ABUJA—ACTING Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, boasted yesterday that he had set a new record in asset recovery and conviction of...
MINISTER of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, disclosed that the Federal Government has succeeded in increasing power generation, transmission and distribution in the...
Mr. Aliyu Aziz, Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), says 33 million Nigerians have enrolled for the National Identification Number (NIN). Aziz said on...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assented an extradition law consistent with extant protocols. His Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, stated yesterday in...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, criticised state governors opposed to local government autonomy in Nigeria, describing them as enemies of the people.Obasanjo, who decried how state...
• To mentor women on political participation, national growth The immediate past President of Liberia and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, would be the...
The Senate has condemned the shifting of blames to the National Assembly over delay in passing the national budget every year.In a statement yesterday by its...
…insurgents steal 200 cows, 300 sheep in Borno, says NEMA Nigerian Army yesterday said two high-profile commanders of Boko Haram, had been killed by troops on...
President Muhammadu Buhari has called for stringent actions against perpetrators of illicit financial flows, including a crackdown on the safe havens. The Presisent warned that continuous...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to provide answers to the N33bn corruption allegation made by the House of Representatives in...
…as Dutch textile company invests $200m in Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday, in Abuja, pledged the commitment of his administration to revive the ‘good old days’...
– The 774 local government areas in Nigeria will be provided with internet connectivity within the next four years – The assurance was given on Thursday,...
For officials of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), it is a blatant lie to claim that N3.5 million is spent monthly to feed their leader,...
The number of Cameroonians fleeing violence and seeking refuge in Nigeria has crossed the 30,000-mark, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has said. Mr Babar...
Otunba Adejare Rewane Adegbenro was born into two political dynasties; his paternal grandfather was the late Premier of the defunct Western Region, Alhaji Dauda Soroye Adegbenro....
ABUJA, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said his attention has been drawn to a report of the House Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness issued on...
ABUJA, President Muhammadu Buhari has set ambitious targets for a national broadband network to harness the potentials of the Internet and digital access for jobs, education,...
– The Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled on the application seeking the arrest of the deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu – The federal government...
ABUJA—THE Presidency, yesterday, chided those accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of reneging on the N30,000 agreed on by the National Minimum Wage Tripartite Committee. According to the...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has been indicted over alleged illegal approval of a mismanaged N5.8 billion North East Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) intervention fund. House Committee...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari a few days ago, in his usual characteristics of self-righteousness and buck passing blamed tardiness in the passage of budgets by the National...
The federal government has been accused of deliberately preventing the Prince of Wales, Charles Philip, from visiting the Niger Delta for him not to see the...
VICE President, Yemi Osinbajo, will lead an array of dignitaries to the 40th anniversary of the famous social club, Association of Friends, which will kick off...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said God’s intervention in Nigeria has made the nation to weather the storms over the years. He said that the nation would...
The ongoing Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail project can be converted to electric train in future, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), has assured Nigerians. Mr Jerry Oche,...
Buhari addressing the parliaments ADDRESS BY H.E MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT THE 73RD SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND 41ST...
Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, yesterday revealed that the Federal Government has been spending N3.5m monthly to feed detained leader of the Islamic...
The Senate has constituted a seven-member committee to probe allegation that funds for the federal government’s special intervention programmes are being used as a campaign tool...
The National Assembly has transmitted the Electoral Act (amendment) Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari. The president had on three previous occasions withheld his assent to the...
The Senate has commenced investigation into an allegation that the Special Intervention Programme of the present administration is being diverted to fund President Muhammadu’s reelection bid....
Education has been identified as a solution to the problem of early marriages in Africa. This position was made known by wife of the President of...
