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Aisha Buhari urges women to get annual breast cancer screenings

  First Lady Aisha Buhari has advised Nigerian women to visit their primary care physician annually for breast cancer screenings.   ” I...

Maina pleads innocence, remanded  

  Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, has been remanded in Abuja Correctional Centre (prison) on the orders of a...

African countries are not united on regulation issues, says Obasanjo and key quotes from leaders in Sochi

  Following are key quotes from leaders and participants at the Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum in Sochi.   African countries are not...

FG renames ministry as Fed. Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy

FG renames ministry as Fed. Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy The Federal Government has changed the Federal Ministry of Communications to the...

Nigerian military targeted journalists’ phones, computers with “forensic search” for sources -CPJ

  By Jonathan Rozen/CPJ Senior Africa Researcher   Hamza Idris, an editor with the Nigerian Daily Trust, was at the newspaper’s central office...

Kano Senator blasts Junaid Mohammed says attack on VP Osinbajo ‘unfounded’ .

  Senator Kabir Gaya (APC-Kano South) on Tuesday said it was unfortunate that Second Republic lawmaker, Dr Junaid Mohammed, is unfairly criticizing Vice...

Fulani herdsmen on a farmland

Migratory herders: Enforce border closure to shut out foreign herders, Ortom tells FG

    Outraged by the incessancy of violent attacks on Benue communities by herdsmen, Gov. Samuel Ortom, has urged the Federal Government to...

Excited New Kogi Deputy Governor Says Grateful To Gov. Bello

  … NBA kicks, calls for restraint Kogi State’s newly-appointed Deputy Governor, Mr Edward Onoja, has expressed deep appreciation and unalloyed loyalty to...

Court Orders Interim Forfeiture Of Saraki’s Property

  A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday, ordered the interim forfeiture of two properties belonging to the immediate past Senate President,...

Court reduces Sowore’s bail terms

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, denied the bail application filed by the convener of #RevolutionNow protest and publisher of...

CBN says 7 out of 24 banks in Nigeria not adequately funded

The Central Bank has revealed that the apex bank’s stress test shows that 7 banks out of the 24 operating in Nigeria were...

Minister of Finance, Budget and Planning, CBN Governor at the Plenary Session of the IMFC

      Kristalina Georgieva, IMF boss, former MD IMF Christine Lagarde, Nigeria’sMinister of Fianace, Budget and planning, Zainab Ahmed, Central Bank Governor,...

SERAP asks ICPC, EFCC to probe Senate, MDAs over ‘employment slots scandal’

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has asked the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and Economic and Financial Crimes...

China bans African students from worshiping in churches to prevent ‘foreign infiltration’

  The Chinese government has banned African international students from worshiping in Christian churches under the pretext of “preventing foreign infiltration through religion,”...

Unions protest tenure elongation, illegalities of Lagos Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital MD

A storm of protest is rocking the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, as four unions in the facility have petitioned the Federal authorities...

Ambode’s commissioners: We Didn’t Indict Ex-gov. Before Lagos Assembly Committee 

Two former Commissioners, Economic Planning and Budget, Mr. Olusegun Banjo and his Energy and Mineral Resources counterpart, Mr. Olawale Oluwo,  have denied some media reports...