The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said the Nigerian youths, when made productive, would change the country and restore its “squandered” glory. Obi said he and his running mate, Sen. Datti Baba-Ahmed, are in the presidential...
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has commissioned a biorepository laboratory at the agency’s Central Public Health Laboratory in Yaba, Lagos State. According to a statement issued and made available to The Star on Thursday by the Public Affairs...
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Katsina State, Dikko Radda, has picked the state Commissioner for Budget Economic Planning, Faruk Lawal Jobe, as his running mate ahead of the 2023 gubernatorial election in the state. The...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said he discarded the use of lethal military force to rescue the abducted Abuja-Kaduna train passengers to ensure the victims regain freedom unhurt. Buhari, who made the disclosure while meeting with the representatives of the abducted...
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the newly elected President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, to make the West African continent “economically integrated, politically stable, and socially in harmony”. Buhari said this while receiving Touray and the new...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigeria would likely be the third most populated country in the world by 2050, after China and India. This is just as Buhari said the deployment of digital technology in the 2023 National Population and...
A truck, on Thursday, crushed a commercial motorcyclist at Ahmmadiya, opposite NNPC, on Idiroko-Ota Expressway in Ogun State. It was gathered that the incident which occurred at about 8.20 a.m. led to the death of the motorcyclist while one other...
The World Bank has urged the Federal Government to remove the current fuel subsidy regime, saying Nigeria might be facing an existential threat due to the continued payment of trillions of naira on the subsidy. The Senior Public Sector Specialist,...
Over 400 poultry farms have been shut down in Katsina State due to insecurity. Chairman of Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), Katsina State chapter, Alhaji Musa Danhassan, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has highlighted how Nigerian banks were ruined by the lenders’ management. Bawa stated that in some of the failed banks, the management stole billions of Naira under the...