Former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been named the next Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.
Okonjo-Iweala’s appointment was announced by the Dean of Harvard Kennedy School, Mr. Douglas Elmendorf. ..
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The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), yesterday departed Nigeria to attend a three-day meeting of the United States-Nigeria Bi-national Commission in Washington DC.
Malami at the meeting, is expected to sign a tripartite agreement on behalf...
Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Prof. Charles Dokubo, at the weekend lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for what he described as his unwavering determination towards deepening peace and development in the Niger Delta region.
Dokubo said Buhari has done well for the...
A former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani yesterday said his incarceration for 30 days was a clear breach of his fundamental rights, lamenting that he was subjected to lie detector …
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At the recently concluded 50th World Economic Forum, which held in Davos, Switzerland, two-time finance minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, gave the federal government the requisite recipe that will enable Nigeria, which has been named the poverty capital of the world, lift its teeming population...
The FCT Police has arrested five persons for making a prank in the hospital on the corona virus pandemic.
The suspects, four males and a female, were paraded before reporters over the weekend by the spokesman of FCT Police Command DSP Anjuguri Manzah.....
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said Nigeria may lose two million children to pneumonia in the next decade if modalities are not put in place to curb the disease.
The UN body identified malnutrition, air pollution and lack of access to vaccines and …
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In a bid to make Nigeria self-sufficient in tomato production, Dangote Tomatoes Processing Limited, owned by the younger brother of Africa’s richest man, Mr. Sani Dangote, has unveiled a N2.8 billion greenhouse nursery in Kano to supply the best quality tomato seedlings to Nigerian farmers...
The federal government has said the speculated plan by the US to add Nigeria to its existing list of visa travel ban countries is ill-conceived.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this yesterday in London during an interview session...
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President Muhammadu Buhari has said the opinion of a former Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) is not more important than that of millions of Nigerians who voted for his re-election last year.
Buhari made this comment in an exclusive interview with ...
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Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akerodolu, yesterday disclosed that governors of the South-west are set to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the region’s security outfit, code-named Amotekun, which has been generating controversy....
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The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said it welcomes the placing of the country on a special watch list by the US government.
In a statement issued yesterday and signed by Special Assistant (Media &Communications) to the CAN President, Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, the body said …
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It does not need pointing out that wealth has a certain appeal. Among its colleagues of virtue, wealth and affluence appear to be the only ones who can completely overshadow every other, regardless of how mysterious their origin.
Physical beauty is an inherited virtue and has since become...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) may not field a candidate for the January 25, 2020 senatorial rerun in Akwa Ibom State, ordered by the Court of Appeal, THISDAY learnt at the weekend.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it …
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The presidency has set up a committee to scrutinise the 2020 Appropriation Bill passed by the National Assembly, charging it to look critically into the differentials between the figure submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari and the one approved by the legislature, and advise the president …...
The former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has described the move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to file another process in the Federal High Court, Lagos, in which it is seeking the interim order of the court for the forfeiture of his home …
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The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) wednesday shared a total of N702.058 billion to the three tiers of government for the month of October.
This was announced in a communique read by Accountant General of the Federation, Mr. Ahmed Idris after the FAAC meeting in Abuja...
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last Saturday’s election in Kogi State, Mr. Musa Wada, yesterday rejected the declaration of Governor Yahaya Bello of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ....
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said criticisms on his declaration of Rivers State as a Christian state could not stop him from affirming the reality.
This was coming as he declared that he’s still the governor because of God’s intervention, who dislodged forces of …
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The close of the country’s land borders to its neighbours has kept the value of the naira strong at the parallel market, a new report has shown.
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Mr. Bismarck Rewane....
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