A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Maj. Gen. Charles Airhiavbere (retd.) has accused Governor Godwin Obaseki of plotting to dump the governing...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you this Friday morning, October 11, 2019. 1. 2020 BUDGET: States, LGs to get 85 percent of...
The governor of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku has revealed that over 100 cases of kidnapping was recorded in the state, and about N250 million paid as...
The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Thursday explained the delay in commencing repair works on the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu. He said the international...
The Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) on Thursday urged the organised labour to cancel its plan to embark on nationwide strike over failure of the Federal...
The minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday, gave reasons for the looming bad roads across the country. While addressing the House of Representatives...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged moves by the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency to start conjuring false statistics to cover its incompetence and failures in governance....
The outgoing governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, has appointed 60 new special advisers. The governor said he deliberatly made the appointments to enable his ‘Restoration...
Nigerian Army on Thursday said troops of operation Lafia Dole had arrested one of the top commanders of Boko Haram fighter, Bukar-China, otherwise known as Abdullahi...
A Magistrate Court sitting in Ikorodu on Thursday arraigned a 64-year-old man, Bassey Archibong, of No. 10 Kunle Dipo Street, Majidun, Owutu, in the Ikorodu area...
Three residents narrowly escaped death on Thursday night when a three storey building collapsed in the Lekki area of Lagos State. The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has described the 2020 Budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari as a pro-people...
If the proposed amendments to the Gender based Violence (Prohibition) Law of the Ekiti State Government gets the nod of the state House of Assembly, rapists...
The Defence Headquarters has said that about 281 repentant Boko Haram fighters have completed its de-radicalisation programme under the Operation Safe Corridor programme in Gombe State....
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Thursday said the organised labour is mistaking consequential adjustment in salary as a result of the...
The Nigerian Senate on Thursdays continued the debate on the general principles of the 2020 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari,...
In an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) president and maritime lawyer, Dr Olisa Agbakoba Thursday urged the federal government to...
The Special Task Force (STF) in charge of security in Plateau State Thursday revealed that it arrested six suspects who allegedly killed five soldiers in the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship candidates cannot score up 20 percent of the votes in the...
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday dismissed a petition accusing Hon. Moshood Oshun, the lawmaker representing Lagos Mainland Constituency 2, of receiving $200,000 bribe....
The flatulent size of the national assembly accents the orthodoxies and paradoxes of Nigeria. Nigeria’s lawmakers are some of the highest paid in the world, in...
Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Itsey Sagay, says unlike under previous governments, the fuel subsidy regime under President Muhammadu Buhari is devoid...
The Lagos State House of Assembly Thursday threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on the immediate past governor of the state, Akinwunmi Ambode and four...
Custodian Insurance, one of the top trades by volume, slipped into the losers’ chart in Thursday’s trading session. The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) closed negative with...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan left the Presidential Villa, Abuja, few minutes after his closed -doors meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari without speaking to newsmen. READ ALSO:...
At least 50 trailers were on Thursday impounded by the Oyo State Road Transport Management Agency (OYRTMA) for parking illegally on Iwo Road, along the Lagos-Ibadan...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday described the presidency under President Muhammadu Buhari as a den of thieves. The party claimed that the “arrest of...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday hosted members of Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) at State House, Abuja. He promised at the meeting that the government...
The Federal Government said on Thursday it has signed a $3.9 billion agreement with a Chinese firm, China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) to facilitate the construction...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday visited President Muhammadu Buhari at his office in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari and his predecessor immediately went into a...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the November 16 gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State, David Lyon, has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as...
The Nigerian Government has made the payment of £250,000, which a commercial Court in London ordered it to pay to Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID)...
A former deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank has described the 2020 budget as a scam, and asked Nigerians to...
Kajuru community In Kaduna State was on Thursday thrown into panic, as gunmen in a fresh attack, abducted the principal of the Government Technical Secondary School,...
The House of Representatives Committee on Works on Thursday has summoned the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola for a briefing on the state of...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday said 90 suspected drug traffickers had been arrested by its operatives in Niger State. The agency revealed...
The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) said it has commenced an “independent investigation” against its officers exposed by an investigative report by Ripples Nigeria. The...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election, Atiku Abubakar. has applauded the Senate for re-introducing the anti-sexual harassment bill....
Three scientists on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work leading to the development of lithium-ion batteries, which have reshaped energy storage and...
Tragedy struck in the north-eastern town of Korogwe, Tanzania when heavy rains swept through the area and killed at least seven people. More than 100 people...
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) said on Wednesday it would embark on a nationwide strike if the Nigerian government fails to implement the new N30,000 minimum...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said on Wednesday Nigeria is gradually moving to a “visa-on-arrival” regime as part of efforts to improve “Ease of...
A former senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) assessment...
Nine people accused of plotting to overthrow the Ghanaian government has been arraigned in a court for treason. The suspects who are facing trial for allegedly...
The Federal Government on Wednesday blamed tax evasion by the citizens for poor services rendered by public servants and public institutions. The Secretary to the Government...
The Nigerian Navy on Wednesday demanded the establishment of a special court to try maritime-related crimes in the country. It said the request would help to...
President Muhammadu Buhari at separate events on Wednesday promised to carry everyone along as democratically elected president and would do everything to promote the nation’s unity....
Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi has shared a similar view recently expressed by Senator Rochas Okorocha, that Nigeria needs a unicameral federal legislature. But unlike Okorocha,...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you this Thursday morning. 1. Buhari discredits IMF, World Bank data on Nigeria, warns Nigerians to be...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been called upon to do the needful to avert looming violence which may be sparked by the November 16 governorship election in...