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Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has urged the Federal Government to ensure speedy completion of trailer parks, adjoining roads...

Obama hosts Buhari July 20

United States (U.S.) President Barack Obama will host President Muhammadu Buhari at the White House, Washington D.C. on July 20,...

Extradition: Kashamu knows fate July 1

A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed July 1 for ruling on the Federal Government’s application, seeking a bench...

Masari: N13bn missing from Katsina treasury

Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has declared N13 billion missing from the account of the State’s Ministry of Finance....

Buhari appoints AGF

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday approved the appointment of Alhaji Ahmed Idris as the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF)....

Oxford dictionary adds twerk, presidentiable, carnap, FLOTUS to English lexicon

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), on Thursday, added twerk, carnap, FLOTUS and scores of other new entries, including many introduced...

Buhari: SSS personnel not expelled from Presidential Villa

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, described as false the insinuation that personnel of the State Security Service (SSS) have been...

U.S. prison break: Search for elusive NY inmates goes back to woods

Hundreds of searchers checked ATV trails and logging roads and went door-to-door in far northern New York trying to close...

NASS leadership tussle: Saraki stops plot to remove Ekweremadu

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday, stopped a plot by some All Progressives Congress (APC) senators to remove Senator Ike...

PDP vows to ensure sanity in NASS

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), says the party has the capacity to provide guidance to the...

Glo is fastest-growing network, says Bureau of Statistics

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has identified Nigeria’s telecommunications carrier, Globacom, as the fastest-growing operator in Nigeria in the...

Ajimobi: Buhari, Tinubu, Sanwo-Olu, Fayemi, Oyetola, Ambode, PDP, others mourn

Oyo pensioners to Ajimobi: Pay us our six months arrears

For hours on Wednesday, everything stood still at the Agodi Government House, Ibadan, Oyo State as pensioners protested the refusal...

Buhari orders distribution of 150 trucks of seized rice to Nigerians

Importers of rice, cement to stop accessing forex from banks, says CBN

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says importers of rice, cement and other products will no longer access Foreign Exchange...

‘Govs who didn’t follow guidelines for federal road rehabilitation won’t be paid’

Some governors’ claims that the Federal Government is owing them for roads they had constructed on its behalf, need to...

Persons with disabilities invade NASS over alleged neglect, injure security official

22 APC govs: We’ll resolve NASS leadership crisis

The 22 governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have decided to seek means of resolving...

Anti-party activities: Kwara APC suspends ex-SSG Cook-Olododo, 17 others

Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday, imposed a one-year suspension on a former Secretary to...

Court critical of South Africa for letting al-Bashir leave

A South African court said Wednesday that the country acted unlawfully by allowing Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir, leave the country...

Court orders surgical team to pay patient $500,000 for mocking him while sedated

Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite in Reston, a Vienna man prepared for his colonoscopy by...

Rise of social media enhances transparency, accountability, say experts at Global Media Forum

Media professionals at the ongoing Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany say the rise of internet and social media has...

FAAC: FG, states, LGs share N409.3bn for May