The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Saturday allayed fears that pump price of petrol might move up following National Assembly’s recent passage of the Petroleum...
Ahead the 2019 governorship election, fiery Archbishop of Owerri Catholic Diocese, Most Reverend Anthony Obinna has resumed attacks against Governor Rochas Okorocha and the All Progressives...
There are strong indications that northern governors in the All Progressives Congress have withdrawn their support for the elongation of the tenure of the party’s National...
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, has said the nation has not been able to develop a political culture due...
BY the end of 2018, the Federal Government would have spent the sum of N55.19 trillion as budgets for 10 years, if the N8.612 trillion proposed...
Unknown to many, the failed attempt to foist a Caretaker Committee on the All Progressives Congress (APC) was actually aimed at creating legal crisis for President...
The International Police have yet to declare Senator Dino Melaye wanted, 72 hours after the Nigeria Police Force claimed that the lawmaker and seven other suspects...
The Taraba State Government has said that it has lost confidence in the Federal Government’s security apparatus in the state, particularly the military. The Senior Special...
Power play as well as allegations of conflict of interests in the Ministry of Transportation has stalled the inauguration of boards of key agencies under the...
Ex-militants from the Niger Delta thursday said they had concluded arrangements to march on Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, if the payment of their stipends is not effected...
More revelations emerged yesterday on the extent Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm hired by the Goodluck Jonathan administration for two million Pounds to sway the...
Former Governor of Kaduna State Ahmed Makarfi has declared that Nigeria needs a more committed and capable leadership. He spoke in an interview yesterday, when the...
FED up with the chaotic and indiscriminate parking of trucks with the attendant lingering gridlock on the Apapa/Oshodi expressway, Lagos, Nigerian Navy, has handed down a...
The federal government is making plans to pay pensioners who retired in January and February 2017 under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) soon, LEADERSHIP can now...
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the immediate past governor of Edo State, has been tipped to emerged as the leading candidate to replace chairman of the All Progressives...
With the 2019 elections barely a year away, high stakes politicking have taken centre stage at the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), where President Muhammadu Buhari...
THE era of writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) once and making it seems to have been long gone. With an average of 1.5 million...
A scheduled meeting between the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress and the party’s caucus at the House of Representatives was unceremoniously called off...
Dozens of armed police officers have laid siege at the secretariat of the Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association over the body’s decision to stage...
The National caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved a 50-member Elders Council to replace the Board of Trustees (BoT). It was learnt that...
Though the Federal Government pegged the exchange rate at N305.25 to a dollar, the American Consulate in Nigeria exchanged N400 to a dollar in visa application...
The labour dispute between the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the oil service firms has worsened despite efforts by Petroleum...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Tuesday ordered the 11 power distribution companies to engage the services of the recently approved independent Meter Asset Providers in...
Governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and some All Progressives Congress (APC) governors have quietly thrown their weight behind the move by...
Wife of the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mrs. Bisi Fayemi, said yesterday that her husband, Dr. Kayode Fayemi will vie for the Ekiti governorship...
More evidence of corrupt practices by ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration may be tendered following a challenge by the former leader, it was learnt yesterday. Federal Government...
The Ministry of Defence said on Monday that it had received reports from Nigerians on the misconduct of soldiers as regards the farmers and herdsmen’s clashes...
As preparations by the leadership and some members of the National Assembly to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the amendments to the Electoral Act engage...
Members of the Senate, who are against the impending move to override President Muhammadu Buhari on the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill, are now “over 50,”...
The Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led reconciliation efforts in the ruling All Progressives Congress APC may have lost its steam following the decision of the party leadership...
The Christian Association of Nigerialhaji Sa’ad Abubakar lll-led Jama’atu Nasril Islam, hav, the #BringBackOurGirls coalition and the Sultan of Sokoto, Ae disagreed over the amnesty promised...
In a brazen display of disregard for constituted authority, truck and tanker drivers, took over the entire Oshodi/Apapa express way, denying other motorists access. The gridlock...
Paul Arkwright, the United Kingdom High Commissioner to Nigeria, has told Premium Times that his country, or any other Western nation as far as he could...
One year after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) discovered a whopping $44.3 million at a luxury apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos, the anti-graft agency, in...
Some Senators are planning to resist the National Assembly’s plot to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on amendments to the Electoral Act, The Nation has learnt....
Ahead of 2019 general elections, political associates of late General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua have resuscitated his political structure. Loyalists of the late political stalwart, who met...
Conflicting interpretations are trailing the Supreme Court’s verdict on the new wards created by the Cross Rivers State government to ensure that the remnants of Bakassi...
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has no presidential candidate to match President...
The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), says the N13m allowances being received by senators is only a tip of...
In an audacious move, the Nigeria Police on Saturday refuted claims by Presidency officials that President Muhammadu Buhari had queried the Inspector General of Police, Mr....
Fresh revelations have emerged about how governors and leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) schemed to abandon the party for the Social Democratic Party (SDP)...
The Peoples Democra-tic Party (PDP) is under massive pressure to change its name as alliance talks intensify between it and some other parties, the Coalition for...
A former Minister of Foreign Affairs and member of the defunct Presidential Committee on Boko Haram during the Jonathan administration, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, has said that...
The power tussle between Senators, loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari, and those who are pushing for the reordering of elections heightened on Saturday with the President’s...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo; the immediate past Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso and some political parties have been meeting as part of moves to...
President Muhammadu Buhari may have cancelled his plan to attend the extraordinary meeting of African Union Heads of State and Government billed to hold in Kigali,...
Despite the announcement Wednesday by the spokesman of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abdulrazaq Namdas, that a tweaked version of the Electoral (Amendment) Bill will be...
As the death toll in the attacks launched by suspected herdsmen on Dekina and Omala Councils of Kogi State rose to about 50, the natives may...
There were indications last night that the order of the 2019 general election was not one of the issues President Muhammadu Buhari discussed with the Senate...
Many Nigerians have cried out against the recently discovered huge allowances accruable to the 109 senators even as prominent individuals are calling for a downward review...
