The federal government says there will be specific interventions to alleviate the suffering of the masses.Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Zaphaniah Jisalo, gave the assurance while speaking at the official commissioning and presentation of vital medical equipment to ...

The Bauchi State Police Command has declared a vocal Islamic cleric, Dr. Idris Abdul’azeez Dutsen Tanshi, wanted for alleged contempt of court. Police authorities in the State, in a Special Gazette Bulletin issued by the order of the Inspector-general of Police on Thursday, urged anyone with ...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, has said the Super Eagles of Nigeria has justified President Bola Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda with their performance at the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Ivory Coast. Ganduje urged the Super Eagles to bring home the ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, ordered the federal government to fix the prices of petrol, diesel, kerosene and other goods within seven days from February 7, 2024. Trial judge, Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa, specifically ordered the government to fix the prices of milk, flour, ...

The Federal Government, yesterday, assured Nigerians that food items would be released from the National Food Reserves as part of the measures to crash food prices. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said this after the meeting of the Special Presidential ...

The Senate has assured that the much-awaited population and housing census slated for November this year will hold as scheduled. Speaking yesterday in Abuja during the screening of 17 of the 19 commissioner-nominees for the National Population Commission, NPC, the Chairman of the Senate ...

Senate Committee on Gas has given the Finance Minister, Wale Edun, a-seven-day ultimatum to provide details of the award and disbursement of over N100bn to companies engaged in the handling of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas projects allegedly done in breach of ...

Justus Adejumoh is an IT / Telecom Reporter who has been covering the ICT sector for over a decade. He is currently the IT / Telecom Editor of Independent Newspapers Limited. With a knack for the industry’s issues and trends, he has given impetus to the industry through agenda-setting reports, ...

Nigeria’s cabinet ministers have held emergency meetings over the economy and food prices as the government comes under pressure over the fallout from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s reforms. Protests broke out on Monday in northern Niger state where demonstrators, mostly women and youths, blocked ...

A prominent lawyer who defended , Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) candidate in the 2023 Presidential election, has been laid to rest.Prof Yusuf Dankofa who died in the early hours of Tuesday was buried in Kaduna in accordance with the Islamic rites. Dankofa was a lecturer in the ...

Reliable bookmaker 1xBet announces the hot AFCON semi-finals, which will occur on February 7.  Nigeria vs South Africa Bookmaker 1xBet considers Nigeria the main favorite of the tournament and accepts bets on its victory with odds of 2.2. According to this indicator, the Super Eagles are ...

Super Eagles Team Coordinator, Patrick Pascal has explained the team’s game plan against South Africa ahead of Wednesday’s 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, semi-final clash between both sides. Pascal said Jose Peseiro’s men will approach the game with the mind-set to win within regulation ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has said that 50 per cent of imported pharmaceutical products in Nigeria are fake. The Director General of NAFDAC, Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this during a recent stakeholders’ engagement in Abuja. She ...

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Tuesday said the rising cases of killings, abductions and other heinous crimes pervading the country and the South-West zone required a different approach, especially from the governors to protect citizens’ lives ...

The management of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia, has announced an indefinite closure of the institution following Tuesday’s violent protest by the students.Its vice-chancellor, Maduebibisi Iwe, in a statement in the aftermath of the protest, ordered the students to ...

Five of the six commissioner-nominees forwarded to the House of Assembly, by the state governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa have been screened and confirmed by the lawmakers. The five nominees cleared include Olukayode A. Ajulo, Razaq Obe, Pastor Emmanuel Igbasan, Akinwumi Sowore and Oseni Oyeniyi, ...

..Asks Tinubu To Intervene, Save Integrity Of The CommissionLAGOS – The Kogi State Government has raised the alarm over what it described as a desperate attempt by “criminals masquerading as politicians” to tarnish the image of the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, for selfish ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The recent move by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to further float the Naira in the foreign exchange market has raised mixed concerns in the country’s economic sector. According to experts familiar with the sector, the move is similar to what the CBN did eight months ago ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The Nigerian federal government has announced its plan to enforce the ban on alcoholic beverages produced in sachets less than 200ml starting February 1, 2024. Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu deserves his tri-monthly Paris holidays. He has worked hard for it. As hard as his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, whose favourite destination was London. The president has been working incredibly hard, and his party stalwarts have assured us that by 2027 we would all ...

The Imo State Police Command has arrested two suspects, Jamilu Monday and Dantala Musa, with locally-made cut-to-size guns and 10 rounds of live cartridges neatly concealed in their bags. This was disclosed in a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Henry Okoye, on Monday. ...

Veteran Yoruba actor, Olaiya Igwe, has tender a public apology to Nigerians for going naked to pray for president Bola Tinubu during the 2023 general elections. This is coming amid the current hardship faced by Nigerians following the economic policies of President Tinubu. Olaiya has been ...

Nigerians have taken to several social media platforms to express their disappointment in the outcome of the 2024 Grammy Academy Awards, which signalled a poor outing for Nigerian artistes as none of them bagged the prestigious annual award. The award, which marked the ...

By Dennis Ogbaji On the 4th of August, 2022, the then Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom inaugurated the first batch of 500 Community Volunteer Guards, a security outfit he initiated to complement the operations of conventional security agencies. And on 15th October of the same year, the ...

The police command in Ekiti said it arrested Baboga for his alleged involvement in the killing of the two traditional rulers in the Ikole Axis of Ekiti penultimate Monday.Addressing journalists on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti, the assistant inspector general of police in charge of Ekiti, Dare Ogundare, ...

By Amos Tauna The federal government has announced plans to reform the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to make it a revenue-generating agency. Jamila Bio-Ibrahim, the Minister of Youth Development, made the disclosure while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme. The ...

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) managed grid went down at approximately 11:51 AM on Sunday, reducing the system’s capacity from 2,407 megawatts to a mere 31MW by noon and reaching zero by 1 PM. Despite the Federal Government privatizing the sector over eleven years ago, the grid ...

In the next few days, the naira is expected to rebound and regain its real value after series of reforms introduced recently by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The reforms were to clean the Augean stable and make the naira appreciate as well as find its true value amongst other currencies ...

Chieftain of All Progressives Congress(APC) and a political leader in Southern Senatorial District of Ondo State, Chief Olusola Oke has offered to provide the kind of leadership the people need for socio-economic emancipation.He disclosed this on Sunday while speaking with journalists in Akure, ...

Arewa Economic Forum (AEF) has called for the establishment of a regional security outfit as to complement the efforts of the military and police in fighting rising insecurity in northern Nigeria. AEF Chairman, Mallam Ibrahim Yahaya Dandakata, noted that the path to success for the North lies ...

Kuni Tyessi in Abuja The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has refuted claims by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) that the council was asking people holding its certificates to rewrite professional qualifying examination. The Registrar of TRCN, Prof. ...

Ifeoluwa Ehindero, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s bye-election in Akoko North East/North West Federal Constituency of Ondo State, has been declared winner of the exercise.Mr Ehindero, son of former Inspector-General of Police, who had earlier expressed optimism of ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Amakoromo Waikumo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, winner of the Yenagoa Constituency 2 re-/run election. The February 3rd re-run election was held in seven units of Gbarain 1 & 2, and Ekpetiama 1 & 2, where ...

Emmanuel Brown, the 23-year-old son of female soldier, Philomena Nnamoko, attached to Ilese Sappers Barracks, Division 2, Ogun State, has been allegedly detained by the Nigerian Army. Our correspondent gathered that Brown was locked up in a guardroom by a female ...

Not fewer than 2,085 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) taking refuge in selected communities of Toro Local Government Area in Bauchi State have received food, non-food items, and cash donations from the State Government to assist them in adjusting to their current situation. The IDPs recently ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria has said that it has no plan to convert domiciliary account holdings into naira. The financial regulator said this in a statement signed by its Acting spokesperson, Sidi Ali, on Saturday. It said the bank was working hard to stabilise the foreign exchange market “as ...

NOW The Lagos State government today (Saturday) dislodged illegal squatters under the Ijora Causeway bridge. Lagos State Commissioner of the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this in a statement on his X handle. Wahab said the move was carried out following the ...

Ahmad Sorondinki in  Kano Women in their hundreds including local bread producers popularly known as “Gurasa” marched through the streets of the ancient city of Kano yesterday, protesting the high cost of living especially the hike in the price of flour used largely for the production of the ...

Peter Obi is obviously planning to contest the 2027 elections. It is as clear as day. His strategic visits to anywhere where there has ... source

On Wednesday, Vice President Kashim Shettima came short of raining curses on social media users who celebrated the depreciation of the naira that was exchanged for over N1, 400 per dollar. Instead of celebrating what should unite Nigerians against economic forces pulling down the naira, the ...

The Rivers State Police Command has faulted claims made by a Delta State House of Assembly candidate, Harrison Gwamnishu, alleging the release of three officers accused of kidnapping in the state. The implicated officers, ASP Doubara Edonyabo, ASP Talent Mungo, and ...

Ademola Lookman’s first half strike booked Nigeria’s place in the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) semi-finals with a 1-0 win over Angola. The win continues the Super Eagles’ excellent AFCON quarter-final record, having lost only one of their ...

Stanley Nwabali has recovered to start in goal for the Super Eagles of Nigeria in their quarter final match against Angola on Friday.The 27-year-old goalkeeper was a doubt after being stretchered off the pitch in the round of 16 win over Cameroon in the 80th minute. However, uncertainty trailed ...

The Kwara State Police Command has launched a manhunt for the killers of the monarch of Koro Ekiti in Ekiti local government area of the State, Oba Segun Aremu. LEADERSHIP reports that Oba Aremu was killed on Thursday night in his palace at Koro Ekiti by gunmen, who also whisked away his wife ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has issued fresh guidelines for International Money Transfer Operators in Nigeria amid the foreign exchange crisis. The apex bank disclosed this in a recent circular titled, ‘Reviewed Guidelines of International Money Transfers in Nigeria’, signed by the ...

There is growing restiveness among the staff of the federal civil service, ministries, departments and agencies, and MDAs, over unpaid January salaries. The worker’s situation is compounded by the fact that they also owed a backlog of N35,000 in wage awards. It was gathered that non-payment ...

By Seun Opejobi The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday faulted the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to take over the sales of crude oil from the Nigeria National Petroleum Company, NNPCL. Atiku described the decision as an ...

The Confederation of African Football has named Senegalese official Issa Sy as the centre referee for the quarter-final game of the Africa Cup of Nations between Nigeria and Angola, The PUNCH reports. The Super Eagles will face the Palancas Negras in one of the last ...

Muyiwa Adejobi, the Nigeria Police Force spokesperson, says that the recent kidnappings and killings in Ekiti state are not a common occurrence, pointing out that insecurity has never been on the rise in the state.The police chief attributed the recent increase in kidnappings to issues regarding ...

The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has slammed those parading themselves as leaders of the party to stop doing so as their actions amount to contempt of court. The party’s national legal adviser, Robert Hon, stated this during a media briefing at its headquarters in Abuja on Thursday. The ...