Category: Nigeria News

 The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday said the federal government had put plans in place to restore the destroyed means of livelihood...

 Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State yesterday commenced his annual vacation. The vacation, according to a statement from Commissioner for Information, Chuks Ugwoke, commenced from June 18. The statement, which...

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, has dismissed as untenable, the rumours in some quarters of a possible coup d’etat in the country. He therefore...

 The Yobe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam, has described the Tuesday attack on a television viewing centre in Damaturu, the state capital, where 14 persons were killed and several others...

 A socio-cultural group, the Jukun Development Association (JDA), has called on the people of southern Taraba in Taraba State to defend themselves by any means possible against external aggression aimed...

 The increased security checks at the nation’s seaports in the wake of the insurgency in the North-eastern part of the country has yielded fruits as a young man, Emmanuel Eko,...

 Liechtenstein yesterday revealed that it would return 167 million euros ($227 million) to Nigeria, ending a long-drawn battle by Nigerian government to recover the money looted by the late Head...

 Delegates to the ongoing National Conference yesterday recommended stiffer penalty of life imprisonment for peddlers of fake or adulterated drugs. They also called for a restriction of medical tourism as...

 Delegates to the ongoing National Conference yesterday approved a restriction of medical tourism describing it as unnecessary capital flight, while also approving free health services for all Nigerians from 65...

 Delegates to the National Conference yesterday presented a motion seeking to reject the call for the establishment of the office of the Surgeon General of the Federation. About 37 delegates...