Regional bodies, the Peoples Democratic Party, civil rights groups and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria among others, on Wednesday, urged military officers and...
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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...
The Chairman, Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, Mr. Muhuyi Magaji, says the agency has achieved 80 per cent success into 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...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday re-arraigned a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, for an alleged fraud of N4.9bn. He...
The Economic Management Team led by the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday considered the funding options available for the implementation of the 2017...
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Monday, took a swipe at the Federal Government’s anti-graft agencies, saying they preferred showmanship. He said...
Monday, May 15, 2017 His Excellency Professor Yemi Osinbajo The Acting President Federal Republic of Nigeria Aso Rock Villa FCT, Abuja. Your...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has started investigating alleged collusion by some electricity consumers, power firms’ workers and meter...
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...
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...
The Federal Government says it has met with some representatives of parents of the 82 rescued Chibok girls. The 82 schoolgirls, who were abducted from the...
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...