Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi yesterday presented N267,436,357,912.19 budget proposal to the House of Assembly. The figure is N60.4 billion higher than the 2017 budget of...
Ibadan Authentic Mogajis (family heads) have told the city’s 21 new obas to withdraw their 21-day dethronement threat against the Olubadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji. They issued...
The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) says it require $1.1 billion dollars to fund the 2018 humanitarian interventions in North-East. The UN Humanitarian...
Chief Aloysius Bush, the President of Igboezue, a South Africa-based socio-cultural organisation, on Friday urged governors of the South East states to implement programmes aimed at...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says a total of 1,317 Nigerians have voluntarily returned from Libya in the last 10 days having been stranded in...
Three hundred Nigerian doctors left the country in 2016, the National President, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Prof. Mike Ogirima has revealed. He said more doctors have...
The Federal Road Safety Corps says it arrested at least 6,000 offenders in its ongoing Operation Cobra launched in July to check life threatening traffic offences....
The Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) on Thursday rejected Department of Petroleum Resources’ (DPR) proposal of N355 million for foreign trips in the 2018 fiscal year....
An Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa has declared that the change of name of the state to “State of Osun” by Gov. Rauf Aregbesola...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, on Thursday disclosed that it recorded new national peak electricity transmission capacity of 5,155.9 Mega Watt, MW, on December 8....
An update of the ongoing forensic audit of revenue accrued from revenue generating agencies and meant for the Federation Account was given today at the National...
The House of Representatives Committee on Oil and Gas on Thursday gave 10 indigenous oil companies in the country two weeks to remit 250 million dollars...
Before the coming of the present administration, the major security challenge confronting the country was the menace of Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria including Abuja. Kidnapping...
The Minister for Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, has denied any rift between him and Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, describing the governor as one of his...
Sometime we are exasperated by the internal politics of the Peoples Democratic Party that we forget that there will be no way to simply ask PDP...
Dismisses staff guilty of double registration, registers 21 political parties To act on court ruling on Anambra Senate seat The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has...
EFCC boss dismisses notion of street fight between operatives of agencies The cold war between the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr. Lawal...
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the European Union (EU) on Thursday facilitated the return of 249 more Nigerians from Libya. The News Agency of...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has approved the registration of 21 new political parties, bringing the number of registered parties in the country to 67....
The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, says the party remains one big family committed to credible processes that guarantee...
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has urged the Federal Government to ensure transparency and accountability in the handling of recovered loots of former Head...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Abuja Operation Office, on Thursday in Abuja, embarked on sensitisation of stakeholders to boost their level of preparedness in mitigating...
The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that the current fuel scarcity would end by Saturday. Disclosing this on Thursday at a meeting of the National Economic...
Governors yesterday backed the Federal Government’s plan to spend $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) to fight the Boko Haram insurgency. Edo State Governor...
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ( ISIS )has threatened attacks on U.S. soil in retaliation for the Trump administration’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the...
The management of the some beaches located in Lagos, said they have upgraded their facilities ahead of the Yuletide, to make them more befitting for fun...
Mr Babajide Soyode, the Technical Consultant on Refinery to Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said the Dangote Refinery, Petrochemical and Fertilizer projects would solve half of Nigeria’s crude...
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Apo, Abuja, has ordered that 86 luxury vehicles, together with four houses and a quarry plant in...
Disney has acquired 21st Century Fox’s film and TV studios in a historic deal worth over $52 billion. The arrangement covers the movie studio 20th Century...
Israel announced the closure of its Gaza border crossings on Thursday in response to daily rocket fire from the enclave over the past week. This development...
A university lecturer, Dr Olawale Lawal, has urged the Nigerian government to take urgent steps to address living conditions in the country, to stem illegal migration...
Mr Godwin Nwachukwu, the new Commander of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Bayelsa, has underscored the necessity of collaboration between security agencies in...
The Federal Government on Thursday reaffirmed its One China policy as part of its drive to strengthen and deepen the bilateral relationship between the two countries....
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has filed an appeal against a court ruling that his appointment of a state prosecutor to decide whether to reinstate...
In 2017, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) sure had its hands full unraveling unbelievable corruption stories back-to-back. President Muhammadu Buhari rode to power on...
The Task Force set up by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps ( NSCDC) in Niger to monitor the sale and distribution of petroleum products...
A Resident Doctor, Dr Adeola Badmus, has urged the three tiers of governments to work toward the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to improve...
The Kayode Fayemi administration in Ekiti state awarded a N600m contract to a company with no fixed address, the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by...
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has disclosed that the state government’s skills and vocational programmes of job creation have made 2,324 previously unemployed youths in the...
The whistleblower who assisted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recover some monies in an Ikoyi apartment in Lagos has reportedly been paid part of...