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Gov Ahmed signs 2016 Budget
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has signed the 2016 Budget Bill into law with a promise to work to?wards achieving minimum of 70 percent of the budget.Shortly after he signed the budget in h…
Explosion rocks CBN building in Calabar
An explosion occurred on Friday morning at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Calabar office.The CBN spokesman, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, who confirmed this disclosed that no death was r…
Lekki Gardens Building Collapse: Police Detain MD, To Be Prosecuted Soon
The Managing Director of Lekki Gardens, Mr. Richard Nyong, has submitted himself to the police over the collapse of a five-storey in Lagos where the bodies of 34 bodies were recovered on Wednes…
Nigeria police spends N600m on procurement of dogs
After spending N600 million on the import of dogs in the past few years, the Nigeria Po?lice have commissioned a Dog Breeding Centre with capacity to rear 200 police dogs yearly.The centre also has t…
NIMASA trial: Accused bought N70m property from me - Witness
A witness at the on going trial of the ex-NIMASA boss, Patrick Akpobolokemi and six others yesterday at the Federal High Court in Lagos testified that he collected the sum of N70 million…
Osinbajo: We Will not Import Food to Sustain School Feeding Programme
As the Buhari administration proceeds with its social investment programmes, the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday assured the public that government would not import food to implement it's scho…
Buhari sweeps off 184 top officials over Budget padding
No fewer than 184 top officials of the Budget office were flushed out of budget duties and sent to establishments that have little or nothing to do with budget, as a punishment for their roles in pad…
Court grants Badeh bail in the sum of N2bn
Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday granted bail to a former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal, Alex Badeh (retd), in the sum of N2bn. The bail is to be guara…
Yakubu Gowon accepts 48 year old son after DNA test confirms he's the biolagical father
Former military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd) has accepted paternity of a 48-year-old love son, Jack Musa Gowon, after a long legal tussle. Musa was the product of a love affair Gowon h…
FG appoints Dakuku Peterside as DG NIMASA
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dakuku Peterside, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 governorship in Rivers, as director-general of Nigerian Maritime administrat…
Aregbesola names UNIOSUN after Bola Ige
Osun state Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday, renamed the state university, UNIO?SUN, after the former Min?ister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Late Chief Bola Ige. The g…
PENGASSAN, NUPENG call off strike
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), and Labour unions in Nigeria's oil sector have calle…
Ekiti lawmaker's arrest: NBA, TUC slam Buhari, DSS over alleged dictatorship
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA and the organized labour have accused President Muhammadu Buhari of sliding into dictatorship, saying such tendency is inimical to the survival of democracy. The…
Death Toll In Lagos Building Collapse Hits 44
At least, Twenty-six more dead bodies were recov?ered on Wednes?day from the scene of the five-storey building un?der construction which collapsed on Tuesday at Lekki Garden Estate Horizon, Ikate E…
Edo magistrate abducted
An Ehor court magistrate identified as Hassana Garuba, wife of former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, alongside other unidentified persons have been reported kidnapped by unknown gunmen. …
EFCC arraigns two SANs, Tarfa, Nwobike for alleged bribery
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission yester?day arraigned two Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) Rickey Tarfa and Dr Joseph Nwobike at the Lagos State High Court, Igbosere. The …
Financial Discipline... making every naira count. By Kemi Adeosun
Economists have long found Nigeria to be something of a conundrum. The macro picture has always appeared compelling - large population, oil reserves, mineral reserves, endless tracts of arable land…
CCT trial: Saraki raises alarm over blackmail efforts
The Media Office of Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki has alerted mem?bers of the public of the renewed attempts being made by forces behind his on-going trial at the Code of Conduct Trib…
Buhari Congratulates Women On International Women's Day
President Muham?madu Buhari has felicitated with Ni?gerian women as they join the rest of the world in celebrating this year's International Women's Day. It is a day set aside by the global comm…
FG, Switzerland agree on repatriation of $321m Abacha loot
Switzerland will soon return $321million confiscated from Sani Abacha's clan to the government. This was made public on Monday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Godfrey Onyema, when he re?ceiv…