Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, is unimpressed by the poor revenue contribution of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to the National treasury, following the quarterly report...
Shareholders of Nipco Plc have approved guarantee for the $301 million acquisition of 60 per cent majority equity stake in Mobil Oil Nigeria by Nipco Investments...
Days after the Senate outrightly rejected the confirmation of the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, new facts have...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has rebuffed insinuations in some quarters that he has been a puppet of President Muhammadu Buhari....
Two judges, Ugbo Ononogbo and Nasir Gummi, of the Abia State and Zamfara State High courts in that order, have been recommended for compulsory retirement by...
The Presidency may have authorized the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to constitute an audit panel to probe the accounts of all 23 banks...
The Nigerian stock market continued on the upswing on Thursday at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) as investors sought to take positions in leading banking stocks....
The Senate, on Thursday, rejected the confirmation of the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu. Ripples Nigeria had earlier...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, presented the 2017 budget proposal to a joint session of the National Assembly. The President also cashed in on the presentation...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presented the 2017 budget to a joint sitting of the National Assembly, soon after arriving Nigeria from Gambia Details: 2017 BUDGET:...
The modest price recovery in the previous three trading sessions broke into a major rally on Tuesday as the stock market reopened to increased bargain-hunting transactions....
Worried that his confirmation by the Senate may meet brick walls, the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has...
Nigeria’s hope of successfully borrowing from major credit outfits, will depend on the its ratings by international agencies, so says officials of one of the institutions...
As the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) sets a 2017 and 2018 deadline for member countries to beef up security within their airports, Nigeria may be...
The federal government on Saturday lined out a 10-point fiscal plan in its efforts to get Nigeria out of the recession it has landed itself. The...
The Independent National Electoral Commission today conducted the rescheduled National Assembly and State House rerun and supplementary elections in Rivers State. And as many had expected,...
The Supreme Court on Friday proscribed a law that empowers governors to sack democratically elected local government (LG) chairmen in their states and replacing them with...
If Nigerian Senators have their way, 20 per cent of the country’s annual budget will be set aside for the execution of constituency projects in their...
Policy makers have remained upbeat on their expectations of naira rise in value as Nigerians abroad plan to repatriate about $1.5 billion into the country, between...
Even as the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government is championing a war against corruption, it is seemingly killing one of the country’s oldest anti-corruption agency, the...
Reacting to recent bombings in the Niger Delta area of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari had stated that the country’s unity is not negotiable. He also...
When Robert Clarke (SAN) stoked the debate over military intervention on November 25, everyone expected him to be fried for having the audacity to even think...
President Muhammadu Buhari has told the Nigerian elite that his administration was not going to do things the ‘old way’ and called on them to stop...
There were more decliners than advancers as the equities market reopened on Monday to widespread selling orders but gains recorded by oil and gas stocks rallied...
Nigeria and Morocco have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on mutual cooperation in the regulation of their capital markets. Nigeria’s apex capital market regulator, Securities...
Nigerian Constitutional lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze has advised former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to stop whipping up sentiments to curry...
The Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in an effort to secure $29.9 billion loan facility from international financial institutions will from 2017 likely place a burden of several...
Normalcy may soon return to the troubled Niger Delta region, as strong indications have emerged that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), currently before the Senate will...
What began on Friday as an innocuous lecture in Abuja has turned into a full blown battle between Godwin Emefiele, current Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)...
The Minister of Fnance, Kemi Adeosun and about 33 government agencies and parastatals are presently on a war path over N450 billion said to have been...
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, has described President Buhari’s plan to inject $30 billion into the nation’s economy by way of...
Concerns that President Buhari’s popularity rating is taking a dip may just have been proved right with the outcome of a survey recently conducted by Ripples...
SQUANDERING OF RICHES Okorocha’s ardent critics allege that he is squandering the State’s meagre resources by conceptualizing and abandoning projects. Ripples Nigeria findings show that the...
Facts and lies ROADS/INFRASTRUCTURE In terms of numbers, Ripples Nigeria investigation showed that Governor Okorocha, indeed, scored good marks in roads development in Owerri and other...
He is hailed, ‘My Governor-My Governor’ by his many admirers. To others, however, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State represents a nightmare, and has been called...
A major GSM operator, MTN Nigeria is on the verge of reducing its investment stock in the country. The company’s headquarters in South Africa has confided...
Recently, a call came from an unusual quarter seeking military intervention in Nigeria’s political affairs. Mooted by one of Nigeria’s supposed legal icons, Robert Clarke (SAN),...
The query raised by the National Assembly over the poor handling of the projected expenditure of the 2017 budget has created tension among members of the...
Nigeria’s economy, no doubt, has been seriously affected by the activities of militants in the Niger Delta area of the country. This has also derailed the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday vowed that the appropriation bill for 2017 fiscal year will not be tampered with or padded, as happened to the 2016...
Finally, President Muhammadu Buhari has admitted that the 2016 budget contained distortions with a “series of rogue projects and figures injected into it”. He however vowed...
There have been debates about whether or not President Muhammadu Buhari would take another shot at the presidency in 2019. As a Nigerian, if he declares...
The last may not have been heard about the conduct of the Department of Security Services (DSS) in the arrest and prosecution of judges. The House...
The Senate, on Wednesday, said President Muhammadu Buhari has no viable economic blueprint to get the country out of its current economic recession. Lawmakers who spoke...
Mr Eyitayo Jegede has been declared as the rightful candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Ondo State governorship election for Saturday. Justice Saulawa...
These are not the best of times for members of the National Assembly, as commercial banks have launched fresh moves to recover billions of naira from...
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, on Tuesday, at the MPC confirmed that there will be no downward review of the high...
Cold calculations bordering on concerns over alleged northern plot to dominate the Southwest ahead 2019 polls might just be the real reason governors from the region...
The presidency may have foreclosed all speculations as to whether or not President Muhammadu Buhari intends to run for a second term in office. Senior Special...
The Senate has expressed surprise at a recommendation by the Nigerian Law Reform Commission for a review of the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Act in order to...
