President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja inaugurated the National Steering Committee (NSC) of the National Poverty Reduction with Growth Strategy (NPRGS). The committee has Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo as its…
Professor Kingsley Moghalu, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has been elected member of Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System…
Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, has declared that though the Federal Government has begun talks with Twitter, it still remains banned in the meantime. The minister,…
FRSC has confirmed the death of two persons and the destruction of six tankers, five trucks and two cars in Tuesday’s tanker explosion at Ogere on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. FRSC…
An FCT High Court on Tuesday sentenced Farouk Lawal to seven years imprisonment for collecting 500,000 dollars bribe. Delivering judgment, Justice Angela Otaluka, the trial judge, ordered Lawan to restitute…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Federal Government’s Team to engage with Twitter over the recent suspension of operations of the micro blogging and social networking service…
The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Major-General Faruk Yahaya as Chief of Army Staff (COAS). The confirmation followed the adoption of the report of the Senate joint Committee on…
INEC said on Monday in Abuja that it would deploy 5,346 personnel to 2,673 registration centres for Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) resuming nationwide on June 28. Its chairman, Prof. Mahmood…
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Federal Government to pay 951 million dollars to the Bayelsa Government. The amount is the 13 per cent derivative sum due…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says the 430 million dollars highway project linking Enugu to Bamenda in Cameroon will be completed this year. The bank, in a statement issued on…