Aliko Dangote Foundation’s N1.2 billion hostel donation to Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria historic in Nigeria’s 71-year-old university education system, President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed. He noted that the gesture was the single largest generosity by an individual since the ...

A Federal High Court, Abuja yesterday gave President Muhammadu Buhari and six others until May 13 to appear before the court to explain why Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad cannot be restrained from being appointed the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has stepped up its import substitution strategy in the textile industry with the distribution of cotton seeds and other inputs to over 100,000 cotton farmers for the 2019 planting season. The move, aimed at ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State, has upturned the judgement of a Federal High Court, Owerri, which faulted the nomination of Okey Ezeh, as Imo Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship candidate in the last general elections. In a ...

National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African Democratic Party (ADP) has passed a vote of confidence in the party’s national chairman, Yabagi Sani. The national secretary, Dr. Steve Uwazie, who briefed reporters on the outcome of the NEC parley in ...

Tiv Youth Organisation (TYO) has urged leaders of the Jukun ethnic group to desist from comments capable of inflaming the volatile atmosphere in Benue and Taraba states. President General of TYO, Timothy Hembaor, gave the charge in a statement he ...

The five lecturers sacked recently by the management of the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu have sought Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s intervention. They maintained at the weekend in Enugu that their dismissal “following our participation in the national strike ...

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, has declared a statewide crackdown on criminals beginning from today. Ortom stated this yesterday during a thanksgiving service at NKST Church, Agasha, organised in his honour by the Nongov Community Development Association (NCDA). The governor ...

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has given the commissioners he recently appointed a week to sign and return the performance agreement. Dr. Fayemi stated this at the closing session of the three-day retreat for the state’s top government functionaries ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said its leadership and elected federal legislators have not taken a stand on who to support for Senate and House of Representatives leadership positions. Its position is predicated on reports suggesting that its members-elect ...