Contractors working for the Presidential Amnesty Programme in the Niger Delta are owed over N71.4bn in debts. The Interim Administrator of the programme, Colonel Milland Dikio (retd.), disclosed this in…
Governor Mohammed Yahaya of Gombe State wants the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Department of Petroleum Resources to begin oil and gas exploitation in the North, particularly in…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has begun the fumigation of all public schools across the six Area Councils of the territory, ahead of school resumption slated for Monday. The…
The Nigerian Senate will begin consideration of the Petroleum Industry Bill on October 20, according to Ahmad Lawan, the Senate President. The bill which has been in the works for…
Nigeria has gone five straight days without reporting a single death relating to the coronavirus pandemic. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday reported 103 new cases of…
“A good teacher is like a candle-it consumes itself to light the way for others,” said Turkish statesman, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. And that is what teachers in Nigeria had been…
Citizens demanding the dismantling of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, has accuses of human rights violations, have taken their protest to Louis Edet House, the police force headquarters in Abuja. The…
President Muhammadu Buhari has called for the quick passage of the 2021 budget by the National Assembly. Speaking on Thursday while presenting the N13trn budget proposal to the lawmekers, Buhari…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday reported 155 new cases of COVID-19 infections in eight states of the country. The total number of confirmed cases of the…
France has broken its record for new daily Coronavirus infections, with 18,746 cases recorded in 24 hours, health authorities said Wednesday night. The previous highest daily toll of new cases…