Amid growing tension in the Korean peninsula, US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson has told Southeast Asian foreign ministers on Thursday to cut funding and minimise...
As Brazilian forward Neymar faces a fraud trial in Spain in connection with the value placed on his transfer from Santos to Barcelona in 2013, Spanish...
English Premier League side, Manchester United, are on the brink of reaching the UEFA Europa League final after Marcus Rashford converted a superb free-kick to put...
Nigerian equities sustained their rally for the fifth consecutive trading session on Thursday as investors upped demand for large-cap stocks in the banking sector. Benchmark indices...
Unlike most sports facilities in the state, the National Stadium, Surulere is as busy during night hours as it is in day time. While it serves...
The visit of President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Republic to President Muhammadu Buhari scheduled for Friday, May 5, 2017, has been pushed forward. According to Mr...
Clerk to the Senate, Mr Nelson Ayewoh, has moved against cameramen and photojournalists covering the Red Chamber. To this end, the National Assembly management has reduced...
Further hearing on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) case before the Supreme Court was on Thursday adjourned till May 25, 2017. The Supreme Court five-man panel...
Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Godwin Emefiele on Thursday said that President Muhammadu Buhari was delighted to hear that the forex market is now stabilising. Emefiele,...
Nigeria’s apex capital market regulator, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has dissolved the board of directors of Ikeja Hotels Plc. The Commission has appointed an interim...
Apparently following the growing agitation for a Biafran state from Nigeria, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has cautioned against repeating the same mistake that...
After four days of incarceration, a magistrate court sitting in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, on Thursday granted the state’s former governor, Sule Lamido, bail on...
Senate President Bukola Saraki on Thursday said he was going to file a no-case submission against the Federal Government in his trial at the Code of...
Apparently worried by loss of huge revenue from the aviation industry, Nigeria has concluded plans to regain some grounds by floating a national carrier before the...
Of the 32 licences issued to qualified investors to build refineries, only seven have been been able to meet the terms of the project. This is...
The Super Eagles of Nigeria have maintained their 40th position in the latest Coca-Cola/FIFA world rankings which was released on Thursday on the Fifa official website....
The Senate, has again, deferred the submission and passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill (budget). Although the submission of the report was included in the day’s...
After an early ouster from the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Super Sand Eagles striker, Abu Azeez, has stressed that Africa has failed to realise...
Nigeria Champions Enugu Rangers bounced back from their defeat to Sunshine as they piped league leaders Plateau United 1-0 in a rescheduled matchday 14 game at...
A disagreement over the sum of N8 million raised by Kate Henshaw and her friends towards the cause of Michael Alvez, a two-year-old boy born with...
A Benue State pressure group, Benue Concerned Citizens, has called on members of the National Assembly and the international community to interfere in the continued detention...
Pyongyang seems not to be relenting on its hounding of its enemies after another American citizen was arrested by authorities in North Korea for allegedly engaging...
The National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that a cabal is now ruling Nigeria. The party said the health challenge of President...
A 100 level female law student of the University of Ibadan identified as Miss Effiong Imarbong lost her life when she fell to her death during...
Uber’s long list of scandals that have hit the company in the past few months includes one problem that will not go away as fast or...
A former national commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has called on ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo to say what he really wants from the immediate past President...
A 61-year-old activist Desiree Ali-Fairooz and two others have been convicted by a Washington jury for laughing and being disruptive during the confirmation of US Attorney...
“If there is any evidence of Osun State All Progressives Congress (APC) being behind the death of former governor, Isiaka Adeleke, there was none, not at...
Italian giants Juventus closed in on a second UEFA Champions League final in three seasons as Gonzalo Higuain struck twice to beat Monaco in the semi-final...
Dutch giant, Ajax Amsterdam, boosted their chances of making it to the UEFA Europa League final by thrashing French side, Olympique Lyon, 4-1 in the first...
The uptrend at the Nigerian stock market continued on Wednesday as equities rallied additional gain of N52 billion to cross the N9 trillion mark, the highest...
By Joseph Edgar… The dark clouds have started circling again. The President was missing at Fridays Jumat Service, he has not attended the FEC’s meeting and...
The EFCC has said that no amount of scare-mongering will dissuade it from “vigorously enforcing its mandate to rid Nigeria of corruption”. The commission was responding...
A Staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Yisa Olarenwaju, was on Wednesday convicted by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos for sharing from...
The much-awaited report of the 2017 Appropriation Bill (budget), may be laid before the Senate in plenary on Thursday and possibly passed into law, Ripples Nigeria...
The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo-led panel investigating suspended director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Ambassador Ayo Oke and Secretary to the Government of the Federation,...
One of the commercial banks in Nigeria, Ecobank, says it has concluded plans aimed at reducing its workforce and closing down some unviable branches in a...
For the second time in two days, the United States of America has test launched an intercontinental ballistic missile which sent fears down the spine of...
Nigeria’s former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, who was recently discharged and acquitted of any wrongdoing in a corruption charge leveled against him...
Worried by some unconfirmed reports that some certain forces within President Muhammadu Buhari-led government were plotting to save the suspended Secretary to the Government of the...
A former governor of Enugu State, Mr Sullivan Chime, has finally dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the party under whose platform he served the state...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the Senate, on Wednesday, raised the alarm over plans by those it described as members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
Foremost flutist and former PMAN President Tee Mac Omatshola Iseli (MFR) has denied news making the rounds that he died in a car accident in Benin...
Incoming reports suggest that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was injured in an airstrike by the Nigerian military at Balla village inside Borno state. One of...
The Senate on Wednesday, confirmed Professor Steven Ikani Ocheni and Suleiman Zarma Hassan as Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The letter of the duo’s...
The lawyer representing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has asked a Swedish court to drop the arrest warrant against his client who has been holed up in...
Former governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu was on Monday granted bail by a Minna High Court on in the sum of N150 million. The former...
In celebrating the 2017 World Press Freedom day, African Journalists have been charged to put conscience first in discharging their duties as the fourth estate of...
Empire Music Entertainment (EME) honcho Banky W has at last found his missing rib after his proposal to Nollywood actress Adesua Etomi was accepted two years...
Nollywood actress Mercy Aigbe seems not to be taking the recent incident of battery leveled against her husband lightly as days after she tabled her case...