The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Tax and Fiscal Reform, Taiwo Oyedele, has said the Tax Reform Bill has no provision for consultants to collect tax on behalf of the government. The controversies...

President Bola Tinubu has directed the allocation of funds to address pension arrears, salary increments, and other benefits owed to retired military personnel. The President’s directive comes two days after peaceful demonstrations by military...

  Gunmen believed to be bandits, allegedly assaulted Jumai Kefas, the mother of Taraba State Governor  Agbu Kefas along with her daughter, Atsi Kefas.   The incident happened today, Thursday, December 5, on Kente...

With the assumption of a democratical system of government being practised in Nigeria, yet, what every Nigerian can see is an autocratic system in the way voices are been silenced is becoming too worrisome....

The federal government has fired some civil servants with degrees from private tertiary institutions in Benin Republic and Togo. This was confirmed by the Director of Information and Public Relations in the Office of...

  Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has been elected Namibia’s president and will be the country’s first female leader, results released by the country’s electoral commission show. The 72-year-old won with 57 percent of the vote, according...

Some retired military personnel grounded activities at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Abuja on Thursday over their unpaid entitlements. The retirees accused the Federal Government of not paying them a 20% to 28%...

The National Chairman of the Action Democratic Party, Yabagi Yusuf Sani, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu is being used as a shield in the corruption going on in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company...

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has stated neither Air Peace nor its chairman, Allen Onyema is under any investigation. The Commission explained that its invitation to the airline is simply for an...

The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, says the proposed Tax Reforms by President Bola Tinubu are urgent because they are targeted at bringing relief to Nigerians...

A bill seeking to create a ‘Coastal State’ out of the present Ondo State has scaled through the first reading at the Senate. The bill sponsored by Senator Jimoh Ibrahim representing Ondo South Senatorial...

Former presidential aide and ex-Director General of the Peter Obi 2023 Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has declared that the presidency will remain in the South come 2027, dismissing any potential shift of...

A Magistrate court sitting in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital has remanded human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, over an alleged case of defamation against the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare...

Popular Nigerian Pastor, Tobi Adegboyega, is set to be deported to Nigeria after losing his case to the UK government at the Immigration Tribunal. Adeboyega’s church, SPAC Nation, had been shut down after investigations...

The Indigenous People of Biafra have dissociated themselves from the purported declaration of the Biafra Republic by some members of the Finland-based group, describing it as a scam. https://x.com/i/status/1862798268201095678 The pro-Biafran group urged the...

The planned December 1 strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is at risk of collapsing as several state chapters have announced they will not participate in the proposed industrial action. The strike was...

The President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, is set to travel to South Africa to co-chair the 11th session of the Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission alongside President Cyril Ramaphosa. The President’s journey comes on the...

A former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party. In his resignation letter to the party dated November 29, 2024, Chidoka said he had written to his ward in Anambra...

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says the cumulative electricity subsidy for 2024 may increase to N2.4 trillion. Yusuf Alli, commissioner of planning, research, and strategy at the NERC, spoke on Thursday at the...

The fanfare that greeted the resumption of activities at the Port Harcourt Refining Company on Tuesday may have melted away leaving the hope and expectations of many Nigerians hanging. A visit by Saturday PUNCH to the...

President Bola Tinubu has nominated three new members to fill existing vacancies on the Board of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). The nominees, according to a release by the President’s Special Adviser on...

Former Governor Yahaya Bello has arrived at the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama, where he is expected to take his plea over a 110-billion fraud allegation. The former governor, alongside Umar Oricha and...

The government’s harsh policies are inflicting pain on SMEs in Nigeria. The government needs to take action to ease the burdens many Nigerian businesses face. The sectors that contribute 48% of Nigeria’s GDP and...

The Coalition of Lagos  Indigenous Youths has rejected the recent endorsement of Mr Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for the Lagos State Governorship contest in 2027. Recall that a group known...

A former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe has submitted that the reforms initiated by President Bola Tinubu are in the best interest of Nigeria and Nigerians. According to him, Tinubu met a dying economy where 98%...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has suspended his Senior Special Assistant on Print Media, Mr. Wale Ajetunmobi. This was contained in a statement on Tuesday by the Special Adviser to the Governor on...

The Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, has spoken about an “accidental leadership cycle” which he claims produced President Bola Tinubu, his predecessor Muhammadu Buhari, and other former Nigerian leaders. According to...

Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have arrested a witch doctor and another suspect in connection with alleged armed robbery and kidnapping. The command’s spokesperson, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement...

Former Governor of Anambra State and former Labour and Employment Minister,  Chris Ngige, said the Supreme Court made an error in its judgment on financial autonomy for local governments. Ngige accused local council chairmen of...

Prof Ibrahim Gambari, former Chief of Staff to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has urged the administration of President Bola Tinubu to tweak some of its policies adopted from the World Bank and the International Monetary...

  An irate mob has set ablaze two men said to be revenue touts working with the Anambra State government. The men were set ablaze for allegedly causing the death of an innocent bystander...

Uduma lamented that if the Nigerian police authorities could cover up a rape case she reported and dismiss her for exposing the matter, how much more would have happened if the case involved innocent...