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Buhari urges Obi, Tinubu, Atiku, to accept outcome of presidential poll

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged presidential candidates and others contesting the 2023 polls to accept the result of the exercise as may be...

Breaking: Naira swap crisis: Supreme Court fixes judgment for March 3

Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned judgment in the consolidated suits filed by ten states on the implementation of the naira redesign policy...

Breaking: Naira crisis: Supreme Court orders consolidation of 16 suits against FG, insists on hearing suit

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the consolidation of the 16 state governments’ suits against the Federal Government challenging the implementation of the...

Saturday’s polls: NRC suspends train services nationwide

In preparation for the Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has announced the suspension train services nationwide as...

Nigeria’s crude output to hit OPEC’s 1.8m barrels per day — Kyari, says NNPC is winning oil theft war, combating crude losses

Nigeria’s crude oil production output is steadily growing and it is expected to hit the 1.8 million barrels per day OPEC quota, according...

Police arrest Robert Mugabe’s son over property destruction

Robert Tinotenda Mugabe junior has been arrested on charges of causing $12,000 worth of damage to cars and property at a party in...

Naira crisis: Violent protests rock Ogun again, two banks torched, 27 suspects nabbed

Violent protest over new Naira notes scarcity which swept Abeokuta, Ogun State capital about two weeks ago has spread to Sagamu area of...

Commonwealth Observer Group calls for peaceful elections in Nigeria

The Chairperson of the Commonwealth Observer Group to Nigeria, H.E. Thabo Mbeki, has urged the country’s political parties, candidates and their supporters to...

Six killed in foiled insurgents’ attack on Anambra Police Station

The Anambra State Police Command said on Sunday that it has foiled an attack by some unknown gunmen believed to be insurgents on...

EFCC recovers NHIS N900m fraudulently held by banks since 2015

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Sunday disclosed that it has recovered N900 million belonging to the National Health Insurance Scheme...

Petrol subsidy now hit N400bn monthly, says Mele Kyari

The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Malam Mele Kyari, has disclosed that the amount spent as...

I can carry one hairstyle for 10 years – Nse Ikpe – Etim

By David Adebayo Popular actress, Nse Ikpe-Etim, has revealed that she could go for a decade without changing her hair style as she...

Again, APC Kaduna Gov. el-Rufai explodes, blasts Buhari over old notes

A livid Kaduna Governor Nasir el-Rufai has again attacked President Muhammadu Buhari for allegedly flagrantly violating the Supreme Court’s order that the old...

U.S. to repatriate $954,000 ex-Bayelsa Gov. Alamieyeseigha loot

The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard, has signed an agreement with the Nigerian Government officials to repatriate funds stolen by the late...

Buhari, in a broadcast, carpets bank officials over Naira scarcity, returns only N200 note into circulation

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday directed the Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN) that only the old N200 naira notes should be released into...

Just in: Supreme Court adjourns suit on naira redesign policy until Feb. 22

Against all permutations and expectations, the Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned hearing in a suit filed by three states against the Federal Government,...