President Muhammadu Buhari has threatened to sack chief executives of federal parastatals and agencies that fail to appear before the National Assembly to defend their budgets,...
Middle Belt and civil rights groups have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, over the unabated killings by...
The Senate has been advised to ignore the reasons given by President Muhammadu Buhari for not signing the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill passed by the...
An Abuja bound Boeing 737/500 flight from Sokoto made an air return to Sokoto airport midway into the flight, but it was not clear what led...
N905m in slush account: Court orders final forfeiture to EFCC A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday ordered the final forfeiture of N905, 941,696.87 in a...
Charles Okah, the brother of the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), who was given a life sentence for terrorism,...
Amid apprehension, public and private schools yesterday abruptly shut down over an alleged security threat in Kano State. The ugly trend, which generated tension, forced parents...
Senators loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari have started collating signatures of their members as part of efforts to frustrate move by the Senate to veto the...
Royal Dutch Shell and Eni have voluntarily filed to United States’ authorities internal probes into how they acquired a giant field in Nigeria as the companies...
THERE appears to be no end in sight for ex-Nigeria Airways workers for the payment of their terminal benefits seven months after N45 billion was approved...
President Muhammadu Buhari wil today meet with parents of the 110 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram on February 19 in Dapchi, Yobe State. They will be...
The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) has rejected the plan by the National Pension Commission (PenCom) to cancel the procurement process for the building of a...
Out of the 11,721 candidates who sat for the newly introduced February diet of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) by the West African...
How did former Borno State governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, raise $72 million (N12 billion) to buy a Gulfstream aircraft, Model G650, after leaving office as a...
After eight years, the national electricity grid will be receiving at least 10 megawatts (mw) from the Katsina Wind Farm in Lambar Rimi community as it...
DESPITE the fact that the nation’s natural gas reserves rose by 4.067 trillion cubic feet (tcf) from 187.998tcf in 2014 to 192.065tcf in 2015, the power...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has frozen 30 accounts and seized 37 assets allegedly belonging to the former Chairman of the Nigerian Social Insurance...
The opening of section one of the ongoing Apapa Wharf Road project has lessened the burden of staying long in a protracted traffic. Workers and truckers...
Without adequate funding of Research and Development (R &D), Nigeria’s economy will remain undeveloped, the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) has said. The President of NAS,...
Determined to stop the ongoing probe of a fraud in the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund(NSITF), some suspects have offered the Minister of Labour and Employment,...
The Federal Government has closed the verification of electricity debts allegedly being owed power distribution companies by its Ministries, Departments and Agencies. It was learnt that...
Two days after the 48-hour ultimatum issued to truck drivers to vacate the bridges/flyovers across Lagos metropolis expired, the drivers are yet to comply with the...
The Nigeria Customs Service said it has identified the importer of military wares which allegedly belong to the government of Kogi State. The customs also said...
There was confusion in Kogi State on Sunday as Governor Yahaya Bello ordered the dissolution of his cabinet but quickly reversed the order just before the...
Fresh indications emerged last night, on why the Presidency might not rush to give assent to the new Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit Bill, when it is...
More than two years after the Federal Government issued Enugu with a licence formally declaring two areas in the state as free trade zones, activities are...
Following the spate of insecurity and uncertainty spreading across the country, wealthy Nigerians have spent a total of N3.6 billion on the purchase of 62 armoured...
The ruling All Progressives Congress and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party saturday exchanged angry criticisms over the 2014 kidnapping of schoolgirls in Chibok by Boko...
The Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has angered a number of his colleagues for lifting the veil on the N13.5 million illegal allowances members of...
The Federal Ministry of Works, Power and Housing has said that the 2.2 kilometre Oweto Bridge across the River Benue, linking Nasarawa and Benue states, will...
In what appears an indictment of the federal government, a cross section of Libyan returnees from Edo state has said more Nigerians would continue to flee...
The Federal Government yesterday launched fresh moves to seize looted funds and suspicious assets traced to some former governors, ministers and senators in the United Arab...
As the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) commenced across the country yesterday, some of the candidates who sat for the exam at the Federal College...
The two presidential aircraft, a Falcon 7X executive jet and Hawker 4000, that were advertised for sale in October 2016, have yet to be sold almost...
Nigeria’s oil supply to the international market is facing glut as ample supply of light and medium grades from the North Sea and the Mediterranean are...
The Federal Government is set to offer two key power firms, Yola Electricity Distribution Company and Afam Power Plc, for sale to new core investors, investigation...
The Executive Secretary of the Youth Empowerment Foundation (YEF), Mrs Iwalola Akin-Jimoh, has lamented that the recent abduction of 110 girls of the Dapchi College, Yobe...
Fresh crisis may be looming in the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the national leadership is alleged to have perfected plans to amend the party’s constitution...
The immediate-past Commissioner for Health in Kano state under the tenure of Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Dr. Abubakar Labaran was on Thursday arraigned before a Kano...
Fresh facts have emerged on how the $150,000, which world athletics ruling body (IAAF) sent to the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) was spent. There have...
One secret many Nigerian senators hold very close to their hearts and always will avoid commenting on has been revealed by the outspoken senator representing Kaduna...
The Nigerian government has written to the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Kingdom and the United States of America after discovering hidden assets...
ABOUT 24 hours after a Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, bus crushed a 16-year-old school boy, Daniel Ezekiel, to death at Ogolonto Bus Stop, along Ikorodu Road...
Barely 24 hours after rejecting the tenure elongation handed over to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the Lagos faction...
Defaults in payment to the National Housing Fund (NHF) in Nigeria have reached N6.7trillion in five years, New Telegraph has learnt. According to findings, commercial banks,...
Managing director of Elephant Group, Mr. Tunji Oweye said Nigeria’s large poultry market of 17.5 million people is facing some challenges due to dwindling naira value....
About 30 people have been reportedly killed by a strange disease in Majia town, Taura Local Government Area of Jigawa State, leaving dozens hospitalised. Investigation revealed...
Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung has set up a committee to unearth the circumstances surrounding the alleged disappearance of $150,000 grant, which world athletics ruling body (IAAF)...
The mother of the slain Zone C Chairman, Motorcycle Operators Association, Lagos State, Rasaq Bello, aka Hamburger, has accused the police of shielding the person who...
Eight companies which got N4.478 billion to supply 104 Unity Colleges Science Kits disappeared with the cash, The Nation has learnt. The Universal Basic Education Commission...
