Former president Goodluck Jonathan has explained why he did not implement the report of the 2014 national conference. Speaking at the public presentation of a book...
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, says the operations and activities of Nigerian armed forces are guided by extant laws, rules of engagements...
An opinion leader, Prof. Pat Utomi, said Nigeria needed leaders of competence, compassion and commitment to overcome its challenges. Utomi gave the advice on Wednesday through...
Sen. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Friday commended Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, for mobilising the consciousness of youths...
The Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika on Tuesday in Abuja commissioned pilot briefing room for weather forecast at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. Sirika said the...
The Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Tuesday, issued warnings concerning the 2023 general elections in Nigeria. Primate Ayodele said Northerners are...
The pardon granted to former governors of Plateau and Taraba, Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame was not politially motivated, presidency has said. The two governors were...
Reno Omokri has said that anti-graft agency, EFCC, will be termed biased if they fail to invite any government official who pays the N100 million fee...
The Senate has received the Money Laundering Bill and Terrorism Prevention Bill transmitted by President Muhammadu Buhari for consideration and passage. The bills were accompanied by...
Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau has described the death of the Statistician General of the Federation , Dr Simon Harry, as a huge loss to the...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday passed the Nigerian Peace Corps (Establishment) Bill, 2020. The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the...
Prof. Pat Utomi, a former presidential candidate and political economist, on Tuesday urged Nigerians to rise in solidarity against violence. In a statement entitled: “They are...
Senator Kola Balogun, representing Oyo South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, on Sunday, reiterated his support for the gender bill which recently suffered defeat at...
Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, says Nigeria must promote its national interest positively to be accepted globally. Gambari made the call...
Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission Sanusi Garba has assured Nigerians that the concerted efforts at resolving challenges in the electric power supply chain will...
The Federal Government says it will deal decisively and sanction any Depot Owner caught selling petroleum products beyond the approved Ex-Depot price in the country. Chief...
A university Don, Dr Bright Eregha, has supported calls urging the Federal Government to totally remove petroleum subsidy to enhance its fiscal revenue position and engender...
With the lingering fuel scarcity in Abuja and other Nigerian major cities, Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC), has commended Nigerians for their patience and...
The trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu resumed on Wednesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja with...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has declared a suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, wanted. NDLEA’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, declared Kyari wanted for...
About five gunmen in the early hours of Friday morning assassinated the Director of Operations, Kaduna Geographic Information Service (KADGIS), Malam Dauda. Sources disclosed that the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians, particularly residents of the North-East, of his administration’s commitment to ensure peace is restored in the area in the coming...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced that its decision on strike has been postponed. The union made this known in a press statement...
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday leave Abuja for Istanbul, Turkey, to attend the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the...
The Presidency says that tackling the scourge of banditry and terrorism remains Federal Government’s first priority, as President Muhammadu Buhari holds the victims and their families...
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) around the Yola zone, Adamawa State, have said they will not accept any plea from Nigerians to...
Senator Shehu Sani has lamented the failure of the current government in tackling security challenges across the nation. The former lawmaker, who represented the Kaduna Central...
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has rejected visitation ban placed on Nigeria by Canada and UK over Omicron variant, describing it as precipitate, unfair and discriminatory....
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted haziness and sunshine across the nation from Wednesday to Friday. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Tuesday, in Abuja predicted...
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said barely three per cent of Nigeria’s population has been vaccinated against COVID-19 largely due to poor access...
The Minister of State for Health, Sen. Olorunnimbe Mamora, says the Presidential Task Force, which later metamorphosed into presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, contributed to the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged Nigerian universities to intensify their research in order to develop COVID-19 vaccine to tackle the dreaded virus afflicting the country. The...
Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho was arrested in Cotonou, Benin Republic, Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation says there’s no basis to appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to release him. Afenifere said...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government to consider options to help the country embrace developmental governance and accountable leadership, while rejecting...
President Muhammadu Buhari has again shown that he is a compassionate leader with his approval of a 4th multi-billion naira bailout for states in six years....
The Federal Government has insisted that federal civil servants without COVID-19 vaccination will not be allowed access to workplace from December 1. FELLOW PRESS Recall that...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has expressed excitement at the instance of the United States removing Nigeria from its list of countries with religious freedom concerns....