The Federal Government says it will increase excise tax on tobacco products from 30 per cent ad-valorem to 50 per cent as part of measures to control tobacco smoking in...

Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the governor of Sokoto State, had defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, and the All Progressives Congress had asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to have...

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, on Tuesday, inaugurated a 24-man state transition committee, with a charge to ensure a successful handover process. Speaking during the event at the Government...

A man who had been abducted from a Fulani hamlet at Ago-Igbira in the state's Ila-Orangun region has been freed thanks to the Amotekun Corps in Osun. Bashir Adewinmbi, a...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) National Headquarters in Abuja is currently hosting a closed-door meeting for all of its National Commissioners. Just 24 hours prior, the electoral umpire had...

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday restored Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Ararume as non-Executive Chairman of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited NNPCL. The Court voided the sack of...

The Nigerian Bar Association has appealed to the abductors of its former president, Mr. Okey Wali, SAN, to release him without harm. NBA president, Yakubu Maikyau, SAN, made the passionate...

One Munkai'la Abubakar has been charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission with seven counts involving forgery and gaining by false pretense before Justice Darius Khobo of the state...

A federal capital territory (FCT) high court has refused to vacate an interim order restraining Julius Abure from acting as the national chairman of the Labour Party (LP). Ruling on...

The Federal Government, through the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, yesterday, began the registration of unemployed persons in the 20 local government areas of Lagos State. NDE state office in...