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Anti-corruption fight must follow due process, says 36 governors 

Governors under the auspices of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), have called for the examination of the national income in the last 14...

Buhari administration just got caught in a lie about ransom to free kidnapped Dapchi schoolgirls

Let’s not over-complicate this: The federal government lied about the statement denying the payment of large sums of money as ransom to terrorists...

DMO secures additional N100bn debt for 2018 budget

By Ruth Olurounbi Nigeria has secured more than half of the total sum of N849 billion it needs from the domestic market to...

Views From Abroad: Deadly Lack of Security Plagues Nigeria as Buhari Seeks Re-election

New York Times President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, center, flanked by service chiefs and other senior military officers, spoke during the Army Day...

CPJ Condemns Premium Times Reporter’s Arrest, Urged Nigerian Police To Release Him Unconditionally

 The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has joined others to condemn the arrest and detention of Premium Times reporter Samuel Ofundipe by the...

Happening Now: NNPC GMD in Dubai directs 618km pipeline project team to expedite Agreement process

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)  GMD  Dr. Maikanti Baru has directed the 618km AKK Pipeline Project Team, Bank of China  and SINASURE ...

71 students duped in fake US conference; visas revoked by embassy

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he United States Embassy has expressed worry over the unrelenting attitude of applicants to patronize visa vendors, which end up packaging them with...

Nigeria Police Detain Journalist for Not Revealing Source

Samuel Ogundipe, an investigative reporter for Premium Times, was arrested and detained on Tuesday after officers of the notorious SARS said he refused...

Apart Monthly Allocation To Police, State Governors Spent N2 Trillion on Police Operations Nationwide

By Opeoluwa Abegunde Governors of the 36 states on Tuesday said it expended more than N2 trillion in augmenting police operations nationwide in the...

Acting President Orders Immediate Overhaul of notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS

….Directs investigation on alleged violations of the squad By Opeoluwa Abegunde In apparent bid to breathe life into the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS),...

National Assembly cannot reconvene – Saraki, Dogara

The Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Tuesday morning asked legislators to go about their...

2019: It will be Buhari/Osinbajo joint-ticket -Presidency

The Presidency has confirmed that it will again be a joint-ticket in 2019 presidential election,  as Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo would be President Muhammadu...

Nigeria’s July oil production rose by 70,000 barrels, OPEC says

  As global output averaged 32.3 million barrels   By Ruth Olurounbi   Nigeria’s oil output rose by as much as 70,000 barrels...

SEC says MTN hasn’t filed for IPO in Nigeria

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said contrary to what the South African company MTN said regarding filing for Initial Public Offering (IPO),...

Wunti Unveils NNPC’s Three-Pronged Wining Strategy…As Corporation Brims With Ambition

By Per Second News Nigeria’s state oil firm, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has developed a three-phased corporate strategy with which it...