The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has lamented the huge pension liabilities to local governments, primary school teachers and state civil servants totalling N10 billion...
The Federal Government on Wednesday arraigned a former senator from Ebonyi State, Emmanuel Onwe, an ex-speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Friday Komboyein and...
The Senate has commenced moves to end what it described as the “illegal” activities of oil companies engaged in exploration resulting in oil spills and environmental...
A prosecution witness, Mairo Bashir has informed the Justice Okon Abang-led Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, how the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Thursday morning, November 28, 2019. 1. Group urges states to end life pension for governors, speakers,...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday presented the 2020 budget estimates of N208,802, 972, 878 to the state House of Assembly. Makinde however went against...
While commending the Zamfara House of Assembly for abolishing ‘despicable’ life pension law in the state, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has encouraged other states...
A Lugbe Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo for alleged failure to honour a court...
Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) candidate in the Kogi West Senatorial rerun election coming up on Saturday, Dino Melaye, has issued a fresh petition to the...
A former presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, on Wednesday explained why he contested the 2019 presidential election. Moghalu, who spoke...
An unspecified number of Permanent Secretaries have been demoted with immediate effect following a directive issued on Wednesday by the Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri....
Chief Afe Babalola, founder of Afe Babalola University (ABUAD) has described as the beginning of dictatorship in Nigeria, the Hate Speech bill that prescribed death by...
The North will likely rule Nigeria forever if Southerners continue to live in disunity, so says Doyin Okupe, former spokesperson on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said on Wednesday it would insist on the non-inclusion of its members in the Federal Government’s Integrated Payroll and...
A former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji has been scheduled for re-arraignment on December 11, 2019 over an amended charge of...
The Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Tuesday urged Nigerians to be vigilant following the growing rumour of a third term plot for President Muhammadu Buhari. President...
A bill to review provisions of the Criminal Code Act on rape and kidnapping passed second reading at the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday. The bill sponsored...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday insisted that only the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as confirmed by it can the defend the 2019...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Wednesday morning. 1. MONEY LAUNDERING: Lawyer asks court to restrain Nigerian govt from extraditing Onyema to...
The Presidency on Tuesday rebuffed claims that former President Goodluck Jonathan was blackmailed into supporting the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the November 16 governorship election...
The law mandating the Zamfara State government to pay pension and other entitlements to former governors, their deputies and other public officers in the state was...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday held a closed-door meeting with the visiting Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Dutch leader arrived...
Faisal Maina, son of ex-pension reform boss, Abdulrasheed Maina, was on Tuesday granted bail by the Federal High Court, Abuja, in the sum of N60 million....
Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has urged West African neighbours Benin Republic to change its ways if it wants a better bilateral relationship with...
A bill on gender equality has been reintroduced in the 9th National Assembly by Senator Biodun Olujimi (Ekiti South). The bill, which is seeking gender equality...
The proposed Hate Speech and Social media bills have been described as an attempt by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to maim Nigerians’ freedom of...
The Senate has charged security agencies to ensure that all those behind the violence during Kogi and Bayelsa states November 16, elections were apprehended and prosecuted....
President Muhammadu Buhari shot straight from the hips last week. In doing so, he expressed concern over the failure of constituency projects, inserted into the country’s...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Tuesday morning. 1. Buhari is a man of integrity, he will not run for third term...
Buhari Media Organisation has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision not to run for a third term in office was sacrosanct, final and irreversible. In a...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday his Senegalese counterpart, Macky Sall, referred to him as “Baba.” Buhari, according to a statement issued by his Senior Special...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the Kogi West senatorial rerun election, Dino Melaye, said the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams...
The proposed bills on social media regulation and hate speech would not add any value to the nation, a civil society organization said on Monday. The...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday stopped the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) prosecution of a former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS),...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on its members to shun the purported circular from the office of the Accountant General of the...
The Yobe and Kogi State Chairmen of the All Progressive Congress (APC) have both denied calling for the sack of the party’s National Chairman, Comrade Adams...
The dust raised by the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the governorship election in Bayelsa State is yet to settle, as the Elders...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked its members and supporters in Kogi West to brace up and get ready for the senatorial supplementary poll in...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Monday morning. 1. HATE SPEECH BILL: Senator succumbs to pressure, removes portion on death penalty The...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, has alleged that the Chairman of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, had an ulterior motive when he...
President Muhammadu Buhari Sunday ordered security agents to fish out those behind the murder of Mrs. Achejuh Abuh, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Women Leader in Kogi...
Candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the Kogi West rerun election, Smart Adeyemi, has reacted to claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that...
A coalition, under the aegis of Nigeria Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders Forum (NENYLF) has expressed worries over what they described as “sudden purported indictment” of the...
President Muhammadu Buhari at the weekend directed the Ministry of Education to abolish the policy of catchment areas in the admission of new students into Federal...
President Muhammadu Buhari has issued a marching order to complete the Ajaokuta Steel Company, so says the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mr Olamilekan Adegbite....
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, urging it to step in to...
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Saturday, inaugurated a joint committee to determine outstanding payments due from...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Sunday morning, November 24, 2019. ‘Buhari more interested in the survival of APC than the survival...
The Federal Government has finally agreed to pay the security deposit ordered by Justice Christopher Butcher of the Commercial Court in London for a stay of...
In a bid to secure his release from detention in Dubai, lawyers to the immediate past Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed...
