A remark by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that Nigeria needed a president that will sign the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, AfCFTA, has elicited mixed reactions...
The trip made to Dubai by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, was on Tuesday said to be delaying the full composition...
The government of Uganda has revealed that they’ve started relocating displaced residents following deadly landslides which have thus far claimed no less than 43 lives. The...
Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso has said he has nothing to do with the bribe videos that have gone viral online showing Kwankwaso’s estranged ally and successor as...
Dr. SKC Ogbonnia, a former presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has called for the sack of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as...
As the 2019 general elections draw near, some commercial banks plan to cut lending to avert risks, Ike Chioke, Managing Director, Afrinvest West Africa Limited, has...
Social media giants YouTube is struggling to get back online after a global outage. The site has been down since approximately 6 p.m. on Tuesday and...
A former governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, has dared Governor Yahaya Bello to publish the report of the probe panel that investigated his tenure...
No less than 14 persons are now cooling their heels in police net after a court in Kebbi ordered their detention for dancing naked with girls....
The Ohaneze Ndigbo has said the Executive Order by President Muhammadu Buhari is designed to subvert the fundamental rights of Nigerians. The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation,...
Smarting from her loss in the senatorial primary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for Anambra South, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu, has claimed that mercenaries have...
The efforts by Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) to ensure power is wrestled from President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 got heightened on Tuesday, as the...
Trouble is potentially brewing for outgoing Brazilian President Michel Temer after Brazil’s federal police asked the Supreme Court to indict the 78-year-old leader. Brazil’s federal police...
The immediate past governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has disclosed that over 30 per cent of farmland in the Niger Delta region has been...
I maintain that regardless of the political, strategic, demographic, and regional vicissitudes, the two-state option remains the only viably sustainable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the...
The lawmaker representing Kano North senatorial district, Barau Jibrin, has dismissed the viral videos of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje allegedly showing him receiving bribe from contractors as...
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday spoke with Mohammed Liman, father of Hauwa Liman, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) midwife who was slain by Boko...
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, on Tuesday provided details on the selection process that threw up Peter Obi as running mate to the Peoples Democratic Party...
The United Kingdom has backed President Muhammadu Buhari’s travel ban on some allegedly corrupt Nigerians. The UK High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, says the implementation...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, says his alleged blackmailers have failed because his blood pressure is normal despite their ‘fictions’. He said this on Tuesday at...
The Nigerian senate has set up an ad hoc committee to probe a $3.5 billion “subsidy recovery fund” said to be managed by Maikanti Baru, Group...
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has expressed fears of former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, suffering harm in custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
The health ministry of the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC has confirmed that no less than 24 victims out of 33 persons affected have lost their...
A pro President Muhammadu Buhari group, Buhari Media Organisation, BMO, has called for the exclusion of the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah from the...
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the recently concluded Osun State governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has alleged of a fresh plot against...
The Senate has asked its ad-hoc committee chaired by the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, to look into Senator Dino Melaye’s report against the Inspector General of...
The Federal Government on Tuesday said the solid minerals sector in the country is set to receive $3.3 billion foreign investment. The Minister of State in...
The Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group on Tuesday protested the killing of an aide worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Hauwa...
Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has arrived the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to honour a summon by the anti-graft...
For the supervision of 2019 general elections, the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday approved a total sum of N53 billion for the Office of the National Security...
Dr. Kayode Fayemi today began his second stint as the governor of Ekiti State after his swearing-in on Tuesday. Fayemi, a former minister of Solid Minerals,...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has named Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki as the Director General of the Presidential campaign council of its Presidential candidate, Alhaji...
Despite the declaration and insistence of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) the All Progressives Congress (APC) says it will field candidates for all elective positions...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has identified rising security challenges in the country and logistics as the major reasons...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, may have to battle to avoid being suspended, probed and probably sacked. The Federal High Court...
Nigeria’s inflation rate has risen for the second consecutive month in September on continued shortage of food supply in the market, data from the National Bureau...
The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, is demanding that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) be compelled to issue him an exemption certificate for the compulsory...
Sokoto State governor Aminu Tambuwal, has reiterated the views many Nigerians have expressed in the past and continue to hold that President Muhammadu Buhari is not...
By Reuben Abati… About this period, four years ago to be precise I had gone to visit a notable politician and a member of the Peoples...
The placard-carrying protesters blocked the old Ojo Road leading to the terminal, causing serious traffic jam, as commuters alight from the vehicles to save time. Some...
For their incessant practice of shooting television commercials (TVCs) and other advertising campaigns in foreign countries, Nigerian banks, telecommunications companies and other multinationals have been accused...
There are indications that high turnover of senators will hit the 9th Senate in 2019 as 42 of the 109 serving senators, representing 38.5 per cent...
The federal government 2017 budget recorded an 86 per cent implementation, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma, has disclosed. He told...
The Nigerian Air Force said on Monday that its two pilots injured in the September 30 Katampe air crash in Abuja had been discharged as investigations...
Armed operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are reported to have invaded the Abuja Residence of Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose, whose tenure...
Facebook on Thursday announced it has removed hundreds of pages and accounts as the company cracks down on spam. The move comes at a time when...
Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have docked two businessmen identified as Pius Ebere and Peter Attah for allegedly stealing car parts. According to the...
A list of 31 former ex-clergymen accused of being involved in the abuse of minors over the past 70 years has been revealed by the Catholic...
The Counsel representing adult film star Stormy Daniels, who said she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, is now preparing an appeal after a...
Nigeria’s former minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has advised the Federal Government to suspend its plan to raise $2.78 billion in Eurobond as part of capital...
