32 million bank accounts are still not BVN compliant
The Central Bank of Nigeria has said 32 million active bank accounts have yet to be enrolled on the Biometric Verification Number by September. In a statement in Abuja on Friday, CBN Director,...
View ArticleThe senate will get #TheList of remaining ministerial nominees on...
Rigorous security checks have been blamed for the inability of the presidency to send the complete list of ministerial nominees to parliament after four months of an energy sapping waiting game. 15...
View ArticleMark Amaza: Buhari insults us each time he first details his plans to the...
President Buhari seems to have this rather bad habit of first setting a deadline for himself or making important announcements either while on a foreign trip or to the foreign media, then struggling...
View ArticleWe are on course to bring the Chibok girls back–Army
The Nigerian army has said the over 219 Chibok schoolgirls whose kidnap by terrorists more than 600 days ago, spawned global protests and outrage, can still be rescued. Commander-In-Chief Muhammadu...
View ArticleThe world has fallen in love with Buhari, says Obasanjo
A former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said the country is not doing badly as it celebrated its 55 years of nationhood on Thursday. The former President, who spoke with journalists at his...
View ArticleBuhari will turn the fortunes of Nigeria around as long as he has our...
Immediate past Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi has said there are better days ahead for Nigerians under the leadership of Muhammadu Buhari as long as he gets the support of everyone....
View ArticleHow Buhari settled for his ministerial nominees [Hint: they were unaware of...
By The Nation President Muhammadu Buhari’s 21 would-be ministers whose names he gave the Senate on Wednesday were unaware of their nominations, The Nation learnt yesterday. The President neither met...
View Article14 dead, 39 injured in Maiduguri bomb attack
A group of female suicide bombers carried out a series of attacks on Thursday evening in Maiduguri, north-east Nigeria. It is still unclear how many people have been killed but the Nigerian military...
View ArticleBeard gang stays winning as more and more baby-faced men are going for beard...
Jose Armos, 28, a paramedic who lives in Miami, looked so young that, when responding to 911 calls, he seemed to add to some patients’ distress. “They would look at me and be like, ‘O.K., is this...
View ArticleGovernor Obiano sets 25 prisoners free, hands them a million naira each to...
Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano opened the prison gates for 25 inmates from three prisons on Friday. Obiano said he was only exercising his prerogative of mercy after the prison comptroller...
View ArticleDiezani Alison-Madueke has been arrested in London
Diezani Alison-Madueke who oversaw Nigeria’s opaque petroleum sector under immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan, has been arrested in London alongside four others by the British law enforcement...
View ArticleAlamieyeseigha was harassed and forced to abandon his treatment...
Bayelsa Governor Seriake Dickson has alleged that a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was killed by persons who hounded him into abandoning medical care abroad. The state...
View ArticleMarketers promise another period of petrol scarcity as queues return to the...
The dreaded petrol queues have returned to the PMS dispensing stations in Lagos, Abuja and a few other cities in the country; and oil marketers have warned that it could all get worse from here unless...
View ArticleOn Falae’s kidnap, the police and DSS have now paraded two sets of suspects
The inter-agency rivalry between the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Police has come to the fore again this week as both agencies have paraded two sets of suspects as being behind...
View Article“Ochendo bought over tribunal members”| Abia residents protest judgment...
Residents of Umuahia, the Abia State capital, trooped to the streets in their thousands on Tuesday to protest the judgment of the National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, which upheld...
View ArticleGovernor Fayose’s airport project has claimed the life of one farmer
Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose has suspended work on a new airport in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. This followed a meeting with land owners and farmers at Jibowu Hall of the Government House on...
View ArticleI’m responsible for the Nigerian economy, says Osinbajo
The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), on Tuesday declared that he was responsible for the country’s economy. Osinbajo, who is the Chairman of the National Economic Council (NEC), spoke at the...
View Article#MinisterialScreening: Fashola, Amaechi, Ngige, Kachikwu expected to be...
The screening of Buhari’s ministerial picks is expected to continue today (Wednesday), after 10 nominees scaled the screening procedure put together by the senate on Tuesday. Among those screened on...
View ArticleREPORT: Buhari was pleasantly surprised with how Saraki conducted the...
Like millions of Nigerians, President Muhammadu Buhari followed the screening of his ministerial nominees on live national television and was quite impressed with how it all panned out, presidency...
View ArticleThe Economist: President Buhari is in no rush. But for Nigeria, his patience...
Muhammadu Buhari has earned the nickname “Baba Go Slow” from fellow Nigerians, for he has taken his time out of the blocks. The former military ruler, who won elections in March after promising to...
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