Buhari Wants A Nigerian Military Industrial Complex; To Aid Production Of...
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Ministry of Defence to produce a plan for the establishment of a modest military industrial complex that will aid the local production of weapons to meet...
View Article#DebtorsList: The CBN Wants To Move From ‘Name And Shame’ To ‘Punish And...
The Central Bank of Nigeria and deposit money banks, under the aegis of the Bankers Committee are gearing up to commence the imposition of market sanctions against the banks’ delinquent debtors. The...
View Article“It’s Time To Go Back To The Land”| Buhari Wants Nigeria To Go #TeamAgric
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday that oil and gas exports alone cannot continue to be the country’s major revenue earner, and Nigerians need to to do more than pay mere lip service to...
View ArticleYari Says ‘To The Best Of His Understanding’, States Cannot Control LG Money
The Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Alhaji Abdulazeez Yari, said on Friday that no state governor has the right to touch local government’s funds. Yari, Zamfara’s governor, spoke with...
View ArticleFG Finally Begins The Payment Of Ex-Niger Delta Militants’ Allowances
The federal government has begun the payment of allowances to former Niger Delta militants. The Head, Media and Communication of the Amnesty Programme, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, said in an email on Friday...
View ArticleAirtel Nigeria Now Has 30 Million Subscribers
Airtel has reached a milestone in Nigeria. The telco says it now has 30 million customers, a figure which represents 20 percent market penetration in the country. Christian de Faria, Airtel Africa...
View ArticleThe Ambode Tsunami, FDI And Opportunities Ahead | By Onyeka ‘Kerous’ Ibeanusi
Since the swearing in of President Buhari, the Nigerian government is taking all available means to cut down the high cost of governance and block wastage. In the same vein, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode...
View ArticleThese Two Young Nigerians Want To Join ISIS, According To India (PHOTO)
Indian security forces have confirmed the arrest of two young Nigerians which it says were on their way to Iraq to join the dreaded Islamist group, the Islamic State. According to reports, they were...
View Article“Unless The Website Can Accurately Predict Who Wins The Premiership”|...
News broke late Friday, that the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola had doled out a princely N78.3m ($400,000) of Tax payer fund to build his personal website. The...
View ArticleI’ll Issue A Response On N78m Website Allegation Soon–Fashola
Earlier, we had brought you the story on the furor generated online by a news item alleging that the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola, shelled out a whooping N78m of Tax...
View ArticleI Need Prayers, Not Congratulatory Messages–NNPC GMD
The new Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has asked his friends and well-wishers to stop congratulating him in media...
View ArticleAbdul Mahmud: Polio-free, Free At Last
“Nigeria marked its first year without a single case of polio on Friday, reaching a milestone many experts had thought would elude it as internal conflict hampered the battle against the disease”, The...
View ArticleAisha Buhari Has Now Moved Into Patience Jonathan’s Former Office
She may be called the “Wife of the President” and not the “First Lady”, but Aisha Buhari has inhabited the office used by the immediate past First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. The Punch reports that...
View ArticleOsinbajo Assures Jonathan And His Former Ministers That They Really Have...
President Jonathan and all the past officials who served under him have nothing to fear from the ongoing probes into their years of stewardship, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Osinbajo was...
View ArticleThe Ooni’s Last Text Message To Me Was Touching–Aregbesola
The Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has said that the Ooni of Ife, Okunade Sijuade, sent him “a touching text message” just before he travelled out of the country to London for medical aid. It...
View Article“The Opinion That Buhari Is Slow Is Rubbish”–PDP Chieftain And Former Governor
A senior member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) party and two-time governor of the defunct Bendel State, Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia, has said anyone found to have looted the treasury under immediate...
View ArticleSenators Are So Broke They Are Applying For Bank Loans … And Getting Rejected
Some federal senators are in for a rough ride as commercial banks have refused to grant requests to their loans, following the cash crunch that is affecting the three tiers of government in the...
View Article‘Buhari Should Investigate Fashola’
A civil society organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate former Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), and...
View ArticleBorno State Deputy Governor Says The Fact That Boko Haram Is Willing To...
The Deputy Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Zanna Umar Mustapha, has said if the Boko Haram terrorist sect is willing to negotiate as has been speculated in the media, then that line of resolution of...
View Article“He Does Not Hate His Children”| A Tale Of One Woman, Three Daughters And...
It is safe to say that former aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode is made for making headlines. When it is not his at times caustic, other times innocuous and baffling comments, it is the colorful...
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