If President Muhammadu Buhari’s N8.83 trillion budget is passed by the National Assembly without changes, the education sector would be getting its worst allocation in terms...
As the furore over the emergence of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) National Commissioner, Amina Zakari, as the head of collation for next month’s presidential...
There are indications that the cracks in the leadership of the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic may have informed the decision of its governorship...
The Federal Government and its agencies will spend N3.29bn on sewage, cleaning and fumigation in the 2019 fiscal year, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. The details of...
Despite its avowed declaration to begin the much trumpeted Operation Python Dance nationwide on January 1, 2019, the Nigerian Army could not live up to its...
The current upsurge in Boko Haram attacks on Nigerian Army units in Borno and Yobe states are not only as a result of inadequate weapons as...
Nigerians are to brace up for austere times this year again as notable economists have predicted a bleak future for the country this year, saying the...
The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has recalled Dasuki Galadanchi to Imo state as the commissioner of police in charge of the command, two days after...
More knocks yesterday came for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Niger State as two gubernatorial candidates, Alhaji Aminu Mohammad Baka and Hanafi Muazu Sudan and...
Industry analysts have predicted that the aviation industry may experience bankruptcy among many operators due to lack of operating funds, failure to obtain loans and lacklustre...
Passengers on-board Azman Air flight from Lagos to Port Harcourt Thursday morning were petrified when one of the two-engine aircraft failed while the aircraft was mid-air,...
THE Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, described the allegation by the state government that its refused to form a statutory quorum to receive the 2019...
The decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to unilaterally draft guidelines for conduct of the general elections has raised questions about the agency’s credibility....
There is anxiety in government circles over Labour’s plan to go on strike. The action is to push the demand for a new minimum wage. But...
A former Director of the Department of the State Services (DSS), Mr. Mike Ejiofor, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to relieve the leadership of some of...
The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has amended the timeline for the conclusion of the privatisation of Yola Electricity Distribution Company (Disco) in Adamawa State and...
Some members of the Ondo State Executive Council are divided over the alleged plan of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to support some National Assembly candidates of the...
There is anxiety in the Nigeria Police over what could happen in the next 24 hours, as the service term of the Inspector General of Police,...
The Presidency has earmarked N274.7 million for electricity and another N65 million on animals in this year’s budget. A breakdown of the federal estimates for 2019,...
Since the inception of the Contributory Pension Scheme, relatives of 50,811 dead workers have been paid claims totalling N156.12bn as of the end of June 2018,...
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has removed the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi. Also removed by the IGP were the three Deputy...
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) may have split over support for court-declared presidential candidate, Professor Jerry Gana, and the supposed winner of the party’s national convention...
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has hit the ground running following his appointment as co-chairman of the All Progressives Congress...
As 2018 maritime year comes to an end, sector stakeholders and operators have indicated that regulatory and operational environment worsened during the year gone by. They...
DESPITE its 202 trillion standard cubic feet, scf, gas reserves, Nigeria has not been able to harness enough of its gas for power generation, as a...
Officials of the Nigerian Prisons Service attached to the Ikoyi Prison in Lagos have arrested members of a three-man drug syndicate for attempting to sell marijuana...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ahead of its Friday’s meeting with the Independent National Electoral Commission, has said that its ongoing seven-week strike is in...
Nigerians from across different social strata, who expressed expectations and apprehension for the New Year to The Guardian, said ensuring a credible general election and security...
The Federal Government has set aside N2 billion to compensate those dislodged on the Right of Way (RoW) of the Second Niger Bridge, The Nation has...
Despite the upcoming general elections in the country, some chief executive officers (CEOs) have predicted that the Nigerian economy will perform better in 2019 than last...
Over 10,000 contract staff on the employment of international oil companies (IOCs) and local crude producers will not be confirmed in 2019, New Telegraph has learnt....
LEADERS of Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, an umbrella body of traditional rulers, leaders and stakeholders of states of Niger Delta were in a dilemma, yesterday, over...
THE execution of Nigeria’s 2019 budget will likely encounter a serious threat as the price of Bonny Light, the nation’s premium oil grade, yesterday, hovered at...
Some residents of Baga, who fled from Boko Haram attacks to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Monday, narrated their ordeals to The PUNCH. The residents,...
The Federal Government budgeted N1,001,318,171 for President Muhammadu Buhari’s local and international travels in the proposed 2019 budget. The budget proposes N250,021,595 for the President’s local...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has described the allegation of N600 billion annual losses to delay in awarding contract for the implementation of “Revenue Assurance Software”...
THERE are apprehensions in the insurance industry over allegations that some insurance operators have cleverly created means of giving out discounts on compulsory classes of insurance...
The power transmission capacity in the North-East has increased by 100 per cent, the Transmission Company of Nigeria has said. According to the TCN, the transmission...
The General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Peter Ozo-Eson, said governors who claimed to lack the financial capacity to pay the N30,000 minimum wage should...
About seven airlines applying for Air Operator’s Certificate have failed to complete it or have abandoned the process, The PUNCH has learnt. According to findings by...
The police have dismissed 121 of at least 167 police officers who absconded from a counterterrorism training facility to avoid deployment against Boko Haram insurgents last...
Reports coming from credible sources indicate that Boko Haram terrorists may have taken control of Baga town, following a series of heated battle with Nigerian soldiers....
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is to go tough on Governors Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun State) and Rochas Okorocha (Imo State) for their recalcitrance over the outcomes...
Electricity generation companies (Gencos) have accused the Nigerian Government of taking power from them and selling to countries in the West African region under the West...
Trouble is brewing within the camps of some opposition political parties ahead of the 2019 presidential election, owing to moves to convince their presidential candidates to...
THE leadership of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Ondo State and the state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu are on collision course over his decision to back...
About 14 sectors of the economy recorded a decline of about $3.45bn (about N1.05tn) in investment inflow between the first and third quarter of the year,...
Operators in the organised Private Sector (OPS) have raised concerns about the declining oil prices and risk to government’s economic projections for 2019 fiscal year as...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has explained why it withdrew $1.05billion from the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) dividend account, stressing that Section 7 of...
IF analysts’ projections are anything to go by, the recent reversal in the inflationary developments in the economy towards uptick is set to be sustained not...
