A serving head teacher, Mr. Cosmas Nwaiwu, has been reportedly killed by irate youths from Nneoche Umuoma Nzerem in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo...
Mrs Turai Yar’Adua, wife of Nigeria’s former president, Umaru Yar’Adua once had a grand dream to build a cancer centre in the Nigerian capital that will...
The suspension of the Director-General (DG) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr. Mounir H. Gwarzo by the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun last...
Worried by the massive arms recovered in riverine communities of Ondo State, President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday meet with nine governors of Niger Delta states...
THE trending economic recovery news in the third quarter of 2017 (Q3’17)/ first nine months 2017 (9-M’17), did not prevent the banking sector from some misery...
Twenty more exotic cars imported for members of the House of Representatives have arrived at the National Assembly in Abuja, The PUNCH learnt on Sunday. Findings...
A serving police officer, DCP Abduyari Lafia, who had earlier earned commendations for bursting fraud cases amounting to more than N360 million, has written a petition...
Barely one week to the make or mar national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), its lean finances could throw spanner in its works, especially...
The recent reinstatement of Deputy Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Danjuma, an officer indicted in the extra-judicial gruesome killing of five young auto spare parts traders and...
Following the perceived dominance of governors who owe workers’ salaries representing Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, in the 30-man committee inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari to fashion...
The Federal Government has said it will henceforth sanction Deposit Money Banks, exporters and other stakeholders involved in the delay of repatriation of export proceeds. This...
Fresh details have emerged of how the embattled former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina allegedly “arranged” for his reinstatement and subsequent...
Sequel to the resignation of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), there have been so many backlashes on the rumoured...
WHEN the Police declared wanted notable indigenes of Ugborodo, an Itsekiri oil community in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, over the August 23 ambush...
The Federal Government’s School Feeding Programme has suffered a setback in Niger State due to the poor management and unhygienic method of serving food to pupils....
Unknown to many Nigerians, there was a plot to abduct a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, in the thick of...
Gunmen have shot dead six police officers drafted to maintain peace in Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Confirming the incidence, the state PPRO, SP...
Some Civil Society Organisations, as well as a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), on Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to...
Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, has described the request by embattled former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms,...
There is mounting pressure from some PDP bigwigs on former governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to dump the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and re-join them, credible...
For the first time in the life of the Imo State House of Assembly since the current administration of Governor Rochas Okorocha, the Assembly would in...
A former President, Christian Association of Nigeria, Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, has asked the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari why life is becoming harder for Nigerians after...
THE Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), the National Arts Theatre and some selected power plants under the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) are part of the key...
THE Federal Government has waded into the crisis between the Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isah Hamman Misau, APC, Bauchi Central, and Inspector- General of...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to stop wasting time and urgently sack the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, over the role he...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has one more hurdle to cross in his secret deal with some stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by...
SOUTHERN Senators, yesterday, rose from a three-day retreat, demanding that President Muhammadu Buhari should, as a matter of urgency, summon a conference to consider the report...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has not applied to the International Police for the arrest of fleeing former Chairman of the Presidential Task Team on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was still holding on to a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Anyim Pius Anyim ,...
FORMER Minister of Transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, on Friday added his voice as he joined those calling for immediate resignation of Chairman, Caretaker Committee of Peoples...
Reprieve may have come the way of a suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Mr. Ibrahim Danjuma, as indications emerged yesterday of his reinstatement into the...
NIGERIA’s Prison population of 65,000 inmates are currently under the threat of starvation following the non-payment of ration and gas suppliers since 2015. Saturday Vanguard gathered...
There were fears among the All Progressives Congress chieftains on Friday, following the defection of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar from the ruling party. Saturday PUNCH gathered...
Where is the over N13b cash raised for the Centenary Project? This is part of the questions detectives are asking former Secretary to the Government of...
Ahead of the December 9 National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stakeholders of the party in the South-West are currently up in arms against...
Former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, will on Saturday formally defect to ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)....
THE leadership of the House of Representatives has urged the citizenry not to expect the final budget in less than three months. Chairman, House Committee on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has released a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, The PUNCH can confirm. The EFCC...
The hope of about 30 graduates to gain jobs at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Kano, has been dashed after they failed a mandatory drug test. The...
The Federal Government spends an average of N8.4 billion yearly to feed awaiting trial inmates and persons in juvenile institutions. The figure excludes 23,217 inmates already...
The Nigerian Prisons Service, yesterday, responded to the allegation by kidnap suspect, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans, that he was not being given enough food by prison...
Today’s meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) will hold at the office of the wife of the President, Daily Trust learnt yesterday. It was gathered...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration on Tuesday demolished about 500 structures in Paipe community near Idu-Karmo, Abuja. The exercise rendered many residents homeless, many of whom...
The National Universities Commission has budgeted N8m for research and development in 2018, while N85m is also earmarked for the purchase of motor vehicles at the...
Plans are underway by the Federal Government and other stakeholders to generate additional 14,000 megawatts, mw of power from water (hydro). The Energy Commission of Nigeria...
Barring any last minute change, residents of Arab, a community in Calabar municipality may stage a protest to the zonal office of the Port Harcourt Electricity...
The remaining four power stations being built under the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) will be completed by the end of 2018, a source at the...
As stakeholders in the global aviation industry gathered in Abuja this week for the World Aviation Forum (WAF) between November 20-22, the Federal Government with Boeing,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured a remand warrant to further detain a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius, who...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday warned that the full weight of the law would be visited on those hawking pre-registered SIM cards in spite of...
