Nigeria is on the verge of losing about $25.5 million of its direct foreign investment (DFI) as soon as the ongoing amendment of the Nigeria Liquefied...
For the third consecutive weekends, Nigeria’s overnight interbank lending rate has maintained a steady rise, hitting above two-digit percentage rise. The rate in the months of...
The Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, Father Ejike Mbaka, has raised the alarm over plans to assassinate President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Mbaka, those who...
The Muhammadu Buhari administration is obviously disturbed by the nation’s dwindling economy, and the criticisms it has attracted. The president, in efforts to tackle the situation...
A former Minister of State for Defence under the PDP, Dr. Olu Agunloye, has emerged the governorship candidate of the Social Social Democratic Party, SDP, in...
Over the weekend in Iraq, 36 men convicted over the 2014 massacre of hundreds of military recruits, were hanged following the country’s prime minister’s recent vow...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called on the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), to revisit the...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has said the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, cannot force workers in the state into farming. The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba,...
The governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has punctured the calls for restructuring of the country, saying what is needed is the restructuring of the mindsets...
Nigeria international, Ogenyi Onazi, is excited to have got off the mark for his new club, Trabzonspor, on his debut as they ran out two-nil winners...
World football governing body, FIFA, has rated Nigeria goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi with an individual accolade at the recently concluded Rio 2016 Olympic Games, despite playing only...
Exactly 11 days after Mayowa Ahmed was flown to South Africa to receive medical treatment for ovarian cancer, a family member, Asiwaju Foye has announced her...
Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has called for the intervention of the Chief Justice of Nigeria ( CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed and President Muhammadu Buhari, over conflicting...
Gold medalist of the 2nd Chika Chukwumerije Sports Foundation (CCSF) International Taekwondo Opens, Niger Republic’s Issoufou Alfaga Abdoulrazak, has followed up his 2013 exposure by winning...
[divider]A state-backed Chinese consortium are planning a multi-million pound bid for a stake in Liverpool, according to reports. China Everbright, a financial services conglomerate, are said...
Antoine Griezmann has admitted he would be tempted into seeking a move to the Premier League if he left Atletico Madrid. The forward suffered a double...
Britain’s Mo Farah is quitting the Olympics after clinching a glorious long-distance ‘double double’ with a thrilling victory in Rio. The 33-year-old has become the first...
Nigeria’s U-23 Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, and captain John Obi Mikel have dedicated the Olympic bronze medal the team won to Nigerian football fans across the...
Wema Bank Plc has sold its majority equity stake of 75 per cent in the 56 years old Great Nigeria Insurance (GNI) Plc to Insurance Resourcery and Consultancy...
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nigeria’s apex capital market regulator, has directed all capital market operators to register with their respective trade group or association on...
PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc will be taking retained earnings from its reserves to supplement earnings and pay dividends for the immediate past business, according to a...
The Sokoto State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the alleged murder of a 43-year-old woman, Yemisi Adio, by her husband, Taiwo Adio. This is contained in...
A coalition of Christians under the aegis of Patriotic Christian Youths of Nigeria has labelled as ‘enemies’ some persons who purportedly want to pull out of...
By Remi Oyeyemi… There is fire on the mountain. And that mountain is Nigeria. To put out this fire there is need for leadership from all...
After two consecutive weeks of losses, Nigerian equities rallied on the back of bargain-hunting for highly capitalised stocks to record net capital gain of N138 billion...
By Remi Oyeyemi… I have just finished reading the statements of the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu in the PUNCH newspaper of August 20,...
Promoted Burnley have enjoyed their first win on the club’s return to the top flight after strikers Sam Vokes and Andre Gray produced superb first-half goals...
Brazil star Neymar labelled winning Olympic gold as one of the “best things” of his life as he hit back at critics following Saturday’s dramatic win...
Tech giants Google is set to jettison Chrome apps such as Mac and Windows in the next few years. Chrome apps are basically apps that run...
Five-year-old Syrian boy, Omran Daqneesh, who elicited global pity after he was pictured at the back of an ambulance when pulled from the rubble after airstrikes...
An order has been issued by the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in-charge of Zone II Command Headquarters, Lagos, Abdulmajid Ali, that the case of the man...
Authorities in Ethiopia say a probe into the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces during anti-government demonstrations will soon begin but also denied that...
The renewed militancy in the Niger Delta may soon be over, as the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, last night, accepted it would cease hostilities in the...
Two weeks after the story of the female corps member Temitope Adedewe, who was battered and her two teeth removed with a hammer by a male...
A wedding ceremony in the Turkish city of Gaziantep turned into a blood fest when a suicide bomber struck, killing 30 people and injuring 94 other...
The Nigerian Army will intensify its rescue operations in North East to free those abducted by the violent Islamist sect, Boko Haram, despite recent mounting calls...
Against the crisis rocking the Ondo State All Progressives Congress (APC), the leadership of the party, led by its national chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, on Saturday said...
There are indications that the Nigeria Police may go tough on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers of...
Civil servants currently being owed salaries across the country have described as unfair, wicked and inhuman, situations whereby they continue to suffer with members of their...
Jolted by the outcry over slow implementation of the 2016 budget, Nigeria’s government is said to have intensified search for funds with which to executive a...
Luis Suarez scored a hat trick and Lionel Messi added two more goals as Barcelona made a superb start to its Spanish league title defence by...
Ahead of September 10, Edo state governorship election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), are arguing over alleged dishonest recruitment...
Nigeria beat Honduras 3-2 on Saturday to secure the bronze medal courtesy of two goals from Sadiq Umar and one from Aminu Umar at the Men’s...
A splinter Niger Delta ex-militants group, the Reformed Egbesu Avengers, REA, on Saturday vowed to go after those who have recently begun a smear campaign against...
The Jigawa State Police Command said over the last three weeks, it has charged 53 people to court over rape and sodomy highlighting the spate of...
The National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said that he is not sure of conducting conclusive elections in 2019....
For flouting the directive of the headquarters against mounting of roadblocks, the Bayelsa State Police Commissioner, Mr. Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, has ordered the arrest of two errant...
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), oil pipelines were blown up in the delta region on Friday in attacks alleged to have been carried out by the...
Jose Mourinho is only the first Manchester United manager in 79 years to win his first three games in charge of the club, following his team’s...
The Federal Government has stepped up vigilance within the drug supply chains in the country on the circulation of two confirmed falsified versions of Quinine Sulphate....