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Paucity of funds: TETFund mulls exclusion of foreign scholars from FG’s scholarship program

With the scarcity foreign exchange and the difficulty in accessing it coupled with paucity of funds, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) daysy...

Cabinet: Tinubu allots portfolios to ministers, holds on to Petroleum Ministry, Wike for FCT, Alake Solid Minerals, Matawalle is Defence

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday made public the portfolios of the ministerial nominees recently screened and confirmed by the Senate. According to a...

Just In: Nyesom Wike as FCT Minister as Pres. Tinubu releases Ministerial Portfolios

President Tinubu has appointed immediate past governors of Rivers and Ebonyi states, Nyesom Wike and Dave Umahi as Ministers of FCT and Minister...

76 days after inauguration, Pres. Tinubu to swear in ministers on Monday

Over 76 days after his inauguration, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will on Monday, August 21, inaugurate his cabinet. This was confirmed by a...

BREAKING: Relief for Naira as NNPCL Ltd secures $3bn crude repayment Afrexim Bank loan

In a bid to salvage and stabilize the exchange rate and shore up the value of the Naira, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company...

N6.9bn procurement fraud: FG to arraign Emefiele, accomplices on Thursday

The suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, and his accomplices will be arraigned for N6.9 billion procurement fraud...

N56m illegal drugs in FCT: NDLEA busts 343 suspects

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), FCT Command, says it has seized 3,022.529kg of illicit drugs valued at N56 million from January...

Davido splashes over half a billion naira on new necklace

Nigerian Afrobeat superstar Davido has presented himself with a diamond necklace worth half a billion naira As he wore the diamond neck necklace,...

One dead, three missing as Seplat Oil rig collapses

One person has been confirmed dead while three others are missing as Seplat ‘Majestic’ Oil rig collapsed near Ovhor in Delta State The...

Tinubu salutes brave soldiers who lost their lives in NAF helicopter crash

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday night saluted the courageous officers and soldiers, who lost their lives in the ill-fated helicopter in Chukuba Village...

Economy in dire straits under Buhari, Tinubu unfortunate — Oshiomhole

Sen. Adams Oshiomhole (Edo North) on Tuesday gave a damning report on the ex-President Muhammadu Buhari administration, saying President Bola Tinubu has the...

I hope I don’t sustain internal injury, says CDQ after auto accident 

Nigerian rapper and singer, CDQ may have been admitted in the hospital following an auto accident in the early hours of Tuesday, August...

Rising crude oil prices, foreign exchange rates: Tinubu govt plans ‘temporary subsidy’ on petrol

Amid rising crude oil prices and crazy foreign exchange rates with cumulative effects on landing cost of imported petrol, President Bola Tinubu, might...

Release suspended EFCC chair, Bawa immediately or prosecute him, SERAP tells Pres. Tinubu …threatens legal action over Bawa’s detention

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has threatened to take legal action against the President Bola Tinubu-led administration over the continued detention...

Breaking: Nigeria’s inflation accelerates to 24.08%, the highest in a decade

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released for July 2023, on Tuesday, disclosed that inflation rate...

Ogun Gov. Abiodun appoints Lekan Adeniran as Chief Press Secretary

Ogun Gov. Dapo Abiodun has named Mr Lekan Adeniran as his Chief Press Secretary (CPS). The Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Tokunbo...