces hike in fare prices Popular e-hailing service, Uber Nigeria,...
Oil prices declined Wednesday following U.S. President Donald Trump’s cancellation of a fourth stimulus package and a surprise build in the U.S. oil stockpiles. Brent crude futures...
A hacker, Eric Nnamdi Obulo has been convicted and sentenced to jail by a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and presided over...
I believe you have all noticed. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is regaining his stature and waxing reformist on some of the problems dogging Nigeria. He is breaking...
The Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Joseph Mukan, has said the identity of abductors of the 25-year-old female lawyer, Bisola Ajayi, are already known to...
Michelle Obama, the former First Lady of the United States of America has branded the incumbent president, Donald Trump a racist who will destroy the country...
The Nigerian Economic Society (NES), a private sector economic think-tank, on Tuesday said the non-inclusion of its members on President Muhammadu Buhari’s National Economic Management Team...
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has informed that close to one million people have been displaced in South Sudan due to...
At least 350 cases of rape and sexual assault have been recorded between May and October 2020 in Adamawa State, Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social...
The Zamfara State government said it desires to build its bullion reserve steadily in the years ahead after it created a reserve with an initial deposit...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said it will begin issuance of Visas to Nigerians from Thursday, October 8, 2020. This was disclosed by Nigeria’s Minister...
An Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC) media group, Communication and Strategy Frontier (CSF), has attacked Governor Seyi Makinde over his role in the Oyo State...
The Alliance for Survival of COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB) led by Mr. Femi Falana, has stated that the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu, is...
Nigerian businesses experienced muted growth last month as the weight of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy aided the slow pace of expansion, data from the...
The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule has presented no fewer than seven new executive bills to the State House of Assembly for consideration and approval....
The Nigerian Senate has expressed the desire to have the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) reformed and rebranded in its fight against corruption, economic and...
The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) has decried the increasing wave of recent kidnappings which has left residents in the area living in fear. SOKAPU in...
Nigeria’s public debt portfolio could touch N34 trillion, around 23 per cent of its gross domestic product, by year end as Africa’s biggest economy continues to...
A former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha has reacted to allegations that N106 billion scam contracts were purportedly awarded when he was the state...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you this morning. 1. ‘You have a shallow understanding of academic profession,’ ASUU replies minister The Academic...
Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 118 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which disclosed this on its Twitter handle, said the cases were...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday, asked the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajuiba, to resign and go into farming. The minister...
The Nigeria Police Force has concluded plans to arraign a former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, for alleged fraud. Consequently, the force has filed a...
The Former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, said on Tuesday he could not pray for President Muhammadu Buhari or advise him on how to improve...
Troops of Operation Safe Haven on Monday killed a notorious bandit leader and some of his gang members at Tafawa village in Barkin Ladi local government...
The Managing Director of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Mrs. Abimbola Akinajo, said on Tuesday the state’s light-rail projects would begin full operation in...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) sustained its bull run on Tuesday, buoyed by big and mid-cap stocks led by Dangote Cement, MTNN, Presco, Nigerian Breweries and...
Justice Olusegun Odusola of the Ondo State High Court, Akure, on Tuesday, sentenced a cleric, Prophet Babatunde Alfa to life imprisonment over the disappearance of a...
The Senior Staff of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) on Tuesday gave the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to address the lingering problems associated with the Integrated Personnel...
The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has directed intending travellers to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to have in their possession confirmed...
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, on Tuesday, directed beneficiaries of the N-Power programme to report at their various states...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo declared on Tuesday that millions of Nigerians were facing “grave life-threatening problems”. He said the time was ripe for individuals at various arms...
Oil workers under the aegis of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), on Tuesday, picketed the office of a multinational oil company,...
Unidentified gunmen on Monday night killed the acting Village Head of Wereng community in Riyom local government area of Plateau State, Mr. Chungyang Mwadkon. The assailants,...
