Author: Kazeem Ugbodaga
Nigerian Govt seeks increased power supply to small businesses
The Federal Government will within the next one year provide stable electricity to 80,000 shops, 320,000 Micro, Small and Medium…
Borno Govt. saves N500m monthly from 12,000 ghost workers – Shettima
Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno on Thursday said biometric exercise had assisted the state government to uncover 12,000 ghost workers…
USA now world’s biggest crude oil producer
The United States is now the world’s biggest crude oil producer, pushing Russia and Saudi Arabia to the back seat.
Fallout of APC primaries: Lagos East Senatorial Leaders begin reconciliation
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos East Senatorial District on Thursday commenced reconciliatory moves to bring all members together…
Minimum wage: Court orders FG, labour to submit report on negotiations
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria, in Abuja, has ordered both the Federal Government and the organised labour to submit…
129 inmates of Enugu Maximum Prisons to sit for NECO examinations
No fewer than 129 inmates of the Enugu Maximum Security Prison of the Nigeria Prison Service (NPS) will sit for…
Police uncover mass grave with 200 bodies
Police in Ethiopia have discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of some 200 people in the eastern part of…
Buhari mourns Emir of Nasarawa
President Muhammadu Buhari has received with great sadness, news of the passing of Alhaji Hassan Ahmed Abubakar II, the Emir…
Unemployed youths, grave threat to security, development – FG
The Federal Government says the increasing number of unemployed youths in the country poses a great threat to the nation’s…
Lusophone Africa sets sight on US$5 billion in projects
Lusophone countries have identified a pipeline of more than US$5 billion in private sector and private-public partnership (PPP) projects to…
Abuja new terminal to be inaugurated in 5 weeks – Minister
The Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, has assured that the new international terminal under construction at the…
Federal allocation may cease sooner than expected – Oyetola
Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, the Osun Governor-elect has urged civil servants to work hard and improve the state’s Internally Generated Revenue…
Enugu Assembly passes 2018 Revised Appropriation Bill of N3.8 billion
The Enugu State House of Assembly on Thursday passed the amended Revised Appropriation Bill of N3.8 billion for the 2018…
DSS arrests 17 suspected kidnappers, gunrunner, cultists
The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested seventeen suspected kidnappers, gunrunners and cultists in some states, including Kaduna and…
How efforts to lobby Tinubu to save Ambode’s second term failed – APC chieftain
Sen. Anthony Adefuye, a member, Lagos State Governors Advisory Council (GAC), on Thursday said party leaders in Lagos East Senatorial…
Asset declaration: Court refuses to issue bench warrant against Ekweremadu
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday turned down application for a bench warrant to be issued against the Deputy…
Buhari’s address at 41st Conference of Speakers of National Parliaments of APU
ADDRESS BY H.E MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT THE 73RD SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE…
Presidency blasts Atiku group over Minimum Wage statement
The Presidency has criticised the concocted controversy over President Muhammadu Buhari’s position on proposed N30,000 by some political actors to…
Lagos extends services to weekends for vehicle revalidation exercise
The Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Services (VIS) has extended its various services to Saturdays to enable motorists in the State…
Ogun NSCDC boss vows to end vandalism
Adejoke Adeleye The Ogun State Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Everestus Obiyo, has vowed to put an end…
Group replies PDP on Trader Moni, says Nigerians not for sale
A political group in Nigeria has rejected the main opposition party’s claim on Trader Moni, a Social Investment Programme (SIP)…
High stakes and all to play for ahead of EPL Week 12
Match day 12 of the Premier League is here with us and carries along a good mix of exciting matches…
Lagos issues 313 legal advice in 3 months
The Lagos State Government has issued 313 Legal Advice through the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) out…
2019: Senate cuts Presidency, other MDAs’ budget to fund INEC’s N242bn budget
The Senate has made a U-turn on the source of funding for the budgets of the Independent National Electoral Commission,…
Stakeholders laud Pinnacle Communications’ contributions to digital broadcast in Nigeria
Pinnacle Communications Ltd is one company that has given a superlative account of itself as regards transition from analogue to…
3 dead, 5 missing, 12 rescued as boat capsizes in Lagos
Three people have died and five others missing as boat conveying 20 passengers capzised mid-sea in Lagos on Wednesday night.
Lagos calls for Memoranda on Transport Policy
In tandem with its commitment towards re-energizing the various transportation modes and collating it into an effective comprehensive transport policy,…
Something’s got to give!
When push comes to shove, when it comes down to the last possible outcome of the present Nigerian political impasse;…
Kogi East Senate: A two-horse race
Online and offline, discussions on the forthcoming Senatorial contest in Kogi East have revolved around two economists and former bankers…
Delta South 2019: Youth Group backs Uduaghan for Senate
A formidable group in Delta State known as Inspired Youths is drumming support for ex-governor and Delta South senatorial candidate…