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Washington has imposed visa restrictions on Ghana following a row over the deportation of Ghanaians staying illegally in the United States. The move, which goes into effect on February 4, will also affect government employees […]

Indications have emerged that the Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, might be offered a soft landing and allowed to complete his tenure. That is in spite of the impeachment threats and allegations of gross […]

Hoodlums on Thursday attacked the campaign convoy of the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr Jimi Agbaje at Iba in Ojo, west of Lagos. A News Agency of Nigeria political correspondent reports […]

PRESIDENT Buhari has deliberately upped the ante on corruption in this campaign because he wants to make next month’s presidential election all about graft. His decision last week to suspend and replace the Chief Justice […]

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka has said that: ‘I Wole Soyinka will not be voting for either the two so called contesting parties. I find both of them worthy of absolute rejection.’ Soyinka made this known […]

Supporters of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode have protested the planned impeachment of the governor at the Lagos State House of Assembly on Wednesday. Below are the photos: Pro-Ambode supporters protest Pro-Ambode supporters protest Pro-Ambode supporters protest […]

The House of Representatives yesterday endorsed the N30,000 as national minimum wage per month to every worker in the country. Adopting the report of the Sulaimon Yussuff Lasun-led adhoc committee that considered the draft bill […]

The Legislative Probity and Accountability (LPA) has asked the Lagos State House of Assembly to account for the N28.8 billion it collected as running cost under Speaker Mudashiru Obasa’s leadership. The civil society organisation (CSO) […]

The Nigerian government has approved for use its first genetically modified crop: the Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea (popularly called beans). This was after it had been genetically modified to resist the pest – Maruca Vitrata. […]

A Bank Verification Number (BVN) search may have exposed more accounts linked to the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen. Detectives are understood to have written three banks for details of the […]

THE Federal Government has ordered immediate crackdown on all illegal tertiary institutions in the country. Among the affected illegal institutions currently operating in the country, according to the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, are […]

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says it will test run the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge line early February. Fidet Okhiria, the NRC Managing Director, who disclosed this on Wednesday at Ijoko in Ogun while inspecting the […]

JOHN ALECHENU and OLUFEMI ATOYEBI The Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government are to resume talks Monday (tomorrow) on how to resolve the impasse over the two-month-old strike embarked upon by lecturers. […]

The Federal Government of Nigeria has said that the candidate of the opposition PDP in the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, has questions to answer when he returns from his current trip to the United States. […]

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, and Senate President Bukola Saraki have arrived Washington DC. Atiku tweeted his arrival in the United States after 13 years via his verified Twitter account. […]

I won’t support injustice because it favours me at the expense of others. A southerner should have been appointed to replace the just retired Inspector General of Police, Idris Ibrahim. Instead another northerner, Abubakar Adamu […]