A court in Kaduna on Wednesday denied bail to leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) also known as Shi’ites, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife....
By Tony Ogunlowo…. On the 19th of February this year more than a hundred girls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Science and Technology College, Dapchi...
By Reuben Abati… Many years ago, I was in Abuja to attend an international workshop on one of those human development issues that used to engage...
A new national minimum wage law is possible within two weeks if the presidency submits the bill this week to the National Assembly for passage, the...
The Presidency has frowned at the misinterpretation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s remarks when he received the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National...
As workers and their unions celebrate the N30,000 new minimum wage approved by President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, analysts have expressed fear that the fresh wage regime...
This came as President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, bowed to pressure from the labour movement in the country, promising to set machinery in motion to close the...
Power distribution companies in the country failed to remit a total of N158.98bn to the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc for the invoices given to them...
A registered agent with Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services, Oyebanjo Olufemi, has cried out that his life is being threatened by angry customers whom he owed various...
History is about to be made in Igboland, as major traditional rulers in the South-East have set December 28, 2018 to abolish the controversial Osu caste...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said Nigeria is leading other Africa nations and one of the top five (5) globally in remittances inflows. CBN...
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the National Assemby to expedite action on the 2019-2021 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper to aid the...
The Nigerian Army, defender of the most populous black nation, has been described as cowards who run away when faced by civilians with bare hands. This...
The African Development Bank has announced that it is going to invest $500 million into citywide sanitation in urban communities in sub-Sahara Africa. The bank made...
A former commissioner in Akwa Ibom and two-term governor of the state, all under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the party...
South-West governors are divided over the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshimohole, The PUNCH has learnt. All the six governors from the...
Outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOBP) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has vowed to lay bare to the public, secrets about President Muhammadu Buhari. He alleged that the...
Olu Onemola, the Special Assistant on New Media to the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has stated that there are no plans to increase...
The Nigerian Police Force has suggested that the deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu may not have been completely honest over the claim that there was an...
The New Initiative for Credible Leadership (NICL) has endorsed the reelection of President Muhammadu Buhari for approving the new minimum wage of N30,000. The group also...
Okorocha is suing over an alleged breach of his fundamental human rights in respect to the “ransacking” of his house in Jos., the Plateau State capital....
Senate President Bukola Saraki says everything is set for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to conduct one of the best presidential campaigns in the history of...
The Kano State House of Assembly says it will continue with its probe of Abdullahi Ganduje, the state governor, over alleged bribe collection from contractors captured...
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says President Muhammadu Buhari has kept his campaign promises. He disclosed this at a forum organised by the News...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed grave concerns over yet another attempt on the life of the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. Ekweremadu was...
The post primaries crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) has no doubt attained a frightening dimension, with those involved digging deeper into the trenches and...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the new national minimum wage of N30,000 proposed by the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage. The report of the committee...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday reveals how he feels over the incessant and rampant killings of Nigerians across the country. A statement by the Special Adviser...
Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi has been advised to face governance and stop lamenting over what the immediate past governor, Ayodele Fayose, failed to do. The...
President Muhammmadu Buhari is currently meeting with leaders of the Organised Labour in the country at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. The Labour Unions had on...
A prosecution witness, Ekene Charles, in the trial of Patrick Akpobolokemi, a former Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) on Monday, told the Lagos...
The Prince of Wales, Charles and wife Duchess of Cornwall Camilla on Tuesday arrived Abuja on a three days visit to Nigeria.
The President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organization has branded the promise by the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to crash the...
Following the controversies trailing the primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) some aggrieved members of the party have dragged the party’s national party chairman, Adams...
Eccentric musician and former President of the Performing Musicians Employers Association of Nigeria (PMAN), Charlyboy Oputa has once again taken a dig at Nigeria’s number one...
A total of four members of the House of Representatives have announced their defection from their various political parties. Their defection was announced on the floor...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Tuesday lifted the suspension it placed on trading in the shares of four listed companies after over a year. This...
Jude Ndukwe… So much has been said about the growing fractious relationship between the military and the civil society. Before now, our military especially the army,...
Mavin Records female songstress Tiwa Savage is currently reveling in excitement after she was named the winner of MTV Europe Music Awards (MTV EMAs) in the...
Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has unveiled a salary calculator which compares the salary of Nigerian workers with that of a...
The upper chamber of the National Assembly will today (Tuesday) probe claims by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on the rationale behind the diversion of...
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and son, on Tuesday morning escape an attempt on their lives in Abuja, as gunmen invaded their home....
A former presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Alhaji Mumakai Unagha, has asked the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola...
Nigerians in the habit of criticising the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of borrowing too much have been asked to advise the administration of where to...
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) In the Osun State election, Senator Ademola Adeleke and four other people were on Wednesday arraigned in...
A third video of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State allegedly receiving bribe has emerged. An online portal, Daily Nigerian, which released the video, said it...
Patronizers of tricycles especially those plying Katsina road have called on the authorities concerned to come to their aid by addressing incessant attacks taking place between...
Leaders and elders of Gonin-Gora community, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis, located along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway, yesterday disclosed that Governor Malam Nasir el-Rufai was ill-advised about...
Complaints of telecom subscribers regarding automatic subscription to unsolicited telecom value added services have been on the increase. This is contrary to the directive to the...
Power generation in the country plunged to 2,390.20 megawatts on Monday as the number of idle power plants rose from seven to 15, according to the...
