Abuja – Nigeria has been ranked the 103 happiest nation of the world, and 6th in Africa in the World Happiness Report. The World Happiness Report 2016 update, which ranks 157 countries by their happiness […]
The House of Representatives is to receive the highest allocation in National Assembly’s N115 billion budget for 2016, details of the proposal exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIMES ahead of an official release, shows. The […]
REMINISCENT of the military era, about 10 soldiers flogged and used boots on hundreds of women protesting at Ovre-Eku (Iwevbo) community yesterday, over a land which had been in dispute for years between Edo and […]
The Chairman, Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Dino Melaye, mocked the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday, while contributing to a motion seeking the need to patronise products made in Nigeria. […]
Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis greeted a group of activists from the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, group, who are campaigning for secession from Nigeria, after they gathered at the Vatican on Sunday. During his weekly […]
federal government says it has budgeted N5,000 each for one million “extremely poor” Nigerians, as a total of N500 billion has been allocated for social investment in the 2016 budget. Insisting that President Muhammadu Buhari […]
Private universities have raised the alarm over what their leadership said was discriminatory and harsh treatment by the federal government. To this end, they are set to collectively forward a bill by way of protest […]
A rights group, The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has called on Nigerian authorities to immediately commence the prosecution of Yunusa Yellow, the man who allegedly abducted a teenager from her Bayelsa home, and took her […]
The Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial district, Buruji Kashamu has urged the federal government to centralize allocation of petroleum products within the NNPC and depots in the country in order to end the acute fuel […]
Ekiti State Government has said that the misappropriation of N852.9 million State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) counterpart fund by the immediate past All Progressives Congress (APC) government of Dr. Kayode Fayemi made the Universal […]
As part of efforts to achieve a healthy living and promote wellbeing for all people in Nigeria as contained in goal three of the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, yesterday, […]
Okpella-Ogute in Etsako East Local Council and Uneme-Erhurun in Akoko-Edo Local Council, both of Edo State, who have been living peacefully together for hundreds of years This mutual suspicion has, however, grown beyond the realm […]
Thabo Mbeki, former South African vice-president, has revealed how Nelson Mandela, former president of the country, begged Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s former head of state, to halt the execution of the ‘Ogoni Nine’. Speaking on “Mandela’s […]
The Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, on Monday said that the Federal Government had no plans to privatise the Nigeria Postal Service, or lease it to foreigners. He stated this while denying reports that […]
In line with the anti-corruption stance of the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, Minister of Interior, Abudurahman Dambazau, has warned Nigerians interested in obtaining an international passport from the Nigerian Immigration Passport offices to refrain from paying […]
National President, Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, branch of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Salimon Akanni Oladiti, has accused Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, of being behind the current fuel scarcity in […]
More than a year after its national was kidnapped in Abuja, the Nigerian Capital, the British Government on Monday, raised the alarm over his whereabouts, calling for his release. Seventy two year-old David Priestly was […]
Fourteen-year-old Ese Oruru is now in the custody of the Federal Government, eight months after she was abducted from Bayelsa State by one Yinusa. Yinusa a longstanding customer of Ese’s mother, Mrs. Rose Oruru, had […]
Nigeria’s ex-interior minister has been charged with fraud over a botched recruitment drive, which resulted in stampedes that left 20 people dead. Abba Moro led a scheme which encouraged young graduates to apply for jobs […]
The first time he came to my notice strong enough for me to comment upon was in May 2015 when he and another senator, Melaye, formed the title of my then column in Sunday Punch […]
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