[Daily Trust] Aliko Dangote has retained his position as the richest man in Africa, with a net worth of $13.9 billion (N5.7trillion), according to the 2022 edition of the Forbes' Top 10 Africa's Billionaires List.

[Daily Trust] The Federal Government has proposed an 18-month extension for the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) originally scheduled to kick off this February.

[Vanguard] The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has raised its forecast for Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product, GDP, growth in 2023 to 2.7 per cent.

[Premium Times] It is Nigeria's second consecutive year of a downward spiral on the TI's Corruption Perception Index (CPI).

[Premium Times] Akwa Ibom is among the four states with the highest incidence of child marriage in Southern Nigeria.

[Leadership] President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja directed all the security institutions to immediately leverage Fifth Generation (5G) technology, when deployed, to enhance security in the country.

[Premium Times] Residents say bandits have blacklisted Runka for enjoying security protection, which had saved the community from their attack.

[Premium Times] Nigeria is ranked 154 out of 180 nations in the country comparison, down five places from the 2020 record.

[Vanguard] Abuja -- The Federal Government yesterday explained that the reason for the extension of complete removal of fuel subsidy was as a result of President Mohammadu Buhari's insistence that all the necessary structures must be put in place to ...

[Vanguard] Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, has said his government would not allow criminals, masquerading as herdsmen, to overrun the state under any guise.

[This Day] The Presidency yesterday evening described Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue as a failed politician who apportions blame for his inability to perform.

[This Day] The President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, yesterday met with heads of security and paramilitary agencies and tasked them to do more to checkmate smuggling of petroleum products out of Nigeria.

[This Day] The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo yesterday canvassed for the creation of a benchmark in the salaries of judicial officers as well as that of the legislators to put a permanent rest to the perennial disputes among the two arms of gov...

[This Day] Abuja -- The Senate yesterday passed the harmonised Clause 84 of the 2010 Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2022, which allows political parties to adopt three modes of primaries.

[This Day] Super Tucano fighter jets deployed by the Nigeria Air Force under Operation Hadin Kai yesterday struck a meeting venue of commanders and fighters of the Islamic State for West African Province (ISWAP) killing scores of insurgents in Kurta ...

[This Day] The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, yesterday said the apex bank would not raise interest rate following the policy normalisation being undertaken by some advanced economies such as the United States and...

[This Day] British Solicitor and Senior Partner, Leigh Day & Co., Mr. Martyn Day, has insisted that he fully acted according to the instructions given by Bodo community, Rivers state, in the disbursement of a £55 million compensation sum paid by She...

[Vanguard] Should the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, fail to zone the presidency to the South, the party is likely going to witness mass exodus, a PDP group, Vanguard for Justice, said.

[Vanguard] FOR most of last week 5G had a bad story. For a technology that is expected to foster advantage in affecting human connectivity and machine to machine connectivity as well, 5G got into some kind of nightmarish flux that really made people ...

[Vanguard] Nigeria has dropped five places on the 2021 corruption perception index published by Transparency International, TI, yesterday.

[Premium Times] A total of 12,860 Nigerian students enrolled in American colleges in the 2020/2021 academic year, 902 or 6.6 per cent down from 13,762 students in the 2019/2020 academic year, the report noted.

[Premium Times] The federal government introduced an excise duty of N10 per litre on all non-alcoholic, carbonated, and Sugar-sweetened beverages.

[Premium Times] "Our brothers and sisters in rural communities are going through tough times suffering bandits' attacks."

[This Day] The federal government finally failed in its efforts to remove the highly contentious subsidy on petrol yesterday when it disclosed plan to recommend an 18-month extension of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) to the National Assembly.

[This Day] The Federal Government has called on Saudi Arabia to lift its travel ban on Nigeria.

[This Day] Barely a year after she was honoured by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth as one of the world brightest students in 2021, Fareedah Oyolola of Greensprings School has again put Nigeria on the map by receiving the Elitist title of ...

[Vanguard] The Senate has asked all the heads of Security agencies and paramilitary heads in the country to as a matter of urgency, stem the huge level of smuggling of Petroleum products in the country.

[Vanguard] Abuja -- THE Presidency last night attacked the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom over his comment when he appeared on Arise television programme where he said that Nigerians are regretting voting for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.

[Premium Times] "What this simply means is that alongside the COVID-19 vaccines, childhood vaccines will also be available at COVID-19 vaccination sites."

[Premium Times] Nwoko wants Jaruma, a famous sex therapist who sells an aphrodisiac called kayanmata, prosecuted for allegedly defaming and libeling him and his family.