The Federal Government has set up a task force on food security. The objective is to look at the causes of increase in the prices of food items across the...
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The Federal Government is likely to launch its $1bn sale of Eurobonds this week, the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has said. “We’re on course with...
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, on Wednesday, signed into law a bill on kidnapping which stipulates death penalty and life jail for kidnappers culprits...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Wednesday, warned labour unions in the country that the Federal Government would no longer tolerate...
The Nigerian Navy said on Wednesday that it seized 810,725 metric tonnes of stolen crude in 2016 alone. The service also seized 1,078,104 metric tonnes of...
Compliance Officers of Zenith Bank Plc and Guaranty Trust Bank Plc on Wednesday confirmed the transfer of a cumulative sum of N30m between the accounts of a...
The Federal High Court in Lagos has struck out the suit filed by wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, against the Socio-Economic Rights and...
A former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has returned a fresh sum of N30m to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, with a...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered that Shamsudeen Bala Mohammed, a son of a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Mohammed...
How porous our borders are to the perpetration of illegalities was once again made manifest in the recent seizure of the 661 rifles by men of the Nigeria...
The Federal Government has asked the National Assembly to approve the plan to raise $1bn through Eurobond issuance. It was gathered on Tuesday that President...
The Minister of Environment, Mrs. Amina Mohammed, on Tuesday said that plans by the Federal Government to raise N20bn by March this year to help fund renewable...
A Federal High Court in Ado Ekiti, on Tuesday, rejected a fresh bid by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to freeze the Zenith Bank accounts of the...
The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has barred local government workers from managing traffic in the state. The Commissioner for Transportation, Anofiu...
A prosecution witness, Dr. Sani Teidi, testifying on Tuesday in the ongoing trial of a serving judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, and two others, before a High...
The Senate has requested for the Bank Verification Numbers of some companies linked to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited the immediate past Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Bamitale Omole...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has accused Shamsudeen Bala Mohammed, the son of the immediate past Minister of the Federal Capital Territory...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed March 1 to rule on a fresh application by the Federal Government seeking to protect witnesses in the ongoing trial of...
The leadership of the House of Representatives has mandated its joint committee on Insurance and Actuarial Matters; Finance and Labour; Employment and...
A non-governmental organisation that advocates transparency in governance, BudgIT, has called on the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing to declare details of...
• Court orders IGP to protect witnesses. Justice Jude Okeke of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, in Maitama, on Monday, threatened to strike out...
The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday, met behind closed doors with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and the Senate Leader...
The House of Representatives on Monday gave the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Central Bank of Nigeria a one-week ultimatum to produce...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has said it will push for the arrest of Senator Buruji Kashamu as the agency says it has been “emboldened and...
The Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed February 21, 2017 to rule on the no case submissions filed by a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime...
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, and Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, will, on Friday, declare the first Lagos Art Expo open. The event, holding...
The trial of a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), and 10 others continued on Thursday before the Federal High Court in Lagos with...
The Senate may probe the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, headed by Mr. Babatunde Fashola and the Bureau of Public Procurement over alleged inflation of...
The National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party said in Abuja on Wednesday that President Muhammadu Buhari had clearly shown to Nigerians...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday re-arraigned a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Mohammed Umar (retd.), before the Federal...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday re-arraigned a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Mohammed Umar (retd.), before the Federal...
An investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Tosin Owobo, narrated to the Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday how a former Chief of...
The House of Representatives on Friday summoned the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Maikanti Baru, in connection with...
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday created a 12-member Lagos Economic Advisory Committee. A statement after the State Executive Council meeting at the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on Thursday that Justice Mohammed Yunusa confirmed receiving N1.5m from...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested suspected kidnappers, Chinobi Sabestine and Emma Blessing for allegedly abducting an eight-year-old boy. It was...
Life on Ebijimi Street in the Meiran area of Lagos has yet to be fully restored after a jilted engineer allegedly killed his lover, his rival and poisoned...
The Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, says he was with police operatives during one of the sessions when they discussed with the kidnappers of pupils and...
Click here for more detail The Senate President had announced at the beginning of the debate that 39 senators had been listed for the exercise for the day...