Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has declared today a work-free day, to enable workers prepare for tomorrow’s governorship election. According to the Governor in a statement issued by the Commissioner...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday presented the proposed 2021 national budget of N13 trillion to the National Assembly. The budget termed Budget Of Economic Recovery and Resilience will address key...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will not participate in the second presidential debate with Joe Biden after the Commission on Presidential Debates said the event will be held virtually...

The Federal Government has announced its plan to completely close a section of the Third Mainland Bridge for repairs from the midnight of Friday October 9 to midnight of Sunday, October 11, 2020. A statement...

Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 155 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 59,738. The 155 new cases were reported from eight states – Lagos (84), Rivers (31),...

The World Trade Organization has said Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee have advanced to the final round in the race for the position of  director-general. The implication...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2021 budget estimate at a joint session of both chambers of the National Assembly today. Senate President Ahmed Lawan announced this on Wednesday while...

Eight persons have been confirmed dead following a gas plant explosion which occurred at Baruwa in the Ipaja area of Lagos this Thursday morning. Several houses were also brought down by the explosion. According...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC)  has approved the sum of N653,886,584 to procure and deploy a hybrid spectrum monitoring system that will track radio signals in the southern part of the country, particularly,...

Alhaji Ahmed Nuhu Bamali has emerged as the 19th Emir of the city of Zaria which is traditionally called Zazzau in Kaduna State. He succeeds Alhaji Shehu Idris, who died on Sunday, September 20, 2020,...

Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing. Charpentier, who is French, and Doudna,...

On Tuesday, the number of daily coronavirus cases found in Nigeria was 118, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 59,583. The latest figure was recorded in the following 14 states:...

The Economic Community of West African States has decided to lift the sanctions it had imposed on the Republic of Mali following the military coup which ousted the democratically elected government of...

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday present the 2021 Appropriations Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly. The President wrote a letter of request to the Senate to notify it of his intention...

Founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Prophet Babatunde Alfa and five others have been sentenced to life imprisonment for last year’s disappearance of a one-year -old child, Gold Kolawole from the church. Other...

US President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House after leaving the military hospital where he was receiving treatment for COVID-19. He immediately ignited a new controversy by declaring...

Manchester United has confirmed the signing of striker Edinson Cavani. The Uruguay international joins on a one-year contract with the option to extend for a further year. Cavani, who has won the Golden...

Arsenal has confirmed the signing of Ghanaian Thomas Partey from Atletico Madrid. The midfielder comes to London after the Gunners were able to complete a £45 million (€50m/$58m), four-year deal with...

On the 5th of October 2020, 120 new confirmed cases were recorded in Nigeria bringing the total of confirmed cases in the country to 59,465. Of the total confirmed cases, 50951 cases have been discharged...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a special salary scale for teachers in Nigeria . He has also increased the maximum number of years of service for educators from 35 to 40. The Minister of Education,...