Nigeria

Community Honours Minister, NNPC Chief for Community Development, Humanitarian Gestures

  The GMD of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari has been conferred with  a chieftaincy title by HRH, King...

Education in parlous state, overhaul it, Pastor Bakare tells FG

  The founder of Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has called on the Buhari administration to overhaul the nation’s education system....

2 DSS officers die in road crash

  By Kunle Akinsola   Two officers of the Department of the State Services (DSS) have lost their lives in a road mishap....

N90bn polls fund: Osinbajo Writes Google To Remove ‘Defamatory Publication’ From YouTube

  By Kunle Akinsola   The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has reacted to a video published by Roots TV on the video-sharing website,...

Don’t negotiate with fraudulent P&ID – Magu

  Barely 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari told Process and Industrial Development (P&ID), the Irish engineering firm that recently won a $9.6...

Judge threatens to jail DG DSS for refusal to release Sowore

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has threatened to jail the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi, over his refusal to...

Fossil fuels are here to stay, says Kyari

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, says fossil fuel is here to stay as the world’s...

Activist Omoyele Sowore charged with treason, money laundering

Activist and convener of the hashtag RevolutionNow Protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore has been charged with treason and money laundering. The federal government accused...

FG in fresh $2.5bn World Bank loan deal

  Indications have emerged that the Nigerian Government is negotiating another World Bank loan to the tune of $2.5 billion after it took...

Dr. Mrs. Folashade Yemi-Esan Appointed Acting Head of the Civil Service

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dr. Mrs. Folashade Yemi-Esan as the Acting Head of the Civil Service of the Federation with immediate effect....

Kyari’s Intervention: Belema Community, Shell put an end to two-years of conflict

The strife between Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC and the Belema community was nearing crisis point. Then the Group Managing Director of the...

Tammy Abraham refuses to rule out playing for Super Eagles

Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham has suggested he is open to a Nigeria call-up for the Super Eagles. “I have heard the talks and...

FG, Labour talks on minimum wage end in deadlock as threat of strike rises

The Federal Government and the labour unions on Monday failed to reach an agreement on consequential adjustment on the N30,000 minimum wage. The...

Buhari constitutes new economic advisory council

By Kunle Akinsola President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo and Mr Bismark Rewane,...

Incarcerated Sowore files fresh bail application

  Detained Omoyele Sowore, the Convener of #RevolutionNow Protest and publisher of Saharareporters, a frontline online publication, on Monday asked a Federal High...