The Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, on Wednesday said that doctors and health workers had been paid up to N20 billion as COVID-19 inducement...
Abubakar Malami, Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justic, has expressed his willingness to testify before the Justice Ayo Salami presidential panel, if he is summoned....
The All Progressives Congress (APC) subsists on lies and deceit, like its twin the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but the party told a fundamental truth on...
In trying to justify Buhari’s latest callous hike in the price of petrol (amid a pandemic, no less), Buhari’s supporters increasingly sound like noisome idiots straining...
These latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Africa Foresight Group, AFG, looks to expand to three new markets...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ondo, Eyitayo Jegede, has decried the security challenges in the state, and the rate of kidnappings. Jegede who...
The Kano State House of Assembly has passed the Emirate Councils Amendment Bill 2020, making the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, the permanent chairman...
American President, Donald Trump, has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. This is coming after he helped broker peace between Israel and the United...
The recent hike in the price of petrol and electricity tariff saw Nigerians took to the streets in different states on Tuesday, September 8, to protest...
A panel set up by the Niger State Universal Basic Education Board has uncovered 1,500 ghost primary school teachers as well as 1000 others who are...
The Lagos State government has endorsed a 33% increment for all the state pensioners under the Defined Benefits Scheme (Pay as You Go) with effect from...
Anambra State Elders and Stakeholders’ Forum has named a former governor, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife and 12 others as members of a 13-man peace committee to intervene...
The inflow of foreign exchange into Nigeria shrank by 43.2% to $5.52 billion in May as Africa’s biggest economy took a battering from a record crash...
The clinical trial of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine which is seen as one of the most promising against Covid-19 that are currently under development has been put...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party has said that the exit of the former Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, popularly called Mama Taraba, had...
About 30% of petrol product meant for local consumption is smuggled out of Nigeria on a daily basis to neighbouring countries, where fuel subsidy is not...
Flash-floods in north-eastern Ghana caused by heavy downpour have claimed no fewer than seven lives and rendered many homeless, according to local authorities on Tuesday. A...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is said to have purchased weapons it intends to distribute to thugs ahead of the September 19 governorship election in Edo...
“What is good for Babangida, Atiku, Marwa and the two northern governors and their South-South counterpart ought to be good for any Igbo aspirant if we...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Tuesday issued a rejoinder to a recent press release by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), attacking some of the...
The Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi has taken a swipe at his boss, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu for describing him as a betrayal, neophyte and...
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Air Peace, Allen Onyema has reacted to a report that he floated the airline with billions of Naira stolen from...
The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) has reacted to the recent increase in the prices of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and electricity tariffs by the Federal Government....
Justice George Omereji of the Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, on Tuesday sentenced five men to death by hanging for kidnapping and murder...
The total debt of the Nigerian government (not including states and the Federal Capital Territory) came to N24.52 trillion at the end of March, the Central...
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has confirmed that it has destroyed no fewer than four truck loads of substandard electric cables declared to be of...
Medical experts, on Tuesday faulted the COVID-19 infection figures being released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the reopening of the nation’s economy....
Nigerian military on Tuesday said the wanted militia leader in Nasarawa, Terwase Akwaza, aka Gana had been shot dead. Commander of the Four Special Forces Command,...
Sergeant Sulaiman Mahmoud, a station guard at the Offa Police Station on Tuesday told a Kwara High Court why the police could not stop the armed...
Auditng firm, Price Waterhouse Coopers has lost one of its Deputy Senior Partner, Tola Ogundipe, who drowned while boating on the coast of Lagos. According to...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you this morning 1. ‘Defend our achievements’, Buhari tells govt officials President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday charged...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of Benue’s most wanted criminal, Terwase Akwaza, aka Gana, by soldiers. Ortom, who disclosed this at...
Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 296 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which disclosed this on its Twitter handle, said the cases were...
The Kaduna State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday confirmed the death of one of its officers, Bulus Sanda, who...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday charged ministers, heads of departments and agencies to go on the offensive and defend the achievements of his administration. The president,...
Four Nigerians have been arrested in the Philippines for allegedly being part of an international syndicate that hacked and siphoned funds from banks. However, the Nigerians,...
Cristiano Ronaldo netted two goals on Tuesday to help Portugal defeat Sweden in Nations League, and also reaching another landmark. The Juventus star became the first...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Tuesday postponed the launch of its planned single currency, Eco. In a communiqué issued at the end...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday decried the increasing economic hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. He, therefore, charged the relevant ministers and other...
The equity segment of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), for the second day running, ended the trading session in the negative territory as investors’ willingness to...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday revealed the details of one of his meetings with United States President, Donald Trump , in Washington. At a Ministerial Performance...
A young man simply identified as Damilola Oladapo slumped and died during a football match in Ido-Osun, Egbedore local government area of Osun State on Monday....
Nigeria’s table tennis star, Quadri Aruna says he will bounce back from a disappointing debut with the TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell. Playing on the 1st matchday of...
In a bid to curb human trafficking and irregular movement of people to the state, Lagos State government on Tuesday inaugurated a 20-member Task Force on...
The Kwara State government on Tuesday confirmed nine fresh COVID-19 cases in the state. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Rafiu Ajakaye, who disclosed...
The Kaduna State Police Command said on Tuesday it had returned the sum of N3, 991,650 to the family of an auto accident victim in the...
Zamfara State will hold its local council election on December 5. The Secretary of the State Independent Electoral Commission (ZASIEC), Muhammad Sani, who disclosed this in...
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) said on Tuesday the three tiers of government and other statutory recipients received N3.879trillion from the Federation Accounts Allocation...
A Boston-based developer tool company, Progress, has announced acquiring software automation platform Chef for $220 million. According to press, Chef has an annual recurring revenue (ARR)...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday re-arraigned Malabu Oil and Gas Limited on fresh money laundering charges. The commission re-arraigned Malabu alongside a...
