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The Nigerian government is to spend  N2,648,600,000,000 to service debt in 2016 as seen in the breakdown of the 2016 budget presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on 22nd December. The breakdown of the budget released by the Budget Office shows that out of the total budget of N6.08 trillion presented by […]Read More

Scores of residents were on Thursday roasted in a gas explosion that occurred in an industrial gas plant in Nnewi, Anambra State.The casualty figure has not been ascertained at the time of this report. Some believe the figure could scale up to 100. The gas plant is owned by Chikason Group and is called Inter […]

Hopes by the governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru, in his case against Governor Ifeanyi Okowa were dashed Thursday by the Appeal Court sitting in Abuja. Okowa, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 governorship election in the state was declared winner by the Independent National […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday urged Nigerians to be mindful of their lives as they join others across the globe to celebrate this year’s Christmas. Buhari’s warning was contained in his statement to Nigerians during the Christian festival. The President also urged the people to reach out in love and compassion to their fellows “who […]Read More

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has solicited the support of the nation’s media for the war against terrorism, saying when Nigeria is at war, they cannot afford to be neutral. “Gentlemen, in this time of war, you cannot afford to be neutral. Yes, you must remain professional at all times, and […]

President Muhammadu Buhari , Tuesday, presented a budget of N6.08 trillion for the 2016 fiscal year to the joint session of the National Assembly. While presenting the budget, the President said the 2016 budget proposal, which is the first of this administration is aimed at stimulating the economy, making it more vibrant by concentrating on infrastructural […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2016 national budget before a joint session of the National Assembly on Tuesday, the presidency has revealed. The revelation was made to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC)  meeting held on Monday in the council chambers of the Presidential Villa. The meeting was scheduled in order […]

President Muhammadu Buhari said Monday in Abuja that his administration was taking urgent and appropriate actions to restore order, due process and probity to the procurement processes of the nation’s Armed Forces.   Speaking at a meeting with the British Secretary of State for Defence, Mr. Michael Fallon, Buhari lamented that the procurement of equipment […]

The fuel subsidy scam probably broke the ceiling in a room crammed with some of the worst corporate perfidy. Nothing could more sabotage the economic interest of a nation, many Nigerians thought. But then came the rice import quota scheme, an unholy romance between politicians and businessmen, at the moment stretching corporate bad practices in […]

The Federal Government on Monday described as hoax, the figures being bandied by ISIS concerning the number of attacks carried out by Boko Haram and the number of people killed by the terrorists in Nigeria in the last two months. In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji […]

For condemning the lawlessness of the Shi’ite Muslim members that led to a clash between them and the Nigerian soldiers in Kaduna recently, the Islamic movement has said the state Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, hates them and sees them as enemies of state. El-Rufai had in a state broadcast on Thursday condemned the activities of the […]

Less than 48 hours after the Punch Newspapers Nigeria announced that  it has suspended its membership from the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Sun Newspaper, a major tabloid in the country has returned the N9 million it was given by the body as compensation for some of the newspapers destroyed by officials of […]