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If the projection of the World Bank is anything to take seriously, Nigerian businesses may have lost nothing less than $232 billion (N96.4 trillion) in the last eight years that the Federal Government and operators […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has officially extended its ongoing warning strike by eight weeks. The decision was reached after a meeting of the union’s national executive council (NEC) on Monday morning at […]

The Lagos state police command says Williams Tadule, the dispatch rider allegedly caught with a 10-month-old child inside a delivery box did not kidnap the child. On Saturday, an undated video where a dispatch rider […]

Two four-year-olds, Wasiu Dauda and Alimeen Ibrahim, have been abducted in the Ijesha area of Lagos. Seun Funmilayo, a relative of one of the mothers of the victims, told PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday that the […]

Buba Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has charged officers of the agency to avoid enticement from drug barons. According to a statement issued on Saturday by Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesman, […]

Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, says the federal government has removed the subsidy on electricity tariff. She also hinted at government’s plans to remove subsidy on petrol. Ahmed said this at a virtual meeting of […]

The Federal Competition Consumer Protection Commission, in collaboration with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, National Information Technology Development Agency, and the Nigerian Police Force, on Friday, raided some illegal financial institutions […]

Fawning, mediocre, comical, utterly unserious, and chronically thieving politicians. Boring, uncreative, cynical bureaucrats and scandalously sycophantic political aides in hypocrisy-draped corridors of power. Unscrupulous, notoriously unethical newspaper publishers and media barons who are also ruthless […]

Moscow on Friday said it was opening a criminal case against Meta for “calling for the murder” of Russians, saying the parent company of Facebook and Instagram had relaxed rules on violent messages aimed at […]

NEWLY installed Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba (Dr) Olalekan Balogun, on Friday, assured that he would not let down the people of Ibadanland and Nigeria in general. The monarch made the pledge in his first public […]

Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) have announced temporary suspension of overseas Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card services and Point of Sale (PoS) transactions. The banks’ decision followed consistent dollar scarcity and challenges faced by manufacturers and […]

The national leadership of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has handed an indefinite suspension to its Lagos chapter’s Chairman, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly called Mc Oluomo According to the letter of suspension signed […]

The emergence of Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, as Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Committee (CCECC), is destined by God, the deputy governor, Ahmed Ketso, has said. At a special prayer session […]

Lagos state Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), says all taxpayers in the state should file annual tax returns on or before March 31, 2022, to avoid penalties for insubordination. These individual taxpayers include self-employed persons and […]

Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, says the second Niger bridge will be completed in April. Fashola disclosed this on Tuesday during an inspection tour of the bridge. According to the minister, the high-tension […]

The United States has banned the importation of coal, gas and oil from Russia amid the invasion of Ukraine. Signing an executive order on Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced that the US would be cutting […]