The National Identity Management Commission has issued fresh guidelines for applicants to obtain their National Identification Number. The commission in a statement issued by its spokesman, Kayode Adegoke said attending to applicants would be based on Booking System. “Mindful of the second wave of the COVID-19 which continues to severely affect public health and cause unprecedented disruptions,

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Tuesday, tendered in evidence before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the nomination form Governor Godwin Obaseki filled and submitted for the purpose of the governorship election that held in Edo State on September 19. Justice Ahmed Mohammed admitted and marked the document known as Form EC9, along

The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has exposed how the Ministry of Defence paid N968.8 million for the production and supply of medals and ribbons for the Armed Forces to celebrate an Independence Anniversary without approval from the Federal Executive Council and the Ministerial Tenders Board. The 2015 Audit Report by the Auditor General of

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised Nigerian leaders to stop blaming God for the increasing insecurity, parlous economy, poverty and other challenges plaguing the nation. Obasanjo lamented that the hardship brought about by the country’s parlous economy and coronavirus pandemic have conspired to claim the lives of many Nigerians, submitting however that the nation’s woes

Alhaji Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), is dead. According to reports, Abdulsalam died in the early hours of Tuesday 29, December 2020 from an undisclosed ailment. Confirming his death, Mr. Kennedy Chigozie, the Deputy National Secretary, LP, said that a public announcement would be made soon by the party. More

Bishop Kukah, at a media conference with selected journalists held at St Bakhita Secretariat in Sokoto on Monday night, urged Nigerians to get the accurate statement rather than relying on different lies being peddled about in his name. As reactions and counter-reactions continue to trail his Christmas message, Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Matthew Hassan

A Federal High Court in Lagos has struck out an oral application by an oil firm, Seplat Petroleum Development Company, seeking to vary an order of Mareva injunction which froze its account and sealed its offices. Justice Rilwan Aikawa found merit in the argument of Access Bank Plc for sustaining the injunction against Seplat pending

Some farmers and landowners have asked the Supreme Court to reject a claim by a prominent Kano businessman, Aminu Baba Nabegu, to an expanse of land lying between Refawa village and Garun Babba town in Kano Sate. They told the court that they were the original owners and had farmed the land before Nabegu allegedly

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that Nigeria maintained its lead as the biggest economy in Africa, in terms of the size of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But globally, the IMF, in its recently released World Economic Outlook (WEO), reviewed by experts on Monday, ranked Nigeria the 26th largest economy, with an