Six Chinese companies operating in Nigeria have incurred the wrath of the World Bank as they have been blacklisted over alleged fraud and corruption. A publication...
The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has warned members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa and Kogi States against contesting the November 16...
The House of Representatives and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, may be heading for a round of bickering over the...
Temporary respite came the way of the immediate former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, as a Federal High in Court sitting in Abuja stopped the...
As pressure mounts on the state government, Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has inaugurated an 8-member committee to articulate the modality for the payment of the...
A student of the School of Health Technology, Akure, has allegedly been gang-raped by three other students of the institution. This was confirmed by the Ondo...
The Herdsmen terrorism in Nigeria has lasted because the victims are typically the ordinary people. Consider, for instance, two recent killings, in which the victims happened...
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Monday confirmed that the state is owing pensioners a whopping N22 billion as gratuity arrears. Ortom made the disclosure...
The Election Petition Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt has dismissed an appeal by the Governorship Candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in Rivers state,...
The assault of Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu in Germany is unsurprising, but shocking. Unsurprising because it’s certain Nigerians would revolt against their leaders...
The immediate past Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, Monday said his attackers in Nuremberg, Germany on Saturday acted under the influence of drugs and...
The Abuja division of the Federal High Court on Monday ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to immediately pay the sum of N8bn awarded in...
Three nominees of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for the position of commissioners and special advisers were on Monday rejected by the Lagos State House of Assembly. The...
The Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, has replied the query issued him by the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba...
The Presidency has denied investigating the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler. A leaked letter allegedly signed by the Chief of Staff...
Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Umara Zulum on Monday rained curses on anyone diverting humanitarian assistance meant for Internally Displaced Persons in the state. The governor,...
A former Kaduna Central senator and member of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Shehu Sani, has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari to be wary of most politicians...
Officials of Ekiti State government were on Monday banned by the state governor, Kayode Fayemi, from speaking English language at cultural and traditional activities. The directive...
Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has urged the court to order the return of her 2,149 pieces of jewelry and a customised...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said it would not go back on President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to place a ban on Forex for food...
The Nigerian Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzo Kalu, has reacted to claims that he suspended his planned medical check-up in Germany in order to avoid similar...
Permit me if the title sounds and looks academic. Well, there is nothing flowery about the situation we have found ourselves in this nation when we...
The Nigeria Police Force has granted access to the venue for a symposium, tagged, ‘Democracy, State Repression and the State of Insecurity in Nigeria,’ where Nobel...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the interim forfeiture of property belonging to immediate-past governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, by the Independent Corrupt...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court at Iyaganku, Ibadan, on Monday, remanded a 42-year-old man, Sulaimon Ajigbot Allah, in prison for defiling his 9 year old daughter. Chief...
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Presidency of indulging in neck-deep corruption and looting of taxpayers’ monies. It said the leaked letter was an...
The leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force (NDPSF), Asari Dokubo, has described the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, as an ‘ingrate’....
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) on Monday commenced a five-day industrial action. It was gathered...
No fewer than four people have been killed at Tsayu village in Jibiya Local Government Area of Katsina State. The spokesman for Katsina police command, ASP...
All legal impediments have now been removed, and the coast made clear, for President Muhammadu Buhari to swear-in Raji Fashola, Godswill Akpabio and other Ministers designate....
The Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, was visibly absent during the opening ceremony of the 2019 Presidential Retreat for the incoming ministers. Oya-Ita...
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ended the hope of Uche Nwosu, the son in-law to the immediate past governor of Imo State, Rochas...
President Muhammadu Buhari has told the incoming ministers that government would rely on them to help lift Nigerians from poverty and position them on the part...
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has been urged to dismiss the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the last election,...
The Imo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by Governor Emeka Ihedioha, has concerned itself...
A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, on Sunday asked the federal government to publish names of the 67 Nigerians ‘illegally’ detained and held incommunicado by the...
The National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) is making moves to to push for the signing into law of the 2008 Nudity Bill, in a...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the reaction of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the attack on Senator Ike Ekweremadu as hypocritical. Ekweremadu, immediate...
The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, has warned that the arbitrary tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on China will make it harder for his company...
Nasarawa State governor, Abdullahi Sule, on Sunday said there was no going back on the RUGA programme of the federal government in Nasarawa state. He insisted...
The Iranian oil tanker at the centre of a diplomatic dispute between the Asian country and the US has departed the shores of British controlled territory...
Disgraced former leader of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, will be paraded in court today (Monday) over corruption allegations leveled against him which inevitably brought down his 30-year...
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been asked to make sure they cross over to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) before they die....
Since the news broke on restriction of Forex for food importation, experts and the general public have reacted with divergent views. A category went left with...
The management of Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) has announced its decision to commence the distribution of 475,000 meters to its customers in Kano, Katsina and...
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) is to work with the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation (AuGF) to promote integrity in data...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you this Monday morning. 1. PDP labels ex-Cross River REC, Briyia, an APC mole who helped rig...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Professor Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of using its staff, who are members of the ruling...
Activist Deji Adeyanju has again alleged that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has collected money from Northerners to ensure that...
The death toll from Saturday’s gunmen attack on mourners in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area has risen to nine. This was confirmed by the Benue State Police...