President Muhammadu Buhari may not heed the call by the Senate for the sack of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr....
Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos) have not been paid for their services by the Nigeria Electricity Bulk Trader in the last three months. A source in the...
Civil Society Organisations and lawyers have faulted an assertion by the Federal Government that President Muhammadu Buhari’s medical bills are “classified” information. They said it was...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited more senior officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria as part of investigations into an alleged foreign exchange...
A senator is the subject of a massive probe for not executing N4 billion contracts awarded by the government of Delta State, The Nation learnt yesterday....
A consortium led by General Electric (GE) has submitted the only bid for a Nigerian railway concession project worth around $2 billion for two lines connecting...
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State yesterday suspended indefinitely, the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Chief Augustine Nwankwegu for negligence of duty. Also affected by...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed the outbreak of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM) in five states with 282 deaths. Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, the...
Multimillion dollars debts to banks, gas producers and Korean Electricity Power Company (KEPCO) have constituted a major threat to operations and survival of largest power generation...
The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), says the Senate lacks the power to summon him. He, therefore, lambasted the...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) will on Thursday head to France to attend Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD’s) Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum which holds...
The Senate has protested against the retention of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission despite the rejection of...
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC’s) former Group Managing Director, Andrew Yakubu, has withdrawn his fundamental human rights enforcement suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
The federal government, though the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, yesterday banned the importation of tomato paste, powder or concentrate, and increased the tariff on...
An ongoing probe, ordered by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has uncovered a massive fraud in the Federal Government Youth Enterprise with Innovation in...
Who wrote the letter asking an Adamawa State High Court judge to release the convicted former governor of the state, James Balla Ngilari, from prison? This...
Barely one week after he called for the imposition of a state of emergency in Benue State, over what he described as the state government’s show...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed April 3 for the arraignment of some of the defendants named in the $1.1bn Malabu oil scam. Two...
THE Senate has summoned the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Ibrahim Garba, to appear before it today and explain his side of the...
There are indications that President Muhammadu Buhari is set to commence lobbying of the Senate for the screening and final confirmation of Ibrahim Magu as substantive...
The death toll as a result of the meningitis epidemic in Sokoto State has now risen to 21. The State Health Commissioner, Dr Balarabe Kakale, confirmed...
IN spite of the ecstasy that greeted the Federal Government’s release of N522 billion being the first tranche of London-Paris Clubs loan refund to the states...
Over the past five weeks, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through its regular interventions at the foreign exchange market sold over $2 billion dollars to...
A criminal investigation has been launched by the Geneva Prosecutor’s Office into the operations of the Geneva-based Addax Petroleum Limited in Nigeria. The Chief Executive Officer...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will next week apply to court for arrest warrants against some suspects named in the charges relating to the $1.1bn...
There were indications yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari will insist on Mr. Ibrahim Magu becoming the substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
The president, Nigeria Ship owners Association of Nigeria (NISA), Aminu Umar has said that Nigeria was losing a huge amount of money due to the fact...
The qualification scandal that has enveloped the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District at the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has deepened. Documents...
The Ministry of Finance has confirmed that government has within two months received about 2,351 tips from individuals bordering on embezzlement of public funds and other...
The Peoples Democratic Party has rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees from some states as Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Saturday PUNCH can...
As part of efforts to curb the lingering problem of illegal mining in Nigeria, which the country is said to be losing $500million from, the federal...
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the sack of a Permanent Secretary, who has been allegedly using his office to defraud the Federal Government through the award...
About 20 construction workers escaped death on Thursday when a building believed to be owned by the Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Edward...
For the first time in seven months, the dollar fell below the psychological N400 barrier, when the greenback traded at N399 to the dollar in Lagos...
The Senate on Wednesday raised the alarm that the failure of the executive to answer legislative summons would end democracy in the country. The Chairman, Senate...
Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has said it will assemble over 100 lawyers to defend the 20 indigenes of Ile-Ife, who are being held for their alleged...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday resolved to investigate the operations of the Nigerian Bottling Company Limited to ascertain the safety of its soft drinks for...
SENATOR Dino Melaye will this morning Thursday, file a N5 billion libel suit against an online media platform, SaharaReporters,Vanguard gathered late yesterday. Dino Melaye, the senator...
Some graduate commercial farmers from Oke Ako –Ipao axis of Ekiti State have embarked on a protest march against herdsmen in the state. They are complaining...
A member of the National Assembly, Sen. Sabi Abdullahi, says he will move for a law that will make only career civil servants head government agencies...
Son of the late military Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, Mohammed, had begun a legal battle to reclaim the $1.3 billion Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL)...
Bankers, mainly account officers, have started to take advantage of the federal government’s whistleblowing policy to report the wrongdoings of former and current public office holders...
The raging controversy between the Senate and the Presidency is yet to abate over the nomination of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the substantive chairman of the...
The total number of active mobile lines on telecoms networks in Nigeria has increased to over 155 million in January, this year, the latest industry report...
The Presidency has finally come out with a bumper package aimed at accelerating the return of peace to the troubled Niger Delta region and ensure steady...
Strong indications have emerged that the passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill may suffer a major setback in the National Assembly as forty- four committees of...
An economist has said Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may maintain status quo on its monetary policy rates. The apex banking...
The Supreme Court will on Thursday in Abuja, the nation’s capital, hear the case filed by the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples’...
President Muhammadu Buhari may take sides with the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), in his ongoing face-off with the Senate over...
The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to remove the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim...
