Justice A. R. Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, adjourned the trial of a former acting governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, to...
One of Africa’s biggest mobile phone operator, MTN Group, has suffered its first annual loss in revenue projections in two decades, due mainly to a fine...
The end has come for notorious kidnapper and armed robber, Henry Chibueze a.k.a Vampire, after he was shot dead by operatives under the Police IGP intelligence...
Spanish politicians are worried about the country’s falling birth rate and have named a ‘S*x Tsar’ to encourage people to get in more action. Authorities in...
Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC ) Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN) on Thursday, lamented that despite the anti-corruption fight of the Muhammadu Buhari...
Smarting from the success of his latest sing titled ‘Daddy Yo’, multiple-award winning Nigerian artist, Wizkid has put pen to paper in a mouth-watering deal with...
A censorship court has ordered the imprisonment of Kano based singer, Sadiq Zazzabi for releasing his new song without the approval of the state censorship board....
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved a N701 billion payment guarantee assurance by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for power generating companies (Gencos)...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday engaged King Mohammed VI of Morocco in a telephone chat when the Moroccan monarch called him up. A Moroccan news website...
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday met with the service chiefs at the State House in Abuja. Those at the meeting were the Chief of Defence...
What looks like toxic waste has again been found dumped in Koko, a farming town in the Warri North local government council of Delta state. A...
Facebook’s product team—lead by Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer at Facebook— is in West Africa this week to hear how creatives, developers and entrepreneurs in the...
The acute viral haemorrhagic illness generally know as Lassa fever has reared its ugly head again in Borno State. It is transmitted to humans via consumption...
Nigeria is to witness introduction of an entirely new set of bonds in its financial instrument market from March 13 2017, which is to target low...
The Federal Government has approved the appointment of two new directors for the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) to replace some of those sacked recently. They are...
The Senate has said corrupt Nigerians are hiding stolen money in caskets and uncompleted buildings in remote villages in some parts of the country. The Senate...
A diplomatic row is now playing out over the death of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of President Kim Jong Un who died in Kuala...
After the replay of the fifth round tie between Manchester City and Huddersfield Town on Wednesday night, the quarter-final fixtures of the English FA Cup are...
A raging fire which engulfed an Oregon timber town claimed the lives of four kids and critically injured their mother, her husband and another siblings who...
Manager of La Liga giants FC Barcelona, Luis Enrique, has announced on Wednesday night that he will step down as Barca Boss at the end of...
Super Eagles forward Kelechi Iheanacho came from the bench to score a stoppage time goal as his club Manchester City came from one goal down to...
As I was about writing this piece, I suddenly heard a rebuttal from Asiwaju’s media team on his possible run for the Presidency. Earlier in the...
Champions of the Nigeria Professional Football League, Enugu Rangers, earned their third win in the current campaign on Wednesday as they defeated visiting third-placed side ABS...
The modestly positive underlying sentiment at the Nigerian stock market gave way to major selloff on Wednesday as investors appeared to be unexcited by the corporate...
Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has named the squad for the coming friendly games with the Teranga Lions of Senegal and the Etalons of Burkina Faso...
The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has said his administration is set to take over the renovation and maintenance of the National Stadium, Lagos,...
The House Minority Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor, has said those supporting Sen. Modu Sheriff as the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party are “just noisemakers”. Ogor...
In its reply to claims by Malaysian authorities that Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of President Kim Jong Un who died after two female suspects...
Senators on the Foreign Affairs committee, were on Wednesday, left speechless during the screening of an 82 year old ambassadorial nominee whose name was recently forwarded...
Over the last few months, the Nigerian government claims it has recovered huge sums of money running into tens of billions of Naira from alleged corrupt...
Omron’s imposing bat-holding robot which was once unable to “even return a Ping-Pong ball” contraption has evidently come a long way over the last few years...
A Seattle based man identified as Paul Skinner has been sentenced to 30-days in jail by a Seattle Municipal Court for reckless endangerment after an incident...
By its ruling of Wednesday, the Federal High Court Abuja, presided over by Justice Binta Nyako, is now set to try Nnamdi Kanu, self-acclaimed leader of...
The consistent delay in the passage of budget by the National Assembly is slowing down growth, the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) has said. The agency’s report...
A day after his home located along Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1 in Lagos was engulfed in a raging early morning fire which saw him lose...
A syndicate involved in the production of counterfeit alcoholic beverages, water for injection and sales of suspected imitation of Peak Milk has been busted by officials...
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Justice Walter Onnoghen as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria. This brings to an end weeks of agitations and speculations over...
The leadership of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control (NAFDAC) and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) have committed their agencies to new...
DEPUTY Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, PDP, Enugu West is leading a seven- member delegation of the Senate to South Africa following the return of Xenophobic attacks...
Policy inconsistency, and lack of continuity from one administration to another cost Nigeria a whooping $6.3 billon annually. According to a report by the African Tropical...
The Supersand Eagles of Nigeria have been drawn alongside Mexico, Italy and a yet-to-be-ascertained Asian team for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Bahamas 2017 to...
Special prosecutors in South Korea have formally announced charges against the de-facto Samsung chief, Lee Jae-yong along with four other company executives of the smartphone making...
If there is anyone who feels that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is a serial failure in government, it is Ayodele Fayose, the incumbent governor of Ekiti...
Leaders of the opposition PDP have called on all party faithful to stop making statements that could further escalate the crisis in the party. They made...
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has decried what he termed monumental corruption in the Nigerian civil service. The nation, he said, was bleeding from a situation where...
The Nigerian Government says there are indications that the Nigerian economy is well on its way out of recession considering the 2016 overall and last quarter...
The Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) has sealed up some private owned firms in Kano, including Kabo Airlines, Monaco Ventures Limited and Paki International Motors. The...
President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has soft pedaled on his immigration stance after he told the American Congress that he was open...
While NIgeria is still trying to come to terms over xenophobic attacks on its citizens in South Africa, the latter on Tuesday night deported about 100...
A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared as false, media reports that he plans to contest the 2019 presidential...