A Nigerian court on Wednesday, presided over by Justice Ahmed Mohammed, voided moves by the legislative arm of government to re-order the nation’s election timetable. In...
Nigeria’s former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has lamented the Tuesday killings in Benue State that saw two Catholic priests and several other worshipers butchered by suspected...
Ms. Monica Osagie, the victim in the viral sex-for-mark scandal has revealed that Professor Richard Akindele of the Department of Management and Accounting, Obafemi Awolowo University...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration to seek for a second term as Nigeria’s leader on Tuesday received a boost at a closed-door meeting he had with governors...
The Nigeria Police on Tuesday night re-arrested Senator Dino Melaye at Zanklin Hospital Abuja where he was receiving treatment from injuries he purportedly sustained after jumping...
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has raised the alarm that Nigeria is drifting towards a state of anarchy. He has therefore called on the international community...
The festering crisis of confidence between the Presidency and the National Assembly may have deepened. There were signs yesterday that the Senate may have resolved to...
Nigerian equities staged a modest recovery on Tuesday as investors stepped up bargain-hunting for value stocks in the influential sectors. Benchmark indices at the Nigerian Stock...
The police in Canada are studying a cryptic message posted on the Facebook page of Alek Minassian, 25, the suspect who deliberately ploughed his rented white...
The government of Tanzania is about to go hard on bloggers and internet users after it issued a two-week ultimatum to register their platforms under strict...
By Patrick Egwu… In every conflict, people are always at the heart of it – from those who were killed, relatives of the deceased and chilling...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) may have failed to institute a regime of efficiency and effectiveness in its handling of emergencies during periods of crisis...
The Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives. Yakubu Dogara, has alleged that the recent attack on the upper House of Assembly, the Senate, by hoodlums was...
By Tayo Ademola…. Every now and then many Nigerians have been killed in South Africa. Over 117 innocent Nigerians in the last two years have been...
The Nigerian Police Force on Tuesday accused Senator Dino Melaye of arranging thugs to aid his escape from lawful custody. Ripples Nigeria had reported how the...
The travails of embattled Senator Dino Melaye has continued to mount as over 30 police officers Tuesday evening stormed the Zanklin Hospital, Abuja, where the lawmaker...
Embattled Senator Dino Melaye has ended up in an Abuja hospital after allegedly jumping out of a police vehicle in a bid to escape, being taken...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday got highly enraged as President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed that he actually authorised the purchase of $462 million fighter jets for...
Referee Micheal Oliver will be the centre official to take charge of the FA Cup final clash between Manchester United and Chelsea at the Wembley on...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Tuesday explained the reason he set up special courts meant to quicken trials of corruption cases....
Suspected killer herdsmen have once again stormed a community, in Benue State, slaughtering many, burning over a 100 houses and sacking the entire village. At least...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government of discouraging investors from coming into the country. He said that the government...
Nigeria’s National Assembly led by Senate President Bukola Saraki and House Speaker Yakubu Dogara paid out N5, 638, 664, 700 to 44 unqualified contractors, PREMIUM TIMES...
The police is said to have launched a man-hunt for Senator Dino Melaye after he reportedly jumped out of a moving police vehicle and escaped. Ripples...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a man who opened fire on customers at a restaurant in the suburb of Antioch, in...
A mild protest erupted at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, after the investigative panel set up by the school management to look into the sex-for-mark scandal...
Senate President Bukola Saraki, and other senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have been dragged to court over the alleged illegal reception of N13.5 million...
Facebook has for the first time detailed exactly what it will ban. The company is publishing detailed guidelines about what it will allow to be published...
Following a good weekend for Super Eagles forwards at their various clubs, Nigeria coach, Gernot Rohr, has expressed certainty that his team will score goals at...
The Senate is currently in a closed door meeting. The meeting started at about 10:53am. As at 1:20pm on Tuesday, lawmakers were still in their closed...
Melaye had earlier announced through his Twitter handle that he was going to turn himself in to the police. He wrote, “I will make myself available...
The ambitions of national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, and former Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, is tearing the South south...
There is tension at the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure [NASENI] as the tenure of the head of the agency, Prof Mohammed Sani Haruna...
Poor monitoring, corruption, inconsistent government policies and political interference among others have been identified as some of the reasons why contract objectives are sometimes not achieved...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have raked in the sum of N181.5 million for selling forms to governorship aspirants in...
Lawmakers in both chambers of the National Assembly are set to take on the Executive over the withdrawal of $496 million (N151.4 billion) from the Excess...
The planned passage of the 2018 budget today (Tuesday) by the National Assembly is no longer feasible. Investigations on Monday indicated that the N8.612tn budget would...
Former Aviation Minister and one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s fiercest critics, Femi Fani-Kayode, has listed some of the issues he would want to form the discussion...
President Muhammadu Buhari has given his nod for the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to proceed on leave of absence over his...
Five employees of one of the five banks attacked by robbers in Offa, Kwara State have been sacked for releasing Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) footage of...
Embattled senator from Kogi State, Dino Melaye has alleged that all policemen attached to him have been taken away by the Nigerian Police Force (NPF). He...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the Presidency claim that the opposition party is the reason President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) led...
Tragedy struck at a busy sidewalk in Toronto, Canada when a driver deliberately ploughed his white Ryder rental van into a lunch-hour crowd. According to the...
The House of Representatives recently expressed worries concerning some activities of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel, warranting the lawmakers to investigate the panel. According to the...
Nigeria’s National Assembly led by Senate President Bukola Saraki and House Speaker Yakubu Dogara paid out N5, 638, 664, 700 to 44 unqualified contractors, PREMIUM TIMES...
Salah Abdeslam and his co-accused Sofien Ayari, have both been sentenced to 20-years each in prison for the role they both played in the deadly 2015...
After losing N41 billion in net capital depreciation last week, Nigerian equities reopened on Monday on the same downtrend, despite release of many corporate earnings for...
By Reuben Abati… A strong indication of both the quality and failure of politics in Nigeria, as the people look forward to the next general elections...
Against the backdrop of the #lazyNigerianyouths frenzy centred around the debate over how many Nigerian youths sit back and do nothing while expecting free money because...
Senator Shehu Sani has accused Kaduna State’s Governor Nasir El-Rufai of making a libelous broadcast against him and has filed a Counter Claim at the Kaduna...
