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Governors meet over NFIU guidelines, SDGs, others
Governors of the 36 States of the Federation under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) met in Abuja Wednesday night. Top...
New Ministers to begin work on 2020 budget
The newly sworn-in ministers are to commence work on the 2020 budget proposal, and get it ready before National Assembly members return from...
Buhari swears in, assigns portfolios to new ministers
Amaechi, Lai, Bello, Ngige retain positions President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, announced the portfolios of 43 new ministers, shortly after swearing them in...
Nigeria celebrates 3 years of being polio free
Nigeria will begin filing documentation towards the final certification that will declare the West African country polio free, three years after a case...
Charges against me has nothing to do with my tenure as INEC Chairman- Maurice Iwu
A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Maurice Iwu, has noted that none of the charges against him has to...
PMB To Ministers’ Designate: Be Prepared To Hit The Ground Running
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the ministers-designate to hit the ground running, bearing in mind that four years is not a very long...
Buhari declares open ministerial retreat, warns against disunity
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared open the presidential retreat for ministers-designate, federal permanent secretaries and top government functionaries, with a directive that they...
Nigerian Prisons Service Now Nigerian Correctional Service
President Muhammadu Buhari, has signed a bill into law changing the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) to Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS). The bill also...
Eid-El-Kabir: NNPC chief, others paid courtesy visit to President Buhari
Nigerian state oil corporation chief, Mele Kyari, including state governors of Lagos, Kebbi and Edo states on Tuesday paid a visit to President...
Bowing to pressure: Gov. Sanwo-Olu sends supplementary commissioners’ list to lawmakers
Following protest by stakeholders and senior party members over the 25 commissioner-nominees sent to the House of Assembly early July, Lagos State governor,...
#BBNaija: Khafi faces investigation by MET police for participating in reality show
Metropolitan Police officer and one of the housemates of the ongoing Big Brother Naija season 4, Khafi Kareem, will be investigated after...
MRA calls for the release of detained journalists, dissidents
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) Tuesday condemned the arrest and continued detention of Mr. Ibrahim Dan Halilu, a journalist and former Political Editor of...
An open letter to President Buhari from doctors in Iran, India, Pakistan, others
A group of doctors from Pakistan, India, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq in an open letter to the President of the Republic...
PDP sweeps Bayelsa LG poll, wins all chairmanship seats
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has won all the eight Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State in the just concluded election organised by...
Detention: Kefas Sues el-Rufai, Others For Rights Violation
…Claiming N20m as damages Social Media Activist, Steven Kefas has dragged Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state to a Federal High Court in...
CBN injects $280.04m, CNY 28.3m into Retail SMIS
Nigerian central bank offered dealers in retail secondary market $280.04 million to meet demands in the agricultural and raw materials sectors as well...
