Lesotho citizens have voted in a parliamentary election that political analysts said could see the ruling party lose power after years of political instability that the Southern African mountain kingdom’s legislators have failed to resolve. Friday’s election has gone ahead [...]
Ten months after the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) elections in Benin, which returned Musa Kida as president of the Federation, the Federal Government, yesterday inaugurated the Federation’s board. Yesterday’s inauguration finally puts an end to the dispute over the authentic [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, presented the “2023 Budget of Fiscal Consolidation and Transition” to the joint session of the National Assembly. Mr Buhari proposed N20.51 trillion for the year with an oil benchmark fixed at $70 per barrel. The lawmakers had fixed [...]
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has signed Executive Order 21 to prohibit the use of public schools for political parties without approval from the Ministry of Education. Wike said applicants would also deposit the sum of N5million caution fees in [...]
The court of appeal sitting in Abuja has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its strike. At the court session on Friday, the appellate court said ASUU should obey the order of an industrial court which [...]
President Joe Biden’s administration has announced it will test US-bound travellers from Uganda for Ebola, funnelling passengers through five airports that will conduct the screenings. The administration made the announcement on Thursday, and screenings are expected to begin immediately. Travellers who [...]
There are strong indications that the Federal Government may have failed in its policy and regulatory direction towards harnessing existing 14,120MW of exploitable hydropower despite the country’s gross energy deficit. While hydropower currently provides the cheapest form of electricity on [...]
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has blamed the recent fuel scarcity in Abuja and neighbouring states on flooding in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital. The agency on Thursday said in a statement floods have submerged a greater part [...]
The mobile phone of a former Vice President, Namadi Sambo, was stolen by a yet-to-be-identified person during an event in Abuja on Thursday despite his heavy security details. A former federal lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, announced this via his Twitter [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday Nigeria’s future relied heavily on education, noting that no society could grow beyond its educational attainments. The President said it was in consideration of such development that his government was determined to return teachers, teaching and [...]
The world is unlikely to meet a longstanding goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, the World Bank has said, citing the effects of “extraordinary” shocks to the global economy, including the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine. In a new report [...]
The Ministry of Aviation, yesterday, issued a disclaimer denouncing recruiting agencies and online platforms scheduling interviews for the new national carrier, Nigeria Air. The ministry issued the caveat emptor after receiving over 20,000 applications for various categories of positions that [...]
The House of Representatives has passed for second reading a bill seeking to prevent a sitting judge from appearing before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). The bill, sponsored by Solomon Bob (PDP, Rivers), seeks to amend the Code of Conduct and [...]
A Federal High Court in Ilorin, Kwara State, has jailed one Jacob Wisdom Chukwuemeka, a professional footballer for six years over offences bordering on internet fraud. The anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Command, arraigned the [...]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the registration of two new trade unions by the government for academic staff in the university system is inconsequential and does not pose any threat to its existence. The National President [...]
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has promised that his country will do all it can to send more grain to Africa as he began his African tour this week in Senegal. After meeting with Senegal’s president and foreign minister in [...]
Nigerian businessman and Politician, Victor Ngumah has commended the zeal and passion of young persons in Nigeria’s political development especially as the country heads to major election in 2023. Hon. Ngumah, the CEO Lumen Media International, a leading company with [...]
The Nigerian government has announced the relaunch of its gas flare commercialisation programme. The government launched the National Gas Flare Commercialisation Programme in 2016 to involve third-party investors or off-takers in harnessing gas released as a byproduct of oil production. [...]
Scores of motorists and travellers were feared dead on Monday after stepping on Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted by members of the Boko Haram sect on the Maiduguri-Damboa-Chibok road in Borno State. This was confirmed by the Executive Chairman of [...]
The National Emergency Management Agency has confirmed the death of one Ginikanwa Izuoba in the Enugu-Otu, Aguleri flood. The Acting State Coordinator of the agency in Anambra, Mr Thickman Tanimu, confirmed the incident in Awka on Saturday. Tanimu said that [...]
Nigeria will award contracts for its flared gas by the end of December under an accelerated programme to harness gas that is released as a byproduct of oil production, its petroleum regulator has said. President Muhammadu Buhari first launched the [...]
It was not cheery news on the trading floor of the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX), as activities on the stock market took a negative turn last Tuesday following the increase of the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) for the third consecutive [...]
The Nigerian government on Sunday announced it is set to reopen the Trans Niger Pipeline, the nation’s major liquid hydrocarbon delivery channel, which has been under force majeure for over six months. The Group General Manager of National Petroleum Investment [...]
The Birnin-Gwari Emirate Progressive Union (BEPU) has told the Kaduna State Government that the lynched herdsmen in Birnin-Gwari on Sunday were terrorists from Sudan. It had been reported that two herdsmen were killed by a mob of disgruntled teenagers who [...]
Competence and not religion or ethnicity should be the main consideration of Nigerians in electing President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor next year, President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Wale Oke, has admonished. Oke, who also advised Nigerians against selling [...]
Soldiers are on the streets and heavy gunfire has been heard near the main military camp and residential areas of Burkina Faso’s capital. A large blast also rang out on Friday near the presidential palace where soldiers took up positions. [...]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), yesterday, lambasted the Federal Government, saying there is nothing for Nigerians to celebrate, as the country marks its 62nd Independence anniversary tomorrow, October 1. University lecturers have for more than seven months embarked [...]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has confirmed the payment of money to some members of its National Working Committee (NWC). The party, however, said it was not a bribe to the members. This was made known in a statement by the party’s [...]
Bandits have murdered the kidnapped village head of Bengo, Sallau Manu, in Adamawa State, after collecting N2million ransom. Manu was abducted last week at his residence in Bengo, in the Fufore Local Government Area of the state. SaharaReporters learnt that [...]
The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is planning to include an additional 2,000 members in the newly constituted Presidential Campaign Council of the party. This, The PUNCH gathered, was to pacify APC National Working Committee members and [...]
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