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School resumption date not confirmed – FG

  The Federal Government has said it is still too early to decide when school classes can resume as the coronavirus epidemic is...

BREAKING: Unilag Senate names woman, Prof. Ogunsola, acting VC

  For the first time in the history of the 60-year-old University of Lagos, a woman,  Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, has emerged the Vice-Chancellor in acting...

Lagos Health Commissioner, Prof. Abayomi, is COVID-19 positive, self-isolate

The Lagos State Government has announced that Prof. Akin Abayomi, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, has tested positive for COVID-19 and has...

COVID-19 lockdown ease: NNPC ups crude oil, gas export revenue by $378.42m in June 2020

  Following the ease of the COVID-19 global lockdown, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it recorded a total crude oil and...

Clip on Edo poll: Presidency assures, Gambari as polished diplomat, will not undermine people’s will

    The Presidency has taken a swipe at the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) over its disparaging comments on the Chief of...

Send CAMA 2020 back to NASS for urgent amendments, SERAP urges Buhari

  With tempers already fraying over the contentious Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 (CAMA 2020), the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)...

Serial killer re-arrested after escape in police custody

Detectives from the Nigerian police have re-arrested Sunday Shodipe, the prime suspect in the series of ritual killings at the Akinyele Local government...

Protecting Cultural Property in Nigeria: FG Requests U.S State Department’s Partnership

  The federal government of Nigeria recently sent an official request to the United States government requesting for cultural property protection, Per Second...

Police Divisional Crime Officer’s murder: 3 nabbed 

For daring to abduct and murder a Divisional Crime Officer (DCO),  three members of a gang have been apprehended in Rivers State. The man...

FG sacks Unilag Acting VC, Soyombo, directs Senate to appoint Interim administrator 

The Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, (Unilag), Prof. Omololu Soyombo, has been sacked.   This followed a directive by the Federal...

Salami Panel indicts Magu, says he collected over N1bn bribe from ex-Gov, 8 others on trial

    The Justice Ayo Salami Presidential Panel has established cases of graft to the tune of N1 billon against the suspended acting...

Arik Air: The Boeing 747-8 Customer That Never Was

  By Linnea Ahlgren   Once upon a time, the final customer of the passenger 747-8 was to be Nigerian carrier Arik Air....

Humongous national resources committed to debt servicing worrisome, distressing, says National Consultative Front

A pan-Nigeria political movement, National Consultative Front (NCFront), youth wing, says it is worried about that 97 per cent of the nation’s revenue...

NPDC to boost domestic gas market by 600m standard cubic feet per day

The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), an exploration and production subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), says it will boost gas...

COVID-19 : Nigeria’s health system zero, fight by the grace of God — SGF Mustapha

The Presidential Task Force Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, has expressed concern about the inaccessibility of...