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Leicester City to sign Nigeria’s Wilfred Ndidi for £15m

Leicester City are set to sign Genk midfielder Wilfred Ndidi for a reported £15m, subject to a work permit. The…
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) boss Hameed Ali urges Nigerians not to engage in smuggling or patronising smugglers in Easter message

Customs redeploys 246 top officers

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd) has approved the redeployment of eight Assistant Comptrollers-General and 238 Deputy Comptrollers…

Breaking: Lagos Assembly passes Ambode’s N812.998bn 2017 budget

The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed the State’s 2017 Budget proposal of N812. 998 billion presented by…
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola , SAN (2nd right), Coordinating Director of Highways in the Ministry, Engr. Bala Dan Shehu (2nd left), Chief Engineers of Reynolds Construction Company Limited (RCC), Mr. Igor Zavodtchik (left) and Mr Nabeel Esawi (right) during the inspection of the construction work on Loko–Oweto Bridge over River Benue in Nasarawa/Benue States

FG to overhaul 50 bridges

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola has said that the Federal Government is planning to overhaul…

Zambia cuts fuel prices

Zambian energy regulator says retail fuel prices will fall from midnight on Tuesday due to subdued oil prices and a…

Fire guts part of Sterling bank in Ogun

A section of Sterling Bank, Oke Ilewo branch, located at the OPIC Roundabout, Abeokuta, was on Tuesday gutted by a…

Ambode has positively changed the face of Lagos-Ex-LG boss

Former Chairman, Conference of Executive Secretaries of Local Government and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in Lagos State, otherwise known…

Former NAN MD, 23 others bag community award

The Omu-Aran community in Kwara, has bestowed awards on 24 people in the area who had supported the socio-economic development…

Mrs Buhari donates foodstuffs to 300 IDPs children

Aisha Buhari The wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has donated foodstuffs to Paraxis Catholic e-School for the feeding…

Gold slips as dollar keeps pressure on prices

Gold fell on Tuesday as the dollar’s buoyant start to the new year kept the pressure on prices after the…

Brexit: UK’s ambassador to EU resigns

The UK’s top ambassador to EU in Brussels, Sir Ivan Rogers, has resigned. Sir Ivan, who was appointed to the…

Israel begins move to censor Facebook

A bill allowing Israeli courts to force social media companies to remove content defined as incitement passed its first reading…

Lagos begins evacuation of Yuletide waste

The government of Lagos State has begun the evacuation of all refuse generated across the State during the Christmas and…

N2.5b Fraud: Buhari sacks Babachir Lawal as chairman of presidential boards committee

President Muhammadu Buhari has removed the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir David Lawal as chairman of the…

Power supply, gas major challenges in 2016 – Water Corporation

Mr. Muminu Badmus, the Managing Director of Lagos Water Corporation (LWC), on Tuesday, identified power and gas as major challenges…

Oil price hits 18-month highs of $58.37

Oil prices hit 18-month highs on Tuesday, the first trading day of 2017, buoyed by hopes that a deal between…

2017 budget: Early passage will end of economic recession

The National Chairman of United Progressive Party (UPP), Chief Chikwas Okorie, says early passage of the 2017 budget of N7.2…

Historian dupes girlfriend of car, land

A 47-year-old historian, Nicholas Ajayi, who allegedly defrauded his girlfriend of a car and landed property valued at N1.3 million,…
Judges at Federal High Court halts proceedings abruptly following notice of the demise of their colleague, Hon. Justice Fatun Odohi Riman.

Woman loses ATM card, cash to hypnotist

A 29-year-old man, Lukmon Ajinike, who allegedly hypnotized a woman and collected her money and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card,…

Kwara to spend N450m on solar power in hospitals

The Kwara Government has released N450 million for the provision of solar power in all state-owned General Hospitals across the…

NCS implements vehicle importation ban

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has kicked off the implementation of the policy banning importation of vehicles through the land…

Several vehicles trapped at borders as ban on imports takes off

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has kicked off the implementation of the policy banning importation of vehicles through the land…
Ike Ekweremadu, wife arrested in United Kingdom

Ekweremadu warns against military action in Gambia

Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has warned against military action in the Gambia following that country’s presidential election,…

Katsina bags 2016 ‘Most Visible State in Media’ award

Media Search for Accountability, an NGO, has adjudged Katsina State as the ‘Most Visible State in the Media’, amongst the…

Malnutrition kills 2,300 Nigerian children daily- NGO

Mr Ubah Nnaemeka, the Project Officer, Civil Society Scaling-up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN), on Tuesday said malnutrition accounts for the…

Nassarawa stakeholders seek support for Buhari, Al-Makura

Stakeholders in Akun Development Area of Nasarawa State, on Tuesday, passed a vote of confidence on President Muhammadu Buhari, for…

FG to implement economic policies with human face

Some experts in the oil and gas sector on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to pursue economic policies with human…

Senate to investigate Southern Kaduna killings-Saraki

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said that the senate would commence an investigation into the latest killings in…

Ebonyi workers resume after Christmas, New Year celebration

Public sector workers in Ebonyi resumed for duties on Tuesday after the Christmas and New Year celebration. A News Agency…

Gambia electoral commission head flees country

The Chairman of the Gambian Electoral Commission has fled the country following threats to his life, his nephew said on…