Over N500b inflow expected on VAT as FG begins aggressive tax drive
VAT Increase Would Do More Harm To Private Sector – NECA• Experts, Investors Weigh Gains, Losses, Fears Ahead Take Off• Demand Counter Measures, Palliatives To Protect Businesses, Poor NigeriansThe…
Governor, 7 others in trouble over alleged N6.5bn fraud
EFCC probes Wada, Ayeni, AVM Atawodi over arms deal Funds traced to foreign car dealership, offshore…
2020 Grammy Awards: Nigerians optimistic Burna Boy will win
Ahead of the 2020 Grammys Award billed for Sunday January 26, Nigerians have taken to different social media platforms to express their expectation that…
Saudi Arabia set to buy Newcastle United
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is in talks to buy English football club Newcastle United for about £340 million pounds (about N156.4 billion), a…
Fresh pressure mounts on PDP to change name
Fresh pressure is being mounted on the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party on the need to change the name of the party in order to win the 2023 presidential election, Saturday…
Defence lawyers say removing Trump will set ‘dangerous precedent’
Lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump told his Senate impeachment trial on Saturday that Democrats’ efforts to…
APGA expels Araraume for anti-party activities
The Caretaker Committee Chairman, All Progressives Grand Alliance, Imo State, John Iwuala, says the party has expelled Senator Ifeanyi Araraume.Iwuala said Araraume, who represented Imo North between 1999 and…
Northern, Southern leaders hold peace meeting in Lagos
Some eminent Nigerian leaders from across the nation on Friday held a closed-door meeting in…
We want our daughter alive, with or without baby – Leah Sharibu’s family
The family of Christian teenage schoolgirl abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in 2018, Leah Sharibu, has described reports that she had a baby boy in captivity as a rumour.A senior lecturer at the…
Chelsea lost ground when Eden Hazard left – Frank Lampard
Frank Lampard says Chelsea need to sign new players in the January transfer window after they survived a late scare to beat Hull 2-1 in the FA Cup fourth…
FG orders recruitment of constables for community policing
The Federal Government has directed the police hierarchy to commence the recruitment of special constables nationwide preparatory to the implementation of its community policing policy.The directive on…
Ile Arugbo: Will Bukola Saraki be more forthcoming on withdrawal of case?
A few weeks after boasting that Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has crossed the lines over the demolition of Ile Arugbo (an inherited…
Leah Sheribu Gives Birth To Baby Boy For Boko Haram Commander After Being Forced To Convert To Islam
Leah Sheribu, a Christian girl kidnapped and held in Boko Haram captivity for over one year, has given birth to a baby boy. Leah was…
All eyes on Burna Boy as Grammy holds tomorrow
The question on the lips of afrobeats fans across the world is: will Burna Boy win the prestigious Grammy award tomorrow (Sunday)? The Nigerian singer’s last…
Coronavirus: Nigeria at risk as 120,000 Chinese nationals visit annually
There are fears that Nigerian visitors to Chinese cities may contract the disease and spread it to others on arrival in the country if stringent…
Ganduje will regret his actions – Kwankwaso vows
Former Kano State Governor, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, has accused his successor, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, of running a deceptive government.…
Kaduna govt confirms Lassa outbreak
The Ministry of Health has confirmed a case of Lassa fever in a young male from Chikun LGA, in Kaduna state. According to the Ministry, the young man…
Vehicles, chairs, canopies set ablaze at Oshiomhole’s Edo rally
The face-off between Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams…
Nigeria needs to develop its own corruption perception index, says CSO
Umar Yakubu, executive director, Centre for Fiscal Transparency and Financial Crimes Prevention, says Nigeria has to develop its own corruption perception…
Coronavirus: Fear grips immigration, port health officials over China killer disease
The Nigeria Immigration Service and Port Health Services have expressed fears over the…
Polygamy causing poverty, backwardness in North – Sanusi
The Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido, has warned that unless the people of the North change their culture, they will continue to be backward…
‘Take her out”: Trump audio on ex-US Ukraine envoy surfaces
An audio recording appeared to capture U.S. President Donald Trump calling in 2018 for the firing of the then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, a main…
If we recovered from 30-month Biafra war, we can handle Boko Haram – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari says with the experience of the Nigeria’s civil war that lasted 30 months, the country is capable of defeating Boko Haram…
I fear nobody, I have four lions in me – Fani-Kayode
Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, says he cannot stop talking and that he feared nobody because he has four lions in him. Fani-Kayode, in a…