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Port Harcourt Native Trains to be a U.S. Navy Future Warfighter

A Rivers State indigene Victor Diamond, is currently at the U.S Naval Education and Training command, NETC, learning the necessary skills needed to be...

FG to recover N614bn budget support to states

The Federal Government has begun moves to recover the sum of N614 billion advanced to 35 States as budget support facility. The Minister...

Zainab Ahmed is one of Nigeria’s most powerful ministers, analysts say

President Muhammad Buhari’s appointment of Zainab Ahmed as Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning makes her one of the most powerful member...

Buhari swears in, assigns portfolios to new ministers

Amaechi, Lai, Bello, Ngige retain positions President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, announced the portfolios of 43 new ministers, shortly after swearing them in...

Oyo-Ita finally surfaces, meets Kyari

The Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, who has been asked by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to answer...

U.S Court Sentence Nigerian Man to Prison for Role in $8.3 Million Medicare Fraud

A Nigerian man Ayodeji Temitayo Fatunmbi was sentenced to 46 months in prison on Monday for his role in a durable medical equipment...

No cause for alarm over EFCC search, says Ambode

Former governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Tuesday urged his supporters and the general public to remain calm and law-abiding as there...

Supreme Court Strikes Out PDP, Atiku’s Appeal

The Supreme Court has struck out an appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The appeal...

Redeemed Church Is Owing Me N17m, Ex-Pastor Cries Out

Bayo Akinjiyan, A 55-year-old pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God  (RCCG), has cried out to the leadership of the church to...

Presidency Query Into Fowler’s Variances’ in Tax Revenue May Halt Re-appointment

Some close to the Presidency believe that Babatunde Fowler, the executive chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) may soon be ousted...

Deadly blast rips through wedding in Afghanistan, killing 63 people

A suicide bomb attack at a wedding in Kabul on Saturday killed 63 people and wounded 182, the Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman said....

VP Osinbajo says Oyegun is “on the right side of history”

Former chairman of the ruling APC party celebrated his 80th birthday over the week-end with the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo wishing him well...

Power: FG assures additional 669MW before end of 2019

Plans to close 5.3million consumers metering gap The federal government has assured Nigerians of additional 669MW of power supply before the end of...

Iranian Cleric Ayatollah Mohsen Araki’s phone call with Zakzaky in India angered FG

Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohsen Araki looked to have sparked a potentially damaging row with Nigeria on Friday after speaking with Sheikh Zakzaky over...

Why Indian authorities repatriated El-Zakzaky, wife back to Nigeria

The Indian authorities, on Friday, flew Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife Zeenat back to...

Osundare to Buhari: Release Sowore now, says Nigeria becoming a “big-for-nothing” 

Prolific Nigerian poet and media columnist, Prof. Niyi Osundare, has called on the Federal Government to release the convener of #RevolutionNow Protest and...