President Bola Tinubu on Friday celebrated the grace of “stewardship and leadership upon” the life of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God,...
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun and former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Saturday, described the General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Enoch Adeboye, as an...
Legal luminary and human rights activist, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has said President Bola Tinubu was right to have removed fuel subsidy. Besides supporting...
The federal government has invited heads of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) over poor power supply in their service areas....
The President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, has charged President Bola Tinubu to stop playing politics and address the issues of hunger and...
Mohammed Idris, minister of information and national orientation, has asked Nigerians to give President Bola Tinubu more time to fix the country. Idris spoke on...
It is ten kilometres from the Port Harcourt International Airport to Wigwe International University in Isiokpo. From the airport junction deep into the hinterland, every turn...
Former Kaduna Senator, Shehu Sani, has advised President Bola Tinubu’s administration to work hard and fix the economy to avoid the looming protest of angry...
The Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Igboho, has urged traditional rulers in the Southwest to support him in flushing out criminality and banditry...
Africa’s richest man and Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has recommended that Nigeria moves from resource-based to knowledge-based economy. Dangote made...
The federal government has secured the interim forfeiture of two vessels seized over illegal trafficking of crude oil in the Niger Delta region BACKGROUND ...
The Trade Union Congress, TUC, has responded to a recent jibe thrown at labour unions in the country by President Bola Tinubu. Tinubu had on...
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has urged President Bola Tinubu to arrest and prosecute Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemi, popularly known as...
A former Anambra gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Val Ozigbo, has endorsed the call by the party’s caucus in the State House of Assembly...
The British Council in Nigeria has increased the fee for the academic international English language testing system (IELTS) examinations. This is the second time the...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revoked the licences of 4,173 bureau de change (BDC) operators for failing to observe regulatory provisions. In a...
Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has issued a stern warning to individuals and groups causing problems in the state, saying those found wanting would be...
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointments of four Nigerian professionals to serve as Executive Directors of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN. They will...
Inmates at the Jos Correctional Center, Plateau State, on Friday staged a protest over the economic hardship ravaging the nation. It was gathered that the protest...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it will ensure that the outstanding foreign exchange (FX) liabilities will be cleared in the next few days. ...
Former Minister of Power and Steel under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Olu Agunloye, has filed a N1 billion suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,...
A former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, said the Oronsaye Report is outdated and needs to be updated before implementation. Sani stated this in an interview...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed cement companies in Nigeria to revert to old prices amid the hike in the cost of the commodity. David...
The federal government says it is demanding at least $10 billion as retribution from Binance for profiting from “its illegal transactions” in Nigeria. Bayo Onanuga,...
Veteran Nigerian musician Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, popularly known as K1 De Ultimate, has cancelled his 67th birthday celebration. The Fuji icon who turns 67 on March...
A student of the Federal University of Technology Owerri, FUTO, Owerri, has died while several others sustained injuries in a cult-related incident. The incident took place...
Paul Ibe, the senior spokesman to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has reminded Nigerians the promises made by President Bola Tinubu during his electioneering. He...
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) says foreign airlines have reopened their low-inventory tickets for Nigerians to access cheaper flights. Michael Achimugu, the authority’s director...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says those laying curses on Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the commission, should make better use of their time. Speaking...
The Nigerian Army says it never demanded money from selected trainees undergoing training at the Depot, Nigerian Army, Zaria, for vetting. The Director, Army Public Relations,...
The Central Bank of Nigeria have instructed all bank customers to link their National Identification Number (NIN) and Bank Verification Number (BVN) to their bank account...
President Bola Tinubu has assured Nigerians that his administration will restructure the country as promised earlier, but noted that a good foundation must be laid. ...
Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says previous direct development interventions by the financial regulator gulped over N10 trillion. Cardoso disclosed...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says its role in the divestment of international oil companies (IOCs) from onshore and shallow water assets in the...
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has warned Nigerian leaders that the country is breaking informally. Soyinka urged the government at all levels to desist from taking...
The erstwhile Chief Executive of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCCPC, Babatunde Irukera, has said he will speak up in due course following his...
President Bola Tinubu says it is unacceptable for the labour unions to call for a strike within the first nine months of an administration. Speaking...
Bayo Onanuga, special adviser on information and strategy to President Bola Tinubu, says efforts by the federal government to ameliorate the impacts of the economic hardship...
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu has said that the first draft report of the ongoing review of the 1999 constitution...
A London morgue where the remains of former Senate President, late Dr Joseph Wayas, is kept, has collected the sum of £6,710, amounting to N13,366,320, from...
The Senate has passed a bill for extension of service for employees of the National Assembly from 60 to 65 years. The bill, which had...
The National Chairman of Labour Party, Mr Julius Abure, has said that the party will sustain its push for a better Nigeria until it eventually gets...
President Bola Tinubu has vowed that he will fight the menace of corruption in Nigeria to ruin. Tinubu made this vow while speaking at the...
Kalu Eke, one of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s five nominees for the Central Bank of Nigeria Board of Directors, has rejected the appointment. Tinubu had earlier...
The House of Representatives, on Thursday, established a 23-man committee to study the proposed restructuring of Federal Government agencies in line with the Stephen Oronsaye report....
The federal government says petrol importation into the country has dropped by 50 percent since the removal of the subsidy. Mohammed Idris, minister of information...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has emphasized the importance of relocating open drug markets to Coordinated Wholesale Centres, CWCs. The...
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, in Adamawa has urged security agencies to respect human rights while discharging their duties for peaceful coexistence in the state...
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) says it feels undermined by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The TUC had backed out of the nationwide protest...
Benjamin Kalu, deputy speaker of the house of representatives, says Nigerians can absorb hardship and keep it moving. Kalu spoke on the floor of the...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has harped on the importance of Nigerian Army Intelligence Corps, NAIC, in the fight against insurgency and other...
Governor Umar Namadi of Jigawa State has assured citizens that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is aware of the hardships Nigerians are going through. He urged them...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reiterated its directive to telecom operators to bar telephone subscribers not linked to their National Identification Numbers (NIN) on or...
The federal government has reportedly detained two top executives of Binance, the cryptocurrency trading platform. According to Financial Times on Wednesday, the executives flew to Nigeria but...
A former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central in the Senate, Senator Sani Shehu, has claimed that former President Muhammadu Buhari destroyed Nigeria’s economy, saying the former president...
Benue State Government has debunked reports alleging that about N20 billion federal allocation aggregated to the local governments was diverted. It was gathered that a Global...
The Nigeria Police Force, on Wednesday, declared that most kidnapped cases in the country were fake or stage-managed. The Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, made...
President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, appealed for patience from Nigerians over the current economic hardship in the country, giving the assurance that there was light at...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has called on developers in the nation’s capital to always cooperate with the FCT Administration in the...
Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, has said that if not stopped, cryptocurrency trading website, Binance will destroy the Nigerian economy. He said the website would do this...
The Labour Party presidential candidate in the last general election, Mr Peter Obi, has criticized the recent decision of the Monetary Policy Committee to increase the...
The Senate has rejected the move to include Anambra State in the membership of the Niger Delta Development Commission. An argument ensued between Senators Tony Nwoye...
President Bola Tinubu says the vacuum created by the demise of Rotimi Akeredolu, the former governor of Ondo, will be difficult to fill. Tinubu spoke...
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Rotimi Akeredolu, former governor of Ondo, in Owo town. Akeredolu...
The house of representatives committee on public accounts has threatened to issue an arrest warrant on Yemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),...
The Senate has set machinery in motion for amendment of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) Act, 2007, which will among others, make tenureship of Governor...
Amid the current economic hardship, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mike Ozekhome, has warned that the naira may exchange for N4000 against the United...
Senator representing Borno South Senatorial District and Chief Whip on the Senate, Ali Ndume on Wednesday disclosed that plans were afoot to provide strict sanction against...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it was intimidated and threatened not to go ahead with its two-day nationwide protest. The NLC had declared a...
President Bola Tinubu will on Thursday, February 29, inaugurate the Lagos red line train project. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Gbenga Omotoso, Lagos...
Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has described the Steve Oronsaye Report recommending the merger of government agencies and commissions as outdated, saying the recommendations of the...
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, on Wednesday, eased fear of job losses after the implementation of the Oronsaye Report. Idris disclosed...
Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, says as a matter of critical national security, Telecom Consumers must link their National Identification Number-Subscriber Identification Module (NIN-SIM). To this end,...
The Senate on Wednesday declared that President Bola Tinubu has rights under the Nigeria Labour Law to fire any Chief Executive Officer of government agencies, including...
Nigeria’s bureau de change (BDC) market has grown significantly since 2005. Within that period (2005 to 2006) there were less than 100 operational BDCs, with the...
Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says he and his team are not responsible for the current economic woes in the country....
A Federal Capital Territory Magistrate Court sitting at Zuba has frowned at the incessant adjournments and delays in the trial of an anti-Tinubu air passenger, Barrister...
The Prime Minister Biafra Republic Government in Exile, Mazi Simon Ekpa, announced that Biafrans have voted to establish Biafra digital currency, known as Biafracoin, amid the...
The family of late Herbert Wigwe, the former group chief executive officer (GCEO) of Access Holdings Plc, has announced arrangements for his burial rites. Earlier...
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, says the implementation of the Oronsaye report is a welcome development albeit long...
Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mike Ozekhome, has described the current hardship in the country as renewed poverty and not the Renewed Hope mantra of President...
President Bola Tinubu is expected to arrive in Ondo State soon for a condolence visit to the family of the late governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, in Owo....
President Bola Tinubu has launched the expatriate employment levy (EEL) to close wage gaps between expatriates and the Nigerian labour force. The EEL also...
The federal government says the report of a coup plot against President Bola Tinubu is false. A report had said the guards brigade had...
Samuel Ortom, immediate past governor of Benue, says he is ready to cooperate with the commissions set up to probe the activities of his administration. ...
Former Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has said President Bola Tinubu is not the originator of the current economic challenges in Nigeria. He said Nigerians need...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, has pleaded with the judiciary and the legislature to reject attempts to...
The National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress has suspended its nationwide protest for day two, after reviewing the initial day as highly impactful. ...
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says there is a need for a social security bill to address economic hardship in the country. Falana joined the...
Senate President Godswill Akpabio says his remark on how much each governor purportedly received from the federal government, in the face of economic hardship, was misunderstood...
Sunday Adeyemo, the Yoruba nation activist popularly known as Sunday Igboho, says he is back to the country to chase out “killer herdsmen” from the south-west...
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Wale Edun, on Monday disclosed that President Bola Tinubu has directed the design of a Social...
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has told the National President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero to stop spreading propaganda. Makinde said contrary...
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, has reiterated the need for the military to be ahead of terrorists in winning the hearts and minds...
President Bola Tinubu has explained why he removed subsidy on petrol. According to Tinubu, it was a challenging decision to make, but necessary to ensure...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says its operatives have seized the largest heroin consignment at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State. ...
Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says $26 billion passed through Binance Nigeria from unidentified sources in one year. Cardoso disclosed...
Barrister Chris Agidy, the Senior Legislative Aide, SLA, to the lawmaker representing Delta North, Senator Ned Nwoko, who was kidnapped by bandits in 2023, has been...
A yet-to-be-ascertained number of persons have been trapped following the collapse of a building under construction in the Ochanja market in Onitsha, Anambra state. The...