Category: Nigeria

The Federal High Court in Abuja Wednesday dismissed suits seeking the removal of Ibrahim Magu as the acting chairman of

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday declared that siting the University of Transportation in Daura, Katsina State, will boost local capacity, economy,

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State at the weekend relieved how the defunct Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) ‘wasted’ $7 billion

The nation’s budgetary provisions for debt servicing could rise to N3 trillion if the Federal Government goes ahead with its

The Senate yesterday declared that it would not recognise the Interim Management Committee (IMC) in processing the 2019 and 2020

The Global Centre For Conscious Living Against Corruption on Thursday backed President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to present a bill seeking

A newspaper column written by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has become the centre of discussion as his Conservative Party

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has requested the approval of the Senate for the Federal Government’s 2016 and 2018 borrowing plan.

The Founder of Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has described the controversial hate-speech bill before the

The Federal Government has approved N19.52bn for three road contracts in Oyo, Niger, Kano states and the Federal Capital Territory.

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Wednesday presented an appropriation bill of N208, 802,972,878 to the state House of

The Sokoto state government has granted amnesty to about 8,000 suspected ghost workers and those collecting abnormal salaries under its

The Senate yesterday said it would not force the controversial hate speech and anti-social media bills on Nigerians.The upper chamber

Human rights activist and pro-democracy crusader, Senator Shehu Sani, has urged the United Nations and the European Union (EU) to

The embattled boss of Nigerian airline Air Peace, Allen Onyema, has dissociated himself from a human rights suit filed on

The crisis rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) became messier yesterday as the Senate resolved to await the inauguration

The Federal Government on Monday said seizures made by security agents at the country’s land borders indicated that the republics

Following its plans to ban the single-use of plastic materials, the Federal Government has advised that a moratorium of 2024

The Federal Government has extended the completion date of the Lagos-Ibadan railway project to April 2020. The project was initially

Hard times could hit the local air travel sector following fraud and money-laundering allegations against Air Peace airline’s boss. Although

The push for a financially independent local government system in the country has been re-energised in the Senate. A bill

There are indications that the Federal Government and states are heading for a fresh battle over the delay in refunding

No fewer than 172 Federal Road Safety Corps personnel have been arrested and are under investigation for corruption, the Corps

The Commissioner of Lagos State Command, CP Hakeem Odumosu yesterday declared a state of emergency on traffic management and control

The Appeal Court sitting in Sokoto on Friday upheld the election of Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as duly elected. The

Did the All Progressives Congress (APC)-dominated National Assembly wait for the final conquest of the electoral space before revisiting the

Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has opposed the death penalty proposed for hate speech offenders by the Senate. Speaking at the

A former chairman, Senate Committee of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Dino Melaye, on Wednesday protested at the headquarters of

President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with former President Goodluck Jonathan on his 62nd birthday. Buhari, in a statement by his

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Wednesday, restated its commitment to ending sexual and gender-based violence and craved the

Nigeria’s oil and gas sector is facing a dismal future as projects worth over $163 billion remain in limbo amid

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipreye Sylva has `thanked’ Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State for making

Worried by the spate of criticisms that has greeted the Hate Speech Bill which passed first reading last week, the

The new Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu has said that managing the menace of traffic in the

The Senate has begun a fresh electoral reform which has mandated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to adopt the

Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has said that his administration is considering putting in place health insurance scheme that would

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the Nov. 16 election in Bayelsa, David

Nigeria, the Republic of Benin and Niger have agreed to establish a joint border police to check the influx of

The Senate on Thursday swore in Abiodun Olujimi representing Ekiti South after the Independent National Electoral Commission issued her certificate

The Federal Government has allayed fears of residents and motorists on the stability of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos,

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Wednesday blocked a move to suspend appropriation to the Federal

The Senator that represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly, Comrade Shehu Sani, has described the bill on the

Nigeria Senate on Wednesday approved the payment of a N10 billion loan to Kogi State. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on

Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has reacted to another claim by a journalist Festus Adebayo about a supposed rift between

The Senate has reintroduced a bill it abandoned under pressure last year through which it sought to impose the death

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan yesterday set aside the tribunal judgment that upheld Governor Seyi Makinde’s election last

Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa has urged the people of Bayelsa to keep faith with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

The Nigerian Army Council has approved the promotion of senior officers to the next ranks of major general and brigadier

The Senate has described as irreversible its decision to investigate alleged financial infractions by security outfits at the Lagos ports

The Senate yesterday mandated its committees on Navy, Marine Transport and Finance to carry out a comprehensive investigation into the

The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) is working with the office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) to

The Nigeria Customs Service has suspended supply of petroleum products to petrol stations within 20 kilometres of all the border

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo chaired the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting yesterday on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari who is

The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna has nullified the election of spokesman of the Senate, Senator Dayo Adeyeye. The

Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar says the air force will deepen its partnership with the National Engineering

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has ordered the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to resolve

Twenty-four suspected members of a sex trafficking ring accused of forcing Nigerian women into prostitution in France go on trial

A Federal Court, Lagos has ordered the Nigerian Army and the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, to

The Senate yesterday confirmed the appointment of Dr. Pius Odubu and Bernard Okumagba as chairman and managing director of the

The Federal Government has listed five conditions for reopening of the country’s land borders for goods importation from neighbouring countries.

Niger Delta indigenes under the auspices of different groups yesterday warned that there would be consequences unless Minister of Niger

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday debunked the rumour that it had reached a

The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, has expressed FCT’s readiness to partner with the National Agency for the Prohibition of

The Federal Government yesterday made good its threat to stop the salaries of all its workers, especially members of the

Russia may give a new lease of life to Nigeria’s biggest steel plant after decades of inactivity, the West African

The FG has temporarily lifted a suspension of the operations of two aid groups, Mercy Corps and Action Against Hunger,

First Lady Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has urged Africans to change their perception of women’s infertility as an abnormal condition and

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it ‘vehemently opposed’ to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS)

The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) yesterday said it had reviewed current progress in the implementation of the new minimum wage

From now till December 31, 2019, Nigeria will raise its domestic debt profile by N802. 82 billion to support the

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, has called on the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace (IPTP)

Both condemnation and justification yesterday trailed the official disclosure that President Muhammadu Buhari would again travel to the United Kingdom

The Federal Government’s decision to shut the nation’s land borders against neigbouring countries will remain, despite any short-term losses, until

The Court of Appeal, Enugu Division on Monday reserved judgment in a case filed by Mrs Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu of the

Rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has implored the Federal Government to fund Legal Aid Council in Nigeria so that

Former Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, has said that stable power supply will remain elusive until the Federal Government

The Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide, a youth organisation in the South-West yesterday passed a vote of confidence in Vice

To fix the infrastructural needs at airports nationwide will require over N1.5 trillion or $5 billion, according to a survey.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to the Minister of Finance, Budget

The United States Consulate-General, Lagos, has announced a partnership with the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) for the training of entrepreneurs

The judiciary has resolved to keep a lid on the members of the Supreme Court panel who will hear the

Multinational technology giant, Google, is celebrating the 119th birthday of late Nigeria teacher, political campaigner, women’s rights activist and traditional

Lagos State Friday said its emergency management agency rescued five persons from a building that collapsed at Ojuelegba area of

Minister of youth and sports, Sunday Dare, has said members of the National Youth Service Corps will benefit from the

Full payment of the new minimum wage to Nigerian workers takes effect from April 18, 2019. The Federal Executive Council

The Niger State government on Tuesday said that it is partnering with UNICEF to eliminate corporal punishment in public and