The Federal Government yesterday suspended the controversial five percent excise duty on telecommunication services recently announced by the Ministry of Finance. The Minister of Communications and Digital...

The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, has accepted the resignation of the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Idris Salako. A statement made available by...

The Lagos State Government has ordered the arrest of the developer and building professionals working on the seven-floor structure that collapsed at Oba Abiodun Oniru Road in the Iru/Victoria Island area...

Liz Truss will be the next prime minister of the United Kingdom after winning most votes in the Conservative Party leadership contest, succeeding Boris Johnson who resigned in July after a series of scandals. Truss...

Kenya’s Supreme Court has upheld the victory of former Deputy President William Ruto in the August 9 presidential election, after ruling on a number of petitions brought by his closest challenger Raila...

A Plateau State high court has discharged and acquitted former Governor Jonah Jang of the N6.3 billion fraud allegations levelled against him. The court presided over by Justice Christy Dabup also discharged...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo. The Speaker was picked up following a tip-off around 9.00am on Thursday...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only President of the Soviet Union, has died, according to Russian media. He was 91. The Central Clinical Hospital on the outskirts of Moscow told the state news agency...

Fidelity Bank Plc has announced its proposed acquisition of a 100% equity stake in Union Bank Plc in the United Kingdom. According to a Press Release signed by Ezinwa Unuigboje, the Company Secretary on...

The Jigawa State Government has said the death toll of flood victims has risen to 51. Executive Secretary of the Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, Sani Yusuf, confirmed this to newsmen. “For...

Delta Airlines has announced plans to discontinue its services between New York’s JFK airport in the United States and Lagos on October 4, 2022. The airline made this known in a statement, stating that...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday extended its six-month-old strike in Nigeria. A source within ASUU confirmed that an extension of the strike was the resolution of a National Executive...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has thrown out a suit by the Federal Government to extradite the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, to the United States of America. Justice Inyang Ekwo...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday released $265 million to foreign airlines operating in the country for the remittance of a part of their revenues trapped in the country. A breakdown of the...

The National Bureau of Statistics says Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product grew by 3.54 per cent in the second quarter of 2022 on a year-on-year basis. This is contained in a statement issued by the Statistician-General...

The Edo State Police Command has arrested 30 suspects over cult-related killings in the state. In a statement on Friday by the Command Deputy Spokesperson, ASP Jennifer Iwegbu, the command swung into action...

The National Broadcasting Commission on Friday temporarily rescinded its decision to shutdown certain broadcast stations over failure to renew their licences. Last week Friday, NBC directed 52 broadcast...

MTN Nigeria Communications Plc said it has kicked off an open 5G pilot in the lead-up to its highly anticipated commercial launch in 7 states. The states that will witness the first launch, the company...

Nigeria and the United States government have reached an agreement on the return of over $23 million of the Abacha loot. The agreement was signed, yesterday, at the office of Abubakar Malami, Minister...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed a new case of Ebola in its violence-wracked east, the country’s health ministry said, just weeks after the end of a previous epidemic. The DRC early last...