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  A helicopter carrying vice-president Yemi Osinbajo and his entourage crash landed in Kabba, Kogi state. Multiple reports said Osinbajo and all the people on board were safe. The Vice President who is in the town for his next-level engagements with the...

The United States said Friday it would exit a landmark Cold War nuclear missile treaty due to purported violations by Russia, which has warned of a new arms race in Europe. Washington says a new Russian medium-range missile system breaches...

The Federal Government recorded an increase of 1,811.3 megawatts (MW) in power generation in January 2019, as the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) transmitted 127,157.7mw as against 125,346.4mw in December 2018. The daily statistics of TCN operations obtained by the...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has dragged a former Secretary to Government of Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, following fraud charges filed against him on Wednesday at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja. The charges against...

The Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Mohammed, on Saturday, performed his first official duty by inaugurating 250 Judges that will handle 2019 National Assembly, Governorship & State Assembly Election Petition Tribunals. Justice Tanko Muhammad, Acting Chief Justice...

President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, pending the completion of his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Meanwhile, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed has immediately been sworn in as acting CJN. More to follow……

Presidency has described as either “ignorance or mischief’’, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s attack on `TraderMoni’, the microcredit scheme of the federal government. “It is either that the former leader is ignorant of the true workings of Trader Moni and the role...

President Muhammadu Buhari has remembered his former number two man in government, late retired Maj-Gen. Tunde Idiagbon, for his uncommon loyalty and courage. Going down memory lane on Sunday when he hosted his former staff, Buhari said: “Idiagbon was in...

The full story is now out: Brian Ballard, a friend of the US President, touted to be the most powerful lobbyist in America, arranged the short Washington trip of Abubakar Atiku, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. In...

The Senate has called on the Federal Government to immortalise former President Shehu Shagari by naming a national monument after him. This followed a motion by Sen. Ibrahim Danbaba (PDP-Sokoto) and co-sponsored by eight others. Presenting the motion, Danbaba said late...