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…Workforce Hits 101,108 At least 30 percent of Lagos State Government civil servants who participated in government-sponsored capacity training programs abroad have failed to return after completing their courses.…

…Integrates 120 MDAs …To Launch New Card by October The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has achieved a landmark milestone of 120.4 million enrollments for the National Identification Number…

A social reform group known as The Crusader has criticized former First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan over her recent comments concerning the 2027 presidential elections, asserting that her time in office diminished the…

The military has raised concerns over the rising sophistication of terrorist operations in the north-east, revealing that armed drones are now being used to execute deadly attacks. Speaking with journalists on…

Senator Adams Oshiomhole (Edo North) has invited former presidential spokesperson and co-host of Arise Television’s breakfast show, Reuben Abati, to settle their differences with a physical confrontation. Oshiomhole’s reaction comes in…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has reduced the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, to N910 per litre from N935 per litre in Abuja. However, the price adjustment has not…

The Lagos State government is finalising plans to introduce a monthly and quarterly rent payment system to ease the financial burden on residents, especially low-income earners. The Commissioner for Housing, Moruf…

Amid escalating insecurity in Ondo State, residents are increasingly anxious over their safety due to frequent cases of kidnapping by armed bandits. Since November last year, attacks in Ondo and across the South West…

The controversy surrounding the Joint Admission Matriculation Board Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has reached a new level after 19-year-old Tmilehin Faith Opesusi committed suicide for scoring a low…

The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr. Richard Montgomery has given President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ongoing reforms a pass mark. Montgomery said the reforms are working and increasingly making Nigeria…

Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has asked Nigerians to engage more with…

...34 states record N1.6trn surplus in 2024– W’Bank The complete removal of petrol subsidies in October 2024…

Balogun Adewale Akanji, popularly known as Barry Showkey, is set to make a grand return to the music scene with his much-anticipated single…

…Urges FG to recalibrate its security architecture RESEARCH experts from Nextier SPD have reported that over 100 military personnel and 200 civilians were killed by Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria within five…

The political terrain in Kebbi State experienced a dramatic shake-up on Tuesday as all three senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) officially dumped the opposition party and returned to…

In a decisive plenary session on Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted against several high-profile constitutional amendment bills, including one that sought to strip the Independent National Electoral Commission…

Bolaji Bolarinwa, a Nigerian woman based in the United States, has been sentenced to 45 months in prison for forcing two Nigerian women into domestic servitude, in a case that has drawn condemnation from US…

Motorists in Ijora, Apapa and environs have been advised to plan their movement and seek alternative routes as the federal government has announced that it will close Ijora Bridge, starting from Sunday, May 18,…

— Additional Executive Directors to be Appointed for Regional Commissions The Nigerian Senate has successfully amended the Acts establishing the South South, South West, and North Central Development…

… Targets massive remittances  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in collaboration with the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS), has officially launched the Non-Resident Bank Verification Number…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has pledged to remain focused on driving Nigeria’s development and maintaining national unity, stating that he would not be distracted from doing what is right for the country. Tinubu…

Oil marketers have declared that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and others in Nigeria may raise the pump price of petrol to N1,500 per litre once there is an outright ban on fuel importation. While the National…

The World Bank has faulted the Federal Government’s conditional cash transfer programme, stating that the initiative failed to reach millions of Nigerians in need of urgent economic relief, as only 37 per cent of the…

The Director-General of the Nigeria Safety and Investigation Bureau, Alex Badeh, has said that the United States National Transportation Safety Board shared the report of the helicopter crash that claimed the life…