First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Stanbic IBTC, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and Zenith Bank Plc have been appointed the settlement banks for the $2.5 billion bilateral...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has traced 61 assets to former Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Oceanic Bank Mrs. Cecilia Ibru in Dubai in...
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in London, United Kingdom. The Presidency, however, attributed his presence in the British capital to what it called “technical stopover.” The...
THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, said it has commenced investigation of involvement of four pharmaceutical firms in the codeine cough...
Unless wise counsel prevails, the crisis dogging Nigerian basketball could go a notch higher following a fresh dispute over who should control competitions in the game’s...
There was unusual security presence at the National Assembly yesterday, as combined team of combat-ready security operatives drawn from the Department of State Services (DSS), anti-riot...
In a bid to catalyse the revival of the textile industry in the country, the Raw Materials and Research Development Council has presented 20 tonnes of...
Workers have threatened not to allow the privatisation of the Nigeria railway system, unless existing labour issues are settled, the President of the Senior Staff Association...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed its readiness to conduct fresh examinations for some of the candidates who sat its 2018 Unified Tertiary...
A former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Osita Chidoka, yesterday said he was not involved in a N3.9billion fraud as alleged by the Economic and Financial Crimes...
The recent Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) announcement that the chairmen and chief executives of any licensed bank who fail to publish their financial statements will...
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS has said that truck drivers are among the highest carriers of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the country....
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is bracing for next year’s general elections – without cash. The polls are 291 days away, but there is no...
Facts have emerged that Teleology Holdings Limited actually offered to pay $301 million during the bid process for the sale of 9mobile to emerge as the...
Angered by the failure to recall Dino Melaye, who represents Kogi West senatorial district of Kogi State, Governor Yahaya Bello may have concluded plans to sack...
Barring last minute changes, the National Assembly would receive the report on the 2018 budget from its joint Committee on Appropriation tomorrow (Wednesday), The PUNCH learnt...
THERE are indications that the insurance industry may not meet the N1trillion premium income target set for 2020 following the refusal by many states to implement...
There were about 30 armed policemen on guard as Senator Dino Melaye remained at the National Trauma Centre of the National Hospital in Abuja. When Daily...
FORMER Osun State Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola is holding tight to a Federal Government board appointment, despite leading ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Third Force battle against the President...
There have been ongoing community protests at Oil Mining Lease (OML) 30, Nigeria’s second largest onshore oil and gas asset, located in the western Niger Delta,...
About two years after the Pension Fund Administrators started funding the Pension Protection Fund meant for financing minimum pension payment to retirees under the Contributory Pension...
The House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence has said that another $202m belonging to the National Intelligence Agency is unaccounted for and must...
With angry members of the National Assembly allegedly collecting signatures to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari for the legislative bypass in the ongoing $496m Tucano aircrafts deal,...
The process of assembling a credible and formidable National Working Committee (NWC) to work with ex-Governor Adams Oshiomhole as the new National Chairman of the All...
An investigation by THISDAY on the geographical spread of Nigeria’s electricity generation sources has shown that out of the 36 states in the country and the...
Based on the information gathered directly from all polling units in Kogi West, there were indications yesterday that the recall exercise of Senator Dino Melaye is...
The All Progressives Congress members in the National Assembly and their Peoples Democratic Party counterparts have disagreed on the possible effect of the report of the...
The Police yesterday averted what would have been a bloody clash between supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Prof Congress (APC)...
After almost 18 years of been in the woods without clear consideration by successive governments and the legislature, President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally received the harmonised...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, may have backed out of the party’s national chairmanship race, Saturday Telegraph has learnt....
The United States Government has kept mum over the delivery date and payment options involved in the purchase of the $462m A-29 Tucano light attack aircraft...
THE absence of Inspector General (IG) Ibrahim Idris yesterday stalled the hearing of a suit filed by the Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky-led Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN)...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the people of the South-East not to allow themselves to be taken for a ride by the Presidency with...
The plan by the former factional national chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, (PDP) Senator Ali Modu Sheriff to return to the All Progressives Congress, (APC)...
who last year lost the post of the National Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a long battle that was finally settled at...
The prospects of a seamless election of a new set of national officers for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, are being beclouded by fresh intrigues...
Leadership crisis at the Benin depot of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has disrupted the loading of petroleum products in Warri, Delta State....
The Akwa Ibom State Government has initiated a move to demolish the state campaign office of President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated three days ago. The president’s campaign...
April salary of civil servants across states is under threat with Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) session abruptly adjourned yesterday on account of Nigerian National Petroleum...
The festering crisis of confidence between the Presidency and the National Assembly may have deepened. There were signs yesterday that the Senate may have resolved to...
Nigeria’s National Assembly led by Senate President Bukola Saraki and House Speaker Yakubu Dogara paid out N5, 638, 664, 700 to 44 unqualified contractors, PREMIUM TIMES...
There is tension at the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure [NASENI] as the tenure of the head of the agency, Prof Mohammed Sani Haruna...
Poor monitoring, corruption, inconsistent government policies and political interference among others have been identified as some of the reasons why contract objectives are sometimes not achieved...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have raked in the sum of N181.5 million for selling forms to governorship aspirants in...
Lawmakers in both chambers of the National Assembly are set to take on the Executive over the withdrawal of $496 million (N151.4 billion) from the Excess...
The planned passage of the 2018 budget today (Tuesday) by the National Assembly is no longer feasible. Investigations on Monday indicated that the N8.612tn budget would...
Nigeria’s National Assembly led by Senate President Bukola Saraki and House Speaker Yakubu Dogara paid out N5, 638, 664, 700 to 44 unqualified contractors, PREMIUM TIMES...
THE Presidency Sunday debunked the allegation by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to London for the Commonwealth of Heads of...
The crisis between the proscribed Parliamentary Support Group and other senators deepened on Sunday, as the senior lawmakers threatened to expose their colleagues in the PSG....
Will the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) grant the request of Senate President Bukola Saraki and some of its former members for a name change before rejoining...
