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    Nigeria: Oil & Gas Sector Attracts U.S.$13 Billion Investment Commitments in Q1 – NIPC – Allafrica

    The nation’s oil and gas sector attracted about $12.9 billion in investment commitments in the first quarter of the year. Executive Secretary, Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, NIPC, Yewande Sadiku, disclosed this in a chat with journalists, in Abuja, yesterday. She put the total...
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    Omo-Agege: Security beef-up at National Assembly ahead of resumption – Premium Times Nigeria

    Security was on Monday beefed up at the National Assembly, Abuja, ahead of expected resumption of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege following Thursday’s Abuja High Court nullification of his suspension by the Senate. Strengthening of security arrangement at the complex, especially around the Senate...
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    Atiku to Partially Privatise NNPC, Allow Currency Float If Elected – Thisdaylive

    In a move set to project the reforms to be initiated under his government, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has said that he will privatise … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2GgleD6 Get More Nigeria Political News
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    Buhari Asks Loyalists Not to Flout INEC’s Timetable on Campaigns – Thisdaylive

    As Nigerians await more aspirants to the office of the presidency of the country to make their intentions known, President Muhammadu Buhari has directed his campaign officials and loyalists to ensure that they keep strictly to the guidelines for the campaigns. Apart from the … Read more...
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    We’ll meet aggrieved APC chiefs, says PDP chairman – Punch Newspapers

    The Peoples Democratic Party has begun plans to meet aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress otherwise known as the New PDP. Though the party has been meeting with individuals to form a coalition against the ruling All Progressives Congress in the … Read more via Punch...
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    Health minister, Adewole denies Yusuf Buhari had surgery in Germany – Daily Post Nigeria

    Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Issac Adewole, has claimed Yusuf, the only son of President Muhammadu Buhari, did not go to Germany for surgery but rehabilitation. Last December, Yusuf sustained serious injuries, after he was involved in an accident with his power bike around Gwarimpa in Abuja...
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    Abuja Overtakes Lagos in Foreign Capital Inflows – Thisdaylive

    The Federal Capital Territory, Abuja has become the leading recipient of foreign capital inflows, commencing from the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2017. In the first quarter (Q1) 2018, the nation’s capital also overtook with … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2KU7fX2 Get more: Nigeria...
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    Politics PMB Returns To Abuja, Says 'I’m Okay' – Leadership Newspaper

    President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday returned to Abuja after an appointment with his doctors in the United Kingdom. The President landed at Nnamdi Azikwe Airport Abuja some minutes after 7pm last night and was received by senior government officials. Speaking to State House correspondents at...
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    Nigeria draft oil reforms seek to establish powerful industry regulator – NASDAQ.com

    Nigeria’s government plans to create a powerful energy regulator with broad oversight of the oil and gas sector, according to draft versions of sweeping reforms known collectively as … Read more via NASDAQ.com – https://ift.tt/2wF9D0u Get more: Nigeria Business News
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    Nigeria’s Lassa Fever outbreak contained – WHO – Punch Newspapers

    The World Health Organisation says that with declining numbers and only a handful of confirmed cases reported in recent weeks, the critical phase of Nigeria’s largest Lassa fever outbreak is under control. According to a statement issued by WHO’s Communication Officer, Ms Charity Warigon in...
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    Nigeria to generate more revenues from taxes –Adeosun – The Sun News

    The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, disclosed yesterday that the Federal Government would mobilise more revenues to drive its growth plan for the economy. The Minister made this known in Abuja at a meeting with a World Bank Mission of … Read more via The Sun News –...
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    2019 presidency: Political parties form alliance for consensus candidate – Daily Post Nigeria

    Seventeen registered political parties in Nigeria have formed a new alliance with the aim of adopting one candidate for the 2019 presidential election. The alliance, branded ‘G21’, was announced by the National Chairman of New Generation Party (NGP), Dr Yakubu Shendam at a press briefing in...
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    Metro IGP’s Failure To Appear Before Senate Causes Twitter-Storm – Channels Television

    Failure of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, to appear before the Senate on Wednesday has sparked reactions on social media. The Senate during plenary resolved to declare the IGP as an enemy of democracy and not fit to hold any public office within and outside … Read...
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    Police DPO Blames Mace Theft On ‘Internal Conspiracy’ – Channels Television

    The Divisional Police Officer in the National Assembly, CSP Sulu-Gambari Abdul, has blamed the April 18th invasion of the Senate and theft of the mace by hoodlums on internal conspiracy. Abdul said this on Wednesday during an investigative hearing into the incident by a joint ad hoc committee...
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    SGF, NSA Present As Osinbajo Chairs FEC Meeting – Channels Television

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo presided over the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday while President Muhammadu Buhari is on a four-day medical trip to the United Kingdom. The meeting held at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the Federal Capital...
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    Tinubu meets Ekiti APC aspirants in Abuja – Daily Post Nigeria

    The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is currently meeting with the governorship aspirants of the party in Ekiti State, at the Lagos State government lodge in Asokoro, Abuja. Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi; APC Deputy Chairman...
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    Panic as gunmen raid Abuja university, kidnap lecturer – Naija News

    A lecturer at the Veritas University, Bwari, Abuja, has been reportedly kidnapped by gunmen who raided the institution on Monday, May 7, around 12am. The Punch reported that abducted lecturer Read more via Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read Naija news 24/7 – https://ift.tt/2FRUQPC...
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    Herdsmen killings: ‘It’s time for Buhari’s retirement’ – Cardinal Onaiyekan – Lailas Blog News

    A Cardinal of the Catholic Church and the Metropolitan Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Onaiyekan who reacted to the recent killing of two catholic priests in Benue State, slammed security agencies, who he said have been watching as herdsmen slaughter innocent citizens of the country even in …...
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    2019: PDP sets up contact committee to woo other parties – Vanguard News

    In its quest to regain power at the centre, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has inaugurated its Contact Committee which it tasked to initiate talks with other political parties willing to align forces with it to oust the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in next … Read more via...
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    Kano ‘Underage Voters’ Not On Our Register, Says INEC – Channels Television

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the commission had no connection with the voters register used in the Kano local government elections in which underage voters allegedly participated. The chairman of the Commission, Mahmood Yakubu on Friday told journalists in Abuja...
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