[Leadership] Abuja -- The Integrity Friends for Truth and Peace Initiative (TIFPI) has blamed Twitter preference for Ghana over Nigeria in citing its African headquarters, as a sign of the persistent leadership failure, characterised by poor governan...

[allAfrica] Geneva -- United Nations agencies are alarmed that insurgent groups clashing with Nigerian security forces and attacking civilians in Borno State are targeting humanitarian groups and NGO aid workers trying to help locally-besieged civili...

[This Day] The 2023 presidential election is like a storm that will soon be upon us. In recent days, the buzz of likely candidates has only increased and is now about to reach a crescendo. Nevertheless, like former Senate President Bukola Saraki, the...

[Leadership] In a bid to find solutions to the general insecurity in the country, particularly the menace of banditry, kidnapping and ransom payment, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and an Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, recommended that special court...

[Premium Times] "Lagos State, which is the hub of the creative industry, will take a large share of the one million jobs to be created."

[Premium Times] Premium Times examines how far the Nigerian government has gone in meeting the demands of the protesters, five months after the #ENDSARS protests.

[Leadership] Port Harcourt -- There was voter apathy in yesterday's local government election in Rivers State as majority of the residents stayed away from the polls which will usher in new chairmen and councilors in the 23 local government areas of ...

[Premium Times] It tells the story of a reckless young man, who wakes up to find that no one can recognise him except a local bread seller.

[Vanguard] The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) said 30,452 Nigerian residents have received shots of COVID-19 vaccine on Friday bringing the number of jabs so far to 1.08 million.

[Leadership] Parents of abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka in Kaduna State, have indicated their resolve to negotiate with bandits for the release of the students, citing loss of confidence in government's effor...

[Vanguard] The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers' Council (NSC), Mr Hassan Bello, on Friday disclosed that the ports in the country had attained 70 per cent digitalisation.

[Leadership] Abuja -- The federal government has stressed that the 25 million Nigerians to be electrified through the ongoing N240 million Solar Home System project have to pay some fair bills.

[This Day] Following the conclusion of the Edo 2020 National Sports Festival in Benin City on Wednesday night with impressive performances by some of the athletes, the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports has now shift focus to the Tokyo Olympics.

[Premium Times] In response to our enquiries about TB Joshua's controversial exorcisms, YouTube terminated his channel.

[The Conversation Africa] During the lockdown in Lagos, Nigeria, I joined a humanitarian team to distribute food to poor people in the urban slums. The project was launched because food was not available and accessible to millions of people in Africa...

[Leadership] Abuja -- Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele has said the bank will soon commence the restriction of forex allocation for importation of sugar and wheat into the country.

[This Day] The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, Thursday, approved the activation of new Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards.

[Premium Times] Nine plants suffered a breakdown and others face gas shortages.

[Premium Times] Mr Buhari's handlers said he would return in the second week of April.

[Leadership] The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) on Friday said since the COVID-19 vaccination programme was officially rolled out on March 15, 2021 in Nigeria, 8,439 mild Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI) had been ...

[Leadership] Lagos State topped other states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2020, realising a total of N418.99 billion in the year.

[This Day] Abuja -- Few years ago, any economic pundit that thought of the possibility of a privately-owned petroleum refinery that would have the capacity to meet the needs of Nigeria's downstream sector, and still export to neighboring countries, w...

[This Day] Abuja -- State governments have significantly improved budget transparency and participation as well as improved the robustness of their respective procurement process, a report has stated.

[This Day] The Hyperbaric Medical Practitioners Society of Nigeria (HMPSN) has disclosed plans to partner with the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in a study that will determine the ability of the lung of underwater divers who had survi...

[CFR] The Voice of America now has a presence in Maiduguri, providing welcome firsthand reporting on the Boko Haram insurgency. A recent report describes the gradual resumption of cross-border economic activity with Cameroon in the far northeastern s...

[Leadership] Abuja -- Following the latest attacks on civilians and humanitarian workers in Damasak, Borno State, the European Union (EU) has condemned the act and called on all parties to respect international humanitarian law and to safeguard human...

[Vanguard] Analysts in the financial sector of the economy have projected continuous inflationary pressure in coming months, as surging food prices pushed headline inflation to a 4-year high of 18.17 percent in March 2021. The February figure was 17....

[This Day] Air travellers have been lamenting the outrageous airfares recently exacerbated by the high cost of aviation such that a one-way ticket last Sunday on a 55 minutes domestic flight went for about N120, 000.

[Leadership] Maiduguri -- The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudasiru Osaba, on Thursday, delivered 10,000 bags of rice donated to the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Borno State, by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the Borno State H...

[This Day] Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, who teed-off the golf events of the just concluded 20th National Sports Festival in Benin City, has assured stakeholders in the sport that the world-class facilities used in hosting Nigeria's own 'Olympi...