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COVID-19: FG to NANS: Varsities will reopen when nation is on safe mode

    The Federal Government says schools including tertiary institutions will reopen as soon as it is safe to stave off the spread...

Plan to scrap Amnesty Programme: Don’t wake sleeping lion, Clark cautions FG

    Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has cautioned the Federal Government not  to scrap the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), for ex-militants, saying it rupture...

Alleged come-back bid as APC chair, Oshiomhole calls DG Governors Forum empty brain 

  Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ex-Gov. Adams Oshiomhole, has taken a swipe at the Director-General of Nigeria Governors...

Breaking: Bayelsa Governor Diri sacked

    The Bayelsa State Elections  Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Monday nullified the election of Governor Duoye Diri of the Peoples...

Withdraw NBC ‘insult code’ in 7 days, SERAP urges Buhari

  Irked by the new National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Code and memo threatening to sanction any broadcast that denigrates, disrespects, insults, and abuses...

FG commences operation on new Lagos-Ibadan standard guage rail line mid-September

  With effect from mid-September this  year, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says it will commence skeletal operations on the new Lagos-Ibadan Standard...

Foreign loans: FG says we borrow for Infrastructure development 

  The Federal Government said on Saturday assured Nigerians that the loans it borrowed from China and other sources were being effectively utilised...

Tinubu extols Carrington, says he fought repressive government in Nigeria

  All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has described the late former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington, as a...

SPDC appeals judgment for its asset sale 

  SPDC says it has filed an appeal and an application for a stay of execution of enforcement of the purported sale of interests...

PDP to Embattled Lagos Speaker: Show your law degree certificate to authenticate claim as lawyer

  The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, has been asked to show proof of his qualification as...

Nigerian lawmaker murdered, wives, toddler abducted 

  A lawmaker, Musa Mante Baraza, has been felled by assassins’ bullet at his Bauchi State home. Baraza, a member representing Dass constituency in...

Digital ID card to replace plastic National Identity card, says FG

After about 17 years the plastic national identity cards printed by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) was introduced ,  the Federal Government...

Minister lauds CAMA Amendment Act, says will promote transparency in business transactions

  The Companies and Allied Matters Amendment Act (CAMA) 2020 recently assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari has been appraised by the Minister...

Just in: Crisis rocks the nation’s “university of first choice’’, Unilag, over “sack’’ of VC

  As the Senate of the University of Lagos meets to discuss the abrupt removal of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, security officials...

Pedophilic rape: Sexagenarian gets multiple stoning judgment

  Caught on the wrong side of the law for ravishing an underage girl, 60-year-old Mati Abdu is to die by multiple stoning,...

FG approves N8.49bn for COVID-19 items to strengthen NCDC testing and diagnostic capacities

  The Federal Government on Wednesday approved N8.49 billion for the procurement of 12 items to enhance the testing and diaégnostic capacities of...