The Federal Government, on Thursday, said Nigerians living abroad remitted $25bn into the nation’s economy in 2018. The figure represents 83 per cent of the 2018...
A ministerial nominee from Kano State, Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi (retd), on Thursday blamed infighting among service chiefs for the continued insurgency and insecurity in the country....
The Edo State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Anselm Ojezua, has blamed the National Assembly for the festering nature of the crisis rocking the...
The Presidency has reacted to a video of some humanitarian workers who were abducted by insurgents in Northeast Nigeria, calling on the government to come to...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has yielded to a court order and issued Certificate of Return to Benjamin Uwajimogun, the Imo North Senatorial candidate of...
The House of Representatives on Thursday amended its Standing Orders to henceforth allow open voting for election of presiding officers. This followed unanimous adoption of a...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Thursday named the chairmen and deputy chairmen of the standing committees of the House. At the...
Six humanitarian workers and staff of Action Against Hunger (ACF) who were abducted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents last week, have begged the Nigerian government “to...
The former Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, on Thursday, mocked lawmakers of his former party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying that the pitiable state of the...
The Iranian government has pleaded with the Nigerian government and its judiciary to release and send the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), also...
Nigerian Senate on Thursday refused to question a ministerial nominee, but instead, asked him ‘to take a bow and go’ because he ‘is loyal’ and has...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Minority Leader of the Nigerian Senate, on Thursday supported former Bayelsa State governor, Timipre Sylva, to ‘take a bow and go’...
Following his clearance at the Senate on Wednesday, some Nigerians on Thursday condemned the Senate’s manner of clearing Dr Uche Ogah without attending to issues raised...
A Ministerial nominee, Sen. Tayo Alasoadura on Wednesday urged the red chamber of the National Assembly to revisit the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) Alasoadura who...
President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Nigeria on Friday and travel to Monrovia, the Liberian capital. Buhari is visiting the country to attend its 172nd Independence Anniversary...
The acting chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu on Wednesday said foreign countries are frustrating the trial of Alison-Madueke, and Mohammed Adoke...
Former Imo State governor and a serving Senator, Rochas Okorocha, has officially reacted to the sealing of properties owned by himself, and his family members, by...
The Oyo State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday raised the alarm over the manner in which the state governor, Seyi Makinde had allegedly...
Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Mohammed, has described the Nigerian judiciary as one of the best in Africa and said he would want to...
The Yoruba pan Socio- political group, Afenifere on Wednesday carpeted the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, saying it has failed in its constitutional responsibility of protecting lives...
In a bid to beat the 5-day ultimatum given to him, on July 21, 2019, by the Senate to submit his ministerial list and to put...
The heightened state of insecurity in Nigeria following clashes between the Nigerian Police and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has forced the government...
Former Military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), has said that irrespective of what some people are saying, and not withstanding internal and external setbacks...
The Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere and the Ohanaeze Ndigbo have carpeted the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, for accusing Southern and Middle Belt leaders of stereotyping the...
The House of Representatives is set to beam its searchlight on the over 20, 000 abandoned infrastructural projects of the Federal Government since 1999 to date....
A northern group, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has said former President Olusegun Obasanjo does not have any moral right to condemn any administration in the country,...
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has charged Southern and Middle Belt Forum leaders, to stop being petty by criminalising the Fulani and alluding every act of...
The House of Representatives has resolved to set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the alleged carting away of billions of Naira by five Nigerian...
Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has decried the slow pace at which the UK authorities are prosecuting the former...
Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement (YIAGA) Africa, has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list for not accommodating young people. The policy advocacy group noted...
The House of Representatives has called on Bauchi State Governor, Bala Muhammed, to issue a fresh proclamation for the inauguration of Bauchi State House of Assembly...
Speaking on the emergence of the new British Prime Minister, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said that Nigeria was ready to work with Boris Johnson. In...
The Chairman of Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, Prof. Itse Sagay, on Wednesday condemned the inclusion of former Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio on the...
The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party National New Media Group (PDP-NNMG) has raised the alarm over an alleged plan by the state Governor,...
Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has dissociated himself from the sealing of properties belonging to his predecessor, Rochas Okorocha, and his family members by the Economic...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the marking of properties belonging to former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, his family members and cronies....
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 poll, Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to the United States of America (USA) visa...
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state, on Wednesday closed his case in the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its gubernatorial candidate, Hon....
Following the receipt of the names of 43 ministerial nominees sent by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly, the red chamber on Wednesday commenced the...
Nigerian senators on Wednesday fumed at perceived patiality of the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, during the screening of ministerial nominees. This happened when the former Transportation...
The low representation of women in the recently released ministerial list by President Muhammadu Buhari for his second tenure has been decried by a female group....
The Kebbi Governor Gov. Atiku Bagudu on Wednesday sacked the 21 local government council chairmen in the state. The development followed the expiration of their tenure...
A former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central in the Senate, Shehu Sani has welcomed the decision by the government of the United States of America to impose...
The Nigerian Senate has said that seven ministerial nominees would not be subjected to questioning, but asked to ‘take a bow’ at the ongoing screening of...
A Plateau State High Court sitting in Jos and presided over by Justice Daniel Longji, on Wednesday admitted the confessional statement made by a former Plateau...
Some properties belonging to former Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, and his family members have been sealed by operatives of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)....
One of the 43 ministerial nominees President Muhammadu Buhari sent to the Senate, Uche Ogah, has boasted that Nigeria can feed the entire world. Ogah, from...
President Muhammadu Buhari In Wednesday swore-In Ibrahim Tanko as the substantive CJN following his screening and approval by the Senate. President Buhari swore him in at...
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday dismissed the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) and its presidential candidate, Pastor Aminchi Habu, challenging the...
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday commenced the screening of the ministerial nominees sent to it on Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari. The nominees had arrived for...
