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Ex-President Obasanjo, Prof. Utomi unimpressed with Buhari’s quest for more foreign loans

    “But if you are borrowing and accumulating debts for the next generation and the next generation after them, it is criminal”...

Petroleum Industry Act: Pres. orders incorporation of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd

  In furtherance to the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari, has directed the incorporation of the Nigerian National...

Social critic and ex-CBN Deputy Governor, Obadiah Mailafia, passes on

  A social critic and former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia, has exited the world. Mailafia, who breathed...

United Airlines launches nonstops flights from Dulles, Washington to Lagos, Nigeria with Dreamliner

United Airlines is adding Lagos, Nigeria, to its international itinerary from Dulles International Airport, with the only nonstops from the D.C. region to...

Suspend your strike, go back to work, court orders resident doctors

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh After about 46 days of industrial action, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) was on Friday ordered...

Breaking: DSS loses as court awards N20bn damages in favour of Igboho over bloody raid of his Ibadan home

  “Justice Ladiran Akintola condemned the DSS for acting based on what he described as arbitrary aggression and prejudices from Igboho’s agitation for...

Bank of America Says Oil Prices Could Climb Above $100

  The price of oil could hit $100 per barrel over the next six months If winter temperatures in the northern hemisphere turn...

Why we backed out of dialogue with bandits — Zamfara Gov. Matawalle

  Zamfara Gov. Bello Matawalle says he is backing out of dialogue with the bandits that had unleashed reign of terror on the...

It’s our constitutional right to collect VAT, Southern governors say

  …no going back on anti-open grazing laws in their respective states “State Houses of Assembly in the South and their representatives in...

BREAKING: 40-Year-Old Bawa ls New EFCC Boss

Bawa is hale and hearty, says EFCC

  The Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) has said its chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, is hale and hearty. The announcement came against the backdrop...

BREAKING: 40-Year-Old Bawa ls New EFCC Boss

Just in: EFCC chair, Bawa, slumps

  The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, has reportedly slumped at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo presides over weekly Federal Executive Council Meeting at the State House, Abuja

Just in: Vice-President Osinbajo departs Abuja for ECOWAS summit in Ghana

  Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has left Abuja for Accra, Ghana to attend the 2nd extraordinary summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads...

Mallam Garba Shehu, Snr Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity

Yoruba Nation agitators-IPOB joint protest at UN headquarters in New York shocking, worrying development — Presidency

“IPOB is a designated terrorist organisation. It has now publicly revealed a 50,000 strong paramilitary organisation” The ongoing protest by Yoruba Nation agitators,...

Anambra, Bayelsa, Benue, Imo, Nasarawa roads to gulp N38.4bn — FEC

  The Federal Government has announced that N38.4 billion has been approved for the completion of some road projects in Anambra, Bayelsa, Benue,...

Just in: United Arab Emirates names six Nigerians, 47 others, companies as ‘terrorism sponsors’

Six Nigerians of means have been named as global terrorism sponsors, 38 others and 15 companies by the United Arab Emirates.The top Nigerians...