The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Monday, disclosed that from September, it would begin the clampdown of oil and gas companies operating in the country, who are defaulting in the remittance of the one per cent Nigerian Content Development Fund, NCDF.

Following the emergence of the first female Secretary to the State Government (SSG) in the history of Oyo State, Governor Seyi Makinde has challenged women across the country to live up to expectations as men are lurking by the corners. 

 CALABAR-The Cross River State Chapter of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, in conjunction with the All Cross River State Nationals Front has warned the Federal Government, noting that Cross River State has no land for the proposed RUGA/Cattle Colony being forced on the federating states of Nigeria by the Federal authorities.

Sen. Ali Ndume (APC-Borno) has urged all Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Gwazo taking refuge in Maiduguri, to return home, assuring them of their safety.

Veteran Uruguayan central defender Diego Godin, who announced his departure from Atletico Madrid in May, signed a three-year deal with Inter Milan on Monday.

National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says `Nsukka pepper’, a popular local pepper spice, has pushed Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises (MSMEs) seasoning registration in South-East.

The Kaduna State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has refunded over N148 million to about 3,000 intending pilgrims due to the downward review of Hajj fare by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) for 2019.

 The Chairman, Joint Tax Board (JTB), Mr Tunde Fowler, said on Monday that the Internally Generated Revenue of the 36 states and FCT rose from N800 billion in 2016 to N1.16 trillion in 2018.

Justice Cecilia Olatoregun of the Federal High Court in Lagos  has ordered the final forfeiture of billions of naira and millions of dollars traced to former First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan and her cronies.

Five Nigerian students, drawn from secondary schools across the country, have been selected to represent Nigeria at the next First Global Robotics Olympics (GRO) in Dubai in October.

A housewife, Mrs Edith Obieme, told an Igando Customary Court on Monday in Lagos to dissolve her marriage to Kingsley for alleged infidelity and lack of care.

The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS General Abayomi Olonisakin, yesterday in Lagos, affirmed that the only solution to end insurgency in the North East and other acts of criminality across the country was synergy among all the Services of the Armed Forces, as well as other security agencies and stakeholders in security.

Nigeria on Monday reaffirmed its strong support for the nine-month extension in oil production cut under the  ‘’Declaration of Cooperation’’ which seeks to improve global oil market stability among OPEC members.

A socio-political group, Akwa Ibom Liberation Movement, based in Uyo, has lashed at Senator Godswill Akpabio for what it described as the senator’s alleged “basing of his burden of proof on hearsay evidence at the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Uyo.”

Shares in Kenya’s Safaricom Plc opened 2.7% lower at 27.35 shillings ($0.2672) on Monday, after the telecoms company announced the death of Chief Executive Robert William Collymore after a nearly two-year battle with cancer, Refinitiv data showed.