Completion of Self-certification forms by reportable personsThe Income Tax (Common Reporting Standard) Regulation, 2019 requires all Financial Institutions to collect and report certain… Read More

It said the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country has increased to 4,971. Data from the centre’s website showed that six new COVID-19 fatalities were recorded in the country… Read More

Be Scam Smart! We observed that scammers are beginning to have sleepless nights over our customers’ accounts. They have started sending messages on purported ATM card d… Read More

The Federal Government has refused to bow to pressure to free the Chinese and others arrested for illegal mining in Zamfara and Osun states last month, vowing to prosecute the suspects. T… Read More

What a great support that i decided to give them a free publicity. You’ve got questions.We’ve got answers. Whether you’re ready to launch a campaign or need tips for… Read More

The Federal Government has commended the support of Individuals and corporate organizations that have donated and complemented its efforts at combating the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. T… Read More

For the people of Oyo State who are eagerly awaiting the distribution of the COVID-19 palliatives by the state government, hope for the planned welfare package appears far-fetched as blame g… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed the Nigerian media, applauding “the good work they have done, and are still doing, as the nation confronts the ravaging Coronavirus pandemic.&rdqu… Read More

Two members of the United States House of Representatives, Steve Chabot and Chris Smith, have expressed concern over alleged human rights violations under the regime of the President, Major… Read More

Chanel Chin, the ex-wife of the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba  Abdulrasheed Akanbi, talks to SAMSON FOLARIN about her marriage to the monarch and the issues that led to her exit from the palace… Read More

The Federal Government has released new guidelines for the new phase of containment of COVID-19 from May 4 to May 17, 2020. Part the guidelines which were signed by the Secretary to the G… Read More

Kayode OyeroFemi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) says the “Enemy of the State,” who leaked his principal… Read More

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said yesterday that Nigeria can afford living wage for workers. He said non payment of salaries by governors… Read More

Five persons suspected to be involved in the April 15 bank robbery and killings in Offa, Offa Local Government of Kwara State, were yesterday arraigned before an Ilorin Magistrates’ Co… Read More

The Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property (SPIPRPP) yesterday accused Senator Hope Uzodinma of jumping the bail it granted him on Sunday after his arrest… Read More

A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday remanded an impersonation suspect, Bada Azeez Ayoola, in prison custody following his arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFC… Read More

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has asked Senate President Bukola Saraki to name any member of the APC who offered him bribe either in fore… Read More

The Federal Government has raised funds from its external debt requirements to finance the 2018 budget at a considerably lower cost than projected. Following the successful pricing, Minister… Read More

Owners of the  mansions seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have been unveiled. They are former governors, ex-ministers, top military officers and busines… Read More

Nigeria will increase its oil production to 1.8 million barrels per day next year, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Group Managing Director Maikanti Baru said yesterday. The cou… Read More

Despite criticism in some quarters over the inclusion of Odion Ighlo in the 28 players invited to prosecute the country’s September 7 Africa Cup of Nations’ qualifier against Sey… Read More

CHAIRMAN of the Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Moshood Salvador, has dumped the opposition party for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Addressing some party members at his of… Read More

Supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday rose in his defence following a report quoting sources close to United States President Donald Trump as describing his meeting with Buhari… Read More

The remains of Oyo State and Southwest Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Taofeek Oyerinde (aka Fele), were interred yesterday according to Islamic rite… Read More

The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres and staff members, remembered former Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday, describing him as a leader who put people a… Read More

Despite pressure from some forces, including members of his kitchen cabinet, President Muhammadu Buhari has foreclosed the reinstatement of sacked Department of State Services (DSS) Director… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari has shown his fitness to seek reelection in 2019 by walking 800 metres back home from the Eid ground, the Presidency said yesterday. After the two-rakat Eid–… Read More

The Federal Government said yesterday that its whistle-blower policy had raked in N13.8 billion from tax evaders. It added other massive dividends of the policy included N7.8 billion, $378 m… Read More

Committee hasn’t agreed on figure, says Ngige The new wage structure is still a long way to go, going by indications from Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige. According to hi… Read More

THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) have cases to answer over non-remittance of revenues to the Federation Account for several… Read More

The Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti, said decrepit waste compactors relied upon by Private Sector Participation (PSP) operators to cart refuse have… Read More

Mr. Emmanuel Okotie-Eboh is the son of First Republic politician and Finance Minister, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh. In this exclusive interview with our South-south Regional Editor, Shola O&rsq… Read More

Renowned German political philosopher Friedrich Engels once stated that all a politician needs to prosecute a successful battle is good tactics, as well as strategic and dialectical thinking… Read More

Detectives are to quiz Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu tomorrow on some assets linked with him. He is expected at 10a.m. at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abuja… Read More

Struggle for control rocks party in Kwara PDP aspirant won’t quit for defectors Senate President Bukola Saraki’s political future is causing ripples in the Kwara State All Progre… Read More

Eminent Nigerians at the weekend suggested the way out of the killings in parts of the country. To a former Inspector-General of Police Suleiman Abba, the way to go is community policing. Se… Read More

An unnamed Asaba-based pastor is on the run for allegedly masterminding the kidnap of a lady, The Nation has learnt. The lady, it was learnt, recently received some money from relatives resi… Read More

The Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Transport and Petroleum Resources has urged commuters to avoid boarding unregistered vehicles. The ministry’s Head of Compliance and Monitoring Unit, Mr… Read More

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said there are 73,109 Permanent Voter Cards yet to be collected by registered voters in Edo State. It said the uncollected PVCs were… Read More

THE absence of an Abuja Federal High Court judge, Justice Silvanus Oriji, yesterday, stalled the trial of former Inspector-General of Police Sunday Ehindero and a former police commissioner… Read More

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has declared that he will not slow down on projects delivery because the people of the state deserve the very best. Speaking after inspecting projects in Ob… Read More

APart from National Secretary Mai Mala Buni and one or two others, the other members of the Oyegun-led Natioal Working Committee (NWC) are not likely to retain their positions at Saturday&rs… Read More

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to order ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s former aide, Dr. Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, to… Read More

Cholera patients in Niger State will get free treatment, the government has said. Commissioner for Health Dr Mustapha Jibrin spoke when he visited the Umaru Sanda Ndayako General Hospital in… Read More

Mr Francis Momoh, who was accused of paying multiple kickbacks to former Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Executive Director of Projects Mr. Tuoyo Omatsuli, has urged the Federal Hi… Read More

A Senior Pastor with the Peniel Church of God in Calabar, Apostle Essien Ayi, has donated N1 million for the completion of a central mosque and Islamic Centre in the Cross River State capita… Read More

Chinedu Onyeizu is a senatorial aspirant in Abia State on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview with Associate Editor, Sam Egburonu, the 38 year-old petroleum en… Read More

A yet-to-be-identified man yesterday committed suicide by throwing himself off the roof of the Grand Mosque in Islam’s holiest city of Mecca. The state news agency, SPA, quoted the pol… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday night gave reasons why he prevented his Special Adviser on Media and publicity, Femi Adesina, from responding to an attack on him by former President Olu… Read More

Pep Guardiola has met Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed and the club’s chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak on Wednesday afternoon as the Spaniard enjoys a trip away in Dubai. The… Read More

Barcelona thumped Chelsea 3-0 at Camp Nou on Wednesday in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League Round of 16, to move into the quarter-finals. Bayern Munich also qualified for the quart… Read More

EXPERIENCED CAF Club contenders, AlIttihad of Libya will fly Vicdirectly from Tripoli to Uyo today in a private jet that has been put at the disposal of the club by shareholders from the oil… Read More

COACH Gernot Rohr has said that he will not put a man on Argentina superstar, Lionel Messi when both countries clash at the World Cup in Russia. Nigeria have lost on all four occasions they… Read More

Its Chief Executive Officer, Mr Adeoye Fadeyibi, said this while deliberating on how the company could improve its service delivery at a town hall meeting in Victoria Island in Lagos Fadebiy… Read More

Federal Government plans to repay N482 billion of treasury bills (T-Bills) in the second quarter of this year. The regulator will also halve the amount it wants to raise between March and Ma… Read More

Nigeria’s most capitalised financial institution and leading tier one commercial bank- Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) Plc recorded a pre-tax profit of N200 billion in 2017, prompting the bo… Read More

The governorship aspirations of many senators have pitched them against governors and other party leaders in their states. As the polity prepares for next year’s general elections, RAY… Read More

Former House of Representatives member Hon. Bimbo Daramola is a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State. He spoke with EMMANUEL OLADESU in… Read More

President Mohammadu Buhari yesterday assured parents of the abducted girls that he won’t rest until the last girl is freed from captivity. He also promised to punish “any agency… Read More

Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson has just celebrated his six years in office by commissioning some projects. At the ceremony, he also rekindled hope in the ability of the ‘Restor… Read More

The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday ordered the final forfeiture of two penthouses valued at $4.760m belonging to former Petroleum Resources Minister Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke. They a… Read More

Some unknown gunmen yesterday in Kaduna abducted the wife and child of a Voice of America (VOA) reporter. The abductors killed an official of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), who a… Read More

Jose Mourinho and Lukaku has granted interview just after they defeated Chelsea 2-1 at Old Trafford on Sunday afternoon. While Mourinho his side beat a good Chelsea side Lukaku feel they har… Read More

Amid the hardship of recession in 2016, insurers helped restore businesses and protect families of insured Nigerians through payment of claims for losses worth N119.5 billion, a report by th… Read More

NAVGAS Limited has rewarded members of the National Union of Petroleum Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Unit of the company for their loyalty to the firm at an ev… Read More

This week’s defection of Labour Party’s only House of Representatives lawmaker, Segun Ogunwuyi, to APC, has evoked fresh fear over LP’s survival as a national party, report… Read More

Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) is marking his one year in office. Correspondent DAMISI OJO examines how the All Progressives Congress (APC) governor, who took over from Dr. Oluse… Read More

Former First Lady Patience Jonathan, some firms and groups linked to her and their bankers are engaged in a blame game over their inability to retrieve huge sums trapped in the banks in the… Read More

Minister: govt ’ll rescue them The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) has deployed more assets in a day and night search for the 110 schoolgirls abducted last week by suspected Boko Haram men. Th… Read More

The Enugu State Executive Council (EXCO) has awarded contracts for the construction of another set of urban and rural roads worth over N1billion, in keeping with the state government’s… Read More

No fewer than 500 women across Osun State have received support to boost their ventures from the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi. Speaking at the Ooni Annual Women Empowerment Works… Read More

Three herdsmen are to spend the next one year in jail after a Makurdi Magistrates’ Court yesterday found them guilty of violating the Benue State Anti-Open Grazing Law, 2017. Jailed ar… Read More

A driver with the Government House, Lokoja, Kogi State, Danladi Baba, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for reckless driving and causing the death of Prof. Festus Iyayi, in an a… Read More

Oseni Oludotun is the Managing Director/ CEO of Meritabode Nigeria Limited. His outfit is into properties and the developers of Emerald Garden City in different locations across Lagos and Og… Read More

Lagos Business School (LBS) alumi have emerged finalists for the Association of MBA (AMBA) Student of the Year and the Entrepreneurial Venture of the year respectively, at the 2018 AMBA Awar… Read More

Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors Forum, and Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, on Thursday night said that President Muhammadu Buhari will soon make his intentions… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the abduction of schoolgirls from the Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe, as a national disaster. Buhari also apologised to Nigerians o… Read More

No fewer than 105 students may be missing in the aftermath of Monday’s invasion of the Government Girls’ Science Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, by suspected Boko Haram te… Read More

•Security checks, bad roads, forex, others blamed For more than two months, the fuel situation has been unpredictable. Today there is product and the next day – the pumps at the f… Read More

•’States capable can go on’ Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) Chairman Abdulaziz Yari yesterday said creation of state police would help in addressing the spate of insecu… Read More

The House of Representatives will join the battle to raise $500million needed to complete the last phase of the Ajaokuta Steel project, Speaker Yakubu Dogara said yesterday. He said except t… Read More

The Ogun State House of Assembly has voted in favour of sixteen items out of the twenty sent to it by the National Assembly as part of the process of the on -going fourth alteration of the 1… Read More

•Factional chairman carpets Abdulahi Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Usani, yesterday denied knowledge of his suspension from the All Progressives Congress (APC). Usani to… Read More

Oyo State government at the weekend said it has realised about N5 billion direct investment injected into public primary and secondary schools education one year after the introduction of Sc… Read More

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed facilitating the handover of the three lecturers of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) and 10 women from Boko Haram insur… Read More

EVEN before former President Olusegun Obasanjo came out to demand a youthful president as the way forward for Nigeria, the search for the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in… Read More

SINCE the new year killings of 73 farmers in Benue state by suspected Fulani herdsmen, Governor Samuel Ortom had being at loggerheads with the federal government and security agencies, parti… Read More

THERE was a big rally in Owerri, the capital of Imo State on Wednesday, February 7. In attendance were more than 3,000 participants and the aim is one thing – to persuade the Deputy Go… Read More

•Jonathan, associates kick •Obasanjo schemes to impose crony on CNM A fresh crisis is looming in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2019 elections. The thre… Read More

• 10 women victims also set free Three abducted lecturers of the University of Maiduguri were yesterday let out of Boko Haram captivity, 201 days after they were seized. Also freed by t… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday urged victims of herdsmen attacks not to engage in reprisals. He reassured the people of the Northcentral, who are mostly at the receiving end of the att… Read More

Many indigenes of Kogi State are up in arms against Governor Yahaya Bello over what they describe as his style of governance. The governor has also incurred the wrath of his people for suppo… Read More

HEALTH minister Prof. Isaac Adewole yesterday announced that the outbreak of Lassa fever has spread to 15 states, recording 31 deaths. He added that there had been 105 laboratory confirmed c… Read More

•Police declare aide wanted The police yesterday declared Kassim Afegbua, former military president Gen. Ibrahim Babangida’s spokesman, wanted. This is in connection with the cont… Read More

Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama has said the Federal Government is winning foreign investors’ confidence through the fight against corruption and the Ease of Doing Busines… Read More

The Federal Government will prepare a supplementary budget to ensure the payment of the increased wage bill after the minimum wage review, Director General of the Budget Office Ben Akabueze… Read More

The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has assured commuters that it would not increase transport fare in spite of the tolls review by Lekki Concession Company (LCC). Alhaji Ta… Read More

Nations Sport can report that before Wednesday’s crucial Semi-final match against the Sudan Each of the CHAN Eagles received $8,000 only being payment of their match bonuses for the on… Read More

Chelsea have reinforced their attacking line with the signing of French striker Olivier Giroud from Arsenal FC on an 18-month contract, the English Premier League clubs confirmed on Wednesda… Read More

Nigeria has qualified for the final of the Champions of Africa Nation 2018. The Super Eagles defeated a strong side Sudan by 1-0 in the semi-final match played on Wednesday. Coach Salisu yus… Read More