The 12year jail term handed to former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor-Kalu, has been nullified by the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
In a unanimous decision by the seven-man panel of Judges, led by Honourable Justice Amina Augie, the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal High Court in Lagos...
President Muhammadu Buhari congratulated the winner of the Saturday Edo State governorship election, Godwin Obaseki, and urged him to show grace and humility in victory.
The President commended the election process in Edo State which led to Obaseki's victory as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
This was coming...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the contract for the Nigerian Oil and Gas Parks Scheme, Infrastructural Development Water System, and Fire Station at Odukpani in Cross River State.
The weekly council meeting which held virtually was attended by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo,...
The downstream subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) otherwise called Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), has fixed the ex-depot price of premium motor spirit (PMS) also known as petrol at N138.62 per litre.
PPMC, in a memo by its Manager, Sales, Mohammed Bello, in Abuja on Tuesday, said the...
Former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; immediate past Ogun State governor and Senator representing Ogun Central Senatorial district, Senator Ibikunle Amosun; and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have commiserated with the family of Senator Abiola Ajimobi who passed away on Thursday at the age of 70.
Tinubu, in...
Amidst ongoing trial of a cyber-crime suspect, Ramon Abbas a.k.a Hushpuppi, who was recently arrested in the United Arab Emirates and extradited to the United States, President Muhammadu Buhari has had cause to celebrate a Nigerian for his acts of honesty, propriety and sincerity.
Buhari Saturday sent warm greetings and...
Nigeria's Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has revealed that the sum of $5.3 billion loan request by the Federal Government is yet to be approved by the Chinese Government.
The Minister, who disclosed this during an interview on a television programme in Abuja on Saturday clarified that contrary to the...
A re-nominee for chairmanship position of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, Monday handed over to a National Commissioner (North-east), Ahmed Mu’azu, to serve as acting chairman of the electoral body, pending the confirmation of former’s re-nomination or otherwise by the Senate.
Mu’azu, who's in charge of the...
Suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has been accused of re-looting funds recovered by the commission as well as bribery.
Magu, who is currently being interrogated by a Presidential Investigation Committee on the EFCC-Federal Government Recovered Assets and Finances from May 2015 to...
The Presidency says it will require additional fresh external loan of $5.513 billion to finance 2020 budget deficit.
In a letter addressed to the House of Representatives to seek approval and read during Thursday's plenary by the Speaker, Rt. Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, President Muhammadu Buhari appealed that the fresh funds...