nigeria news 200418

A support group for former Vice-President Abubakar Atiku, under the aegis of re-building Nigeria Initiative (RNI), with members across the country, said all arrangements have been concluded for its formal launched in Lagos with its key national officials inaugurated to kick-start the campaign...

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Seconds, has, once again, challenged the Federal Government to drag him to court if it has evidence on allegation of corruption. Secondus spoke through his media adviser, Ike Abonyi, and accused the federal government of...

As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) prepares for the 2019 general election, indications have emerged that the ghost of the creation of 30,000 new polling units in the run up to the 2015 elections has resurfaced, with the move by the commission to re-introduce new polling...

An early hour attack on Agasha community in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State by suspected Fulani herdsmen thursday has led to the alleged killing of 10 residents of Agasha town. This is even as Naka town in Gwer West Local Government Area was razed down by angry soldiers who were...

With the declining United States crude oil inventories, the price of oil thursday hit $74 per barrel, its highest in nearly four years as Saudi Arabia moved to push for a price rise of $80 -$100 per barrel. Thisday reported that Brent crude futures reached $74.74 per barrel yesterday, the...

The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has said Nigerian youths have excelled in every sphere of the economy they have been involved. He stated this when he received a delegation of Not-Too-Young-To-Run Movement which visited him in Abuja on Thursday barely 24 hrs after President Muhammadu Buhari...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said there is no corruption in the presidency under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari, adding that such stance has saved the country a lot of money. Osinbajo also reiterated that government’s efforts towards curbing corruption in the country would soon...

Concerned residents of Rivers State under the aegis of Stop-the-Soot Campaign and Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, in the state have staged a protest in Port Harcourt, seeking an end to the soot that is ravaging the state. protesters, who marched to the Rivers State Government House and the...

The troops of the Nigerian Army deployed in Taraba State on Exercise Ayem Akpatuma, otherwise called cat race, have arrested a Fulani herdsman and recovered five guns, 36 cartridges among other weapons from him. Our correspondent learnt that the troops of 101 Special Forces Battalion were on...

MTN Group and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated have come together to provide mobile financial services across the various African countries where they currently operate. The partnership, which was announced on Tuesday in Lagos, would see MTN and Ecobank work together in delivering a distinct...

The naira is expected to remain stable against the United States dollar in coming weeks as the Central Bank of Nigeria continues to intervene in the foreign exchange market. The CBN on Wednesday injected $210m into the foreign market, about a week after it injected $200m into the market...

Sterling Bank Plc has launched a new mobile banking application known as I-invest in a bid to encourage people to build a savings and investment culture. The new application is supported on Android and IOS devices. Click here to read more

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Thursday announced that it had ended its lease agreement with owners of the super mega petrol station along the Abuja Airport Road in the Federal Capital Territory. It also stated that its downstream retail subsidiary, NNPC Retail Limited, was...

The total amount needed for the construction of a second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja is N63bn, the Federal Government has announced. According to the Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, only N8bn is set aside for the runway in the 2018 budget...

The Police Service Commission has approved special promotion for 45 police officers and acting appointments for another 13 officers who played major roles in the arrest of a suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumuje Onuoamadike, a.k.a. Evans, and 21 members of his gang. The officers are of the...

The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ekiti State, Prof. Abdulganiyu Raji, has raised the alarm over alleged threat to his life by persons yet unknown. He said he had been receiving strange calls from all manner of people who kept threatening his life, if he failed to do certain things...

The Peoples Democratic Party says it is working with former Presidents and political leaders in the country to install a new President in Nigeria in 2019. Already, it said discussions had gone far among the former leaders of the country and others, on how to rescue the country from the hands of...

The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi (II), has directed the Kano State Hisbah Board to investigate the alleged immorality by youths of Badawa, Kawo, Sauna and Haye in the Nassarawa Local Government Area of Kano State at a football viewing centre. The residents of the areas had complained to the...

When the wife of Kazeem Akeem, a ticket officer at New Market, in the Ijebu Ode area of Ogun State, gives birth anytime from November 2018, the baby will be without a father. Akeem, aka Oba Olofin, was allegedly tortured to death by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ogun State Police...