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The Federal Government has declared Friday, March 29 and Monday, April 1, 2024, as public holidays to mark the celebrations of 2024 Good Friday and Easter Monday respectively....

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The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has increased the benchmark interest rate by 200 basis points to 24.75 per cent....

President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, led governors, federal lawmakers, military top brass, dignitaries, grieving families and inconsolable friends of 17 gallant military personnel gruesomely murdered in Delta State to lay wreaths in honour of the slain officers and soldiers.The President was the Special Guest of Honour at the inauspicious occasion at the National Military Cemetery, Abuja.The soldiers were ...

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, on Wednesday, regretted that 21 children had been orphaned and 10 women widowed by the recent killing of 17 military personnel in Delta State.He said out of the 10 widows, three of them are four, five, and eight months pregnant.He noted that it was sad that those responsible for their deaths were those they swore to protect.Lagbaja spoke at the burial ceremony for the slain perso...

The leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has vowed not to accord the National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, any form of recognition following his re-election.Abure was returned as the party national chairman at a national convention of the party held in Nnewi, Anambra State.The convention also saw all members of the National Working Committee return.The slots for represen...

President Bola Tinubu has established the Presidential Economic Coordination Council comprising himself, the Vice President, Senate President and the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, among 27 others.The Presidency in a statement signed by Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, said the move is in furtherance of his administration’s efforts at re-engineering the nation’s ec...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it has set up more than 200 mobile courts to prosecute traffic offenders during the Easter special patrol operations across the country....

The Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has discharged and acquitted three persons detained for their alleged involvement in the #EndSARS protest....

The House of Representatives has begun an investigation into alleged certificate racketeering by some officials of Federal Government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs)....