Nigeria: Call for Interim Govt Illegal, Unconstitutional - DHQ

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has described the alleged plot by some misguided politicians to install an interim national government in the country as "illegal and… Read more »

Nigeria: 2023 Poll Has Changed Nigeria's Political Landscape - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the 2023 polls have proved the growing strength of the nation's democracy and more especially, the sophistication of the Nigerian voter… Read more »

Nigeria: Govt Receives Report of Presidential Committee On Review of Nigerian Missions Worldwide

The presidential committee instituted to review the number and strategy of resourcing the country's diplomatic missions worldwide has submitted its final report to the federal… Read more »

Nigeria: Dangote, Rabiu, Adenuga, Make Forbes Billionaires' List

Forbes has listed three Nigerians, Aliko Dangote, Abdul Samad Rabiu, and Mike Adenuga among the billionaire businessman and philanthropists rating in the Forbes billionaires list… Read more »

Nigeria: Niger Governor-Elect Sets Up 62-Man Transition Council

Former Director-General of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mallam Sulaiman Ndanusa, has been named as the head of a 62-man transition council by the Niger State… Read more »

Nigeria: Anambra Govt Excited As UNICEF Rehabilitates Health Centres Damaged By 2022 Flood

Anambra State government has expressed gratitude to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) over the renovation of some Primary Healthcare Centres(PHCs) in the flood-ravaged… Read more »

Nigeria: Senate Considers Buhari's Request for N9.6bn Refund to Plateau, Borno

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, yesterday asked the Senate Committee on Foreign and Local Loans to consider a request by President Muhammadu Buhari seeking parliamentary… Read more »

Nigeria: Tems, Starr, Hansel, Ndu-Okeke, 7 Other Nigerians in Forbes Africa's '30 Under '30

Grammy award winner, Tems (Temilade Openiyi); singer, Ayra Starr (Oyinkansola Aderibigbe); Hansel and Germain Ndu-Okeke, Blessing Abeng, and two other Nigerians are among the young… Read more »

Nigeria: Govt Disburses N320.3bn to Varsities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education

The federal government has approved the 2023 disbursement guidelines in the total sum of N320,345,040,835 as intervention to public tertiary institutions across the the country. Read more »

Nigeria: 10th Assembly - to Counter APC, Opposition Lawmakers Form Alliance

The House of Representatives members-elect during the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections on Tuesday night met ahead of the inauguration of the 10th Assembly. Read more »

Nigeria: 2023 Election - South-East Lawyers Decry Violence, Voter Intimidation, Ethnic Profiling

The apex law society for lawyers of Igbo extraction, Otu Oka Iwu (Law Society) has condemned, in strong terms, the high level of violence, thuggery, ballot-snatching, voter… Read more »

Nigeria: Obi - an Emerging Force in Nigeria's Political Landscape

After a critical look at the efforts of the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, in the just concluded 2023 presidential Poll, David-Chyddy Eleke concludes that he is… Read more »

Nigeria: Unions Threatens to Resume Strike in Imo State

Organised labour under the auspices of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC ) warned that its members may be forced to resume the suspended strike in Imo… Read more »

Nigeria: Prison Decongestion in Sight As Buhari Signs Bill on Correctional Centres

Udora Orizu writes that end to prison congestion may be in sight, following President Muhammadu Buhari's assent to a Bill to amend the 1999 Constitution to move correctional… Read more »

Nigeria: Broadcasting Commission Cautioned on Sanctioning of Media Houses

·Nigerian media owners unveil national complaints commission Read more »

Nigeria: 558 Federal Agencies Couldn't Provide Details of U.S.$2 Billion Intangible Assets in 2019 Budget

The Senate yesterday uncovered how about 558 federal ministries, departments and agencies failed to provide classification of intangible assets valued at N969 billion in the 2019… Read more »

Nigeria: Enugu Assembly Asks Buhari, National Assembly to Probe 'Ignoble Role' of Military in State's Guber Election

The Enugu State House of Assembly has asked President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to order investigation into what it described as the "ignoble role of the military… Read more »

Nigeria: Buhari Reverses Tenure Extension Granted Naseni Boss, Orders Him to Hand Over Immediately

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Professor Mohammed Sani Haruna,… Read more »

Nigeria: Amapiano - Unifying Force of Collaborative Music

Vanessa Obioha writes about the collaborative power of Amapiano, the groovy music genre that originated in South Africa and is uniting musicians within and beyond Read more »

Nigeria: NCDMB Performs Groundbreaking for Construction of $7.04bn Pipe Manufacturing Plant in Bayelsa

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Simbi Wabote has performed the groundbreaking ceremony of a $7.04 billion pipe… Read more »

Nigeria: Jonathan, Wabote, Akpata, Sekibo Bag Prestigious African Heritage Awards

Former President Goodluck Jonathan; Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Simbi Wabote; and the immediate-past President of the… Read more »

Nigeria: NMDPRA Moves to Regularise About 1,000 Unlicensed Petroleum Retail Outlets

In a review of its method of clamping down on illegal filling stations operating in Nigeria, which it put at about 1,000, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory… Read more »

Nigeria: $1.4m Fraud - Court Admits More Evidence Against Alleged Fraudster, Erinle

A Lagos Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, yesterday admitted as evidence correspondences between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Federal Bureau… Read more »

Nigeria: Young Athletes Seek Increased Funding for Cycling Devt in Nigeria

The slow pace of the growth of cycling in Nigeria has been attributed to lack of adequate funding. Read more »

Nigeria: Gunshots, Violence Disrupt APC, PDP's Visit to INEC's Office in Rivers

Heavy gunshots and violence, yesterday, disrupted a visit by members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the Independent National… Read more »