A global research meeting was co-chaired by a Nigerian expert to contribute to the local and global response to the new coronavirus outbreak. The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, chaired the second day of a high-level global meeting convened by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to agree on […]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised downward its 2020 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) forecast for Nigeria to two per cent, from the 2.5 per cent it had predicted earlier. This is as on ne of the leading global rating agencies, Moody’s Investors Service, yesterday noted that government debt burdens in Nigeria and other Economic […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of former Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Abdullahi Inde Dikko over his continued failure to attend court to answer to a charge of fraud brought against him and two others by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related […]

The United States Government has warned that it will recover the over $308million looted and stashed abroad by former Head of State, the late Gen Sani Abacha, if it is re-stolen in Nigeria. The threat followed a February 4 repatriation pact the Federal Government signed with the Americans and the government of Jersey to return […]

Houses of Assembly in the six Southwest states will on Monday simultaneously conduct public hearings on the Operation Amotekun Bill. Speakers Mudashiru Obasa (Lagos); Kunle Oluomo (Ogun); Adebo Ogundoyin (Oyo); Bamidele Oleyelogun (Ondo); Timothy Owoeye (Osun) and Funminiyi Afuye (Ekiti), made the next line of action on Operation Amotekun known at a meeting in Ibadan at the […]

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has faulted a recent comment by the President of the World Bank, David Malpass. Malpass, was recently quoted as saying some multilateral development banks, including the AfDB, have a tendency to lend too quickly and in the process, add to the continent’s debt problems. However, the AfBD in a statement, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari at the weekend condemned the latest round of reprisals on farmers by bandits in Damkar and Tsanwa villages in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. The president, according to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, described reprisals under whatever guise as unacceptable. Buhari […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the immediate suspension of Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Modibbo Kawu. The suspension is coming months after an ongoing prosecution of Kawu by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) for alleged corruption. The most senior Director in the Commission has been directed to take over from the suspended […]

Some monarchs in the Osun West Senatorial district have called for the suspension of the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, shortly after he beat up another traditional ruler, the Agbowu of Ogbagba, Oba Dhikrulahi Akinropo, during a peace meeting for monarchs in Iwo, Ayedire and Ola-Oluwa Local Government Areas of the state. The Oluwo, on […]

Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Friday presented a total sum of N1.2bn bonds to some retired workers, who are on Contributory Pension Scheme. The governor, who presented the bonds to the beneficiaries at an event marking this year’s Cultural Day, held at the state government secretariat, Abere, Osogbo, said his administration would continue to […]