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The time is now for UN member states to demonstrate, with their actions, that they mean what they say regarding the crackdown on terrorism financing, economic sabotage, and illicit mineral and arms smuggling in the developing world, according to a firm and compelling declaration made by Nigerian President Bola Tinubu...

The Adhoc Committee of the House of Representatives Investigating Crude Oil Theft and Loss of Revenue from Oil and Gas Companies Chaired by Rt. Hon Kabiru Alhassan Usman Rurum have continued to unearth stunning revelations of massive oil theft suggesting grave collusion of regulatory agencies and their collaborators in the...

Trade unions and civil society organisations campaigners from across Africa have asked African leaders to end restrictive practices that limit access to the internet for workers and citizens within the continent. Our correspondent reports that many citizens across Africa are finding it more difficult by the day to exercise their...

President Bola Tinubu has approved the nomination of Dr. Olayemi Michael Cardoso to serve as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). According to a press statement by presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, on Friday evening, Cardoso will serve for a term of five (5) years at the...

Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, has promised to donate a free land to Gavi, a public–private global health partnership with the goal of increasing access to immunization, for the firm to establish a vaccine factory in the state. Engineer Sule made the pledge when he hosted Gavi’s interim Chief...

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Hon. Zacch Adedeji as the new Acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). According to a statement by presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, on Thursday, the President has directed the erstwhile FIRS Chairman, Muhammad Nami, to proceed on three-month pre-retirement...

Once again, Nigeria has experienced a power outage after the national power grid, operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) from Osogbo in Osun State, collapsed. A check conducted by The Guardian in the early hours of today revealed that the grid dropped to a mere 273 megawatts of...

The House of Representatives on Wednesday, said that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) lied to Nigerians when it said that the executive arm of government gave each member N100 million as palliatives. The spokesman of the House, Akin Rotimi, described the statement by the NLC as malicious, irresponsible, and in...

Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC ) in the November 11 governorship election in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, appears to be playing the ostrich in the Opu-Nembe (Bassambiri) community crisis. Governor Douye Diri’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, while reacting to a statement credited to the former...

By Our reporter The Interim Administrator of the Amnesty Office, Maj Gen Barry Ndiomu(retd.) has awarded a N2.9 billion contract for the training of 139 pilots to Alom Aviation Limited two weeks to the end of his tenure. Ndiomu was appointed by former president Muhammadu Buhari in September 2022 to...