The Lagos State Government on Thursday denied any involvement in the demolition of a property in the Ikeja area of the state, which the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, claimed belonged to his brother. This was…
President Bola Tinubu has assented to the four tax reform bills recently passed by the National Assembly. The short ceremony, which took place at the Presidential Villa on Thursday, was attended by the leadership of the National Assembly and some…
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday signed into law the four new tax bills recently passed by the National Assembly, describing the new laws as pivotal to the success of the administration’s reforms and the country’s prosperity. The bills are the…
The High Court in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has sentenced Oluwatimileyin Ajayi, the suspected killer of a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Salome Adaidu, to death by hanging. Justice Simon Aboki, who handed down the judgment, found Ajayi guilty of…
Amid the growing speculation over who will emerge as President Bola Tinubu’s running mate for the 2027 presidential election, the Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, has declared his full loyalty to Tinubu, stating that he will do whatever the…
There was commotion on the floor of the Senate following the submission and consideration of the ad-hoc committee report on the emergency rule in Rivers State, particularly regarding the screening and approval of the Chairman of the Rivers State Independent…
The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), the Federal Government’s One-Stop-Shop Committee on the Sale of Crude in Naira, and the Dangote Refinery have agreed to midwife the presidential directive on crashing domestic prices of petroleum products to enhance national…
President Bola Tinubu will sign into law four groundbreaking tax reform bills on Thursday, transforming Nigeria’s fiscal and revenue framework. The four bills —the Nigeria Tax Bill, the Nigeria Tax Administration Bill, the Nigeria Revenue Service (Establishment) Bill, and the…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has insisted that the party’s 100th National Executive Council (NEC) meeting will proceed as scheduled on Monday, June 30. The PDP NWC, in a statement on Wednesday, also insisted…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reinstated Samuel Anyanwu as the National Secretary of the party, following its meeting with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday. The party has also suspended its planned National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting…
The Senate has passed the 2025 budget of Rivers State, totaling ₦1.485 trillion, following the third reading of the appropriation bill on the Senate floor today. The passage came after the upper chamber considered the report of the Ad-Hoc Committee…
Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue has condemned the killing of two indigenes of Kano State in the Agan settlement of the state by criminals. Describing the act as barbaric and unacceptable, Alia declared that the perpetrators must be fished out…
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), in partnership with the Ministry of Youth Development and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has commenced the training of selected Youth Corps members to drive National Identification Number (NIN) enrolment to all the…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Umar Isa, over an alleged $7.2 billion fraud linked to the rehabilitation of the Kaduna,…
Nigeria’s external reserves rose from under $4 billion recorded at the end of 2023 to over $23 billion in the second quarter of 2025. This was revealed by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun,…