Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says he is optimistic that high-profile insurgents will be “taken out” before the end of the current administration. Speaking on Sunday Politics, a Channels Television programme, Adesina said with the current […]
Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), says the electoral amendment bill was rejected by President Muhammadu Buhari because of its tendency to worsen insecurity in the country. The president had declined assent to the […]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has issued a travel restriction on passenger flights from Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. The UAE’s National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Emergency Management Authority (NCEMA) and the General Civil Aviation […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 1,305 new cases of coronavirus in the country. The agency, in its latest update for December 25, said the cases were reported across 14 states. A […]
The management of Arik Air has announced that its local pilots have called off their strike action and resumed work. Adebanji Ola, the company‘s public relations and communications manager, in a statement on Friday, said […]
It was a death foretold. It was also a golden opportunity that presented itself for President Muhammadu Buhari to show that of a truth, he is a born-again democrat. But, the President blew it and […]
The federal government has declared Monday, December 27, Tuesday, December 28, and Monday, January 3, 2022, as public holidays to mark Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day celebrations respectively. The Minister of Interior, Rauf […]
The federal government has introduced virtual national identification number (NIN) tokens.Advertisement Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, disclosed this at a stakeholders workshop on the ‘NIN Tokenization Solution’ organised by the National Identity […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says more deaths were recorded from COVID in 2021 than for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined in 2020. Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, said this on Wednesday at a media briefing […]
The Nigerian naira gained marginally against the US dollar at the parallel market to trade at N565 per dollar. This figure is N5 or 0.9 percent higher than the N570 it traded last week. Street […]
The popular Ikoyi Club in Lagos has announced the suspension of Modupe Alakija, the husband of billionaire businesswoman, Folorunsho Alakija. The club said Mr Alakija, 72, will remain suspended till November 30, 2022. According to […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered relevant officials and agency of the federal government to stop the plan to award a sensitive international cargo tracking system contract to two firms – Medtech Scientific […]
A Benin national, Robert Kpanou, arrested in October 2020 during the aftermath of the #EndSARS protest regained freedom on Tuesday after spending 14 months in jail, his lawyer, Festus Ogun told PREMIUM TIMES. His release […]
The federal government has reinstated the air services arrangements it had with Emirates airline. Nigeria’s aviation ministry had earlier limited the carrier’s daily flights to Abuja to a single run a week and denied approval […]
The Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has declared his support for the president’s rejection of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. Mr Fayemi spoke Tuesday while addressing journalists after meeting with the president at the State […]
WITHHOLDING OF ASSENT TO ELECTORAL ACT AMENDMENT BILL 2021 Further to the letter dated 18th November, 2021 forwarded for Presidential assent, the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021 as passed by the National Assembly, I have […]
By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY – THE Neo Black Movement of Africa (NBM) has issued a seven days ultimatum to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and its partners to retract what it described as defamatory […]
The outgoing year has been a roller coaster. Since the beginning of 2021, Nigerians have been inundated with security problems ranging from robberies, kidnappings to killings.Advertisement In the year, some prominent Nigerians fell to diseases, […]
Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has asked the national assembly to veto the electoral act amendment bill if President Muhammadu Buhari refuses to sign it. It has been about a month since the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday tasked Nigerian universities to come up with a cure for Coronavirus (COVID-19). Represented by Mr John Mairafi, a Director with the National Universities Commission (NUC), Buhari gave the charge in […]
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