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The controversy ranging between Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has left man Nigerian bewildered. But Nigerians know for sure that something is wrong with Nigeria’s fiscal position and that if something is not done pretty soon, things will get out of hand. […]

The Nigerian government has approved the resumption of SIM card activation from Monday, April 16, with the condition that such new lines must be linked with the mandatory National Identity Number of the owners. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, explained in a statement that the approval was in line with […]

An undergraduate of the Bayelsa State University has been arrested by the State Police Command for shooting dead his classmate during lecture.   African Innocent, a 300-level Accounting student, was alleged to have shot James Okunmakpeye at a close range in a lecture hall on Wednesday.   Okunmakpeye died on the spot after he was […]

…says Nigeria price is in line with or lower than prices across the West African coast    Management of Dangote Cement Plc has clarified that the price of a bag of cement from its factories and plants across Nigeria (as at 12th April, 2021) is N2,450 in Obajana and Gboko, and N2,510 in Ibese inclusive […]

The People’s Democratic Party on Wednesday said Nigerians should blame President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress for Nigeria’s fallen state, which made Twitter choose Ghana as its Africa office, instead of Nigeria.   PDP asserted that because of the  President’s incompetence, Twitter had no choice but to site its African Headquarters in […]

Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, and his former Deputy, Agboola Ajajy, are currently embroiled in a battle over government vehicles that the former number two man in the state has refused to surrender. Akeredolu has threatened to embarrass Ajayi if he continues to hold on to vehicles that he used when he served as the […]

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy,  Dr. Isa Pantami has said he was set to sue a national daily for publishing a report that he has been placed on the watch-list by the United States government. Michael Jonathan Numa, counsel to the minister and Senior Partner of the Karina Tunyan and Company, made the declaration on […]

The recommendation by the Summit on Emerging Trends in the Role of the First Lady in National Development, that the office of the wife of the president and her counterparts at state levels be institutionalized, ostensibly because of their achievements, is an extra-constitutional and ego-massaging aberration and insult to the Nigerian people. At a time […]

The social messaging and networking platform, Twitter, has said that it chose Ghana over Nigeria as its Africa office because of the former’s democratic ideals. According to Twitter, Ghana’s “support for free speech and online freedoms” made the country its candidate of choice as its operational base in Africa. The choice of Ghana as the […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday arrested former Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha in Abuja over allegations of asset diversion made against him. Recently, the commission alleged that the former governor misappropriated as much as N7.9 billion, being funds belonging to the state. Mr Wilson Uwujaren, the Spokesman for the EFCC, confirmed […]

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, has refuted reports in social media suggesting that he has links with the Islamist group, Boko Haram and that he has placed the United States “terror watch list”. Pantami, in tweets, denied having any links with Mohammed Yusuf, founder of Boko Haram, declaring rather that […]

A yet-to-be-determined number of people believed to have been killed at Damasak, the headquarters of Mobar Local Government in Borno State, when suspected members of the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP), attacked the town.  ISWAP is another faction of Boko Haram operating in the northern part of Borno State. It launched the attack […]