Failure by some state governors to access the Universal Basic Education Commission’s (UBEC) intervention fund is threatening the future of millions of Nigerian school children. The...
The scramble to acquire 9mobile, Nigeria’s fourth largest network operator, has advanced to the next stage, with 10 out of the 16 firms that submitted expressions...
THE Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, currently facing scrutiny from the Senate for allegedly spearheading the recall of wanted pension fraud...
Contrary to the claims by the Kogi State Government that Governor Yahaya Bello is healthy, investigations revealed that he has been admitted into a hospital in...
One week after the Federal Government promised to reward the person who provided the information leading to the discovery of $43.5 million, £27,800 and N23.2 million...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has given a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, the option of returning the N520m he...
Barring any last minute change on approval of new borrowing, the total external loans contracted by the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory are estimated...
At least 500 traders, buyers and residents may be trapped with millions of Naira properties destroyed if the 17 buildings identified to be defective buildings on...
Ahead of the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), there is fresh tension in the party over the whereabouts of about N9billion left by...
Emmanuel, the younger brother of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has insisted that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami may have succeeded in convincing the Senate ad-hoc committee probing the return and reinstatement...
Fugitive former chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, will next week appear before the ad hoc committee of the House of...
There was palpable anxiety in Awka and other parts of Anambra State yesterday as time ticked for the governorship election in the state today. The fear...
The federal government has constituted a ministerial committee to unravel the circumstances which led to the death of 26 teenage Nigerian migrant girls in the Mediterranean...
The traffic gridlock on Apapa-Oshodi expressway has now turned into a haven for hoodlums who attacked people at night and dispossessed them of valuables. The long...
Documents obtained by Saturday PUNCH show that the military is not truthful in its denial of its intention to bar women cadets from being admitted into...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, yesterday, detailed how former Secretary to the Federal Government, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, used firms in which he had interest...
Fugitive former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, has requested to appear before a House of Representatives investigative panel, Daily Trust...
A private sector infrastructure investment in Nigeria’s aviation sector is envisaged to rise to 48 per cent next year from the current 46 per cent, a...
Contrary to insinuations that the Federal Government cancelled the work permits of expatriate workers of Intels and its affiliates, government, yesterday, provided evidence to prove that...
The House of Representatives has invited the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, in connection with the investigation into the...
The Ship Owners Association of Nigeria (SOAN) has said government agencies are insensitive to the plight of jobless ship owners. This is even as the association...
The military has again moved into Peremabiri, a volatile coastal town in Southern Ijaw, Bayelsa State, after intelligence reports showed that militants were regrouping in the...
Former governors and Southwest Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders yesterday rejected the Enugu plan to choose a national chairman. The Enugu decision by leaders of the...
Foreign shipping companies have re-introduced surcharge for congestion due to inefficiency on the seaside at the nation’s seaports, LEADERSHIP findings have revealed. Nigeria had been saving...
A clearer picture of Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami’s role in the reinstatement of fugitive civil servant Abdulrasheed Maina emerged...
Chairman, House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating the operational activities of telecommunications’ equipment and service companies/vendors in Nigeria, Hon. Ahmed Abu (APC, Niger), has said investigations...
CLAIMS for the estimated N850 million reward for the discovery of the Nigeria Intelligence Agency, NIA, cash haul deepened yesterday after the whistle-blower who unearthed the...
The last has not been heard of the controversies surrounding the payment of the 5% commission to the whistleblower who gave the Economic and Financial Crimes...
For the most part of 30 years in which Nigeria’s foremost culture edifice, National Theatre, has been in comatose, government has lost over N300 billion. The...
In a move to keep to his promise to the chieftains and loyalists of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to appoint more ministers to his cabinet,...
The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), says the Federal Government does not want the whistle-blower who informed the Economic and Financial...
A week after being suspended from his post as Chairman of Special Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property, the Presidency has restored him to the...
There was pandemonium on Monday at the Anambra State Secretariat of the Independent National Electoral Commission, following alleged discovery of an explosive package suspected to be...
As part of plans to beef up the anti-graft war, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved 2, 250 job slots for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
The meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus held last Wednesday to streamline the number of aspirants to the National Chairmanship of the party was...
As 2019 draws near, some South-west leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are considering a number of options, including but not limited to an...
Buoyed by rising confidence that he breached no laws in the reinstatement of wanted ex-Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, Attorney...
In a major policy reversal, the Nigerian military is set to end the admission of female cadets into the combatant course of the Nigerian Defence Academy,...
At least two persons were killed and many others feared injured as gunmen believed to be Boko Haram insurgents attacked Maikadiri village in Askira-Uba Local Government...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has said that there is no law that prevents him from marrying a serving female police officer. He challenged...
There is palpable apprehension among operators of tank farms in Nigeria following federal government’s determination to end the importation of refined petroleum products in the country...
Officers of the Nigeria Prison Service undergoing a training programme at its institution in Kirikiri, Lagos, have accused officials of the school of extortion in the...
Worried by the intense intrigues over the choice of a new National Chairman of the party, the governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic...
CRISIS appears to be brewing in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the North-West, where the Chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the party, Senator Ahmed Makafi,...
A 56-year-Fulani herdsman, Mohammed Abdulkadire, jumped into River Benue in the Logo Local Government Area of Benue State, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. The National Coordinator of...
Concerned Nigerians can heave a temporary sigh of relief with the decision of the dreaded Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) to suspend its plan to renew attacks...
A special meeting of select stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), held in Abuja, on Wednesday night, to deliberate on how to avoid a rancorous...
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) yesterday released a report showing how over 1.4 million illegal rosewood logs from Nigeria, worth $300 million, were laundered into China....
The Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) has blown $55,000(N19 million) on training of 20 members of its staff in Denmark. The cost of the four-day...
