Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday visited the Garki Model Market in Abuja where he interacted with traders to know how they are faring and how the government could tailor policies to aid them. The acting president’s visit was part Read more
A player of the Nigeria National League (NNL) side, Kwara United FC of Ilorin, Saka Azeez, on Friday slumped and died in training. The club’s Media Officer, Abdulwaheed Bibire, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Read more
A Mississippi court in the US has handed a 235-year jail term on three Nigerians for various online fraudulent activities. According to NAN, Oladimeji Ayelotan, 30, was sentenced to 95 years in prison; Rasaq Aderoju Raheem, 31, was handed 115 Read more
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, has called on the House of Representatives to give the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB, an accelerated consideration. In a statement made available to PREMIUM TIMES on Friday, signed by Ogbonnaya Orji, its Read more
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has bemoaned the four per cent reduction in the 2017 budget allocation to the education sector. He made the observation on Thursday in Abuja when he paid Read more
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno, on Wednesday, said Boko Haram insurgents destroyed 156,453 houses in the state. The governor made this known in Maiduguri when he received a donation of building materials and food items by the National Commission for Read more
*Says the greatest responsibility of Nigerian leaders today is to give a pathway to unity in diversity. Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has underscored the need for Nigerian leaders to give the younger generation the vision on a pathway to Read more
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni The Police Command in Lagos State on Thursday said investigation had commenced to fish out hoodlums that allegedly stoned an official of the state’s Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) Brigade to death. The Command’s Read more
The Federal Government is working out a prisoners’ transfer agreement with China, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, announced in Abuja on Thursday. Onyeama made the announcement at a news conference on the achievements of the current administration Read more
The Nigerian Senate Thursday passed the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, seventeen years after it was first introduced to the National Assembly. The bill seeks to reform the country’s oil and gas industry, which has been bogged down by decades of Read more