Joseph Rotimi The current political leadership of Nigeria campaigned with an air of feigned respectability, change and a somewhat arrogant sense of inevitability. Before the elections,...
Unlike most 15 year-old French girls who spend their time on social media chatting with friends about schoolmates, listening to music and watching movies online, it...
The Senate, on Monday, explained why it rejected the 2016 Budget, saying the version submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters,...
About 10 Syrian refugees have been welcomed with open arms by residents of the Isle of Bute who believe the refugee families will have a positive...
Nigerian equities opened another week with their steepest decline so far this year as panic overwhelmed market sentiments and dampened appetite for quoted equities. With more...
A report by human rights organisation, Amnesty International, into Cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo reveals that children as young as seven were working...
By Ali Smart When the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele addressed the last Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in the last quarter...
Defending women’s champion, Serena Williams, reached the second round of the Australian Open with a tense 6-4 7-5 win over Italian Camila Giorgi in her first...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is the target of a campaign tagged “Zuckerberg don’t kill us” by an Israeli NGO which is hoping to raise funds to...
The Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, has thrown its weight behind the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to stop selling forex to Bureaux De...
A report released in London by Oxfam reveals that the wealthiest 62 people on earth own as much as half of the world’s population. The revelation...
Nifemi Daniel Nigeria Premier League champions, Enyimba of Aba, were attacked by dare-devil armed robbers in Okene, Kogi State on their way to Kaduna for the...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, in Abu Dhabi, said his administration has succeeded in pushing the Boko Haram insurgents into ‘fall back positions’, adding that the...
Nifemi Daniel Super sub Chison Chikatara emerged as Nigeria’s hero following the Super Eagles’ 4-1 demolition of the Menas of Niger in the second game of...
By Ali Smart… Fifty-five privileged Nigerians looted N1.34 trillion from the nation’s treasury between 2006 and 2013, Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has...
Migrants from North African countries are reported to be the main target of a crackdown by German authorities on migrants following a series of attacks on...
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, on Monday, replied former President Olusegun Obasanjo over a statement credited to him that Biafra...
Controversial American rapper, Lil Wayne, reportedly walked off the stage at a concert in Milan after the artist felt he wasn’t really connecting with the audience...
The Nigerian Senate, Monday, announced that it has 30 bills of interest that fast track the change agenda of the current administration slated for the 2016...
Novak Djokovic recalled his own brush with match-fixing, as the start of the year’s first Grand Slam tournament was overshadowed by corruption allegations. Djokovic started his...
By Pastor Tunde Bakare… Isaiah43: 18 and 19 “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a...
Mouthy Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump is at it again. This time, the billionaire estate magnate turned politician has issued a warning to the Nigerian Community in...
The management of FCMB Group Plc has forewarned investors that the financial services group would report lower earnings for the third and fourth quarters of 2015,...
Nifemi Daniel Coach of the Menas of Niger, Susini Jeau, has said that his team is not scared of the Super Eagles as both teams battle...
Five-time Australian Open champion, Novak Djokovic, on Sunday, backed Andy Murray’s plan to quit the tournament if his wife goes into labor, saying he would do...
Real Madrid suffered an injury set-back in Sunday’s clash with Sporting Gijon, with winger Gareth Bale taken off with a suspected calf problem. Zinedine Zidane made...
In a failed assassination attempt, a suicide bomber rammed his car into the house of a police chief in the southern Yemeni city of Aden killing...
After the festivities of the Christmas and New Year celebrations, about 3, 000 civil servants of the Imo State government were given a rude shock when...
Ok, so maybe Valentine’s Day isn’t for another month, but that doesn’t mean you can’t show your partner some special attention now.The plan is to show...
By Joseph Edgar . . . . Corruption is a Nigerian I tell you. The only way it can be stamped out is for us to...
Gentle, low-impact exercise that’s easy, free and available to everyone – here’s why walking rocks. Read also: 5 reasons Tequila is good for you 1. Walking strengthens your...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday left Nigeria for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a three-day official visit to that country, where he will attend...
Terror group ISIS has now developed it’s own chat application know as “Alrawi”- an encrypted chat application that makes it hard for governments and security agencies...
The United States embassy in Iraq says “several” Americans have gone missing in the country moments after it was reported by local media that three Americans...
In from Timothy Enietan-Mathhews… The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is unarguably the busiest agency of government at the moment. The agency has its hands...
A campaign for the release of an Australian doctor and his wife who were both kidnapped on the same day Al-Qaeda attacked a hotel in the...
Heroic Rooney’s goal down Liverpool Manchester United produced the ultimate smash-and-grab victory at Anfield as Wayne Rooney’s 78th-minute goal decided a game barely befitting of England’s...
An outbreak of bird flu otherwise known as avian influenza has been confirmed in Plateau State by the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mrs. Linda Barau. The commissioner...
The Central Bank (CBN) has lifted restrictions it placed on Commercial banks which limited the banks’ ability to conduct business transactions in foreign currency (dollar) transfer....
According to local authorities, Burkina Faso is to observe 72 hours of national mourning after Saturday’s hotel attack by Al-Qaeda militants which saw the killing of...
Former Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, has seemingly told the EFCC to forget the option of refunding the...
Celine Dion has lost her brother to cancer 72 hours after her husband died of same ailment. This is certainly not the best of times for...
It seems a showdown between Nigeria’s security forces and militants in the Niger Delta area is imminent as the ‘freedom fighters’ have relocated to the creeks...
A cocktail of drugs known as PrEP which is on trial is giving a ray of hope to HIV positive couples who can now try to...
In what is described as new dawn of bilateral relationship, the U.S. has lifted economic sanctions against Iran in a move which is coming after the...
A team of astronomers have detected signs of an invisible black hole at the centre of the Milky Way using the Nobeyama Radio Telescope. Reports say...
Burundi security forces are being accused by the United Nations of gang-raping women in its crackdown against perceived opposition leaders while searching their homes. Read also:...
Reports say terror group ISIS raided a village in eastern Syria killing scores of people and maiming others. Read also: First female president elected in Taiwan...
The controversy that trailed the 2016 proposed budget at the Senate has pit a former interim national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief...
Visafone, the only Coded Multiple Division Access (CMDA), network in the country and hitherto owned by renowned banker and ICT philanthropist, Jim Ovia was acquired by...