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FEC approves N5.48bn contract variation for federal secretariat in five states,  Usuma Dam rehabilitation

The Federal Government on Wednesday  approved N5.48 billion for the construction of federal secretariat in five states and the rehabilitation of Lower Usuma...

Oil deal: Nigerian mogul, Abdulrahman Bashir, to cool his heels in UK prison

  For breaching multiple orders of the court in a pending suit instituted by Sahara Energy Resources Ltd,  Abdulrahman Bashir, the CEO of...

Breaking : Detained Malian President, Keita, resigns amid coup

  Trapped in the quicksand of month-long political turmoil and coup which ousted him, Malian President, Ibrahim Keita, on Wednesday indicating he was...

Security Source : Mali President Keita arrested by mutinying soldiers

  Mutineering soldiers say they have detained Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse. “We can tell you that the...

Bayelsa and Other Stories By Reuben Abati 

      “Sorry about your man” “Thank you” “You know I used to think that this COVID-19 thing is a kind of...

Bandits dislodged from states in the north found safe haven in Nasarawa state – Governor

  Bandits dislodged from the North West and some North East states has found safe haven in Nasarawa state, said Governor Abdullahi Sule...

The Day In Pictures: Governor of Nasarawa at the Villa

  President Muhammadu Buhari (M) flanked by Nasarawa State Governor Engr Abdullahi Sule during an audience with the President at the State House...

NNPC scores another first, joins 65 extractives companies as EITI partner company

The profiled of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) soared on Tuesday  as it joined a group of over 65 extractives companies, state-owned enterprises...

Information Minister mourns Buhari’s ex-spokesman, NAN ex-MD, Board Chairman, Editor-in-Chief, Wada Maida

  The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has expressed profound shock and sadness over the death of President Muhammadu Buhari’s...

lnternational flights resume August 29, says Aviation Minister

  Barring any last minute hitch, international flights will resume in Nigeria on August 29,  the Federal Government announced on Monday. The Minister of Aviation,...

CBN Anchor Borrowers’ Programme: Northeast 2, 987 maize farmers get NIRSAL’s input, others

    The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL Plc) says it is supporting the 2020 wet season farming operations...

COVID-19: FG to NANS: Varsities will reopen when nation is on safe mode

    The Federal Government says schools including tertiary institutions will reopen as soon as it is safe to stave off the spread...

Plan to scrap Amnesty Programme: Don’t wake sleeping lion, Clark cautions FG

    Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has cautioned the Federal Government not  to scrap the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), for ex-militants, saying it rupture...

Alleged come-back bid as APC chair, Oshiomhole calls DG Governors Forum empty brain 

  Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ex-Gov. Adams Oshiomhole, has taken a swipe at the Director-General of Nigeria Governors...

Breaking: Bayelsa Governor Diri sacked

    The Bayelsa State Elections  Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Monday nullified the election of Governor Duoye Diri of the Peoples...

Nigeria: World Bank to give 36 states pills for speedy economic recovery

In a bid mitigate the crushing effect of  COVID-19 pandemic on businesses and individual taxpayers and ensure the speedy recovery of economies of...