The Alex Otti-led Abia State Government is set to sign a $200 million Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Presco Plc, a leading oil palm producer in Nigeria and Ghana, to develop palm oil production in the state.
Governor Otti disclosed...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received 147 Nigerian migrant returnees from Niamey in Niger as part of ongoing efforts to support citizens returning from abroad.
The returnees arrived at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano on...
The Nigerian Navy has destroyed an illegal crude oil storage facility in the Bonny area of Rivers State as part of ongoing operations to combat crude oil theft and illegal bunkering in the Niger Delta.
The operation was carried out...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on April 1, 2026, arraign former Jigawa State governor Sule Lamido before Peter Odo Lifu of the Federal High Court in Maitama, Abuja, over an alleged N1.3 billion fraud.
Lamido is expected...
The Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, has ordered the interim forfeiture of a hotel valued at about N1.3 billion allegedly linked to the Managing Director of the Ikeja Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, Edward Olutoke.
The order was...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Makurdi, the capital of Benue State, has sentenced two men, Emmanuel Ogwuche and Mohammed Alfa, to three years imprisonment for attempting to steal cables belonging to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Ogwuche and...
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared N1.894 trillion to the Federal Government, States, and the Local Government Councils as February 2026 federation account Revenue.
The revenue was shared at the March 2026 FAAC meeting held in Abuja.
The N1.894...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the establishment of a Presidential Petroleum Reform and Value Optimisation Task Force to drive the next phase of structural reforms in Nigeria’s petroleum sector.
The development was announced in a statement issued on Friday...
At least 13 people, including 12 soldiers and a civilian driver, have been killed after suspected fighters of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) ambushed a Nigerien military convoy in the Tahoua Region of Niger.
Security sources said...
Members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), popularly known as Shi’ites, staged a protest at the National Mosque in Abuja on Friday in support of Iran.
The demonstrators had attended the regular Jumat prayer at the mosque before launching...
