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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday decried the country’s rising debt profile from N12.12 trillion in 2015 to N24.38 trillion in 2018 under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, it ...

Delta State election petition tribunal has granted the prayers of Evelyn Oboro and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in an ex parte motion to examine all documents for the Delta Central Senatorial District polls of February 23, 2019. After considering ...

Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has tasked the President of Africa Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, to work harder in solving the developmental challenges facing Africa. When the AfDB Technical Mission on Nigeria Country Strategy Paper ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abuja Zonal Office, have arrested five suspected train ticket racketeers. EFCC acting spokesperson, Tony Orilade, stated yesterday in Abuja that the commission swung into action after receiving intelligence that some people ...

Justice Sururat Soladoye of Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court has sentenced a 30-year-old bricklayer, Idowu Gbolahan, to life for defiling his seven-year-old niece. The trial judge sentenced him following his guilty plea to the charge of defilement brought ...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has raised the need for women to be given a pride of place in the country. The traditional ruler of Ife and Arole of Oodua said, “Women shouldn’t be categorised ...

The Federal Government and the Islamic Development Bank (ISDB) Group have signed a $523,823 (N185, 957, 165) million agreement on technical assistance to build capacity for improved cotton and textile industries in Nigeria. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna ...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, yesterday warned against any move to impose the leadership of the Ninth National Assembly. Dogara, who chaired the induction session of returning and new members in Abuja, said history was replete with ...

The Supreme Court yesterday struck out an appeal filed by Senator Magnus Abe on the primary conducted by the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State. Abe, who represents Rivers South East in the Senate, had prayed the court to make ...

More reasons have emerged why Nigeria loses 2,300 under-five children and 145 women of child-bearing age daily. A report on maternal and child health released yesterday in Abuja by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) listed some of ...