The Nigerian Minister of Power Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola Thursday urged the people of Southwest to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming presidential elections to guarantee a return of power to the region in 2023. The minister…
The Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has reopened the Osubi Airport in Warri, Delta State, to flights operations after a two-month closure. The redeployment of Air Traffic Controllers and aeronautical services yesterday brought the usual hustle and bustle to the…
For Nigeria to benefit from its advantageous central location within West Africa and realise its desire to become a regional air transportation hub, it must upgrade its airport facilities, according to President Muhammadu Buhari. He spoke at the official opening…
The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has debunked an allegation of marriage scam brought against him by one Elizabeth Odunlami. Odunlami, who on her Facebook revealed that the Ooni promised her marriage and used her name for business transactions, which…
The United Nations is gradually moving back to its headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, seven years after it was attacked by Boko Haram insurgents. The UN resident coordinator, Edward Kallon, disclosed this at the celebration of the 73rd UN…
At a ceremony attended by Rivers State Governor, Minister of State for Aviation, Minister of Labour, and several other top government officials, President Buhari opened the new Port Harcourt international terminal. President Buhari with Governor Wike as he commissions Portharcourt…
A Federal High Court presided over by Justice Mojisola Olatoregun yesterday granted the bail application of immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, in a N6.9 billion alleged election campaign fraud suit. The trial judge granted him the reprieve…
Norway hosts NATO’s biggest exercises since the end of the Cold War from Thursday, to remind Russia the Alliance stands united despite seeds of doubt planted by US President Donald Trump. Some 50,000 soldiers, 10,000 vehicles, 65 ships and 250…
Due to high cost of mobile data, over two billion people are said to have been cut off from the Internet. The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), which revealed this, noted that more than 2.3 billion people live in countries…
The House of Representatives yesterday ordered an immediate investigation into claims that Chinese drugs manufacturers might be smuggling medicines containing human parts into the country. The move followed a recent alert by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), warning people to…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday approved the 2019-2021 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP). The document shows a budget estimate of N8.73 trillion for the 2019 fiscal year. The projection, according to Minister of Budget…
The Police in Plateau on Wednesday said 27 persons suspected to be involved in armed robbery, rape and other criminal activities in the state had been apprehended. Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Austin Agbonlahor, disclosed this when presented…
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari of being insensitive to the “sufferings” of Nigerians. Buhari had on Monday in Lagos said Nigerians “who feel they have another country may choose to go” elsewhere. “What I said…
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, on Wednesday signed an executive order to stop the payment of education development levy by students of government-owned schools in the state. The Education Development Levy was introduced by his predecessor Ayodele Fayose in 2015.…
Some aggrieved youths yesterday burnt three persons suspected to be armed robbers to death at Uruk Usung village in Obot Akara Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. It was gathered that the suspects have been terrorizing residents of the…
Court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) yesterday said record in its registry, showed that only 28 decisions of the Court have been enforced, adding that record of enforcing 53 others was not found. The court also…
The Federal Government will on Monday, October 15, 2018 begin the final verification and payment of entitlements to former workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways. According to a statement by Paul Abechi, the special adviser on media and communications to…
The Federal Government through the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has opened up the North Central region of the country for fibre investors through the Infrastructure Companies (InfraCo) model. The investor(s) are expected to deploy metropolitan fibre infrastructure within the assigned…
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday evaded the notorious Lagos-Badagry-Seme Road, flying instead on an aircraft to Seme for the official handover of the new Economic Community of West African States border posts in Badagry to his Republic of Benin counterpart, Patrice…