The Police in Bauchi said on Sunday that a 22-year-old student, Idris Yakubu, had drowned while swimming in a river.

Nigeria’s army on Sunday said it has launched a probe into recent attacks by Boko Haram militants which claimed dozens of lives of lives near Maiduguri, capital of northeast Borno state.

The National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria on Sunday said the Federal Government must ensure steady power supply before increasing electricity tariffs.

Minister of Finance Mrs. Kemi Adeosun Monday in Abuja disclosed that the federal government has a balance of N2.2 trillion in the Single Treasury Account on a daily basis.

Carros in France holds the world’s first smart solar grid, a system that could one day allow cities to generate more renewable energy closer to customers.

Carros in France holds the world’s first smart solar grid, a system that could one day allow cities to generate more renewable energy closer to customers.

Agricultural policies aimed at alleviating poverty in Africa could be making things worse, according to research by the University of East Anglia (UEA).Published this month in the journal World Development, the study finds that so-called ‘green revo…

President Muhammed Buhari’s is proposing to spend over N6trillion in the 2016 Appropriation bill, even though government ‘reasonably’ expects to earn about N3.8trillion as revenue. Indeed, according to the budget proposals, N984bn will be borrowed in Naira from personal and corporate holders of surplus cash to fund the shortfall, while $4.5b (N900bn) will also be borrowed from the international market at the current exchange rate of about N200= $1 and prevailing commercial interest rates will apply.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, led Federal Government of plotting indefinite incarceration of its detained leader and Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu and other IPOB detainees with its recent linking of the group with the alleged seizure and threat to blow up a merchant ship.

Ibadan—NO fewer than 17 persons have been confirmed dead, while 79 others were seriously injured in an auto crash that occurred on Lagos-Ibadan expressway yesterday.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA and senior lawyers in the country, have condemned the recent arrest and continued detention of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Rickey-Tarfa, SAN, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, since Friday without releasing him on bail.

LAGOS— THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an appeal over the decision of the World Bank to provide insufficient information on how the government of Nigeria spent the recovered stolen funds by the late General Sani Abacha.

LAGOS — The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, will increase to $2 trillion by 2030 from its present N514 billion, if the country reduced corruption to the level of Ghana and Malaysia.

SENATOR Adeleke Olurunnimbe Mamora medical doctor turned politician was speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly at the advent of the Fourth Republic in 1999 and followed up his legislative strides with two successive terms in the Senate where he largely imprinted upon the populace through his principled and punchy interventions. A chorister in his local Lagos Baptist church, Senator Mamora who was the deputy director of the triumphant Buhari Presidential Campaign Organisation, in this interview responds to assertions of misuse of resources by the National Assembly and the alleged selectivity in the fight against corruption among other issues.

PRESIDENT of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, weekend expressed the determination of the Senate to put the interest of the nation first while discharging its statutory responsibility.