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The Federal Government says as the nation heads into year 2020, “the successful commercialisation of the Creative industry” will be its number one priority. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this […]

AirPeace CEO Allen Onyema, has denied all fraud allegations by the USAZ, stating that they are false and are in no way in line with his character as a person and as a business man […]

Though, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe will forever hold my utmost respect that being at his memorial lecture is a duty I have marked in my every-year diary, I ignored duty calls elsewhere half-way through yesterday’s 8th […]

An activist, Omoyele Sowore, has filed a suit against the State Security Service (SSS) over his arrest and continued detention. In the charge sheet made available to PREMIUM TIMES on Friday, the Sahara Reporters publisher […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says he will not seek a third term in office at the end of his second term in 2023. The Nigerian Constitution sets a two-term limit for the president and state governors, […]

A high court in Ikeja, Lagos, has fixed January 2020 for hearing of the suit Akinwunmi Ambode, former governor of the state, filed against the house of assembly over the procurement of 820 buses. The […]

Nigerian economic analyst and popular columnist, Henry Boyo, has died. Boyo was 72 at the time of his death. He was reported to have died on Monday after a brief illness. He was a popular […]

The Senate on Wednesday passed the controversial anti-social media bill for second reading. Tagged “A bill for an Act to make provisions for the Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulations and for related matters, 2019 […]

Ovuomarhoni Naomi Isioro and her husband, Rowley Isioro, a former Assistant General Manager with one of the first generation banks were docked on Tuesday by the EFCC for money laundering offences. And they were at […]

Rights lawyer and counsel to Omoyele Sowore, Femi Falana (SAN), has urged the Department of State Services to stop insulting the collective intelligence of Nigerians and immediately release Sowore. The DSS, after failing to release […]

A training helicopter belonging to the Nigerian Air Force has crashed in the NAF Base in Enugu State after returning from a routine training exercise. According to NAF twitter account on Friday in Enugu State, […]

Alex Akinyele, former minister of information, is dead. According to his family, Akinyele died after a brief illness on Thursday night. He was an administrator and public relations specialist. The late Ondo chief once served […]

Femi Otedola, billionaire entrepreneur, has donated N5 billion to Save the Children, the 100-year United Kingdom-based charity, to support its intervention in the north-east. This is arguably the largest individual donation to charity in Nigeria’s […]

How much money do the Federal Government, state governors and council chairmen, spend on the unaccountable security votes every year? A rights group Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) is seeking an answer and has […]

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has said that its Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, was not denied U.S. entry visa. The forum made the clarification in a statement issued by its […]

Nigeria appears to have been hit by system collapse to the national grid, according to reports from across the country. Several social media users reported seizures of electricity to their areas starting Friday night. It […]

Femi Falana, senior of advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says lawyers waited to receive Omoyele Sowore at the headquarters of the Department of State Services (DSS) after a court order to release him was served. The […]

Arthur Nwabufo, a Nigerian navigator and cadet at the Far Eastern State Technical Fisheries University of Russia, is currently on an ”around-the-world” expedition on the Pallada. Nwabufo is said to be the first Nigerian to […]