Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger has inaugurated the newly elected local government chairmen and urged them to represent their people and live above personal interest.

Oil prices fell on Wednesday after industry data showed an unexpected build-up of U.S. crude inventories and as investors waited to see if a fresh round of U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods would come into force on Sunday.

By Tayo Dauda The saying ‘there’s no smoke without fire’ most certainly applies in perpetuity in Nigeria than in any other country in the world, and the reason is not far-fetched. Ours has unfortunately become a society where the issues of national significance get politicized and muddled up with facts that are shamelessly unrelated and, […]

THE Senate has raised the alarm that if the level of Unemployment in the country was not checked and addressed, a great calamity looms.

Mrs Abieyuwa Abel, a Social Anthropologist, has called on the Federal Government to use the National Health Act (NHA), 2014, to fast track Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Nigeria.

The Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege has said that the federal polytechnic, Orogun when established, will address youth restiveness in the Niger Delta region.

Women in Taraba state have tasked the state House of Assembly, to ensure speedy passage and domestication of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law currently before it, in order to protect women and girls against abuse.

Hundreds of protesters from civil society organisations, peoples’ movements, trade unions, indigenous peoples, youths, women and gender groups joined forces, Wednesday, to demand rich countries step up ambition and action to tackle the climate crisis.

The Polynesian island of Tahiti has been chosen to host the surfing events at the 2024 Paris Olympics after being selected over beaches in southwest France and Brittany, organisers said on Thursday. Tahiti lies 15,700 kilometres (9,750 miles) from Paris but was chosen because it offers near-guaranteed surfing waves in the summer months. The events […]

The Sokoto state government has extended the amnesty window given to workers collecting abnormal salaries or engaging in malpractices in the salary system to Dec. 31.

National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has reiterated its determination to review an existing collaboration with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on the provision of free healthcare services to corps members.

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on African Petroleum Producers Association (APPO) member countries to be objective in taking a decision for the growth of the oil and gas industry in the continent.

The Pan African Girl Child Education Foundation has bequeathed the award for Nobel African Women in Leadership (P-NAWL) on Mama Helen Oritsejafor and inducted her into its hall of fame during its maiden edition of their award ceremony which took place in Abuja recently.

  A Dutse Grade I Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday, sentenced a 67-year-old farmer, Samson Aku, to three months imprisonment for maiming and killing a herdsman’s cows which strayed into his farm. The presiding officer, Suleiman Mohammed, sentenced Aku after finding the convict guilty of the charges filed against him. The act, according to the […]

Yola High Court presided over by Justice Nathan Musa, has sentenced two officials of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC ) to 21 years imprisonment each for receiving a bribe of N362 million from former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs Diezani Maduekwe, during 2015 general election. The convicts, Ibrahim Mohammed and Sahabo Iya-Hamman were arraigned before the […]