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The Federal Government has set a new date for the Nigeria @60 Jubilee Special Award ceremony. According to a statement made available on Monday by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, which was signed by the…
The Twitter ban in Nigeria has extended to 100 days, and in that time frame, the nation has lost N247.61bn. The Federal Government had on June 4 suspended Twitter after the social media platform deleted a tweet by…
The Federal Government procured the twelve new A-29 Super Tucano jets at a whopping $500 million, making it the highest single arms purchase in sub-Saharan Africa, the US Department of Defence has disclosed. Six of the…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday urged Nigerian graduates to apply for the Jubilee Fellows Programme. The programme, a Federal Government initiative in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Federal Government not to increase the electricity tariff. The umbrella labour union said while many sectors, including Power, have been increasing tariffs, which have…
The Federal Government has announced a reward of 15, 000 dollars, 10,000 dollars, 7,500 dollars for gold, silver, and bronze medalists at the Tokyo Olympics. Simon Ebohdjaiye, Director, Federation and Elite Athletes…
Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian Nobel Laureate has again said that there is no hope of Nigeria continuing together as one nation if the Federal Government fails to do the needful. According to the foremost playwright, Nigeria…
The Lagos chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, locally called agberos, generates about N123.08bn annually, which could service the annual budget of Nasarawa, Niger, and Yobe states put together, a…
The House of Representatives adopted pay-as-you-go and a price slash for DSTV and other cable satellite operators in the country. The House considered and approved recommendations of the Ad–hoc Committee on…
An American-based Nigerian entrepreneur, and Chairman of BUNDI International Diagnostics Limited, Robert Udeaga, has promised to crash the current N49,000 cost of COVID-19 test kits to less than N5,000 in order to give…
On June 29, a dull, somewhat grainy picture of Nigerian activist Nnamdi Kanu in handcuffs began circulating on the internet, shortly after what seemed like unlikely news about his arrest in and extradition from a…
Giwa Nurudeen, a 24-year-old final year student of the University of Ilorin, on Thursday, July 8, bagged three years jail term having been found guilty of offences bordering on N35m internet fraud. Nurudeen was…
Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, said the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme should be a two-year programme so that corps members can undergo military training. Ishaku declared this on Wednesday when he…
The Lagos State transport ministry on Wednesday revealed plans to deploy Traffic Management Solution (TMS) devices that will, among other things, enable traffic law violators to pay fines digitally. Presently, traffic…
Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is filing a class-action lawsuit against tech giants Facebook and Twitter — along with their CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey — because of bans imposed on him…
Nigeria’s former finance minister Kemi Adeosun, who was caught in a certificate forgery scandal, got what appears to be a reprieve from a court on Wednesday. The Federal High Court in Abuja ruled that Mrs Adeosun did…
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) call have asked Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, to resign his position as governor due to escalation of insecurity…
The Coalition of Oodua Self-Determination Group (COSEG), a Pan Yoruba socio-political organization has challenged the Nigerian Department of States Service (DSS) to go after armed bandits terrorising the North Central…
Chief Yomi Alliyu SAN, FCIArb., counsel to Chief Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho), has described the invasion of house of the Yoruba separatist leader by operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) as grossly…
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike says mass defections will rock both the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) between now and December, as politicians realign ahead of the 2023 general…
