Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki yesterday presented appropriation bill of N150,011,831,079 billion for the year, 2017 to the state House of Assembly for consideration....
A 24-hour curfew has been imposed on Jema’a and Kaura local government areas (LGAs) of Kaduna State. This followed a protest in Kafanchan over killings and...
The Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, on Monday said he would appoint 6, 000 new aides and create 50, 000 jobs as from January...
Although Nigeria is yet to take steps to recover the $2 billion looted by the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, which the United States...
The Federal Government has lost the bid to secure the services of senior lawyers to prosecute judges alleged of corruption, an impeccable source has told New...
The presidency has reached out to the Senate informing it of its intention to carry out a cabinet shake up that may affect no fewer than...
About 1,000 armed bandits have surrendered their weapons and renounced armed banditry and other crimes in Zurmi LGA of Zamfara state. Last week, political and military...
Governors have joined the desperate lobby to nominate the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Also pushing for their preferred men are former...
Some officials of the Budget Office, who were indicted and sanctioned for their roles in the padding of the 2016 budget, have surreptitiously found their ways...
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has doused the speculations that he may soon dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a result of the persisting crisis...
At least 18 farmers are believed to have been hacked to death by unknown assailants at Dan-anacha in Gassol local government area of Taraba in the...
A suspected notorious militant identified as “General Eagle”, has been arrested by the troops of Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Delta Safe (ODS). The kingpin, who...
The crisis rocking the Nigeria labour movement worsened yesterday as the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) splinter group led by Joe Ajaero inaugurated a new labour centre...
The embattled acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has been unable to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari since the beginning...
Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Ibrahim Idris has set up investigation panel to study the audio comments allegedly made by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike...
In an interview with Saturday Sun in Lagos, a notable Yoruba leader and founder, Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Fredrick Fasehun, described alleged marginalization of the Yoruba in...
The first unit of the 700-megawatt (MW) Zungeru Hydroelectric Power Plant in Niger State will commence energy generation in 2019, the Minister of Power, Works and...
The Benue state Executive Council has suspended the state’s Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Tourism, Mr Sekav Iyortyom for three months pending the determination of an alleged...
Gov Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State on Thursday presented the 2017 Budget proposal of N67.1billion to the state House of Assembly for consideration. The governor, who...
China may withhold part of the $29.9 billion loans on which Nigeria partly pins its hope of financing next year’s N7.298 trillion budget. The Chinese government...
The Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Dr. Anthony J. V. Obinna, has charged Governor Rochas Okorocha to govern with human face. Obinna, who...
The Presidency on Thursday said President Muhammadu Buhari would consider both sides of the matter in the case of the Secretary to the Government of the...
Nigerian inflation rose again in November, driven by higher food, petrol and electricity prices, data showed Thursday, with analysts saying that the upward trend may not...
A Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State today dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement application by Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, challenging the freezing of his...
Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday, signed into law the 2017 budget of N214 billion for the fiscal year, after its approval by the...
The gap between Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, Dr. Anthony Obinna, widened, yesterday, as the Governor accused...
No fewer than 101,500 defenseless Nigerians were allegedly murdered since 1999. Of this figure, 47,500 occurred in the last five years and 9,700 since May 29,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized at least 12 properties from a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, and his...
Nigeria loses an estimated $1billion (about N305 billion) in revenue every year due to the falsification of gas flare data, the Minister of State for Petroleum...
A former governor of Jigawa State, Dr Sule Lamido, has said it is “funny and contradictory” for the federal government to keep blaming the Peoples Democratic...
A Federal High Court siting in Abuja and presided over by Justice Jude Okeke, on Tuesday granted Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court and...
No fewer than 35 women were abducted yesterday by armed bandits in Matankari village under Dansadau Emirate of Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The...
Seventeen states of the federation are to benefit from the 2016/2018 Medium Term Development Plan of the Federal Government which is expected to be financed from...
Contrary to the expectations of Nigerians that they would soon have improved electricity supply of 6,000 megawatts in the country, which was the target for 2016...
The Presidency has concluded the process for the sale of two presidential aircraft, a Falcon 7x executive jet and Hawker 4000, The PUNCH has learnt. In...
The Defence Headquarters, has dismissed rumours making the rounds that the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin and the Chief of Naval State, Vice Admiral...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the retirement from service of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Gabriel Olonisakin, and the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS),...
Governor Rochas Okorocha has described federal roads in Imo State as death traps. Okorocha stated this at the weekend when the Chairman of Works Committee of...
Following the recent attacks that killed at least 36 persons at a market in Madagali, the Adamawa State government is considering a ban on hijab in...
Ahead of 2019 Presidential election, political intrigues and realignment are beginning to shape the political scene, with moves by politicians to form a mega party. Vanguard gathered...
No fewer than three worshippers at the Synagogue Church of all Nations, Ikotun, Lagos State, have been confirmed dead after a stampede on the church’s premises...
Ijaw youths, weekend, shot and cut off the head of an Urhobo youth residing at Aladja, Udu Local Government Area, James Oghenekparabor Elvis, in revenge of...
The Head of Media and Public Affairs, of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, yesterday disclosed that the commission would drag more...
Elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, has indicted the military for the nation’s woes, saying their incursion into political leadership was responsible for the country’s lack of...
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has expressed its unflinching support for agitation for a sovereign state of Biafra. The organisation announced its backing at...
A former Director of Military Intelligence (DMI) of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Abubakar Sadeeq Hanafi Sa’ad, has cried out that six months since his compulsory...
President of Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, Youth wing, Udu Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr. Sunday Subi, has warned that Urhobo youths will not issue ultimatum...
Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Audi Ogbeh, recently granted Punch Newspaper an interview. Here is an excerpt. Question: With respect to government’s plan of making Nigeria self...
The Bayelsa State governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has presented the 2017 appropriation bill with an estimated budget of N221 billion to the State House of Assembly...
A serving commissioner in the Kano State Ministry of Land and Physical Planning, Alhaji Faruk Bibi Faruk; as well as the permanent secretary and director respectively...
