Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has advocated for local refining of crude oil to make fuel available and easily accessible to all...
President Emmanuel Macron of France is billed to visit Nigeria in early July and will seek to address the joint session of the National Assembly, Ambassador...
Similarly, about seven people have also been killed in the two local government areas of Kaduna State by herdsmen. According to Senator Shehu Sani, who represents...
Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have reportedly intercepted a man transporting firearms to Benue state. Oko Micheal, deputy commander of Jigawa state...
Signs that President Muhammadu Buhari and other presidential candidates in the 2019 general election will walk on tight rope to get elected emerged on Tuesday with...
The Federal Government says it is planning to increase insurance coverage for the agricultural sector from the current 500,000 farmers to 3.8 million farmers. The Managing...
China has continued its clampdown on activists, lawyers and anyone in the country deemed to be vocal against government policies after it confirmed the arrest of...
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of Senator Bola Tinubu to lead the All Progressives Congress (APC) reconciliation team...
Authorities in India are now on the hunt for an unlicensed doctor who reportedly infected at least 40 people with HIV in the northern state of...
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has described Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court as a disgrace to the judiciary in Nigeria. He said that...
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has frowned over the amnesty his Imo State counterpart, Rochas Okorocha, granted to cultists who killed no less than 23 persons...
A plea bargain option sought by a former Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Olajumoke Akinjide, over her alleged fraud of N650 million,...
Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki on Tuesday began defence in his alleged false assets declaration trial at the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCT) with a former...
A new study by a group of scientists is saying there could be extragalactic exoplanets outside the solar system. The study, published February 2 in The...
President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday, constituted a committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to reconcile and build confidence among members of the party. The team will...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned in strong terms Police declaration of Kassim Afegbua, spokesman of General Ibrahim Babangida, wanted over a statement he...
The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has declared Kazeem Afegbua, the spokesman of former militray president, Ibrahim Babangida, wanted over the statement he issued on behalf...
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said yesterday it would end the sale of this year’s unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) forms today. The board gave...
Despite the looming threat of Nigeria’s expulsion from the Egmont Group, a 152-nation network of national financial intelligence units, the Senate and House Committees on Anti-Corruption...
A serving minister in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet has purchased a massive edifice worth N280 million in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, New Telegraph has...
The general state of abbatoirs in Lagos is worrisome. Improper handling and processing, coupled with poor transportation methods, unhygenic display and sale of meat is a...
Several ad hoc committees of the Senate with mandates to carry out investigations have failed to present reports of their probes despite the fact that their...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a 43-year-old man identified as Mr. Olusegun Adefemi who lives in the Ijede area of Lagos...
The deployment of large number of policemen including the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, who was ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari to relocate to...
A report by New York times has revealed that the lawyers of President Donald Trump of the United States of America have advised him against sitting...
Kenyan authorities have lifted the ban on NTV and KTN which can now be accessible on air after a ban on four TV stations for attempting...
By Reuben Abati …. The drama, the controversy, the confusion, the double entendre, attended by seeming cowardice, that grew around a statement, perhaps the statements, purportedly...
The Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, has stated that the real reason former governor of the state, Dr Ikedi Ohakim wants to make a comeback as...
Nigerian equities reopened on Monday with a tinge of profit-taking as investors sought to monetise capital gains after quoted equities surged to a high of N16...
The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmad, Monday said over 300, 000 Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram insurgency were taking refuge in...
The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, Monday blamed poor preparation by state governments for the current spread of Lassa fever and other public health challenges in...
Chairman, Senate Committee on Defence, Sen. Abubakar Kyari has faulted claims by the military authorities that all 27 local government areas in Borno state have been...
Chief of Staff to the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose’, Dipo Anisulowo, has accused him of destroying the state’s chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)....
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu on Monday faced the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes. The anti-graft boss...
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has wondered aloud how President Muhammadu Buhari, who failed to visit Benue when 73 persons where killed in the state by...
Ekiti State’s Governor Ayodele Fayose has said that there was no longer any need for the withdrawal of the $1 billion the governors approved for the...
The trial of the prime surviving suspect in the 2015 Islamic State attacks on Paris Salah Abdeslam, 28, has begun in Brussels with reports revealing that...
Relative relief has come the way of Samsung heir Jay Y. Lee after a South Korean appeals court reduced his five-year jail term, dismissed a number...
Six months after accusing Michael Ugwu, Sony Music West Africa’s General Manager of ripping him and other acts signed onto the platform off their hard work,...
A former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, on Monday appeared in court carried on a stretcher. He was produced at...
By Joseph Edgar… If you are very conversant on social media you will come across almost on a daily basis statements credited to so many prominent...
Artificial intelligence is proving to be a revolutionary tool across many industries, but the technology is having a particularly big impact when it comes to healthcare....
Of all the emotions we experience, love is arguably the most complex. Feelings can range from pure ecstasy to maddening torture; one moment we feel hugely...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to come out clean on the herdsmen killings and address the nation on how to...
Former Governor of Imo State, Dr Ikedi Ohakim, has formally put to rest speculations that he wants to make a return to Douglas House. The former...
The actual amount of money missing at the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has been put at $202 million and not $44 million as a recent report...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and its chairman, Ibrahim Magu, have been drgged to court. The plaintiff, a former Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT)...
Broadcom Ltd. plans to raise its bid for Qualcomm Inc. to around $120 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, trying to force...
By SOC Okenwa… Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, is an elder statesman whose professed love for Nigeria is legendary. An intriguing controversial figure the retired Owu-born General...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… Truth, in the words of Thomas Aquinas, is the agreement of what is in the mind with what is on the lips. Considering...
