The All Progressives Congress (APC) has written to the Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani to come and explain his utterances regarding the anti-corruption...
Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has refuted news report that he led a high powered delegation to visit President Muhammadu Buhari in London. His...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has written to the Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani to come and explain his utterances regarding the anti-corruption...
Six of the nine members of the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on the Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East signed the report of the committee that indicted Secretary...
The Lagos State Government yesterday created a 12-member Economic Advisory Committee headed by renowned accountant and financial expert, Dr Bode Agusto to spearhead the State Government’s...
A coordinator of Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement and a former Vice President of the World Bank, Oby Ezekwesili, has described the problem with Buhari’s...
The Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP) has queried the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola over the award of 10 road and bridge contracts...
Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday said that the Muhammadu Buhari-led government has no immediate or long-term plan to stifle press...
No fewer than 13 aspirants, including Prof. Charles Soludo, have indicated interest to contest the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra on the platform of the All...
The House of Representatives yesterday queried the acting managing director of the Bank of Industry (BOI) over the utilisation of the N500 billion power and airline...
The Nigeria Customs Service has terminated the appointment of about 48 senior officers in the service in its ongoing reorganization. A circular dated January 19, 2017...
The curtain fell on the 22-year-reign of The Gambia strongman Yahya Jammeh Saturday night when Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s leased Falcon 900 flew Jammeh and his family...
There are strong indications that the federal government is considering granting further tax holiday to investors in the power sector in its bid to help stimulate...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed charges against five officials, who allegedly padded the Federal Government payroll with about 50,000 ‘ghost’ workers. The...
More details of the peaceful battle to restore democracy in The Gambia became known yesterday. After days of stand-off, former President Yahya Jammeh suddenly agreed to...
Banks have foreclosed further lending to importers and marketers of petroleum product in Nigeria, New Telegraph has learnt. This is coming at a time when the...
Former governors are bearing an exerting pressure on national development with pension payments and other entitlements draining billions of naira every year from development funds for...
Three persons have been beheaded in the renewed hostility between people of Azuofia Edda Community in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and Osopong Community...
The chairman of Bama Local Government Area of Borno State, Modu Guja, has been abducted by fake policemen. The council boss was said to be arrested...
The Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs has urged Rivers and Akwa Ibom state governments to pay their 30 per cent required counterpart funding for the European...
For former Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, her troubles come in threes. Just at a time things appear quiet for her, a new flank of troubles...
For former Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, her trouble comes in threes. Just at a time things appear quiet on her, a new flank of troubles...
Two PREMIUM TIMES staff arrested but later released Thursday by the Nigerian police returned to the Abuja headquarters of the force early Friday, amid widespread outrage...
A Police Corporal, Uche Odoemena, has been arrested for snatching a newborn baby at gunpoint from its mother and selling it for N600,000. Odoemena, who allegedly...
As operation to rescue eight persons abducted by gunmen on the premises of Nigerian-Turkish International Colleges intensifies, police operatives say they have laid low to give...
Detectives yesterday grilled a former Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Innocent Azubuike Umezulike, over the N632.2million allegedly traced to his account. But the ex-CJ, in...
The trial of suspects, including the immediate-past Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, in connection with the $1.1bn Malabu oil...
The Nigeria police have raided PREMIUM TIMES head office in Abuja, and arrested the newspaper’s publisher. The publisher, Dapo Olorunyomi, was arrested alongside the paper’s judiciary...
Enugu State has appealed to the Federal Government to refund the N22.8 billion it spent to rehabilitate federal roads and other projects in the state. In...
No fewer than 315 Federal agencies including the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) have failed to submit audited accounts to the Office...
Former Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, yesterday, took a swipe at Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, saying that oil and gas would last for...
One of the Internally Displaced Persons in Rann, Borno State, who survived the accidental bombing of the camp on Tuesday, said the Nigerian Air Force fighter...
The police are holding 23 Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials for their roles in the Rivers State rerun elections. Besides, the Special Investigation Panel has...
Governor Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa State, the President of the Fertiliser Producers and Suppliers Association of Nigeria (PEPSAN), Mr. Thomas Etuh and other top government officials...
Twenty six million people across the Northern states were affected by the Boko Haram crises, 14 million of who are in the North East and eight...
The Olu of Warri, Delta State, His Majesty, Ogiame Ikenwoli, has fingered the Federal and Delta State Governments for allegedly acquiring the site of the Nigerian...
No fewer than 3,920 persons lost their lives in the bloody crises between Agatu farmers and Fulani herdsmen in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State...
Nigeria’s foreign exchange (forex) reserves have increased to $27.223 billion as at January 16, 2017, according to latest figures on the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN)...
Members of the House of Representatives committee on Public Accounts, yesterday gave a 48-hour ultimatum to Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs to make available the contract...
A former head of pension desk in the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation (OHoSF) is set to lose a property he allegedly...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar yesterday said that any thought about the 2019 general elections should be forgotten. His reason: There is hunger in the country. Atiku’s...
As the three-week registration of Enugu State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) began yesterday, former Senate President Ken Nnamani and former Enugu State House of...
The Kano State House of Assembly has threatened to sue former Commissioner for Special Duties, Gen. Idris Dambazau, over his allegation that each member received N150...
There is confusion over President Muhammadu Buhari’s $29.9bn loan request, which was rejected by the Senate on November 1, 2016. Buhari had, in a letter to...
The Nigeria Labour Congress has said Nigerians will not be able to take another fuel price increase in view of the harsh economic situation in the...
New findings have revealed that the market open price of petrol has hit N160 per litre. This is as a result of the landing cost that...
Efforts being made to take the country back to agriculture as a driver of the country’s economic resurgence has suffered setback in Lagos, South-West Nigeria, due...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called the paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona to say ‘I’m sorry’ over his choice of words in his letter...
The intrigues and political manoeuvring that will shape the 2019 general elections have begun to unfold with revelations that some serving ministers and governors on the...
Sokoto State Government on Friday said it had earmarked N32 million for the mass wedding of 100 couples in the state. The State commissioner for Religious...
