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1,300MW Abuja Power Plant: NNPC Secures $1.16Million USTDA Grant

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has secured a grant from the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) to facilitate the...

The Corona Virus Challenge, Nigeria and Other Responses by Reuben Abati 

  The biggest threat to our collective humanity today is not the suspected threat of a Third World War, but a corrosive, debilitating,...

Aisha Buhari, Patience Jonathan share sweet moment

  First Lady Aisha Buhari, Yesterday received her predecessor, Her Excellency Dame Patience Jonathan at the State House. They both shared sweet moment...

87% of Nigeria’s poor people are in the North, says World Bank

    ….Pres. Buhari’s North-West records  half of the figure A huge 87 per cent of the poor and wretched in Nigeria are in...

Again, another Nigerian Senator Dies 

A former Plateau State Deputy Governor and Senator, Mr Ignatius Datong Longjan, has passed on. The Plateau South senator died in a Turkish...

Malabu Oil : Adoke faces fresh 7-count Charge 

    A former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Mohammed Adoke, was on Monday arraigned on fresh seven-count charge...

NNPC Records 16 Per Cent Increase in Gas Supply to Power in November

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that the daily average natural gas supply to gas-powered plants in November last year...

FG to involve NISER researchers in national development plan

  Minister of State for Budget and National Planning,  Prince Clem Ikanade Agba,  has assured researchers and eggheads at the Nigerian Institute of...

After several months, Buhari, his former boss, Obasanjo meet at ongoing AU Summit

    The ongoing 33rd African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopian capital, provided an inescapable opportunity for President Muhammadu Buhari and his...

Boko Haram responsible for 59,311 orphans, 59,213 widows – Borno governor

  The governor of the Boko Haram-infected Borno state has reportedly revealed that the terrorist group is responsible for making tens of thousands...

Americans killed in Afghan military mission

    American and Afghan military personnel were fired on while conducting an operation in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, the U.S. military said...

Agba Jalingo: SERAP drags FG to ECOWAS court over prolonged, arbitrary detention

  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the government of Nigeria and Cross River state government of governor Ben Ayade to...

Articulated vehicle driver breaks into VP Osinbajo’s motorcade, faces trial 

  For breaking into Vice-PresIdent Yemi Osinbajo’s motorcade, a 43-year-old truck driver, Abubakar Musa, has been arraigned at a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ikeja,...

Lagos 2020 marathon: Husband, wife emerge first Nigerians to complete race

     A Couple — Emmanuel Gyang and his wife, Deborah Pam — on Saturday emerged the first Nigerians to finish the 42km...

Explosion in Ekiti Government House

Ahead of Governor Kayode Fayemi’s birthday on Sunday, an early Saturday morning explosion has hit Ekiti Government House in Ado Ekiti, the capital....

Sultan of Sokoto says no one can Islamize Nigeria

  The Sultan of Sokoto Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, has disowned the Fulani group that said they own Nigeria from Sokoto to the Atlantic Ocean,...