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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday wrote the National Assembly for the consideration and passage of the 2025 budget of the Rivers State Government. The President said the N1.481 trillion is being presented to the…

When Bayo Ojulari, the newly appointed Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC, announced that preparations were underway to restart crude…

Peter Obi, former Labour Party presidential candidate, has denied the report that he travelled to Rome to meet President Bola Tinubu over an alleged ₦225 billion debt linked to Fidelity Bank. In a statement…

Nigeria’s debt service payments rose by 49.2 percent  year-on-year,  YoY,   to $2.01 billion in the first four months of 2025 (4m’25) from $1.34 billion in the corresponding period of 2024. The Central Bank of…

No fewer than 116 foreign nationals resident in Lagos applied for Nigerian citizenship or special immigrant status between May 2024 and May 2025. Olanrewaju Ibrahim Layode, Lagos State Commissioner for Home Affairs,…

…Faleke accused of importing Kogi influence, promoting religious bias, and installing loyalists and mistresses; Ojelabi also implicated as concerned Lagosians decry a…

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has released the names and images of the seven inmates who escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Ilesa, Osun state. The inmates escaped from the correctional…

• 600,000 students on registration list All tertiary institutions have been directed by the…

The naira yesterday appreciated to N1, 615 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,620 per dollar on Tuesday. Similarly, the Naira appreciated to N1,583 per dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM).…

Hon. Abdussamad Dasuki, lawmaker representing Kebbe/Tambuwal Federal Constituency of Sokoto State, has called on the Federal Government to allocate the forfeited Abuja estate comprising 753 duplexes and apartments to…

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) appears to have emerged as the new political bride in Nigeria’s opposition landscape, following its adoption by a coalition of opposition leaders as the platform to challenge…

President Bola Tinubu has said that no part of Nigeria can thrive in isolation. The president said every region of the country has its specific role to play in national development. Speaking on Wednesday, May 22, at…

Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has raised serious concerns over what she describes as clear bias by the Nigeria Police Force in the handling of multiple petitions she filed against Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and…

A civic group in the north-west, Coalition for Good Governance and Accountability in the North-West (COGGAN), has called on Dauda Lawal, governor of Zamfara, to resign from office over what it described as a “complete…

Professor Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has responded strongly to critics calling for his resignation following challenges during the 2025 Unified Tertiary…

The Vice Chancellor, University of Port Harcourt, Prof. Owunari Georgewill, has attributed the low participation of students in the Nigerian student loan programme to deep-rooted cultural resistance in the…

Yoruba nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has refuted claims made by Hajia Naja’atu Mohammed, a former director in President Bola Tinubu’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), that…

The proposal by the House of Representatives to introduce a law mandating all eligible Nigerians to vote in every election has ignited a wave of criticisms from some respected senior lawyers. From constitutional…

The father of the 15-year-old boy shot by police in Ibadan, Oyo State, Odunayo Alade, has gone into hiding, just as he expressed grief and anger over the tragic incident that claimed the life of his son, Kehinde Alade.…

…fixes hearing for June 25 A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered service of court documents on the 2007 presidential candidate of the…

Property worth N19.52 billion was destroyed in 1,952 fire incidents across Lagos State between 2024 and the present, while assets valued at N117.12 billion were successfully salvaged. Tragically, 19 lives were also…

The Department of State Services (DSS) says it was not involved in the 2021 arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in Kenya. The agency said its operational jurisdiction does not…

The minister of interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, says criminals on the red list of the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) have been arrested at Nigerian airports. Tunji-Ojo said the individuals, who were…

President Bola Tinubu has granted access to China to establish electric car manufacturing factories in Nigeria. This was disclosed by Olusegub Dada, the special assistant to President Tinubu on social media. Dada, in a…