Nigeria should not implement the prescriptions by Bretton Wood institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) as solutions to the current challenges...
The North-West, South-West, and South-South geo-political zones, in a development that could significantly reshape the political landscape of Nigeria, may find themselves unable to field a...
Embattled ex-Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, is currently in the process of vacating the official CBN Governors’ quarters in Lagos, amid...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed full implementation of the Oronsaye report on public sector reform submitted in 2012, to President Goodluck Jonathan. Addressing journalists after...
The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele is moving out of the apex bank Governors’ quarters in Lagos. According to The...
Vice-President Kashim Shettina has assured that the federal government would deploy new strategies to fight armed banditry, kidnapping and other security challenges in different parts of...
Salihu Mohammed Lukman, a former National Vice Chairman (North West) of the All Progressives Congress has accused President Bola Tinubu of running government like a military...
The Federal Government stated on Saturday that train services from Port Harcourt to Aba will start operating by the end of March. The Port Harcourt-Aba rail...
The Presidential Panel on the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) has submitted its report to President Bola Tinubu and also made recommendations. Naija News learned that...
The Federal Government, on Saturday, said train services on Port Harcourt to Aba route will start operation by the end of March. The News Agency of...
Inflation rates have been one of the major problems that have bedevilled the Nigerian economy for years. Naija News reports that Nigeria’s inflationary pressure is tied...
In a bold and critical move, a former member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC), Salihu Mohammed Lukman, has leveled serious accusations...
A former member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC), Salihu Mohammed Lukman, has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of managing the...
Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Saturday 2nd March 2024. Saturday PUNCH: Over 70...
Good morning Nigeria. Welcome to the Naija News roundup of top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Saturday, 2nd March 2024. The President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal...
The Accord Party national chairman, Barrister Maxwell Mgbudem, has urged President Bola Tinubu to urgently address the issue of high cost of food items in the...
The Senate has called on the Police Service Commission, PSC, to ensure the recruitment of at least 10 candidates from each of the 774 local Government...
The Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, have threatened...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) have warned of potential disruptions to industrial...
The Accord National Chairman, Barrister Maxwell Mgbudem, has urged President Bola Tinubu to urgently address the issue of high cost of food items in the country,...
The Accord National Chairman, Barrister Maxwell Mgbudem, has urged President Bola Tinubu to urgently address the issue of high cost of food items in the country,...
Paul Ibe, the senior spokesman to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has questioned Nigerians on the electioneering promise of President Bola Tinubu. Naija News reports that...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has warned Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, not to take action against bandits terrorising the people of the...
The House of Representatives, on Thursday, said the Stephen Oronsaye Report on civil service reform had become outdated and needed to be updated before implementation. Senator...
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called for the reconfiguration and decentralisation of the country, saying they are necessary steps towards national progress. Speaking on Thursday...
House of Representatives has called on the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government to comprehensively review the 2012 Oronsaye Report and all other related reports and white...
In a significant political development, former House of Representatives member Shina Peller and thousands of Accord Party members from Oyo North Senatorial District have officially joined the...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday commissioned the 37 Kilometer Lagos red line train project. The Red Line rail project is a 37 Kilometer North South...
Nigeria’s political landscape has been significantly shaped by a series of military coups, which have played a pivotal role in the country’s governance since gaining independence...
A social political group, Agbor Stakeholders Forum has described former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, as one of the most competent...
A former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central in the Senate, Shehu Sani, has blamed the ongoing economic hardship in the country on erstwhile president, Muhammadu Buhari. Sani...
The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Digital/New Media, Otega Ogra, has defended the President’s inclusion of his sons, Seyi and Yinka, among...
Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga has said that cryptocurrency trading website Binance will destroy Nigeria’s economy if not checked. Appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme...
Anthony Adefuye, a member of the governance advisory council (GAC) in the Lagos state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has urged Nigerians to...
The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that Governor Seyi Makinde of the state does not have the right to criticize...
It is no longer news that Nigerians, mostly the youth are desperately in search of greener pastures, as this has led to great increase in the...
President Bola Tinubu on Monday ordered the full implementation of the report of the Presidential Committee on the Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions,...
Nigeria has been rated far behind Gabon, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone and South Africa in gender balance in governance, a human rights lawyer, Abubakar Marshal, has...
The Senate has ordered an investigation into the N30 trillion ways and means facility disbursed in the last administration.The committee is chaired by Sen Jibrin Isah...
‘Merging regulator with service providers will cause confusion’ There is uneasy calm in the aviation industry over the proposed full implementation of Steve Oransaye’s report...
The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise says an interest rate hike by the Central Bank of Nigeria will not tame a general price increment...
Hon Hassan Atawodi, the sacked Transition Chairman of Ofu Local Government Area, has opened up on why he was removed. The Secretary to Kogi State Government,...
Billionaire businessman, Cubana Chief Priest has assured Nigeria’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima of his stance with him as he vows to fight for him. The renowned...
The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lampooned Governor Seyi Makinde for criticizing the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has strongly criticized Governor Seyi Makinde for his recent complaints about the economic hardships resulting from the removal...
The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that Governor Seyi Makinde of the state does not have the right to criticize...
A foundation member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Osita Okechukwu has lauded President Bola Tinubu for enlisting South-East in his renewed electricity roadmap of...
The Central Bank of Nigeria has resumed the sale of foreign currencies directly to eligible Bureau De Change Operators. CBN disclosed this in a circular dated...
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has apologised to the state governors over his comment on the N30bn hardship allowance allegedly paid to them from...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) during the first term of former President Muhammadu Buhari, Babachir Lawal has revealed why he opposed the...
The Federal Executive Council was held on Monday and presided over by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Here are some of the highlights of the far-reaching...
It is clear that President Tinubu is not yet one year in office. It is also clear that he met gargantuan economic problems and challenges when...
By Abbas Jimoh, Fidelis Mac-Leva & Baba Martins The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC)...
In a move long-awaited by many Nigerians, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered the implementation of the Oronsaye Report, a blueprint for restructuring federal agencies and...
President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, presided over the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Council Chamber of the State House in Abuja. Some of those in...
The Federal Executive Council was held on Monday and presided over by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Here are some of the highlights of the far-reaching decisions...
In a bid to reshape government agencies for efficiency, President Bola Tinubu has directed the implementation of the Oransaye report relating to mergers, scrapping, and relocation....
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 youth wing of apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has cautioned the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, against staging any form of protest in Igbo land....
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, says President Bola Tinubu inherited a dead economy and that his efforts to put an end to Nigeria’s socio-economic...
All the 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs) across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) got N2.567.2 trillion in allocation from the Federal Account...
The federal government has finalised discussions with investors from The Netherlands to attract a grant of €25 million for the construction of priority bridges in Nigeria....
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has said the commission received over 5,000 fraud petitions and recovered N60 billion loot...
The recent call for the creation of additional three states in the South West by the House of Representatives member representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency of Osun...
Good morning Nigeria. Welcome to the Naija News roundup of top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Monday, 26th February 2024 President Bola Tinubu has set up...
The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has said the removal of fuel subsidy was done for the benefit of...
The leader of Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, the umbrella body of the Yoruba self-determination struggle, Professor Banji Akintoye, has said he intends to return to Nigeria....
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has blamed President Bola Tinubu for the current economic hardship ravaging the country. In...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has filed a lawsuit against Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and the 36 State governors...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has filed a lawsuit against Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and the 36 State governors...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, over their...
The inability of the Federal Government to secure and develop Nigeria’s border communities is contributing to the lingering security crisis bedeviling the nation, DAILY POST reports...
Amid the incessant cases of sea piracy and kidnapping at the coastal communities in Oron, Akwa Ibom State, the President General of Oro Development Union, Sir...
Alhaji Idris Muhammad Farouk, better known as Idi Farouk, is a man of many parts. He was in the Air Force as a young man before...
The federal government, last week, announced that it was considering the resumption of its suspended cash transfer programme to vulnerable Nigerians. The Minister of Finance and...
By Nick Dazang The omnipresence of social media is a validation of Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy. The professor and media guru had predicted in the 1960s...
Tanko Yakasai, 99, is an elder statesman, a non-partisan politician, human rights activist, a former liaison officer to former President Shehu Shagari during the Second Republic...
Claim: An X user has claimed that the President of the United States of America (USA), Joe Biden, has accused his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi,...
I published my first observations on the political party now known as the All Progressives Congress (APC), 11 years ago, titled, “Welcoming the APC.” Ten years later,...
By Reuben Abati “Bros, how body? Have you seen what I have seen?” “No. How do you expect me to see what you have seen...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has lamented the current harrowing economic condition of Nigerian citizens, calling on the Federal Government to accelerate the process...
Chairman/chief executive officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd) has expressed the appreciation of officers and men of...
On Thursday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appointed a new Managing Director signifying the end of Ahmed Lawan Kuru’s tenure as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of...
Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has said President Bola Tinubu should not be blamed for the current economic woes in the...
Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has stated that President Tinubu shouldn’t be blamed for Nigeria’s economic woes as he inherited a...
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC has called on the National Assembly, NASS, to genuinely address Nigeria’s revenue shortfalls, saying indicators of foreign and domestic...
The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, has asked the Osun State Government to commence the implementation of the Teachers’ Elongation Policy, as stated...
Nigeria’s economy has fallen below all projections to land on a landscape of negative growth despite aggressive fiscal and monetary intervention reforms of the past and...
Nigeria undeniably faces significant challenges, including economic hardship, rising inflation, insecurity, and widespread poverty. These issues are complex and multi-faceted, with a mix of historical factors,...
Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) has appealed to the federal government to pay the May, June, July and August 2022 salaries of its members...
Oil exploration activities started in the Lake Chad basin in 1976, but there have been major setbacks. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) was heading the...
Almost two months after its passage by the House of Representatives, a bill seeking to create the South East Development Commission was passed by the Senate...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has called on the Federal Government to urgently pay four months withheld salaries of its members. SSANU Chairman,...
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has revealed that the state government is diligently working to alleviate the economic challenges faced by its citizens. Speaking during the...
The leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), popularly known as Shiites, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky was received in momentous celebration when he arrived the country after medical trip...
I had met Aketi very early in my legal career. I didn’t have the privilege of meeting him before I was called to bar and as...
The National President of the Northern Christian Youth Association of Nigeria (NYCN), Michael Musa Shekarau, highlights bad leadership as a major factor contributing to Nigeria’s current...
Many Nigerians have never been this hopeless as they are now with the Bola Tinubu administration. Following the removal of the fuel subsidy on May 29,...
Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has accused the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, of making defamatory statements against him....