African countries have been sternly warned by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson not to forfeit their sovereignty when accepting loans from China. Tillerson made the...
Dissatisfied with government’s handling of the issue, some parents of schoolgirls abducted from Dapchi, Yobe State, on Thursday besieged the premises of the National Assembly complex...
After losing N236 billion in a major contraction on Wednesday, Nigerian equities recovered on Thursday amidst increased bargain-hunting for consumer goods manufacturers and banking stocks. Benchmark...
The management of Dana Air Thursday welcomed the Nigerian government’s decision to carry out a complete audit of its operation. The Federal Government on Wednesday ordered...
President Muhammad Buhari’s wife, Aisha Buhari, has empathized with parents of the abducted Dapchi school girls, expressing her hope that ongoing efforts by government would lead...
The Borno State Commissioner of Police, Damian Chukwu, Thursday said that six soldiers and four policemen were killed in Rann, a remote local government headquarters attacked...
The Nigerian Army has reacted to the statement by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu suggesting the possibility of a coup owing to alleged anti-democratic acts by...
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday, while on a one-day working visit to Plateau State, pledged the federal government’s support to the peace building initiative of the state...
The effort by the Federal Government to have Senator Buruji Kashamu extradited to the United State (US) to face trial over alleged drug dealing, on Thursday...
The Senate on Thursday, mandated its committees on Police Affairs, Security and Intelligence to summon the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and the Chief of...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said his administration has been doing its best since coming into power in 2015 and assured that he remained focus on...
Twenty four hours after senators indicted some governors, including Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, over high handedness and use of force against their opponents ahead of...
A lawyer, Mr. Tolu Babaleye, on Thursday landed in trouble and was asked by the Supreme Court to pay N2 million for a frivolous appeal he...
One secret many Nigerian senators hold very close to their hearts and always will avoid commenting on has been revealed by the outspoken senator representing Kaduna...
The trial of Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki over alleged false assets declaration was on Thursday adjourned indefinitely by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) following cross-appeal filed...
The Nigerian government has written to the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Kingdom and the United States of America after discovering hidden assets...
A Sterling Bank manager, Mr. Oliver Anidiobi, has been accused of unlawfully converting the sum of N219 million belonging to Ohha Microfinance Bank Ltd. The allegation...
Fresh indications have emerged of a plot by some politicians in the National Assembly to sack the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu and...
American Space agency, NASA has spotted strange piles of rocks on Mars which closely resemble the structures erected in the UK and Europe since prehistoric times....
Independent Human Rights and Crime Monitoring Group (IHRCMG) has accused troops of the Nigerian Army deployed to Benue State of causing more harm than good. The...
ABOUT 24 hours after a Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, bus crushed a 16-year-old school boy, Daniel Ezekiel, to death at Ogolonto Bus Stop, along Ikorodu Road...
By Joseph Edgar… I heard this piece of news yesterday from a colleague but did not dwell on it until I now happened on it in...
Barely 24 hours after rejecting the tenure elongation handed over to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the Lagos faction...
Defaults in payment to the National Housing Fund (NHF) in Nigeria have reached N6.7trillion in five years, New Telegraph has learnt. According to findings, commercial banks,...
Authorities in Burkina Faso have reportedly arrested no less than eight suspects in connection with last week’s attack on the army headquarters and the French embassy...
An attempt to launch a fresh attack in a bid to kill scores of villagers in Benue and Taraba states by a terrorist group, operating under...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop turning Nigeria into a laughing stork before the international community. The party...
An investigation carried out by British police in respect of the mysterious illness affecting a former Russian spy who is now in critical condition has revealed...
Milost Global Inc, an American private equity firm, is bidding to acquire an overwhelming majority equity stake in ailing Nigerian mortgage firm, Resort Savings & Loans...
The Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja branch, has issued the Lagos State Government a seven-day ultimatum to reverse its recently passed land use charge law. The Chairman...
Nigerian equities lost N236 billion on Wednesday as profit-taking transactions on large-cap stocks overwhelmed the underlying positive sentiment at the market. While there were more advancers...
The Jigawa State Government Wednesday disclosed that meningitis has killed 15 persons as 51 suspected cases were recorded in 10 local government areas of the state....
The Federal High Court in Abuja Wednesday sentenced Charles Okah and his co-defendant, Obi Nwabueze, to life imprisonment for masterminding the Independence Day bombing which occurred...
The Senate, on Wednesday, rejected a bill proposing the option of wearing of skirts by female members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The rejection...
Northern Leaders and Stakeholders Assembly (NLSA) Steering Committee chairman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has denied reports that its mandates is to find a consensus presidential candidate from...
The lingering fight between some senators and their state governors, on Wednesday, took the centre stage on the floor of the Senate. Lawmakers who took their...
The Senator Ahmad Lawan-led Senate Ad-hoc committee on security infrastructure, were on Wednesday, inundated with shocking revelations by the state government and residents of some communities...
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday, said that though Nigeria’s economy is exiting recession, it is still however vulnerable. It stated...
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday said the prompt passage of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) Bill by the National Assembly...
Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano has shown the exit door to 18 commissioners of his cabinet and other political appointees in ministries, departments and agencies. A...
Thailand has described as false, the claim by Nigeria’s Federal Government that seven of its rice mills had collapsed following President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s policy on...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Wednesday described Ohanaeze Ndigbo as Aso Rock informants and warned its leadership not to dare organise any public event...
Michael Avenatti, the counsel representing adult movie actress, Stephanie Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels has suggested in a statement that attempts to intimidate and...
BlackBerry Limited, the Canadian enterprise software company that used to sell smartphones, filed a lawsuit today against Facebook, alleging that the social network and its WhatsApp...
Ahead of a mass protest by some Civil Society Organisations(CSO) the Department of State Security has hurried released a detained journalist in its custody. The journalist,...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has said that the large export of crude oil from Nigeria to the United States of...
Signs that all is not well among personnel in the inner circle of President Donald Trump has continued to emerge after his top economic adviser Gary...
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun has hinted of plans by the Federal Government to set up special courts to prosecute tax offenders that fail to...
The government of Russia has waved aside claims by the government of the UK that Kremlin may have a hand in the mysterious illness affecting a...
One of the newly registered political parties, Young Progressive Party (YPP) has commended Nigerians for their tolerance of the maladministration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s All...