The Senate has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies to ensure transparency and fairness in the conduct of the Osun-West...
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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday asked both the Independent National Electoral Commission and the senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, to...
Nigerian governors have concluded plans to report the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, to the Federal Government...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday hit back at Senator Danjuma Goje, stressing that the legislator’s utterances and...
Magu’s confirmation controversy: Sagay, others knock AGF, El-Rufai says Magu’ll remain EFCC chairman
The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has said going by the constitution, any minister, who openly...
An Agusta 106 Light Utility Helicopter belonging to the Nigerian Air Force has suffered a technical mishap, crashing into water in a yet-to-be-identified...
Nigeria’s former First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, on Thursday alleged harassment of her family by security agencies and sought House of Representatives...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered the Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, to submit himself to the police for...
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by wanted former Niger Delta militant leader, Government...
The National Industrial Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, on Wednesday, issued an order of perpetual injunction restraining the state government...
The Federal Government on Wednesday asked Justice Yusuf Halilu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Jabi, Abuja to refuse to hear the bribery...
The Court of Appeal has fixed July 12, 2017 to hear an appeal filed by the wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan to challenge the interim order of the Federal...
The Senate, on Wednesday, began a probe into the $3bn allegedly spent by the Nigerian Ports Authority on the dredging of Lagos, Bonny and Calabar water...
The Federal Government will on Thursday (today) arraign 23 officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission accused of receiving N360m bribe from the...
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum has said the Governor of Zamfara State, Mr. Abdulaziz Yari, has no property in Lagos State. The NGF also stated that its chairman...
The House of Representatives resolved on Wednesday to invite former President Goodluck Jonathan to testify in the ongoing investigations into the controversial...
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Wednesday said Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s statement on the...
The Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), on Wednesday said the Federal Government would publish the names of treasury looters...
The Senate on Wednesday accused the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), of misleading the public and blackmailing it over the...
The Senate, on Tuesday, declared war with the Presidency over the retention of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday confronted an embattled Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr. Joseph Nwobike, with various text messages he...
There are indications that the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has relieved his Commissioner for Special Duties, Mudathir Abdulganiyu, of his appointment...
The row between the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), and the National Assembly over the 2017 budget deepened on Tuesday as...
The Senate on Tuesday expressed its backing for the embattled lawmaker representing the Kogi-West senatorial district, Senator Dino Melaye, over the ongoing...
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has accused former ministers of the party of running Nigeria aground. The National Chairman of the...
Students of the Osun State University have taken over Olaiya and some streets in Osogbo burning brutes and vandalising properties as they protest the...
The Federal Government said on Tuesday that it borrowed N3.57tn between June 2015 and March 2017 to finance budget deficits. The government said this in...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered an interim forfeiture of the sums of N500m and $500,000 said to have been looted from the Paris Club refunds made by...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a wanted former governor of Jigawa State, Saminu Turaki, The PUNCH has learnt. The former governor...
A senior advocate, Dr Joseph Nwobike, who is standing trial on charges of offering gratification to some judges, on Monday told an Ikeja High Court why he gave...
The Lagos State Government on Monday arraigned the Managing Director of Lekki Gardens Estate Limited, Mr. Richard Nyong, before a Lagos High Court in Igbosere...
The Lagos State House of Assembly says it is ready to appraise budgets of ministries, departments and agencies in the last nine months. It said the assessment...
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Monday said Nigeria had the highest tuberculosis record in Africa, stressing that 80 per cent of the cases in...
The National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party and the ruling All Progressives Congress, on Monday, engaged in a war of words over the search...
The Triangular Group of Pensioners in Osun State has berated the Forum of 2010/2011 Pensioners, who shut down the Osun State Secretariat on Friday while...
SPEAKERS of the 36 states Houses of Assembly, will meet in Lagos next week to review the 1999 Constitution. The National Assembly Committee on the Review of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has charged two military officers and two officials of the United Bank of Africa Plc with fraud involving about...
The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation on Monday made a passionate plea to the Federal High Court in Lagos not to release a five-man gang who...
An officer of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr. Tanko Kutana, on Monday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja how Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme...
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Monday ordered Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, to pay N50...