Govt to launch 3-hour Abuja-Lagos speed train
In a bid to boost speedy transport system in railway, the Federal Government, yesterday, announced that plans have reached advanced stages for a three-hour speed train project from Lagos to Abuja. This...
View ArticleLeave us out of interim government – PDP tells APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Organisation has asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) to leave it out of the controversy ...
View ArticleI reserve my comments till after elections, says Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said that he would no longer comment on the polity until a winner emerges in the February 14 ...
View ArticleI stand by my statement on missing N30trn, says Soludo
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), Prof Chukwuma, Charles Soludo, on Wednesday said he would not capitulate on his earlier claim ...
View ArticleMissing N30trn: Soludo’s claim difficult to believe – Ribadu …says...
Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has dismissed allegations by the former Central Bank governor ...
View ArticleTelecoms subscriber base hits 136m – NCC
Nigeria telephone subscriber base has leaped from less than 500,000 in 2000 to over 136 million fixed and mobile lines in November 2014, the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) said yesterday. Mrs....
View ArticleNUC abolishes pass degrees in varsities
Students of Nigerian universities will no longer be allowed to graduate with pass degrees, Vice Chancellor of the Usmanu Danfordiyo University, Sokoto Professor Abubakar Abdu Zuru, said yesterday. He...
View ArticleOtti laments lack of basic infrastructure in Abia communities
Abia State governorship candidate on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Dr. Alex Otti, has bemoaned the near absence of motorable roads and other basic infrastructure in most...
View ArticleEnugu PDP not collaborating with any political party, says Chime …as Igbo-Eze...
Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has declared that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State is not collaborating with any political party in the forthcoming general elections,...
View ArticleNigeria’s debt profile rises to N11.24tn
The debt profile of both the Federal Government and the 36 states of the federation as well as the Federal Capital Territory rose from N10.04tn as of December 31, 2013 to N11.24tn by December 31, 2014....
View ArticleMilitary recovers lost weapons from Boko Haram
Fierce counter-terrorism operations carried out with Chad, Niger and Cameroun have led to the recovery of the weapons captured by terrorists during their attack on the Multinational Taskforce...
View ArticleThe Economist magazine endorses Buhari
Influential United Kingdom-based magazine, The Economist, says the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is more competent than President Goodluck...
View ArticleElections: We didn’t deny accreditation to foreign media – Govt
The Federal Government, yesterday, described as false, media reports that it was denying accreditation to foreign journalists to come for the coverage of the forthcoming elections. A statement by the...
View ArticleI have 60 reasons why Jonathan doesn’t deserve re-election, says Soyinka
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says President Goodluck Jonathan does not deserve a second term ...
View ArticleFG raises alarm over terrorists’ plots to attack polling centres
The Federal Government yesterday disclosed that terrorists had perfected plans to attack polling booths in the forthcoming general elections ...
View ArticleNyanya bombing mastermind Ogwuche, others face fresh charges
The Federal Government has filed fresh charges against 29-year-old Aminu Ogwuche and six others with whom he allegedly carried out the April 14, 2014 bombing in Nyanya, Abuja. The accused were...
View ArticleHolding elections in February dangerous – Gana
A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and a member of the board of trustees of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Mohammed Abba Gana, on Friday said it will be dangerous and illegal to...
View ArticleEmir Sanusi for coronation today
The Kano State Government said it had concluded arrangements for the coronation and presentation of staff of office to the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, scheduled for today, Saturday,...
View ArticleTribunal dismisses Omisore’s petition, affirms Aregbesola as governor
The Election Petitions Tribunal, hearing cases arising from the Osun State August 9, 2014governorship election in the state, has dismissed the petition of the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in...
View ArticleCAF bans Morocco from 2017, 2019 AFCON
Morocco were kicked out of the 2017 and 2019 Africa Cup of Nations and fined $1m for refusing to host this year’s event due to fears over Ebola, the continental game’s ruling body said. The...
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