Nigeria’s finance minister, Zainab Ahmed, said on Thursday that she disagreed with what she called a “surprise” downgrade of the country’s credit rating by Moody’s. She insisted that the government was already addressing the agency’s concerns. Last week, Moody’s downgraded ...

Funding for the low-rate production of Hungarian Magnus Sentinel training and surveillance aircraft has been allocated by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of N2.3 billion for the commencement of the local ...

The Federal High Court, Abuja has struck out the suit by the Peoples Democratic Party seeking disqualification of governorship and National Assembly candidates of the Labour Party and Young Progressives Party, in the 2023 general elections. The suit was on ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday, recorded 19 successful bids as the curtain was drawn on the sales of forfeited landed properties, in Abuja. The properties, located in different parts of the country, were forfeited to the federal ...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday, described the Boko Haram group and its attendant ideology — which abhors Western education — as a “fraudulent plot” designed to “destroy Nigeria.”Buhari’s comments come barely 48 hours after he alleged ...

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has summoned an emergency meeting in Abuja to deliberate and reach a decision on the continued stay of the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, in office in view ...

Seizes 5,460.34kgs of skunk in Lagos, Edo, Bauchi, Kaduna, Oyo, and Delta raids At least, One Million Seven Hundred and Sixty Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty (1,760,460) pills of Tramadol and other opioids have been intercepted hidden in indomie noodles ...

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Sunday, promised that his administration will revive the manufacturing sector and diversify the economy for the benefit of everyone. The former Lagos State governor stated this, according to ...

Deji Elumoye in Abuja The federal government has approved a new National Language Policy which makes the mother tongue a compulsory medium of instruction for public primary school pupils. Making this disclosure Wednesday was the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, ...

“We are expecting that we will be exiting the importation of petroleum products from maybe about the third quarter next year if I were to give it a longer timeframe, but I believe that even before the third quarter next year.”