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Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, said he has no apology for not appearing before the Senate for three consecutive times over police’s alleged manhandling of Sen. Dino Melaye. IGP Idris has also described the resolution of the Senate during its plenary, … Read more via The...

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has advised government at all levels to pay great attention to the prevalence of malaria in the country as recent research reveals 300,000 people die of the disease annually.
 According to him, if government fails to pay great attention to it, …...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday commended its stakeholders and members for the peaceful conduct of its governorship primary in the state. The PDP in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, commended the governor, Ayo Fayose, the governorship...

Mohamed Salah has won Champions League Goal of the Week for his first strike against AS Roma at Anfield. The No.11’s brilliant opener against the Italian side has been voted by fans as the best strike in Europe’s premier cup competition last week in a poll on … read more via The Sun News –...

The Chief Executive Officer of BaoBaB Microfinance Limited, Mr. Kazeem Olanrewaju Rashid, has said that the bank plans to disburse a tune of N500 million to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to boost economic activities in the country. Rashid, who stated this at the bank’s Customers’ Day...

The Dean of Banking & Finance Department, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Prof. Uche Uwaleke, has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to supply details of its recent currency swap deal with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) to enable Nigrians assess the real...

Commercial Bank customers across the country last week, lamented the excess charges imposed on them by banks through Automated Teller Machine (ATM) withdrawals. Some of the customers … Read more via The Sun News – https://ift.tt/2rocaXR Get more: Nigeria Business News

The conflicts between herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria have grown, spread and intensified over the past decade and today pose a threat to national survival. So many people have been killed, communities have been destroyed and so thousands of farmers and pastoralists have … Read more via The...

In its bid to curb cases of estimated billing in the country by electricity distribution companies (DisCos), the House of Representatives has expressed its determination to encourage and strengthen operations of indigenous meter manufacturers. Consequently, its … Read more via The Sun News...

A heavy downpour disrupted the primary of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ekiti, currently holding at the Oluyemi Kayode stadium in Ado … Read more via The Sun News – https://ift.tt/2ju7NX8 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Heavy rains have marred the All Progressive Congress (APC) ward congress in Kogi State as delegates could not turn out to vote early enough. When … Read more via The Sun News – https://ift.tt/2HRcZTF Get More Nigeria Political News

Prince Wole Adeyanju is one of the governorship aspirants in Ekiti State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He believes Ekiti needs urgent transformation, but says only a visionary leader could achieve that for the state. Why are you in the race? … Read more via The...

The winner of 2018’s Big Brother Naija Reality Show, Miracle Igbokwe, became two million Naira richer on Thursday when the Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha presented him with the gift for being a good ambassador of the southeastern state. Okorocha also promised to gift Miracle a … via...

Laide Raheem, Abeokuta Former president Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, hit President Muhammadu Buhari again saying he is a failure and unworthy of a second term in 2019. Obasanjo said contrary to news report, which quoted him as giving the incumbent government a pass mark, “the mediocre...

The World Bank says unemployment and poverty rates increased in Nigeria despite an exit from recession in 2017. The Bretton Wood institution made these remarks in a report released on this week. The report titled, “Nigeria Bi-annual Economic Update: Fragile Recovery,” read: “The decline in the...

Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West Senatorial District, was yesterday brought before an Abuja magistrate’s court on a stretcher by police officers, where he was arraigned under tight security. Melaye, who was granted bail in the sum of N90 million and two sureties, was … Read more...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has accused political parties and politicians of flouting the 2019 election timetable. The Commission released the timetable in January. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who disclosed this in Abuja, yesterday, at the maiden town hall...

NAN Some stakeholders in the power sector have expressed concern over the slow progress in the energy sector. They urged the Federal Government to adopt renewable energy to accelerate development in the sector. Mr Adekunle Makinde, a former Chairman of Nigerian Institution of Electrical and...

Agaju Madugba, Katsina The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has succeeded in getting a former Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Shehu Shema, into the dock again, this time at the Federal High Court. At the resumption of proceedings in the matter, on Tuesday, the former governor...

Ngozi Uwujare - The bond of brotherhood between two Fulani herdsmen in Nasarawa State, which was broken by a missing cattle, has resulted in the death of one of them. Bello Musa, who is 22 years old is now in the custody of the Homicide section of the … Read more via The Sun News –...