…Says No Fatalities or Injury The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), an upstream subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, has reported an explosion at a production facility...

US President Donald Trump has made allegations of voter ‘fraud’ in the country’s current presidential election and declared victory for himself even as important battleground states...

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives (EITI), a multi-stakeholder coalition that promotes extractives transparency and accountability in over 50 countries, has commended the Group Managing...

The National Bureau of Statistics on Monday said the sectoral distribution of Value Added Tax data for the third quarter of 2020 reflected that the sum of N 424. 71 bn was generated as VAT in Q 3 2020. This...

At least three people have died and 15 injured in a terror attack in Vienna, Austria’s interior minister, Karl Nehammer announced in a press conference early on Tuesday. Gunmen with computerized weapons...

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has provisionally won a third term in office with 94.27% of the vote, the electoral commission announced early on Tuesday, after an election boycotted by the opposition. “Thus...

A former governor of Benue State and serving senator, Gabriel Suswam has been re-arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja over an alleged N3.1 billion fraud. Suswam was on Monday re-arraigned alongside...

The Federal Government has approved the sum of N5billion as a bailout for airline operators and other business owners in the aviation sector to cushion the effects of COVID-19 on the country’s aviation...

The Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) has commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for Internal Open Resourcing (IOR) initiative, describing it as a veritable tool required by...

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka will this month release a new novel titled: Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth. It is coming 48 years after his two previous works of prose, The Interpreters (1965)...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the release of the WASSCE results for 2020. The announcement was made by the council’s Head of National Office, Patrick Areghan via the...

The House of Representatives Committee on Gas Resources has applauded the Mallam Mele Kyari-led Management team of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for its achievements in the areas...

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the October 10 governorship election in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede, has filed a petition at the election tribunal challenging the victory of the incumbent...

In fulfilment of President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise to ensure mass metering nationwide to end the estimated billing system in the electricity sector, the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) will...

The Management of the Lekki Concession Company has said it is ready to show the footage of the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate by soldiers. The Head of the Legal Department of LCC,...

In the face of a second wave of COVID-19 infections now sweeping across many European and American countries and the imposition of new regimes of restrictions, President Muhammadu Buhari has said the...

Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonji-Iweala is set to become the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization. Reports say she, this Wednesday, secured the support of 104 of the 164 member countries...

President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa has gone into self-isolation, his office announced on Wednesday morning. He took the decision after a guest he had attended a dinner with on Saturday tested...

The House of Representatives Committee on Power, Wednesday, dismissed as illegal, President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Company, NBET should be an agency under...

Hundreds of protesters in Philadelphia have marched through the city for a second night, demanding racial justice after police fatally shot a black man. Demonstrators marched to a city police station...