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COVID-19 stimulus for media: FG awaiting NPAN’s submission, says Lai Mohammed

    The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the Federal Government is awaiting the submission of the Newspapers Proprietors...

Addressing poverty, suffering and insecurity can heal an increasingly divided Nigeria – Jega

      A prominent Nigerian and former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, says a high percent of...

Plot to kill US Ambassador to South Africa uncovered

  Iran is plotting to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa as it seeks to further avenge the killing of top Iranian...

2021 Presidency’s budget: Finance Ministry, EFCC, BPE, others deliberate on N10bn expenditure ceiling

          Agencies of government in the nation’s seat of power, the Presidency held a virtual budget consultations for the...

SERAP wants court to compel NASS to publish details of corruption probes, public hearings since 1999

The National Assembly has been sued over its failure to publish reports of all completed public hearings and corruption probes by the National Assembly...

Nigeria teetering on the brink of collapse, disunited, alerts Obasanjo

  After several months of reticence, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has opened up on the state of the nation and concluded that Nigeria...

Fayose’s spoiler’s game in Southwest PDP, Tinubu is mastermind, group alleges

A group known as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Potent Force says it is spoiling for a showdown with former Ekiti Governor, Ayodele...

Edo Elections: No Voting Without a Face Mask – INEC Chairman

    The Chairman of Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has disclosed that they will deny voting to voter not wearing...

United Airlines to Commence Direct Flights From Washington, DC to Lagos

  United Airlines is set to commence non-stop round-trip flights to Lagos, Nigeria (LOS) three times per week in March, 2021. Passengers on...

Rape: Osinbajo prescribes stiffer penalty for offenders

  Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has advocated stricter punishments for rape offenders especially in situations involving lecturers and their female students in the...

FG, 36 states, FCT debts now N31trn – DMO

    The Debt Management Office on Wednesday put the Nigeria’s debt at N31 trillion,  an increase of N2.38 trillion in three months. It...

2050 National Development Agenda: Buhari appoints opposition parties, private sector to drive it

    ….says plan will lift 100m Nigerians out of poverty by 2030 President Muhammadu Buhari has coopted major political parties into the...

2023: PDP Southwest group reads riot act to Fayose, others, vows to retire them from politics

  The PDP Unity Frontiers, Southwest zone, has vowed to retire from active politics those engineering unwarranted and unprovoked political crisis in the zone ahead of...

FG says absence of collaboration among MDAs affecting service delivery, cost of governance 

The Federal Government on Tuesday hinged service delivery and increasing cost of governance on lack of collaboration among Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). It noted...

Multi-million fraud at MAPOLY: Whistleblower suspended, petitions Gov. Abiodun

  A whistleblower, who has exposed sleaze and corruption at the Ogun State-owned Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, has been hunted down by the...

Buhari to sit-tight African leaders: Shun tenure elongation, lures of office

  Miffed by the crave by some African leaders to perpetuate themselves in power, President Muhammadu Buhari has urged leaders of the member-states...