The first Nigerian female Governor, Dame Virgy Etiaba, has described two former Governors of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano and Dr.Chris Ngige, as great assets to the state. In her goodwill message to the two former State Chief Executives as Read more…
Nigeria’s petroleum regulator said on Tuesday it stood by its refusal to approve Exxon Mobil’s $1.28 billion sale of shares in its Nigerian unit to Seplat after President Muhammadu Buhari approved the transaction. Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) head, Read more…
Nigeria has arrested five suspects in an Islamist militant attack in a Catholic church that killed 40 people in early June, Chief of Defence Staff General Leo Irabor said on Tuesday. Nigerian authorities have said they suspect insurgent group Islamic Read more…
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will lead the Russian delegation to the UN General Assembly, scheduled for the end of September in New York, the Kremlin announced on Monday. President Vladimir Putin does not intend to travel to the UNGA or Read more…
Kiev is holding all of Europe hostage by carrying out strikes on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday, noting that the situation around the facility is growing increasingly dangerous due to heightened activity from Ukrainian forces. Read more…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has granted consent to the acquisition of Exxon Mobil’s Nigerian unit by Seplat Energy, in a $1.28 billion deal announced in February. Buhari, who doubles as oil minister, granted ministerial approval to the deal, the presidency Read more…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has said that forests in the FCT serve as a security threat to residents because criminal elements use them as hideouts to perpetrate evil. The FCT Joint Taskforce involved in the ongoing demolition of Read more…
“If you say Rivers State does not matter, Rivers State will tell you that you don’t also matter at the appropriate time,” River Governor Nyesom Wike has declared. Governor Wike made the declaration at the inauguration of the Orochiri-Worukwo (Waterlines Read more…
Former military head of states, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has lamented that sixty-one years after attaining independence, we are just trying to be a nation. He made this known when he was playing host to a pan-Nigerian group called Team Read more…
he Senate of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has dismissed a statement being circulated suggesting that the National Executive of NANS led by Comrade Sunday Asefon as President has been dissolved and a date fixed for the inauguration Read more…
Less than four days after the arrest of some 151 suspected invaders into Ondo State, men of the State Security Network Agency, Amotekun, on Monday intercepted another set of suspected invaders numbering 168 around Sango, Akure/Ado road. The suspects who Read more…
Four months after they were granted state pardon by the National Council of State (NCS), the former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye and the former Taraba State Governor, Jolly Nyame, yesterday, were released from prison. They were released Read more…