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Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said lawmakers are not in the Senate to make money, but to make sacrifices for future generations. Akpabio spoke during Wednesday plenary while contributing to a debate on the…

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu didn’t singlehandedly make Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) President in 2015. Mustapha spoke on Wednesday at…

Foreign nationals hoping to migrate to Canada through the Express Entry system will now be required to show a higher minimum amount of funds to qualify, following a recent update by Immigration, Refugees and…

The United Kingdom will begin issuing electronic visas, known as e-visas, to most Nigerian applicants seeking study and work permits starting July…

Despite Nyesom Wike’s infrastructure drive in Abuja, the senator representing the Federal Capital Territory, Ireti Kingibe, believes that the former minister, Nasir El-Rufai, performed better as FCT minister. Kingibe said…

For the umpteenth time the United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities have imposed more stringent conditions for Nigerians visiting Dubai even as they banned transit visa applications. The latest directives were…

Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has disclosed that the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has issued over 3.5 million passports to Nigerians in the past two years. The Minister spoke during the commissioning of…

Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, says the federal government is working on transitioning to a cost reflective tariff to stop an increase in the N4trn debt it owes the sector. The minister who spoke during the the…

Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Abuja High Court on Tuesday ordered the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to do everything within his power to produce AIG Idowu Owohunwa (Rtd.) and four former senior police officers for…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced an investigation into the case of one Ahmad Salisu, arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over an alleged concealment of foreign currency at the…

Dangote Refinery has again, within a week interval, reduced its ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, from N840 per litre to N820 per litre, effective immediately. It would be…

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says power distribution companies (DisCos) generated N199.85 billion revenue in April. The NERC announced the revenue evaluation in its ‘DisCos commercial…

Femi Gbajabiamila, chief of staff to President Bola Tinubu, says lawmakers face growing public criticism for using budget insertions to meet demands outside their constitutional mandate. He spoke on Tuesday at…

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has assembled a team of 97 lawyers to challenge what it describes as the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s ‘fake lawsuit’ against its interim leadership, including former Senate…

Bright Echefu, Chief Executive Officer of Telecom Satellites Limited (TStv), and three co‑defendants appeared before the Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday on an amended twelve‑count indictment brought by the Economic…

The Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Charles Soludo, has accused criminals of Igbo extraction of orchestrating the majority of the killings in the southeastern region of the country, and not Fulani herders as some have insinuated. The…

The Presidency has raised alarm over what it described as a calculated plot by opponents of reform to unseat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu…

The United States Department of State has announced a major restriction on nonimmigrant visas for Nigerian applicants, limiting them to a single entry with a three-month validity. The new policy took effect on Tuesday,…

The Nigerian presidency has fired back at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for what it described as a “very fatalistic” and destabilising assessment of…

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has cautioned the Tinubu administration against clamping down on opposition parties, stating that the president himself benefited from a democratic environment under former President…

Heads of universities at the 2025 policy meeting organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board set the 2025 minimum admission benchmark for universities at 150 on Tuesday. This means that JAMB will permit no…

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has revealed the top scorers in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Speaking at the 2025 Policy Meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ish-aq…

The federal government has officially pegged entry admission year into the nation’s tertiary institutions at age 16. This came as the government warned that any admission conducted outside of the Central Admission…

The United States Mission in Nigeria has announced a new requirement for F, M, and J nonimmigrant visa applicants as  it mandates that they set their social media account privacy settings to “public”. This…