With less than three months to the 2019 general elections, prominent Nigerians including former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji...
Contrary to claims by the Nigerian Army that 23 soldiers died in the recent attack by Boko Haram insurgents on Nigerian Army 157 Task Force Battalion...
Afenifere chieftain and former lawmaker, Senator Femi Okurounmu, has lambasted 93-year-old Senator Ayo Fasanmi, describing him as a stooge of the All Progressives Congress chieftain, Asiwaju...
The leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission will, this week, hold a crucial meeting with the leaders of political parties towards the coming 2019 General...
The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria on Sunday directed all its members to shut down operations at midnight of Sunday, December 9, 2018,...
Amid calls by some supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for it to sanction governors Rochas Okorocha and Ibikunle Amosun of Imo and Ogun states,...
Barely three months to the next general election, are some chieftains of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State, urged on by aggrieved members...
British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ms Laure Beaufils, has said ISIS West Africa, and not Boko Haram, was responsible for the rise in insurgents’ attacks...
The Nigeria Police Force has said that it is making strident efforts aimed at recovering the huge cash stolen from six banks by armed robbers who...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited a spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe, for allegedly receiving N100m from embattled former...
There were strong indications on Saturday evening that the Senate would, this week, begin the process to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to withhold his assent...
Irate passengers have urged the minister of aviation to probe the near air mishap involving Aero Contractors on Thursday night at the Port Harcourt international airport....
President Muhammadu Buhari may present the 2019 Budget to the National Assembly next week. But the lawmakers said they have not received any official communication from...
Reported discovery of alleged improvised explosive device (IED) around the Asaba end of the River Niger Bridge created anxious moments on Friday by residents of Asaba...
African Cup of Nations 2013 highest goal scorer, Emmanuel Emenike, has said encouragement from the technical crew of the team led by late Stephen Keshi, was...
The National Conscience Party (NCP) has disassociated itself from the adoption of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, as the consensus candidate...
Facts have emerged why the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, turned down an offer by the presidency and national leadership...
THE national leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC has set machinery in place to whip Governors Ibikunle Amosun and Rochas Okorocha in line towards advancing...
A major row is brewing in the police circles following the disappearance of the statement of the ring leader of the April 5, deadly robbery attacks...
The presidential election, which is scheduled to hold on February 16, 2019, may take five days to collate and announce its result, Saturday PUNCH has learnt....
Candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun and Ondo states have scheduled a meeting for the weekend to discuss their fate. This followed their...
GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the Chief Cyril Ogodo led faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, Prof Patrick Utomi, has described the recent peace...
WHEN the Governor Abiola Ajimobi led administration mooted the idea of making religious and worship centres in Oyo State pay mandatory security levies, many people took...
The All Progressives Congress is worried by the decision of some aggrieved members, including the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibukunle Amosun, and his Imo State counterpart,...
A federal lawmaker representing Oyi/Anyamelum Federal Constituency of Anambra State in the House of Representatives, Gabriel Onyewinfe has decamped from the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)...
Plans by the Federal Government to cut wheat importation by 60 per cent by December 2025 may suffer a set back, as imports have exceeded local...
There appears to be a major crack in the political camp of Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, as political campaigns for the 2019 elections intensify...
The normally feisty political chieftains in Oyo State have been unusually quiet. However, the quietness is not what many are taking for granted as the 2019...
The Federal Government delegation led by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, and the Permanent Secretary, Sonny Echono, met with the leaders of the Academic Staff...
Real reasons the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, cleared the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Kwara State Governor, Abdulfata Ahmed,...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, met in Abuja on Tuesday in Abuja, THE PUNCH learnt last...
Massive flight delays and cancellations await local travels later this month due to near obsolete navigational facilities at airports nationwide. The facilities, including Instrument Landing Systems...
Top officials of the Federal Government, yesterday, began a trouble shooting measure to nip in the bud planned strike by oil marketers over N800 billion oil...
The Minister of Power Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has stated that the federal government is no longer keen on providing sovereign guarantees to investors...
Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, never told anyone he has been issued an American visa or planning a trip to the United...
Against the backdrop of a long and steady decline in the international oil price, the Federal Government may have started reviewing developments in the global oil...
The biennial National Sports Festival is set to hold in Abuja from December 6 to 16, after it was last staged in Lagos six years ago....
Former Governor Rashidi Ladoja of Oyo State on Monday met the governorship candidates of the African Democratic Congress and the Zenith Labour Party, Senator Olufemi Lanlehin...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Monday said that Nigeria will not encounter a scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, this season...
The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, has given the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, specific orders in efforts to end the Boko Haram...
Suspected herdsmen have reportedly killed two farmers at Iorza village in Gaambetiev, Logo Local Government Area in Benue Northeast Senatorial District. The victims are a fish...
The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) yesterday said Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari was fighting against the actualisation of a new national minimum wage...
It is not going to be a journey as usual for banks, companies and individual operators behind activities aimed at undermining the extant policy on the...
All seem not to be well within the Presidential Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which was inaugurated last Thursday in Abuja. The over...
WITH less than three months to the 2019 polls, indications have emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari may still not append his signature to the Electoral Bill,...
As part of the recovery plan for the nation’s capital market the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has mapped out strategies in key areas, especially investor...
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Sunday described the Federal Government’s silence on the N30,000 minimum wage proposal as provocative, stressing that it expected President Muhammadu Buhari...
THE Federal Government has withdrawn the recent threat to activate the ‘no work no pay policy’ against striking university teachers. This was disclosed by the National...
Ahead of the opening of his campaign today, Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar yesterday met with Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, who resigned...
There is unease in the parties as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) closes window of substitution of candidates for the 2019 governorship and state Assembly...
