26th July 2024 The Enugu Innovative Youth group has announced its decision not to participate in any “destructive protests” despite Nigeria’s escalating hunger and economic hardship. In a press conference…
26th July 2024 The Deputy Spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Philip Agbese, has said the lawmakers will reduce the current hardship and hunger in the country. Agbese said this…
26th July 2024 The Lagos State Chapter of the Active Citizens Group Nigeria has notified the state Commissioner of Police of their intention to participate in the planned nationwide protest,…
26th July 2024 The Kano State Judicial Service Commission has sanctioned six court registrars for various misconduct, including forgery and extortion. A statement on Friday by the commission’s spokesman, Baba…
26th July 2024 An explosion, suspected to be caused by a planted Improvised Explosive Device, has occurred at the popular Buni Yadi market in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe…
A 41-year-old man, identified as Nwalobi Fredrick, has been arrested for allegedly impregnating his 16-year-old sister-in-law(name withheld) in Ekwulobia, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. Nwalobi, an artisan who…
26th July 2024 The Central Bank of Nigeria has disbursed $148m to 29 authorised dealers as part of steps to stabilise the foreign exchange market amidst the recent free fall…
26th July 2024 A few days after the founder of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, alleged that some officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited have blending…
26th July 2024 The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited is set to hire more workers. The NNPC spokesperson, Olufemi Soneye, confirmed this in a statement on Friday. Soneye said the…
26th July 2024 Ahead of the proposed nationwide protest, the Federal Capital Territory police command has deployed a total of 4,200 policemen across the nooks and crannies of the nation’s…
26th July 2024 President Bola Tinubu on Thursday held emergency meetings with the All Progressives Congress state governors, prominent traditional rulers and Ulamas (Islamic religious scholars) at the Aso Rock…
22nd July 2024 A former INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa Ibom State, Mike Igini, has said the former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Colonel David…
22nd July 2024 A serious disagreement ensued between the Nigerian Navy and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency over the proposed law on maritime security by the Senate. The…
22nd July 2024 The Kogi State government said, on Sunday, that the people of the state would not partake in the anti-government mass protest being planned for August 1. The…
22nd July 2024 The Niger Delta Joint Task Force, Operation Delta Safe, says it has destroyed several illegal refining sites located within Abia State. The JTF Commander, Rear Admiral John…
22nd July 2024 The Akwa Ibom State Chapter of the Association of Community Pharmacists has called on the State Governor, Umo Eno, to re-activate and fund the state Counterfeit and…
22nd July 2024 The Lagos State Police Command has reiterated that it is illegal for vehicle owners and drivers to cover their number plates. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin,…
22nd July 2024 President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the newly-elected President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Afam Osigwe (SAN). Tinubu conveyed his congratulations in a statement signed on Monday by…
22nd July 2024 The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has made an offer to sell the Dangote Refinery to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited. Speaking in an exclusive…
22nd July 2024 The Economic Community of West African states says it allocated at least $13m to counterterrorism efforts in frontline states and to shore up humanitarian efforts in the…
22nd July 2024 The Federal Government, through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, is expecting fresh reports to confirm the real sulphur content of the diesel produced by…
19th July 2024 Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have intercepted another batch of seven containers with 1,229,400 bottles of codeine worth N9, 835,200,000.00. The shipments were seized…
19th July 2024 Professor Isaac Odun-Ayo of Chrisland University, Abeokuta, on Thursday called on the Federal Government and the Nigerian military to adopt new technologies to combat terrorism in their…
19th July 2024 The importation of refined petroleum products into Nigeria is going to continue alongside the production of the commodities by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery to prevent monopoly and…
19th July 2024 •FG says minimum wage for review every three years, Labour leaders justify new salary •President directs payment of NASU, SSANU’s withheld salaries, OPS rejects electricity tariff The…
Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and Non-Academic Staff protesting against non payment of earned allowances, Wage award outstanding of their members amongst other demands in Abuja……
The National Universities Commission has approved the establishment of full-time mode for PhD, Post-Graduate and Masters programmes in Finance for Ajayi Crowther University. The commission also approved PhD programme in…
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, on Thursday, reversed his ban on underage admissions following protests by stakeholders at the 2024 ongoing policy meeting of the Joint Admissions and…
Leaders of the organised Labour consisting of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria have arrived at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa for the second leg…
A three-man panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal, Abuja division, on Thursday, dismissed the appeal of the All Progressive Congress and its governorship candidate, Timipre Sylva, seeking to…
The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, has said Nigeria is not merit-driven, adding that the Nigerian system must find a way to celebrate and promote merit. “I believe there must…
Stakeholders in the education sector on Thursday pegged the minimum benchmark score for admission into universities at 140. The benchmark score is not the cut-off mark for admissions for all…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Thursday unveiled the list of 2024 top scorers of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The list was unveiled by the Registrar of JAMB,…
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has named the 12.5 kilometres Kemta-Idi Aba-Somorin road in Abeokuta, after the Noble Laureate, Wole Soyinka. Abiodun disclosed this at a reception organised by…
In Nigeria and some other parts of the world – commercial road users, drivers, and, notably, celebrities and influential figures, have increasingly been found guilty of various traffic violations. PUNCH…
The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency has expressed its dedication to the systematic recovery of failed sections of federal roads in Rivers State. The engineer in charge of FERMA’s Rivers State…
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday approved the appointment of Mrs. Didi Walson-Jack as Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, with effect from August 14, 2024. Walson-Jack’s appointment was…
The Lagos State Government, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, has trained no fewer than 60 frontline health workers on maternal, infant, and young child…
The Lagos State Government has urged citizens to support people with disabilities and end discrimination against them. The General Manager of the Lagos State Office for Disability Affairs, Adenike Oyetunde-Lawal,…
17th July 2024 The Enugu State Government played host to a gathering of governors and party leaders from the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, according to a statement by Governor…
17th July 2024 The Senate has removed Senator Ali Ndume as the Chief Whip and replaced him with Senator Tahir Monguno. Ndume’s replacement by the Senate followed a directive issued…
17th July 2024 The Edo State House of Assembly has appealed the judgement by Justice J. K. Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which set aside the impeachment of…
17th July 2024 A group of former players and officials of Kwara United has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the management of the club to pay their outstanding N196m, which…
17th July 2024 The Peoples Democratic Party has praised the judgment of the Federal High Court, which confirmed the nomination of its candidate, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, for the September 21,…
17th July 2024 The Indigenous People of Biafra have said the health condition of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is deteriorating, hence the Federal Government should release him to avert any…
17th July 2024 President Bola Tinubu has forwarded to the Senate for consideration and approval the injection of N6.2 trillion into the N27.5 trillion 2024 budget. The President, in the…
17th July 2024 The Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board has said the computer-based test for the recruitment of teachers into primary schools in the state, will begin on Monday,…
17th July 2024 The joint security team of Kogi State Polytechnic Lokoja, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, arrested three students of the institution and five others suspected to be members…
17th July 2024 The Federal Government through the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation has mandated all FG-owned Ministries, Departments, and Agencies to remit five percent retention fees…
15th July, 2024 People’s Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain, in Ethiope East LGA, Dr. Ben Edoja has hailed Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, DSIEC, for conducting a hitch free Council Election.…
15th JULY, 2024 A philanthropist and People’s Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain, in Ethiope East LGA, Dr Ben Edoja has presented scholarship to indigents students from Erhomeghwu Kokori community who recently…
15th July 2024 Nigeria’s inflation rate increased to 34.19% in June 2024, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday, June 15, 2024. This represents an…
15th July 2024 Journalists were barred from covering the case involving the suspended Enigie (Dukes) of Benin Kingdom and the Oba of Benin, Ewuare II when the hearing resumed on…
15th July 2024 The Rivers State House of Assembly, led by Martin Amaewhule, has shut down all expenditures of Governor Siminalayi Fubara until he presents his budget before the lawmakers.…
15th July 2024 The Federal Government has said the next stage of the recruitment exercise for the Nigeria Immigration Service and the Federal Fire Service would begin in August. The…
15th July 2024 Bureau De Change Operators were excluded in the latest tranche of forex sales by the Central Bank of Nigeria to authorized dealers. This was disclosed by the…
15th July 2024 Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has expressed concern over Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment affirming local governments’ right to receive monthly allocations directly from the federation account.…
15th July 2024 A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr Olisa Agbakoba, has faulted the the agitation for the creation of additional states in the South-East, insisting it would not solve…
15th July 2024 •Dangote eyes fertilizer supply to African countries in two weeks, plans 70% of group’s revenue in forex The President and Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Industries Limited,…
15th July 2024 In this report, ADELANI ADEPEGBA highlights the Supreme Court’s attempts to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of Nigeria’s federalism amid the clamor for the…
12th July 2024 A two-storey school building in Plateau State has collapsed leaving many students and teachers trapped with many of them feared dead. It was learnt that the school,…
12th July 2024 Former President Goodluck Jonathan and Senate President, Godswill Akpabio have arrived in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital for the 2024 Niger Delta Stakeholders Summit. The duo arrived…
12th July 2024 A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Kano State, Senator Masaud Doguwa, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party. This was contained in a statement signed…
12th July 2024 The Federal Government and crude oil producers in Nigeria have committed to working towards a sustainable supply of crude oil to local refineries under a market-determined pricing…
12th July 2024 Women from Nembe, Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, on Friday, carried out a warning protest against the operator of Oil Mining Licence 29 – Aiteo…
12th July 2024 The Chief Whip of the Senate, Ali Ndume, has said that securing the financial autonomy for Local Governments has been the greatest achievement of President Bola Tinubu…
12th July 2024 The Federal Government on Thursday floored the 36 state governors at the Supreme Court as the apex court granted full financial autonomy to the 774 local governments…
RIV: The members representing Isoko North Constituency and Isoko South Constituency One in the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon Bernard Idior and Hon Bino Obowomano have advised the new…
9th July 2024 The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has condoled with the family of the four people who lost their lives in the Jattu market, in Etsako West…
9th July 2024 Concerned residents of Rano town in Kano State have raised the alarm over the presence of armed hoodlums at the headquarters of the Emirate on Sunday. In…
9th July 2024 The Convener, Southwest Youth Summit, Olumide Fasubaa, has urged the Ekiti State Government to urgently address the security and development concerns of the younger ones. Fasubaa, who…
9th July 2024 The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited says fuel stations are to operate longer hours for the supply and distribution of petrol, calling on fuel stations to aid…
9th July 2024 The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has demonstrated his commitment to healthcare and education by donating N10 million to the Grimard College of Nursing Sciences…
9th July 2024 The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, has declined the request to transfer the N80.2bn fraud trial of ex-Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello,…
8th July 2024 The management of the University of Nigeria Nsukka has confirmed the tragic death of a first-year student whose lifeless body was discovered in a drainage on Friday,…
8th July 2024 The Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, has said his government will not tolerate any group suspected to be promoting and advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender…
8th July 2024 No fewer than 18 persons have been rescued from a mishap involving 20 marketers onboard a canoe from the Kwalgai village to Hadin in the Auyo Local…
8th July 2024 The Parish Priest of St. Raymond Catholic Church Damba, Gusau, Zamfara State, Mikah Suleiman has regained his freedom from bandits who kidnapped him two weeks ago. Suleiman’s…
8th July 2024 The Federal Government, on Sunday, confirmed that it has activated the various emergency centres across the country to help in tackling the flood situation in states. It…
8th July 2024 The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said that a strike is not imminent, if the Federal Government implements the agreements reached, in the next two weeks.…
8th July 2024 There is palpable tension in Rivers as the two factions of the State House of Assembly will have parallel sittings this morning. On Sunday night the Victor…
8th July 2024 The Academic Staff Union of Universities said it will be meeting with the Federal Government on July 25, 2024 over its unmet demands. This was as non-academic…
8th July 2024 Fuel scarcity is gradually surfacing in Lagos and other parts of the country as private depot owners hiked the ex-depot price of petrol from N630 to N720…
5th July 2024 Warri – Ahead of the July 13, 2024 Delta State Local government election, a Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party PDP in Ethiope East council area Dr…
5th July 2024 The Controller of Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun II Area Command, Comptroller Olusola Alade, on Friday, said that the Command generated a total sum of N12, 830,493,630.06 as…
5th July 2024 An international rights organisation, Global Rights has joined its counterparts to call on the management of the University of Ibadan to have a rethink over the purported…
5th July 2024 The House of Representatives has launched a probe into the N1.5 billion meant for the payment of contractors, but allegedly diverted by principal officers of the Federal…
5th July 2024 The Victor Oko-Jumbo, led Rivers State House of Assembly, loyal to governor Siminalayi Fubara, has said it has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court to challenge…
5th July 2024 The Victor Oko-Jumbo, led Rivers State House of Assembly, loyal to governor Siminalayi Fubara, has said it has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court to challenge…
5th July 2024 As part of its continued efforts to get rid of illegal smuggling of goods across the country, the Nigerian Customs Service has again seized 11,650 litres of…
5th July 2024 President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer, on the victory of his party in the United Kingdom general election. In a…
5th July 2024 Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, on Thursday, declared that his administration has requested full military intervention in tackling insecurity in the troubled Ukum Local Government Area of…
5th July 2024 The Cross River State Government has said it is taking steps towards containing the impact of any eventual flooding in the state. The Cross River Commissioner for…
5th July 2024 The Court of Appeal, Abuja division, on Thursday, dismissed the ex parte order issued on May 10, 2024, by the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, which…
5th July 2024 The Nigeria Police in Borno State have called for stringent laws to stop the withdrawal of rape and other sexual violence cases by relations of victims in…
5th July 2024 Two yet-to-be-identified persons have been confirmed dead in the two-storey building collapse that occurred at the Ekeoyibo market, Amawbia in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra…
5th July 2024 The Lagos State Government and the Nigerian Senate have opened engagement to promote water transportation in the state. On Thursday, Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, mentioned…
5th July 2024 The Federal High Court in Kano, on Thursday, gave a 48-hour ultimatum to two Kano judges, Justice Lawan Adamu and Justice Zuwaira Yusuf, to resign their appointments…
5th July 2024 Nigeria’s debt to suppliers of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, has surpassed $6bn, doubling what it was since early April, as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company…
5th July 2024 The governor of Kebbi State Nasir Idris, has declared Monday, July 8, as a public holiday to mark the beginning of the new Islamic calendar, lst muharram…
