The Federal government on Wednesday said it only proposed to pay N24,000 as the new minim wage and not N30,000 as being reported in the media....
Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu has been dragged to court by the Federal Government over alleged failure to declare some of his assets. Also dragged to...
The Federal Government has released a total of N460 billion out of the N9.12 trillion estimated in the 2018 national budget. The amount is part the...
The travails of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in respect of the 2019 general elections just keep increasing. A High Court in Port Harcourt on...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to bother submitting candidates’ list for 2019 election from Zamfara State. The...
The Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Osagie Okunbor, and two other top officials of the oil firm were yesterday sentenced to three months...
No fewer than 100 workers of Medview Airlines have been sacked. The airline served the dismissed staff their letter of disengagement yesterday. New Telegraph learnt that...
Members of the All Progressives Congress caucus have suspended their plan to force Senator Bukola Saraki to resign as President of the Senate, or plot his...
Many passengers were stranded at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos as aviation unions made good their threat which they had issued earlier. The unions’ grouse was...
Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, on Tuesday said that the state is not others like Lagos where godfathers see themselves as god. He told this...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has said that contrary to speculations, funding for the 2019 general elections is not under any threat...
Former Minister of Aviation and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Femi Fani-Kayode, has pleaded with Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose not to leave...
President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Tuesday said under his watch as Nigerian leader that no part of the country will be ignored. He stated this...
By Reuben Abati… There has been some clarity about Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential election, with the end of the October 7 deadline set by the Independent National...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was the real culprit of electoral malpractice in the Osun State governorship...
Members of the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Tuesday held a closed-door meeting with former president Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun State, over the 2019 elections. The...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto State has denied reports that Aminu Tambuwal, governor of the state, has been granted the party’s governorship ticket. Tambuwal,...
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigeria needs a president who understands economics. Obasanjo said this on Tuesday at the Foursquare Gospel Church annual public lecture in...
Senate President Bukola Saraki says the All Progressives Congress (APC) national chaiurman, Adams Oshimhole, has plunged the party into a civil war. He said as a...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has mocked Senate President Bukola Saraki over his loss at the just concluded Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) convention. The party urged...
Aides of lawmakers staged a protest over their unpaid allowances as the National Assembly resumed from recess on Tuesday. The aides, under the aegis of National...
Just as he promised, the Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has gone ahead to slam a N20 billion suit on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
The Debt Management Office (DMO) has said it was partnering with Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Bloomberg and other relevant bodies to develop Nigeria’s infrastructure. The debt...
Guatemalan former Vice President, Ricans Baldetti has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after she was found guilty of fraud She was convicted on Tuesday...
Stanbic IBTC Bank said it has deployed robots to drive various dimensions of its operations. This, according to the bank, was part of its efforts to...
The All Blending Party (ABP) has announced that contrary to media reports, the national chairman of the party, Moses Godiya Shipi is not its presidential candidate...
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has granted an aide of Senate President Bukola Saraki, Mr Gbenga Makanjuola bail in the sum of N250 million....
An Abuja Federal High Court on Tuesday ordered that the former governor of Edo State and All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole be served...
The Senate on Tuesday resumed sitting but immediately adjourned to honor a colleague in the House of Representatives, Funke Adedoyin, who died last Friday in Abuja....
The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP)), Donald Duke, has expressed worry over Nigeria’s growing debt to China and other foreign countries. He said...
President Donald Trump has apologised to new Supreme Court justice, Brett Kavanaugh for the traumatic experience he went through for his nomination confirmation. President Trump tendered...
By Remi Oyeyemi… “The test of courage comes when we are in minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” – Ralph...
By Joseph Edgar… He was at once the most derided Nigerian. As soon as he announced his attested move, decamping from the crumbling APC to PDP,...
The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has begun earnest search for his running mate as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deadline...
SOME aspirants who lost out in the just concluded Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primaries in Delta State, have demanded the return of monies given to delegates...
Justice Olusegun Tokode, who was removed from the Federal High Court’s bench in December 2017, will be replaced on Tuesday with a petitioner who exposed an...
The 2018 Nobel Economics Prize has been won by two US economists, William Nordhaus and Paul Romer for constructing “green growth” models that show how innovation...
Technology giants, Google is set to shut down its social network sites, Google+ after user data was left exposed. According to the company, a bug in...
Residents of Du District in Jos South Local Government Area have cried out over what they called intimidation and arbitrary arrests by Nigerian soldiers searching for...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been warned against compromising its deadline for all congresses and related processes for the election of candidates for various...
Barring any last minute postponement, the National Assembly will resume today (Tuesday) after a long recess, and two previous postponements. The parliament which went on recess...
Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu says, contrary to accusations of bias, President Muhammadu Buhari has been neutral in his...
Ovie Omo-Agege, the lawmaker representing Delta Central senatorial district, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) senators’ determination to remove Bukola Saraki as Senate President has not...
Frustrated by his disqualification from the senatorial race of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Suleiman Abba, former Inspector-General of Police, resorted to seeking divine help. Abba...
Senate President Bukola Saraki, senators Dino Melaye and Ben Murray-Bruce have sued the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, over their invitation by the Nigeria Police....
Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says President Muhammadu Buhari would have ordered his arrest if he had evidence...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says there is a gulf in integrity between President Muhammadu Buhari and former vice-president Atiku Abubakar, saying while Buhari represents light,...
There are indications that Ekiti Sate Governor Ayodele Fayose may cease to be a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) very soon. This was...
A 40-year old lawyer, Edward Oseghale has been arraigned before an Ikeja Margistrates’ court for forging court judgement to evict tenants. The accused person, who pleaded...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi ….. I cannot situate exactly how I first encountered this phrase: “Strange liberators”, but I think it was while studying the words and...
