Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- Peter Akpe has been sworn in as the sixth deputy governor of Bayelsa State, South-south Nigeria. PREMIUM TIMES reported on Tuesday that the state assembly cleared Mr Akpe. Mr Akp... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers says he is now ready to work with the state assembly, five days after the lawmakers withdrew their impeachment move against the governor and hi... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja has dismissed a libel suit filed Olanrewaju Suraju, chairman of the HEDA Resource Centre, against former Attorney-General of... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- The Chairman of the National Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Aminu Masari, has pledged that the panel will conduct its assignment with fairnes... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- Women across the world enjoy barely two-thirds of the legal rights available to men, and laws designed to guarantee equal economic opportunities are enforced only half the time. T... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- Amnesty International Nigeria has called on authorities to investigate what it described as a recurring pattern of road blockades and killings of travellers in Plateau State, warni... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- Contrary to the official narrative that ex-police chief Kayode Egbetokun resigned for family reasons, sources in the presidency told PREMIUM TIMES that President Bola Tinubu asked ... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned three senior officials of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) before different judges of the Lagos State High C... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- The UK Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday heard audio recordings of former Nigerian petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke allegedly confronting two oil tycoons from whom she is a... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 25 -- A United States court has sentenced a former senior official of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Paulinus Okoronkwo, to 87 months (seven years and three months )... Read More