The World Bank’s January 2018 Global Economic Prospect report launched on Tuesday in Washington DC, has predicted 2.5 per cent economic growth for Nigeria in 2018....
The US Senate has summoned Facebook, Google (or rather, Alphabet) and Twitter to testify at a January 17th Commerce Committee hearing that will “examine the steps”...
President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, ministers and other political appointees received salaries amounting to N3.4 billion in 2017. This was contained in the document the...
By Louis Odion… As the nation groped in fuel darkness during the Yuletide season, the Nobel laureate’s distraught words perhaps best described the shame and tragedy...
The Benue State government under Governor Samuel Ortom says it has not recruited, nor armed any militia group to help tackle the menace of herdsmen in...
A former permanent secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Clement Onubuogo, on Tuesday forfeited to the Federal Government the sums of N664,475,246.6 and...
The brewing row between Steve Banon and President Donald Trump over comments he made in a new book title “Fire and Fury” has seen the ex-chief...
A suspected thief identified as Joseph Edeth was paraded before Tinubu Magistrate’s Court on three counts of stealing, escape from custody and unlawful damage. Reports say...
Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and others to court by for...
The turn of events in the Muhammadu Buhari presidency, between May 2015 and January 2018, leaves many learning new lessons in how not to squander an...
The US, Britain and Zionist have been blamed by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for the violent protests that have rocked the capital of Tehran...
The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to begin the immediate probe of Malami. Sagay, while...
Investors in Nigerian equities have so far this year earned N755 billion as net capital gains as impressive performance in 2017 and expectations on impending corporate...
Amnesty International has condemned the wave of violence in Nigeria, calling on government “to do more to end epidemic of gruesome killings of dozens of people...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Tuesday released the timetable for the 2019 general elections. While briefing journalists, INEC said the presidential and National Assembly elections...
The Presidency Tuesday said it was “both unfair and unkind, for anyone to keep insinuating that the President is condoning the spate of killings in Benue...
The Nigerian Army has deployed special troops to Benue and Nasarawa states to confront the spate of killings emanating from herdsmen-farmers’ clashes. Chief of Army Staff...
Ekiti State’s Governor Ayodele Fayose has frowned against the tagging of killings in Benue and other Middle-Belt states as farmers/herdsmen clash and described the attacks as...
Days after lecturers at the University of Zimbabwe filed a petition asking for authorities to investigate Grace Mugabe’s doctorate degree, the case has been taken up...
Benue State’s Governor Samuel Ortom on Tuesday favoured military option as a means to end the killings being carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen, rejecting the...
The Senate has asked the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, to explain to Nigerians why he has been running around the...
The suspension of Senator Buruji Kashamu by his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been nullified by the Abuja High Court. The opposition party had...
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in a meeting with Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Though the agenda of the meeting is...
The presidency, on Tuesday, indicted the leadership of the 7th National Assembly, over its alleged failure to carryout a proper oversight on Ministries, Departments and Agencies...
The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has appealed against the December 12, 2017 judgment of the Court of Appeal which reversed his acquittal by the Code...
A member of the House of Representatives, Adams Jagaba, has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a sinking ship bound to perish. The member, who...
Rivers State governor, Nyeson Wike has berated his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi for playing politics with the killing of the notorious cultist, Johnson Igwediba, popularly known as...
A Google engineer who was fired after writing a memo defending the gender gap in Silicon Valley tech jobs as a matter of biology has sued...
The emergence of Ayodele Fayose as the governor of Ekiti has been described as one that happened by accident. A former governor of the state, Niyi...
The recent memo by Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, that the name of the location of the proposed Nigerian Maritime University (NMU) is Okerenghigho...
Authorities in Singapore have charged 11 men to court over the biggest oil heist recorded in the country which occurred at Shell’s biggest refinery. Security operatives...
The Boko Haram terrorists group has employed the use of special roofing sheets with a mixture of “coated sugar and mud” to evade air detection and...
The decision by President Donald Trump of the United States of America to issue an 18-month ultimatum to over 200,000 Salvadorans living in the US has...
Nigerian equities staged their biggest rally so far this year on Monday as widespread bargain-hunting lifted equities’ capitalisation by N330 billion to a new threshold of...
By Reuben Abati I wrote the following piece, presented in italics, shortly after the postponement of the 2015 Presidential elections. It is important that the reader...
The Federal Government has appointed former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, former executive secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC),...
Former vice president Atiku Abubakar Monday demanded the sum of N200 billion from Paul Unongo, a leader of the Northern Elders Forum, and threatened to file...
The Technical Committee on Nigeria Yam Export Programme has revealed that Nigeria would be exporting five containers of yam monthly to the United States based on...
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo are expected to arrive Abia State Tuesday for the mega rally of the state chapter of the All...
Nigeria is currently experiencing a yellow fever outbreak which has so far witnessed nine confirmed deaths from the disease. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC),...
Nigeria’s foreign reserves have risen to $40.4 billion, the highest level dating back to October 2014. The figure represents an increase of about $1 billion between...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says the Escravos-Lagos Pipeline (ELP), which got burnt by fire, disrupting power supply, has been fixed. Ndu Ughamadu, spokesman of...
Efforts by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), to stop a Senate probe into his role in the reinstatement of former...
When you see the term “toxic relationship”, you might immediately think that it means this post is going to be about abuse and violence, so it...
Two days after an oil tanker and a cargo ship collided off China’s east coast causing oil leaks in the area; there are growing fears of...
A former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi has said that the killings of residents in the state, is as a result of failure of the...
As public outcry against wanton killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen across the country continues to mount, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has...
Kaduna teachers in public secondary and primary schools on Monday commenced indefinite strike action not minding the state Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s threats to sack anyone who...
Plans by President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to withdraw $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) to fund Boko Haram insurgency fight in the North...
Super Falcons star, Asisat Oshoala has commended the efforts of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in organizing an international friendly for the team against France, but...