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Oversight function: Oyo House of Assembly suspends 13 council bosses

    By Boye Ajayi For failing to submit their performance reports, the Oyo State House of Assembly, in exercise of their oversight...

Nothern governors forum backs social media censorship in Nigeria

  Governors under the aegis of the Northern Governors’ Forum have thrown their weight behind the censorship of social media in the country. They spoke...

Biden sweeps all five votes in tiny town of Dixville Notch

For 60 years, Dixville Notch and Millsfield have been the first places to open thier polls in the United States. Two tiny New...

FG regrets delay in October salaries for work force, says payment will be effected this week

  The Federal Government has given reasons for the delay in the payment of October salaries to its work force, assuring that salaries will...

EITI lauds NNPC on 2019 NNPC audited account

    The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives (EITI), a multi-stakeholder coalition that promotes extractives transparency and accountability in over 50 countries, has commended...

Other candidates on the US presidential ballot

  Republican Donald Trump and his rival Democrat Joe Biden are not the only two candidates on the US presidential election ballot, although...

Digitalised assets declaration forms ready soon, says Code of Conduct Bureau

  As part of efforts to digitalise its operations, the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) says assets declaration forms will be available online...

Restructure now or we perish, say Govs. El-Rufai, Fayemi

      For Governors Kayode Fayemi and Nasir El-Rufai, anything short of restructuring of Nigeria to cement the unity of Nigeria and engender a...

Post-#EndSARS protest: IGP Adamu to policemen: Defend yourselves against attacks

  By Boye Ajayi In what looks like reinstalling confidence in policemen after the #EndSARS protests, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu,...

Okonjo-Iweala: Buhari holds video conference with European Council President 

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday held a video conference with Mr Charles Michel, President of the European Council, reiterating Europe’s support for...

Ndoma-Egba (SAN) breaks silence, says destruction of his Calabar home will not cow him

  …says Cross River State is moving from the global stage to the dark recesses of a gangland   Former Senate Leader, Mr...

United Nations bestows award on Nigerian policewoman for stellar peacekeeping efforts

  A Chief Superintendent of Police, Catherine Ugorji, currently serving with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), has been selected...

Two months after gang-raping school girl to death, two jobless youths nabbed

  About two months after, two of the four gang-rapists, who fatally raped 11-year-old Favour Okechukwu in Ejigbo area of Lagos State have...

Oil price tumbles below $40 as Europe imposes second COVID-19 lockdown 

  Still reeling from the pains of #EndSARS protests and massive infrastructure destruction by hoodlums, Nigeria’s financial projection may have run into another hitch as...

FG hits back at Amnesty International, rejects it’s report on Lekki shootings

  The Presidency has accused Amnesty International of “skewing report” on the Lekki shootings, insisting it could not have more facts about the...

Breaking: Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala elected World Trade Organization DG

  Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, has emerged the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Okonjo-Iweala polled 104 votes from 164 member-countries...