President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the board of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority. This was done during the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by the President at the State...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to hear a fresh bail application filed by former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina. Justice Ahmed Mohammed...

The Director- General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, has been appointed as the Assistant Director-General of Health Emergency Intelligence at the World Health Organisation...

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on Tuesday signed the Ondo State anti-open grazing bill into law, Donald Ojogo, the commissioner for information and orientation, has said. The governor signed the bill on...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said focus on job creation, consistency in policy and innovation helped a lot in stimulating a five percent growth of the Nigerian economy in the second quarter of 2021,...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed all banks in the country to publish the names and Bank Verification Number (BVN) of defaulters of its forex policy. This was disclosed in a circular issued...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has released eight of the 12 aides of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, in its custody. Lawyer to the detainees, Pelumi Olajengbesi,...

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on returning from Abuja on Sunday, after participating in a series of meetings of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, visited the ESUT Teaching Hospital, Parklane,...

Streets and major roads in Enugu, the Enugu State capital are this morning bereft of human and vehicular traffic. thi There are very few places where bus and tricycle operators are making swift runs and...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has expressed its readiness to embark on another round of industrial action following what it called the failure of the Federal Government to implement an agreement...

Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong has relaxed the curfews imposed on parts of the state due to insecurity. The Governor, in a broadcast on Monday, said the 24-hour curfew on Jos North is now to be...

Legendary Nigerian highlife musician, Sir Victor Uwaifo died on Saturday at the age of 80 in Benin City. One of his children, Uwaifo Peter de Rock, broke the news of the demise of the Professor of Visual...

Gunmen have freed over 100 pupils kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in Niger State nearly three months ago, the school’s head teacher said on Thursday. The head teacher, Abubakar Alhassan did not say...

Nigeria’s domestic gas penetration aspirations have received a major boost as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Kaduna State Government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 5.01% (year-on-year) in real terms in the second quarter of 2021, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. This is according to the recently published...

Several persons are feared killed with many others injured after suspected herdsmen attacked Yelwa Zangam village in the Zangam District of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State. The attack...

The Plateau State government has re-imposed a 24-hour curfew on Jos North Local Government Area (LGA). The 24-hour curfew earlier imposed in the council area was relaxed last week to dusk-to-dawn alongside...

The leaders of Ogoniland in Rivers State under the auspices of the Ogoni Liberation Initiative have pledged to cooperate with the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) in the exploration and production...

The Speaker of the Kebbi State House of Assembly, Abdulmumeen Kamba, and the Deputy Speaker, Muhammad Buhari-Aleiro, have been impeached. The impeachment was announced by the Chairman House Committee on...

Bandits have attacked the permanent site of the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna State, killing two officers and abducting one other officer. This was disclosed by NDA spokesman Major Bashir Muhd Jajira. “The...