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The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr. Adedamola Kuti, said on Tuesday that consultations had begun for the closure of the Third Mainland Bridge for repairs. Kuti told the News Agency of Nigeria that […]

Boris Johnson has resigned as British foreign secretary, becoming the third minister in 24 hours to walk out of the government. On Sunday, David Davis, the most senior official in charge of Brexit negotiation, resigned […]

The Supreme Court on Friday finally laid to rest the trial of a Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on assets declaration and sundry charges instituted against him before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. A five-man […]

The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has dissolved the Sokoto State Executive Council with immediate effect. The dissolution is aimed at restructuring and restrategising the cabinet for optimum efficiency and service delivery to the […]

A former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, is now a bona fide staff of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), as he inspected his office space at the institution’s Abeokuta Study Centre in Ogun […]

The Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Ms Julie Okah-Donli, has described the conviction of a British-based Nigerian nurse, Ms Josephine Iyamu, as good omen to the fight against human trafficking. […]

There has been a ghastly accident in Lagos caused by a petrol tanker. The petrol tanker went up in flames close to the Otedola Jubilee Estate on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. “A petrol tanker was trying […]

The monthly meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee ended in a deadlock on Wednesday in Abuja. The FAAC monthly meeting is the forum where money is shared among the federal, states and local governments. […]

The Minister of Trade and Investments, Okechukwu Enelamah, on Wednesday, said the recent Brookings Report that rated Nigeria as the new global headquarters of poverty was not the true situation of things in the country. […]

The Federal Government says the National Water Resources Bill will be beneficial to all Nigerians, whenever it is signed into law. The Minister of Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, said this on […]

A goal four minutes from time from Argentina’s left back, Marcus Rojo, took Argentina into the second round as they defeated Nigeria 2-1. Lionel Messi gave Argentina the lead on 14 minutes. Victor Moses equalised […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has visited a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, in a move that appeared to bring to an end the longstanding feud between the duo. […]

Abayomi Shogunle, an assistant commissioner of police, says Nigerian lawyers are more active on social media than in courts. Shogunle said this while speaking to Channels Television on the #EndSARS campaign. He said some lawyers […]

The Federal Government has announced plan to disburse $322million fund repatriated from the accounts of former Head of State, late General Sani Abacha in Switzerland to Nigerians. National Coordinator of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), […]

There is confusion regarding the actual employers of the 300 street sweepers’ supervisors that were recently sacked in Lagos State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.Environmental Utility firm, Visionscape Sanitation Solutions Ltd (VSS) told […]

The Federal Government says it will shut down the land border between Nigeria and a neigbouring country in a few days time to avoid smuggling of foreign rice into the country. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the […]