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FEC approves N658.8m for sniffer dogs at Lagos, Abuja international airports

  …N187.5m for operational vehicles for FRSC, N537m for NEITI’s permanent head office   By Ajuma Edwina Ameh In a bid to improve...

Petroleum Industry Act: Pres. Buhari inaugurates Steering Committee, names Sylva the head

  The Federal Government has begun the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) with the inauguration of a Steering Committee to superintend...

Breaking: Petroleum Industry Act: FG retains N162 as petrol pump price

  …Both labour and us have agreed on the process of putting the Infrastructure and the process in place. And once we are...

Petroleum Industry Act: NNPC to be incorporated as private company under the Company Allied Matters Act (CAMA) in six months — Kyari

  …All the liabilities and assets of the NNPC will be transferred to the new company. Some toxic assets may be excluded Aftermath...

Just in: Ex-Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, dies at 74

A one-time Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, has passed on, according to family sources. Aged 74, Mantu, who was in the Senate in...

Nigeria kicks off 2nd phase of COVID-19 vaccination

  …warned against hoarding the vaccines, especially now that the number of cases of infection are soaring The Federal Government on Monday kicked...

30 days after its passage, Pres. Buhari initials the Petroleum Industry Bill, scoring another first

  A month after the National Assembly passed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2021 and sent a clean copy to the Executive, President...

Ahmed Joda was an exceptional statesman, outstanding technocrat — Osinbajo

  Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has paid tribute to elder statesman and former federal “Super Permanent Secretary”, describing him as an bexceptional statesman,...

22 worshippers murdered in cold blood on Plateau highway

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh No fewer than 25 travellers have been reportedly killed and 14 others injured by gunmen along Rukuba road...

My visit to Tinubu in London not an endorsement of his presidential aspiration, says Buhari

  “It will be too risky to support Tinubu or any other person for Presidency before 2023” President Muhammadu Buhari says his visit...

Nigerian Food Delivery Driver, Njoku, Shot Dead On Duty in Mitchellville, U.S.

  …“I want to know who killed my husband,” heartbroken spouse said A man working as a delivery driver was shot and killed...

COVID-19: 177,600 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines delivered to Nigeria, confirms Shuaib

      By Ajuma Edwina Ameh Barely seven days after Nigeria received about 4 million doses of Moderna vaccines, donated by the...

COVID-19: FG places six states, FCT on red alert as delta variant cases increase

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh As the cases of the delta variant of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to rise gradually in Nigeria, the...

COVID-19 Delta variant: FG not contemplating national lockdown yet – Health Minister “

  In spite of the wave of Delta variant of COVID-19 in the country, the Federal Government said on Thursday that it is...

Ban of forex to BDC: Nigerians posing as travellers besiege banks in Lagos, Abuja for forex with fake documents, resell at black market

    The Central Bank of Nigeria’s ban of sales of foreign exchange to Bureau de Change (BDCs) has forced many Nigerians to...

Breaking: Late Gani Fawehinmi’s first son, Mohammed, is dead

  The first son of the late legal icon and human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Mohammed, has passed on. Aged 52, Mohammed,...