National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has given the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) 48 hours within which to refund the N50 it charged candidates for checking their results. In a statement issued by its National Senate President, Abdulmajeed Oladimeji, ...

The Federal Government has concluded plans to execute contracts and agreements on flooding and erosion control entered into a national and international levels by the past administration. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, stated this at ...

World leaders will not be part of the May 29 ceremonies for President Mohammadu Buhari inauguration for a second term in office, the Federal Government has disclosed. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed stated this while briefing State House ...

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts (PAC) has charged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to recover N72.5 billion from corrupt officials of Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). Chairman of the Committee, Kingsley Chinda, who ...

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Rivers State have decried police and government’s failure to tackle the worsening security challenges in the state. Speaking under the aegis of We the People and Rivers Civil Society Coalition, the group lamented that the ...

Special Adviser to Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Infrastructure, Otonye Briggs, told the Justice Monima Danagogo-led Judicial Commission of Inquiry that opposition party chieftains masterminded his mistreatment by the military. Narrating how the Nigerian Army detained him for 11 ...

Headquarters of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in Abuja came under heavy security of the Nigerian Police and Army, as workers boycotted planned picketing by the Trade Union Congress (TUC). The protest, which was to be led by President ...

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) yesterday picketed management of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in Enugu and Lagos states over alleged anti-labour policies and activities capable of derailing its smooth operations. Members of the union, led by ...

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has paid a poignant tribute to the heroine Dapchi schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu, during an event at the prestigious Georgetown University in Washington, United States. The teenager was kidnapped on February 19, 2018 alongside her schoolmates ...

The Bank of Industry (BOI) is to disburse over N40 billion soft loans to small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in 2019, as against the N33.9 billion it gave out last year. Its chairman, Aliyu Abdulrahman Dikko, who was spoke ...