The names of the All Progressives Congress members in the South-East geopolitical zone are missing from the records of the party, THE PUNCH learnt on Monday....
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said, yesterday that the Federal Government has only paid N20 billion, out of the N500 billion budgeted as fuel price increase...
By the end of this year, the Federal Government would have spent, at least, N14.35 billion on the up-keep of former presidents, vice presidents and their...
Heavily armed policemen Monday stormed the Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Research and Training Mambayya House Kano and disrupted an event organized by Kwankwasiyya Foundation, Daily...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group has advised Biafran separatists both at home and in diaspora to be prepared for a referendum to decide whether...
The House of Representatives moved into 2017 with a backlog of 499 bills still far from hitting the third reading mark, The PUNCH learnt on Sunday....
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State has described last week’s swearing in of council chairmen and councillors for the 17 local government areas (LGAs)...
Over N534 billion in revenue was lost by the power sector in 2016, according to the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). Among the reasons for the...
Election into the Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo will hold between January 6 and 9. The outgoing leadership of the organisation, led by Professor Enwo Gary...
Fear has gripped some villages in Rafi local government area of Niger State, after heavily armed gunmen attacked two communities in the area, kidnapping residents, rustling...
Some state governors have devised new strategies to ensure that their sensitive conversations do not become public knowledge, SUNDAY PUNCH findings have revealed. The action followed...
A yet to be identified Boko Haram commander was allegedly arrested in the private residence of a caretaker chairman of one of the area councils in...
President Muham-madu Buhari has delegated Vice President Yemi Oshinbajo to have an input in the recommendation of Federal Attorney-General, Abubakar Malami, on the AGF’s report on...
An Assistant Commissioner of Police, identified as one Christopher Osakue, has reportedly committed suicide in Benin, the Edo State capital. It was gathered that the late...
Over 30 communities in Plateau south senatorial zone have agreed to end years of hostilities, which have culminated in the death of hundreds of people in...
Inside Boko Haram’s ‘Camp Zero’ More details have surfaced regarding the taking of Boko Haram’s ‘Camp Zero’. A top military source that was part of the...
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari administration is nothing but a government of double standard which has been engaged only in...
THE Nigerian Shippers’ Council, (NSC), and the Nigerian Ports Authority, (NPA) have moved to tackle the newly introduced charges by shipping companies with a view to...
A Benin Magistrate Court sitting in Oredo, Edo State has remand in prison custody two chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC), over accusation of attempted...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Bauchi scheduled to take place December 29 has been postponed arising from the prevailing weather conditions in the country. Uncooperative weather...
Airline operators have threatened to suspend flights pending when the government would provide modern landing aids that would enable them fly with minimum visibility as obtained...
The Federal Government said it has recovered 40 brand new SUVs and other vehicles from a former Permanent Secretary who single-handedly appropriated the vehicles to himself...
Not fewer than 1,260 policemen from the six South West states of the country recently transferred to Northern states, especially the North East, where Boko Haram...
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, yeserday urged the Federal Government to investigate what happened to the N500 million said to have been released for the...
The three tiers of government comprising federal, states and local government councils shared a grand total of N4.97 trillion as federation revenue approved by the Federal...
The Presidency has assured that President Muhammadu Buhari will make appointments into all boards by January 2017. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media...
The Kano state government has suspended a director in the ministry of Finance and 9 staff of the ministry of local government over alleged diversion of...
The plan by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice to re-open some alleged high-profile corruption cases has been...
At last, the reason President Muhammadu Buhari often keeps sealed lips over killings by suspected herdsmen and other killings across the states of the federation may...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has rejected out-of-court settlement terms tabled by Senator Danjuma Goje and four others. The others are a former Gombe...
Second Vice President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) and human rights lawyer, Monday Ubani has condemned too many Customs roadblocks along Lagos-Ore-Benin-Onitsha Road, describing it...
A close friend of President Muhammadu Buhari and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Brig.Gen. Jafaru Isa (retd.), has returned N170m to the Federal Government, was...
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti has in the spirit of Christmas approve the immediate promotion of 15,772 public servants in the state. The promotion which cuts...
The harsh economic situation in the country has thrown 1.7 million Nigerians into the job market in nine months, a report from the National Bureau of...
Minister for State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has said the Federal Government is considering plans to ‘lock up’ revenues realised from the oil sector...
The Delta State Government paid former Governor James Ibori N250m while he was in jail in the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2016,an investigation has revealed....
The pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been listed as a key witness against a former Governor of Delta State, Mr. James...
Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has said security agents are on the trail of those instigating crisis in the southern senatorial part of the state....
Justice Ngozi Emehelu has been confirmed as the substantive Chief Judge (CJ) of the Enugu state, following the State House of Assembly approval of her appointment....
Nigerian Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, has debunked the alleged news making round that plastic rice is in circulation in Nigerian markets. He said preliminary...
The foreign trips of President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the State House headquarters will gulp about N1.05bn in the 2017 fiscal year. Their...
In a rare display of statesmanship and political sagacity, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the recently concluded Ondo State Governorship election, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, has...
Ozizebiri community, in Southern Ijaw Bayelsa State has been in turmoil following the death of a 22-year-old man allegedly stabed to death by a a new...
Nigerian serving senator from Bayelsa East senatorial district, Ben Murray Bruce, has told President Muhammadu Buhari-led government that it is practically not possible to fight corruption...
The Federal Government has commenced the process of extraditing a former governor of Delta State, Mr. James Ibori, from the United Kingdom, The PUNCH can confirm....
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the extension of tenure of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Abayomi Olonisakin by one year. Vanguard investigation showed that...
The Federal Government may be loosing about N200 billion yearly to diversion of automobile imports to the ports in neighboring countries, particularly the Port of Cotonou...
There are loud murmurings by the Staff of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC). Those who would be manning various federal highways nationwide this Christmas season...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, has begun investigations into various allegations against some top Federal Government officials as...
A leadership crisis is brewing in Ohanaeze, the apex socio-cultural organization of the Igbos. Former Minister of Information, Dr. John Nnia Nwodo, has been touted as...
