The Senate has commenced a three-day investigative hearing on the input and output values of the Nigerian mining industry in light of its central role to...
Following the disquiet over the absence of President Bola Tinubu in Nigeria, the Presidency has said that Mr. President and his aides, who accompanied him out...
The Annual Conference of West African Human Right Watch Groups, sponsored by African Center for Justice and Human Right (ACJHR), which holds in Accra, Ghana, in...
Ahead of United Nations (UN) Civil Society Conference in Niarobi, Kenya, and Summit of the Future, in May and September, 2024, respectively, the Nigerian Core Group...
Minister of Works, Engr. Dave Umahi, has been berated for allegedly downplaying the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) aspect of the multi-billion Naira Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project....
The first day of Senate’s plenary in the renovated red chamber was marred by a verbal war among Senators over sitting arrangement on Tuesday. LEADERSHIP reports...
About 100 members of the Senate Press Corps (SPC) have converged in the historic town of Keffi, Nasarawa State, for their 2024 Annual Retreat. The two-day...
Days after participating in the direct governorship primary election of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State as an aspirant, Wale Akinterinwa will be...
The House of Representatives has called for calm over the recent allegations of discrimination against Nigerians at a supermarket in Abuja operated by Chinese nationals, promising...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has confirmed the escape of 119 inmates from the Medium Security Custodial Centres in Suleja, Niger State, following a rainstorm, which...
President of the 9th Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, on Saturday, commissioned and handed over the Model II School for the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) in...
The crisis rocking the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has again taken a new turn as lawmakers elected on the platform of the party in the...
The presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar; former vice president Namadi Sambo, and Minister of FCT, Nyesom...
A political think-tank, #FixPolitics Africa, has applauded the election of President Bassirou Faye of Senegal, describing it as the triumph of the democratic spirit and collective...
Senate Committee on Oil and Gas Host Communities has mandated the managing director of Total Energies, Mr. Matthieu Bouyer, to appear before it in his own...
Veronica Anyim, the graduate of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) at the centre of B.Sc Law controversy at the Dunamis Church headquarters in Abuja, said...
The headquarters of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre in Abuja has said that its senior Pastor, Dr. Paul Enenche, has no plan whatsoever to harm, hurt...
The Senate Committee on Oil and Gas Host Communities has mandated the Managing Director of Total Energies, Mr. Matthieu Bouyer, to appear before it in his...
President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has charged the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-South geo-political zone of the country, to work harder so...
There is palpable tension in the House of Representatives as lawmakers of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are set to clash over a move to...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has berated Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) and Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) for providing their customers with false information...
An Abuja-based activist and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has faulted the six-month imprisonment sentence pronounced by a Federal High Court in Lagos against celebrity transgender, Idris Okuneye,...
Activist and online newspaper publisher, Omoyele Sowore, has protested against a six-month jail term handed a controversial transgender, Idris Okuneye, a.k.a Bobrisky, over mutilation of the...
Former President Muhammadu Buhari has joined family members of the immediate-past Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, and the entire nation in mourning...
The Peoples Democratic Party State House of Assembly Candidates Froum (PDP-SHACF) has called on the acting national chairman of the party, Amb. Ilia Damagum, to quit...
A former member of the House of Representatives from Kogi State, Hon. Mohammed Idris, is dead. The ex-lawmaker, who was the son of a former Governor...
The suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has threatened to file a lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for allegedly...
President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday morning, observed the Eid-el-Fitr prayer at the Dodan Barracks Eid prayer ground in Obalende, Lagos. He was joined at the Eid...
38-year-old Omobayo Godwins has been sworn in as the new deputy governor of Edo State following the impeachment of Comrade Philip Shaibu by the State House...
Members of the 10th Senate and House of Representatives belonging to opposition political parties have raised the alarm over alleged move to use Federal High Court...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has so far recovered N30billion for the Federal Government while it has also placed 50 bank accounts under...
A leading governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Dr Olamide Ohunyeye, has submitted his party‘s nomination and expression of interest forms...
Two undergraduate students of the University of Abuja (UniAbuja) have won a total grant of ₦1,522,980 to undertake research in their chosen thematic areas. Ajewole Peter...
President of the 9th Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, has called on the federal government to prioritise health as a basic right of every Nigerian citizen. Lawan,...
The President of the 8th Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, is not interested in becoming the National Chairman of People Democratic Party (PDP), a top aide...
The Deputy Commissioner of Police serving under the Lagos State Police Command, DCP Gbolahan Olugbemi, who was found dead in his private home in Ogbomoso, Oyo...
Following the disclosure of Kaduna State’s debt profile by Governor Uba Sani at a Town Hall Meeting in Kaduna last weekend, a former federal lawmaker,...
A Deputy Commissioner of Police serving under the Lagos State Police Command, DCP Gbolahan Oyedemi, has been found dead in his private home in Ogbomoso, Oyo...
A group, Northern Youth Progressive Network (NYPN) has condemned the heinous communal dispute that occurred between Okoloba and Okuama communities in Delta State, resulting in the...
Apparently, to avoid suspension from the Senate, the Cross River North Senator, Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, on Sunday, abandoned a live TV interview midway over the subject...
In what looks like a pre-announcement to an epic political battle ahead in Kaduna State, Bashir El-Rufai has accused the State governor, Uba Sani, of shying...
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Thursday, congratulated the President-elect of Senegal, Mr. Bassirou Faye, on his...
President Bola Tinubu has conferred posthumous National Honours on the 17 Army personnel killed in Okuama community of Delta State during a peace mission about two...
Chairperson of the Regional Centre for Governance and Security Policy Initiative (RCGSP), Jonathan Sandy, has described the presidential poll in Senegalese won by Bassirou Faye as...
Kano State governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has expressed displeasure over quality of food at one of the State’s Ramadan Feeding Centres in Gidan Maza, Kano Municipal...
Kano State governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has expressed displeasure over quality of food at one of the State’s Ramadan Feeding Centres in Gidan Maza, Kano Municipal...
A member of House of Representatives representing Ideato North/South federal constituency of Imo State, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere, has emerged as the spokesperson of opposition lawmakers coalition...
Detectives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a professional make-up artist, Margret Itodo, 25; Agnes Ogbeh, 23; Esther Anyanwu, 24, and Anthony Chinakwe, 24,...
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, on Friday, arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, as head of Nigeria’s delegation to the 148th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union...
Meta, the parent company of popular social media platforms – Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram – will introduce a feature on its Instagram app that will allow...
The Senate, on Wednesday, passed the Student Loan Access to Higher Education) Act (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill, 2024, into law. The development followed the consideration and...
The Senate, on Wednesday, resolved to name one of its Committee Rooms after the late 42nd Olubadan of Ibadan Land, Oba Mashood Olalekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade...
Activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has apologised to the Nigerian Army (NA) for posting a video purportedly showing...
A civil society organisation, Zero Tolerance for Corruption Africa (ZTC-Africa), has condemned the recent allegation of 2024 budget padding against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, by...
Pastor of The Everlasting Arms Parish (TEAP), Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Garki, Abuja, Chinedu Ezekwesili, has said his dream at 70 was to see...
The Senate has reacted to the gruesome murder of 16 Army personnel of ‘Operation Delta Safe’ in Okuama community of Ughelli South local government area of...
The burial rites for the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadan Land, His Imperial Majesty Oba Mashood Olalekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II, has begun on Friday afternoon with...
The burial rites for the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadan Land, His Imperial Majesty Oba Mashood Olalekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II, has begun on Friday afternoon with...
The Senate has berated the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for calling for the resignation of Senator Godswill Akpabio as the Senate President over what it...
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has called on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to collaborate with the National Assembly in the ongoing review process...
A former federal lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has provided insights into how members of the National Assembly indulge in budget padding annually. LEADERSHIP reports that ‘budget...
Nine months after inauguration of the 10th Senate, the 51 Senators from the 17 Southern States of the Federation have met on the platform of Southern...
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Engr. Emeka Ezeh as the pioneer chairman of the newly created Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Civil Service Commission....
The Senate, on Tuesday afternoon, suspended Bauchi Central Senator and chairman of Northern Senators Forum (NSF), Abdul Ningi, from the Red Chamber for three months. The...
Senators, on Tuesday afternoon, exchanged words over a claim by a member of the Senate, Senator Abdul Ningi, representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District of Bauchi State,...
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Monday, inaugurated a Senate Ad-Hoc Committee to investigate the Ways and Means, including the Anchor Borrowers Programme by the Central...
A socio-political group of young professionals and elite from the Zone A Senatorial District of Benue State, Zone A Voters League (ZAVL), has resolved to initiate...
The Senate Minority Whip, Senator Osita Ngwu, has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for signing an Executive Order on Oil & Gas Reforms, saying it will...
Nigerian-American singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has celebrated his father, Chief Adedeji Adeleke, on his 68th birthday anniversary on Wednesday, describing him as the...
A human rights activist and one-time Senator representing Kaduna Central senatorial zone, Shehu Sani, has thrown a jibe at the Nigeria’s power sector apparently over epileptic...
In what looked like a competitive gesture, the 23-year-old Kano-based commercial tricyclist, Awwalu Salisu, who returned a cash of N15million left in his tricycle by a...
A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Sunday, strongly condemned the recent cold blooded murder of Chadian...
The South-East nominee for membership of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Board of Directors, Urum Kalu Eke, has rejected his appointment. Eke declined his nomination...
Bulk power supply flexibility and volume of power into Abuja has reduced by 250MW following destruction of Tower 70 along the Transmission Company of Nigeria’s 330kV...
Bulk power supply flexibility and volume of power into Abuja has reduced by 250MW following destruction of Tower 70 along the Transmission Company of Nigeria’s 330kV...
The Senator representing Kogi Central senatorial district, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Tuesday, moved a motion urging the Senate to investigate alleged corruption and inefficiency at the...
It’s no longer news that President Bola Tinubu has ordered the implementation of the recommendations of the Steve Oronsaye Committee Report on the merger and scrapping...
The Nigeria Army (NA) has disowned the insinuation of a possible coup plot against the democratically elected government of President Bola Tinubu. It also described as...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has asked President Bola Tinubu to adopt President Javier Milei of Argentina’s approach to reforms and stop blaming opposition political parties...
President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, has arrived in Windhoek, Namibia, as the leader of the presidential delegation to the State Funeral of the...
A Coalition of prominent Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), on Friday, called on the National Assembly to probe the $3.4billion loan collected by the Federal Government from...
Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, the widow of the immediate-past governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, has reminisced the life and times of her late husband, saying...
Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has urged billionaires in the country to come to the aid of hungry Nigerians by making donations similar to their...
The Senate Committee on Oil and Gas Host Communities has issued a final notice of appearance to the Chief Executive (CE) of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum...