National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has hit the ground running following his appointment as co-chairman of the All Progressives Congress...
DESPITE its 202 trillion standard cubic feet, scf, gas reserves, Nigeria has not been able to harness enough of its gas for power generation, as a...
Officials of the Nigerian Prisons Service attached to the Ikoyi Prison in Lagos have arrested members of a three-man drug syndicate for attempting to sell marijuana...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ahead of its Friday’s meeting with the Independent National Electoral Commission, has said that its ongoing seven-week strike is in...
State governors in the country may find themselves at the receiving end of workers’ wrath over their insistence on not paying N30,000 as the new minimum...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has blamed members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) within and outside the government for the many security challenges faced...
Documents from the Debt Management Office (DMO) showed that the Federal Government spent a whopping N2.21 trillion to service domestic debts in the first nine months...
There is palpable tension in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after the country’s ruling coalition and opposition both claimed victory in the just concluded election...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the new year message delivered to Nigerians by President Muhammadu Buhari on the last day of 2018. The...
The total number of member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been reduced by two after the official withdrawal of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, says has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to adopt the peaceful approach of former president Goodluck Jonathan who...
The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), on Tuesday expressed its worry over the spate of banditry in Zamfara State and the resurgence of Boko Haram in parts...
Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari has reversed her threat that she was unlikely going to campaign for the reelection President Muhammadu Buhari. She had criticised...
Samuel Ortom, Benue State governor, says his administration has performed well. The governor also revealed that he joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because it was...
Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says Nigeria has made progress under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari. The former Lagos governor...
Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central, has urged geo-political zones that have been promised power in 2023 to demand a written agreement. The senator said...
A member of House of Representatives, Mr Kinsley Chinda who led 71 other lawmakers to sponsor a bill to revert the county to parliamentary system says...
As attacks on Borno State by Boko Haram continue, the state Governor, Kashim Shettima, has expressed his wish not to hand over a state ravaged by...
The Nigerian Army has expressed frustration in its fight against Boko Haram, saying on Monday that some persons have politicised efforts of the government to keep...
A NASA spacecraft has gone into orbit around an ancient asteroid, setting a pair of records. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft entered orbit Monday around the asteroid Bennu,...
Nigerians from across different social strata, who expressed expectations and apprehension for the New Year to The Guardian, said ensuring a credible general election and security...
The Federal Government has set aside N2 billion to compensate those dislodged on the Right of Way (RoW) of the Second Niger Bridge, The Nation has...
Despite the upcoming general elections in the country, some chief executive officers (CEOs) have predicted that the Nigerian economy will perform better in 2019 than last...
Over 10,000 contract staff on the employment of international oil companies (IOCs) and local crude producers will not be confirmed in 2019, New Telegraph has learnt....
Controversial Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh has admitted that most people live their lives on social media, including her. According to the mother of one who penned...
Nigerian workers have been asked to be ready for a prolonged strike action in the new year by organized labour over the failure of government to...
THE execution of Nigeria’s 2019 budget will likely encounter a serious threat as the price of Bonny Light, the nation’s premium oil grade, yesterday, hovered at...
Some residents of Baga, who fled from Boko Haram attacks to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Monday, narrated their ordeals to The PUNCH. The residents,...
The Federal Government budgeted N1,001,318,171 for President Muhammadu Buhari’s local and international travels in the proposed 2019 budget. The budget proposes N250,021,595 for the President’s local...
An Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Modakeke has sentenced a 40-year-old man to three years in prison for raping an 80-year-old woman. Arraigned on two...
Embattled French leader Emmanuel Macron has pledged that his government is willing to do better in his highly-anticipated New Year’s Eve address. Macron made the pledge...
A package of bills that would re-open the federal government without approving money for President Donald Trump’s border wall is set to be introduced by US...
The hope of Nigerian workers to have a new minimum wage of N30,000 may be hanging in the balance as the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, has...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said all unbiased Nigerians will acknowledge that Nigeria has made progress under him. He also re-committed himself to free and fair elections...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has called on Nigerians to report any filling station in the country selling petrol above the official pump price of...
President Muhammadu Buhari in his new year message to Nigerians has promised that the 2019 elections would be “free, fair and credible”. The President who expressed...
Multiple sources and fleeing residents have confirmed control of six towns of Baga, Doron-Baga, Kross Kawwa, Bunduran, Kekeno and Kukawa towns of Borno State by Boko...
Vote counting for the long delayed elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo has commenced with opposition saying the election was ‘deliberately disorganised’ after chaotic contest....
It is 11:30am and traders and buyers who had come from different parts of the country were seen moving from one direction to the other at...
By SOC Okenwa The 2019 gubernatorial election in Lagos State promises to be a very interesting battle between the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has described the allegation of N600 billion annual losses to delay in awarding contract for the implementation of “Revenue Assurance Software”...
THERE are apprehensions in the insurance industry over allegations that some insurance operators have cleverly created means of giving out discounts on compulsory classes of insurance...
The power transmission capacity in the North-East has increased by 100 per cent, the Transmission Company of Nigeria has said. According to the TCN, the transmission...
The General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Peter Ozo-Eson, said governors who claimed to lack the financial capacity to pay the N30,000 minimum wage should...
About seven airlines applying for Air Operator’s Certificate have failed to complete it or have abandoned the process, The PUNCH has learnt. According to findings by...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has raised an alarm over what it claims is a grand plot by the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party...
The government of the United Kingdom is hoping to cut down huge expenses on road construction not to mention disruptive sets of roadworks by deploying micro-robot...
The African People Alliance Party (APA) in Oyo state has raised concerns over the preaching for forgiveness by the outgoing governor of the state, Senator Abiola...
The camp of rogue bandits terrorising parts of Zamfara State is reportedly located in Birnin Magaji, the hometown of Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, new...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to use his new year message to provide answers to salient questions around his integrity rather...
