Some financial analysts including the Centre for Social Justice have faulted the huge amount allocated for debt service in the 2017 budget proposal and the...
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The State House and several Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government are to share over N1.119bn on foodstuffs, meals, refreshments and...
Members of the Human Rights Defenders and Advocacy Centre have marched to the office of the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, to protest against alleged...
The Centre for AntiCorruption and Open Leadership, CACOL has responded to the 13 billion naira appropriation for the National Assembly as passed by the...
Two Civil Society Organisation, CSOs, have threatened to shut down Nigeria, following the approval of N13 billion, allocated for refreshments, travels, and...
The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has responded to the N13 billion appropriation for the National Assembly as passed by the...
Two Civil Societies Organisations, the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders and Campaign for Democracy, have lambasted the Senate and the House of Representatives...
The National Assembly is to spend over N13bn on refreshment, transportation and welfare packages in 2017, estimates of its new budget have shown. Both the...
Battered by recession, Nigerians were buoyed recently by the optimistic appraisal that the economy will soon emerge from the woods. Governor of the Central...
The Federal Government, on Thursday, urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to allow its prosecution witnesses to testify behind the screen in the trial of a...
The Independent National Electoral Commission has inaugurated the Election Project Plan Committee entrusted with the responsibility of planning the 2019...
The Court of Appeal in Lagos on Thursday reversed the sentence on Raymond Omatseye, a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and...
The absence of a former Governor of Benue State, Mr Gabriel Suswam, from a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, stalled his scheduled arraignment over...
The Federal Government, on Thursday, said some of the schoolgirls released by Boko Haram militants over the weekend would need surgery for various ailments...
The National Assembly has passed the 2017 Appropriations Bill, raising the budget from N7.28 billion earlier proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari in December...
The Federal Government on Thursday suspended the embattled Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Prof. Adebiyi Daramola and his counterpart at the...
Kano State House of Assembly on Wednesday constituted an eight-man committee to probe the Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammadu Sanusi, over alleged misappropriation...
The Senate on Wednesday began the screening of the 27 persons nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari as Resident Election Commissioners of the Independent...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday struck out a N10bn fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by a former governor of Benue State, Gabriel...
The Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, said he had commenced an investigation into the alleged misuse of N2bn Federal Government intervention funds by the...
A three-term member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Adams Jagaba, on Wednesday, denied any connection with the alleged bribe which the then Chairman of...
Some key federal road projects are to benefit from the over N143bn added to the 2017 budget size by the National Assembly, The PUNCH learnt on Wednesday. Also...
A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Bala Mohammed, was on Wednesday remanded in the Kuje Maximum Prison over allegations of fraud. Mr. Mohammed...
A Federal High Court in Kano has dismissed the application filed by a former Managing Director of the state oil firm, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu seeking to quash an...
The Department of State Services on Tuesday presented a video evidence at the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Lugbe, in which a business mogul, Mr Femi...
The Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Ifeanyi Ubah, has sued the Department of State Services before the Federal High Court in Lagos over what...
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, in Maitama, on Tuesday, discharged a former Head of Service of the Federation, Mr. Stephen Oronsaye, of charges...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says the visit by its acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, to the Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Iyayi Laminkara...
The Senate on Tuesday insisted on investigating alleged fraud amounting to over $4,926,464,100 as contained in a petition brought before it against Chevron...
The trial of former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu commenced yesterday. Tasiu Abubakar, a Deputy...
The Chairman, Senate Ad hoc Committee on Humanitarian Issues in the North-East, Senator Shehu Sani, has said Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, who is now the...
The size of the 2017 budget has risen by over N143bn, a report of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations indicated on Tuesday. President...
The letter, written by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly, to inform the lawmakers of his medical leave and to transmit power to his deputy...
Leaders of Chibok community, under the aegis of Kibaku Area Development Association, have faulted a negotiator, Zannah Mustapha, for saying that some abducted...
Some Nigerians have continued to react to the order from Lagos governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, stopping the activities of Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIOs) on...
The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, Prof Itse Sagay, on Monday, called for appropriate sanctions against lawyers bringing shame...
The Lagos State Government has ordered Vehicle Inspection Officers to leave Lagos roads. It was gathered that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode handed down the...
Some of the Chibok schoolgirls held captive for three years by Boko Haram refused to be part of the group of 82 girls freed over the weekend, a mediator...
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday admitted as exhibit the confessional statement made by a former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to ex-President...
The House of Representatives has queried the Central Bank of Nigeria for a staggering $81.2bn imbalance in crude oil sale proceeds declared by the apex bank...