Nigeria’s indebtedness will climb to 24.1 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product by 2018, the International Monetary Fund has said. The IMF, which stated this...
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Finally, Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, now knows, with all doubts erased and all illusions vaporised, that Nigerians were...
The Presidency, on Tuesday, said it was too early for anybody to attempt to assess the performance of President Muhammadu Buhari. It said the report card of...
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has requested approval of the House of Representatives for fresh $1.28bn and €9m loans under the 2016-2018 External...
The Department of State Services has accused businessman and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Oil and Gas Ltd, Ifeanyi Ubah, of diverting about 80 million...
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, says there are many people in authority claiming to be supporting the...
The Nigeria Customs Service, Tin Can Island Command, on Tuesday, intercepted a container laden with 440 arms and ammunition of various sizes and designs...
Mr. Debo Adeniran, Executive Chairman, Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leader, CACOL has described calls for President Muhammadu Buhari’s resignation as...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized 18 houses in an estate allegedly belonging to Alhaji Aliyu Usman, an associate of the embattled former...
A recent report on how three major banks paid a combined N200m in penalties to regulators underscores the weaknesses in Nigeria’s regulatory framework. For...
The Nigeria Prisons Service has grilled senior officers for their role in the release of convicted ex-governor of Adamawa State, Mr. Bala Ngilari. But the...
The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, will on Wednesday meet some mid level and senior government officials as part of strategies to ensure the implementation...
The Federal Government will spend N540bn more on debt servicing than it will spend on 10 key sectors of the economy, an analysis of the 2017 budget, which is...
A new bill seeking to amend the Public Procurement Act, 2007 does not only represent a policy somersault, but will also hamper government’s capacity to provide...
Activist lawyer, Femi Falana, has urged the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo not to sign the 2017 budget because it was illegally increased by the National...
The Nigerian Army may have begun an internal search for soldiers and officers suspected to be engaging in political meetings, a top military source has told...
The Presidency on Friday confirmed that the National Assembly has formally transmitted the 2017 Appropriation Bill recently passed into law to the Executive...
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of N449,597,000 found in an abandoned Bureau de Change shop in Victoria...
The recent scandal in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation involving the disappearance of N11bn worth of petrol is another disturbing occurrence in a...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has opposed the suit filed by the Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Ifeanyi Ubah, seeking to be...
There were strong indications on Thursday that the Federal Character Commission would sue the Department of State Services unless the agency submitted its...
The Federal Government has faulted a suit by Malabu Oil and Gas Limited, which is challenging the allocation of the highly lucrative oil block, the Oil...
This is an issue that has to be nipped in the bud with immediate effect because of the grievous consequence a coup portends for a democratic Nigeria. The...
There are now fears in Nigeria that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari might be overthrown to pave way for a northerner to replace the ailing...
For the second time in two consecutive days, the Department of State Services, on Wednesday, failed to produce the immediate-past National Security Adviser...
The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has challenged the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai to immediately identify and...
Another Chibok schoolgirl has regained her freedom from captivity. This is coming barely two weeks after the Boko Haram sect released 82 of the girls captured...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared that a former governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, is still being investigated over alleged acts...
A Federal High Court sitting in Zamfara State has rejected a report by the Zamfara State House of Assembly which accused the Chairman, Zamfara State Universal...
Regional bodies, the Peoples Democratic Party, civil rights groups and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria among others, on Wednesday, urged military officers and...
Leader of the South-East caucus in the Senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has protested against the alleged exclusion of the eastern rail line from the ongoing...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on May 16, 2017 arraigned a former Niger State governor, Muazu Babangida Aliyu and his Commissioner for...
The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Tuesday said Vehicles Inspection Officers had been permanently banned from all Lagos roads. The governor also...
An operative of the Department of State Services, John Utazi, on Tuesday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja how his team conducted the search of the Abuja...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday re-arraigned the son of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga...
The 2017 budget may get to the table of Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday (today), findings by The PUNCH indicated on Tuesday. It was learnt that the...
The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, said the Federal Government had got more than 2,500 tips that could lead to loot recovery and blocking of...
The House of Representatives on Monday summoned the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, over an alleged violation of the Public Procurement Act in the...
Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday transferred to the Port Harcourt Division of the court the charges filed against 23 officials...
Wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has approached the Court of Appeal, seeking to reverse the order of the Federal High Court freezing her Skye...