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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday threatened to deny the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) access to the Independent National Electoral Commission…

President Muhammadu Buhari has decorated Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Farouk Yahaya, with the Lieutenant-General rank at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.…

There has been so much noise about the allocation of 30 percent profit of oil and gas from the NNPC Limited for oil exploration in frontier basins. In a letter…

GOVERNORS of the South-West geo-political zone of the country met with Senators and members of the House of Representatives from the Zone, Tuesday night, over the Petroleum…

A former Kano State Governor, Sen Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has denied reports that he is perfecting plans to dump the Peoples Democratic…

The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clem Agba, on Tuesday, reiterated the need to deregulate the downstream petroleum through the removal of subsidy on…

The Coalition of Northern Groups on Tuesday responded to the issues raised by the Southern Governors Forum during their Monday meeting in Lagos. The coalition…

Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Tuesday remanded eight persons charged with the rape and murder of a 24-year-old University of Ilorin…

Four passengers abducted by gunmen at Imesi-Ile and Esa-odo in the Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State were on Tuesday rescued by a combined team of security…

In response to the olive branch extended to the Federal Government by Twitter, the government has assembled a team to meet…

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has told the Southern Governors Forum that it would only support a candidate that will unite the country irrespective of where…

Stating its position on the issue of electronic transmission of results in elections,  Ohanaeze Ndigbo said that it is interested in seeing an INEC that is truly independent of…

Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, elderstatesman and Second Republic presidential liaison officer to former President Shehu Shagari in this interview with TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI,…

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says COVID-19 vaccines do not contain electromagnetic ingredients that can cause side effects. The Executive…

The Presidency on Tuesday praised the nation’s security agencies for their collaboration in the operations that led to the arrest of the leader of…

Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka has faulted calls for the formation of a Yoruba nation. He said he preferred a united Nigeria, but under certain “rigorous…

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, Tuesday dismissed reports that the lawmakers were plotting to remove electronic…

People of Kwara North have insisted that it is the turn of the axis to produce the state’s next governor. They added that they would not relent in their demand to…

A Kano State High Court on Tuesday fined Kano Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje N800,000 after he discontinued his defamation suit against an online…

The abductors of Bethel Baptist Church High School Kaduna yesterday called the school management, telling them that 121 students were in their custody. The bandits…

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Tuesday, backed the House of Representatives’ quest to create…

Caretaker Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved the continuation of membership…

A Bill for an Act to provide for state police in Nigeria, on Tuesday, scaled second reading at the House of Representatives. Rep. Onofiok Luke (PDP-Akwa-Ibom) who sponsored…

President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday, commended the Nigerian Army for saving the country from disintegration and demonstrating a high level of professionalism in its…