As President Muhammadu Buhari’s first term winds to a close, I hereby kindly offer my token personnel advice to him on his Next Level cabinet. I...
By Chinedu Chidi… The 2019 presidential election is just days away. As expected, the atmosphere remains charged. The stakes are high. The gladiators and their supporters...
Since the return of democracy in 1999, three generals have principally been the architects of the secured path to Aso Rock. In their war room, they...
The Jigawa State House of Assembly has passed nine out of the fifteen constitutional bills, including the Not Too Young to Run Bill, transmitted to it...
The umbrella body of cattle breeders in the country, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, has said the anti-open grazing law in Benue State Government, aimed...
An FCT High Court sitting in Jabi Thursday granted an interim order restraining the Nigerian Senate from investigating the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris. Justice...
The last has not been heard of the controversies surrounding the payment of the 5% commission to the whistleblower who gave the Economic and Financial Crimes...
Reports have emerged that Boko Haram on Sunday night carried out suicide attacks in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The suicide bombers attacked two locations in...
There are indications that the Federal Government has started incurring N586 million daily as fuel subsidy, following the rise in crude oil price from $49 to...
As the latest scandal in Nigeria’s historically reputation-challenged oil industry continues to generate widespread reactions, the issues thrown up so far in the allegations contained in...
Nigeria has won a re-election into the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva for the 2018 to 2020 term at an election held Monday at...
After recording net capital gain of N765 billion in the third quarter, Nigerian equities ended the first trading session in the fourth quarter on Tuesday with...
The United States’ import of Nigeria’s crude oil increased by 32.1 per cent to 52.36 million barrels in the first half of 2017 compared to the...
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, Monday stated that those who were used to being “settled” by previous administrations...
The National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Muiz Banire Monday stated that the real motivations behind the growing agitations in the country...
Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, has stated in reaction to President Muhammadu Buhari’s 57th independence anniversary speech that the president was mixing up the clamour for...
The Presidency on Monday reacted to criticism of a portion of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 57th independence anniversary speech which appeared to criticize Igbo leaders for failing...
A former presidential candidate and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof Pat Utomi Monday argued that restructuring alone would not solve Nigeria’s development challenges...
Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN), a former Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Nigeria’s Second Republic, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to disregard calls for him...
Constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s 57th independence day anniversary broadcast as deeply flawed and another missed opportunity by the president to assume...
Investors in fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) companies and banking stocks recorded above average gains in the third quarter as Nigerian equities sustained its bullish streak with...
A former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd.), has urged those calling for Nigeria’s breakup to have a rethink. Gowon said this in an exclusive...
Former aviation minister and current governorship candidate of the United Progressive Party (UPP) at the forthcoming Anambra governorship election, Osita Chidoka Saturday urged Igbos to consider...
On Thursday, September 28, 2017, three events signalled a shift in gear in the march towards the 2019 presidential election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)...
President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, has resigned amid scandal of flying costly taxpayer-funded private jets on government assignments. “Secretary of...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has restated the Federal Government’s resolve to complete work on the second Niger Bridge and other federal projects in the South-East region of...
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has stoked fresh controversy around the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), stating that...
Former deputy president of the Senate, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, who described himself as a ‘born again’ politician, stated Thursday at the official declaration by Prof Tunde...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that the people of the South East will continue to have no “moral standing” to make the case...
Olivier Giroud reached a century of goals for Arsenal after striking once in the Europa League clash with BATE Borisov on Thursday night. The France international...
Nigeria’s apex capital market regulator, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), on Thursday arraigned the BGL Group and its top executives in an Abuja court, in further...
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) Plc, the pan-African financial services holding company for the Ecobank group, on Thursday indicated that it plans to complete its forthcoming $400...
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Wednesday disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government did not know that the United States was listening in on telephone conversations...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has strongly denied the reported statements credited to Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State that he was offered a bribe by the...
President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, has decried the “hurried, unfair” declaration of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terror organization by...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) on Wednesday appointed a former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami (retd), who was controversially suspended from office...
Former spokesperson to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, Wednesday stated that the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption (PACAC), Prof Itse Sagay, has vindicated...
Civil Servants in Kogi State have made a special appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the case of their prolonged non-payment of salaries by...
A 35-year-old commercial driver, Ahamed Kolo was Wednesday remanded in prison on the orders of an Ado Ekiti Magistrates’ Court over an alleged attempt to murder...
The Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Hakan Cakil, Tuesday met with the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd), over the recent seizures of Pump Action rifles...
Following a resolution by Nigeria’s Senate summoning the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, and her colleague, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udoma, over...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, Tuesday disclosed that the leader of the now-proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was likely in hiding, and...
Saudi Arabia Tuesday announced that women will be allowed to drive from June 2018, signaling a new era inspired by the powerful young Crown Prince, Mohammed...
Senator Dino Melaye has stated that a fatal blow had been dealt the process to recall him by members of his Kogi West Senatorial District owing...
The Federal Government has gazetted the order of the Federal High Court in Abuja which proscribed the Indigenous People of Biafra and designated the group as...
The Federal Government Monday revealed that about three million children in close to 20,000 schools scattered across 14 states of the federation have so far benefited...
The Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State Monday ordered that 60 members of the now-proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) be remanded at the...
Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) on Monday launched a bid for early redemption of its $400 million 6.0 per cent notes, more than a year ahead of...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has elected Mr Abimbola Ogunbanjo as the new president of its national council. Ogunbanjo was elected at the Exchange’s national council...
After rallying net capital gain of N166 billion last week, Nigerian equities opened this week with a string of profit-taking as investors sought to monetise capital...