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Nigeria’s aspiration for universal Internet coverage and broadband expansion has received a boost with the materialisation of a $100 million loan from the Indian government. The facility, arranged by the EXIM Bank of India, followed a close collaboration between the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Chanrai family for investing massively over the years to provide free health services to less-privileged Nigerians. Speaking yesterday at the commissioning of the Tulsi Chanrai Hospital in Abuja, the president said the family’s investments ...

Bayelsa State deputy governor, RAdm. John Jonah, has identified lack of proper planning and poor execution as the bane of Nigeria’s dream of becoming one of the top 20 economies in the world by the year 2020. The deputy governor made ...

Sokoto State Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has received a councilor, eight other indigenes of the state and a nursing mother who were captured by bandits in Zamfara State. He said during the reception ceremony at Government House yesterday that God ...

The Cross River State House of Assembly has joined other organisations in asking the state government to lift the moratorium placed on logging of woods in the state’s forests. Enforced by former Governor Liyel Imoke’s government, the moratorium was meant ...

No fewer than 1,200 protesters besieged Government House, Owerri, demanding an immediate investigation of the immediate past Governor Rochas Okorocha over alleged looting of the state’s resources amounting to N200 billion. The protesters comprised town unions of 645 autonomous communities ...

The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division will today deliver judgment in the suit challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s qualification for the February 23,2019 polls. A three-member panel of the court, presided over by Justice Atinuke Akomolafe-Wilson, had on July 8 reserved ...

Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, yesterday disclosed that Africa was losing over $50 billion yearly to illicit financial outflows. Speaking at a walk to commemorate this year’s Africa Union Anti-corruption Day in Lagos, ...

Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has disclosed that the committees raised to recover all property allegedly looted by former Governor Rochas Okorocha and his aides, have uncovered that the last government carted away 98 vehicles, and not 67. Okorocha, through ...

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has endorsed the appointment of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to President Muhammadu Buhari. It reached the decision at its emergency meeting initially presided over by Justice Umaru Abdullahi. ...