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Usman Yusuf, executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), says he was suspended for refusing to release N975 million to the ministry of health. He said this on Friday when he appeared before the house…

NATIONAL Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, declared yesterday that Senator Hope Uzodinma and Prince Dapo Abiodun remain the party’s governorship candidates for Imo and Ogun States…

The controversy surrounding the West African School Certificate (WASC) Examination result of President Muhammadu Buhari was laid to rest yesterday as the West African Examination Council (WAEC) handed to the President the…

The fleeing Togolese cook who allegedly murdered his boss, Chief Ope Badamosi, three days after he was employed,  in  his apartment at Parkview estate, Ikoyi, Lagos, has been arrested. This was just as the detectives have beamed…

Jose Mourinho is keen for Anthony Martial to commit his long-term future to Manchester United by signing a new contract, with the French forward emerging as one of the key players at Old Trafford. Martial has been one of…

President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found.…

The Finance Ministry has faulted the manner in which the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) lifted the technical suspension on the shares of Oando Plc noting it was without due authorisation. The ministry also faulted the roles of…

President Muhammadu Buhari says he felt disappointed in the national assembly for delaying the passage of the 2018 budget by seven months. Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, quoted Buhari to have said this when he…

Oby Ezekesili, presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), says the People Democratic Party’s (PDP) recent statement on fuel price shows that its presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar is ignorant about…

A Civil Society Organization, the New Agenda for Positive Change, has taken a swipe at the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, for holding a strategy session with over 400 members of…

The U.S. government has agreed to let eight countries, including close allies South Korea and Japan, as well as India, keep buying Iranian oil after it reimposes sanctions on Tehran from next week, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing…

The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, on Friday, denied collecting bribe from any contractor.Testifying before the Kano state House of Assembly, Ganduje said the allegation labeled against him are false and…

Group, the New Initiative For Credible Leadership, has tasked Nigerians to probe into the anticidents of all the presidential candidates for the 2019 general election before deciding whom to vote. The group said that the…

A yet-to-be-identified middle-aged man has drowned after reportedly jumping into the Lagos Lagoon in the early hours of Friday. THE WITNESS gathered that the deceased jumped into the lagoon after he alight from a commercial bus…

Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has said that the country is now enjoying improved governance under the administration of her husband. Speaking during the launch of ‘Sakamakon Chanji’, a song composed in support of her…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is faced with a dilemma as an election approaches on how to credibly clamp down on Riyadh. He plans to clamp down on its human rights record while sparing a 13 billion dollars arms…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has called on Nigerians to help the commission detect underage voters as it plans to display the voters’ register starting from 6th to 12th November, 2018 for claims and…

Oil prices fell on Friday as surging output by the world’s three largest producers, United States, Russia and Saudi Arabia, outweighed supply concerns from the start of U.S. sanctions next week against Iran’s petroleum…

An Imo State High Court sitting in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area presided by Justice Ijeoma Agugua has declared that a woman is entitled by law to inherit her father’s estate. The judgment was recently delivered in…

John Bray, US consul general, and Laura Beaufils, British deputy high commissioner to Nigeria, say the issues faced by MTN in recent times sent bad signals to foreign investors. The US and UK envoys made the assertion on…

The Aare Ona Kakanfo Of Yoruba Land,  Iba Ganiyu Adams has declared that it was a taboo for anyone to parade himself as Yoruba monarch outside the territory of the founded by the descendants of Oduduwa, the progenitor of the…

Ibikunle Amosun, governor of Ogun state, has again tackled Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), over the conduct of the state governorship primary election. Amosun had fallen out with…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has hired the firm of Brian Ballard, a top US lobbyist, ahead of the 2019 elections. The influential lobbyist has President Donald Trump as one of his clients. Politico Magazine, a top…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), not to be part of the “smear campaign and unsavoury comments” against Atiku Abubakar, its presidential…