Nigeria

Petrol pump pricing: PPPRA recants, says’ll still provide guiding price

      The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) on Sunday retracted its earlier statement removing price cap of petrol and giving...

Locally-made face mask: WHO counsels on how to wear, remove, wash it

      The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released new guidelines on the use of homemade or locally-made face masks for the...

SERAP to Court : Order release of Buhari, Osinbajo’s asset declarations 

    Unsatisfied with a court judgment, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked a higher court to order public disclosure of...

Insecurity: Ganduje to FG: Ban migrant-herdsmen from Nigeria 

  Alarmed by the menace of migrating armed herdsmen,  Kano Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje has urged the Federal Government to bar herdsmen from West...

COVID-19 100 days : FG to establish infectious disease laboratory in 36 states, FCT

As Nigeria marks 100 days of the outbreak of Coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Government says it plans to set up at least one...

SGF Mustapha lays NNPC hospital foundation in Maiduguri, lauds Gov. Zulum’s performance 

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, on Saturday performed the ground breaking for the construction of an Infectious Diseases...

13-year-old gang raped by four youths in Kaduna as reported cases soar in Nigeria

  A 13-year-old girl in Kaduna was allegedly gang-raped by four men after she was drugged,  the Kaduna State Ministry of Human Services...

N33bn SDGs budget controversy: NASS clears Orelope-Adefulire

  The House of Representatives Committee on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has absolved Mrs Victoria Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, the Senior Special Assistant to the...

NNPC alerts of contaminated diesel in circulation

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has alerted the public of contaminated diesel that is harmful to machines and environment being sold...

COVID-19 : Organized Private Sector lauds CBN’s intervention in manufacturing and agribusiness sectors 

    The Central Bank of Nigeria’s planned disbursement of N93.2 billion out of N1 trillion intervention fund for manufacturing and agribusiness sectors has...

Subsidy removal: Petrol marketers now to fix pump price 

      In line with the new pricing regime for petrol, marketers are now free to fix the price of the commodity, the Petroleum...

Tragedy: DPO, seven other policemen, women  killed in Kogi 

  Armed robbers struck at a branch of a first generation bank in lsanlu, Kogi State, on Thursday leaving a trail of murders of nine...

Nigeria nominates Okonjo-Iweala for DG, World Trade Organization

  Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, has been nominated for election as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...

Police nab three dare-devil siblings for kidnap, murder of widow

  Three bloodthirsty siblings, who allegedly kidnapped and gruesomely murdered a 55-year old mother of five in Abuja and bolted to Imo State,...

Senate Probe Panel Indicts Akpabio Over NDDC N500m Project Scam

  The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, may have soiled his hands in a N500 million Niger Delta Development Commission’s project...

Multi-billion naira fraud at NIRSAL a hoax, unfounded – Management

    Contrary to an online media report of a multi-billion naira fraud at the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending...