The Appeal Court has upheld the judgement of the Rivers State national and state Assembly Election Petition Tribunal which sacked Senator George Sekibo as senator representing...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged the Federal Government to prosecute religious and traditional leaders, involved in spreading hate speeches. The Sultan...
President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said that the Senate will accelerate the passage of the Existing Vacancies in the Federal Civil Service (Prohibition)...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday formally ratified a number of bilateral agreements covering the anti corruption fight and tax matters. Four of the agreements were with...
Despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s national broadcast on Monday that every Nigeria is free to live and do business in any part of the country, militants in...
In a bid to end the ensuing spat between US and North Korea, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has warned Washington against expanding sanctions against...
Canadian Karim Baratov has pleaded not guilty to all charges in a US court that he helped Russian agents conduct the massive 2014 cyberattack on Yahoo...
The Nigerian national women basketball team, D’Tigress, have been on fire since their arrival at the FIBA Women’s AfroBasket Championship in Bamako, Mali. The two-time champions...
A yet-to-be identified man was killed and another had his hand shattered when they joined other residents to pick up money left by fleeing thieves in...
The United Nations has raised a rare racism alarm in the US as it called on American President Donald Trump to ‘unequivocally’ condemn racist speech and...
The presidency has cautioned Nigerians, especially opinion leaders to exercise restraint in their choice of words to avoid heating up the polity and causing acrimony within...
A possible car ramming attack was foiled by Dutch police in Rotterdam when a Spanish man was intercepted driving a van with gas canisters near a...
Scores of Nigerian vessels are currently lying idle and rotting away on the high sea due to a shortage of cargoes or lack of maintenance. On...
A total of 938 minors are being held in prison custody for alleged offences bothering on drugs, theft and other juvenile-related cases. The statistics spread across...
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Borno State has offered an olive branch to embattled former governor of the state, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and...
Forty-eight days after he was invited to testify in the investigations into the controversial sale of Oil Prospecting Licence 245, former President Goodluck Jonathan has yet...
President Muhammadu Buhari will Friday meet with governors of the 36 states of the federation at the Presidential Villa to discuss the last tranche of the...
More than three months after the Swiss government alerted its Nigerian counterpart that some top officials of Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, connived with a Cyprian firm...
South East senators under the aegis of South East Senate Caucus, on Wednesday, engaged the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu and...
Ahead of this weekend’s fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor, heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua has made his prediction. The fight, which seems to be...
Unrepentant critic of President Muhammadu Buhari, Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose, has said that he has no apology whatsoever for all he said about the President....
The government of Chad has accused Qatar of conniving with Libya to undermine its security and has thus ordered the shutting down of Qatar’s embassy, giving...
By Louis Odion… The cartel of political prayer-warriors are bound to lay claims. But if anyone deserves credit for at least “fast-tracking” the return last Saturday...
Hussaini Akwanga, a former minister of labour and productivity has been kidnapped at his farm on Wamba road in Akwanga area, the Nasarawa state police command...
An Igbo group, the Eastern Consultative Assembly, ECA, has described the order by President Muhammadu Buhari to service chiefs to clampdown on the Indigenous People of...
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has told local police on the front lines of a war on drugs to kill only if necessary, but warned...
An unidentified suicide bomber has struck a military post at Muna Motor Park in Maiduguri, killing six people in the process. Reports say 16 other persons...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday received report of the Investigation Committee into the allegations against the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir...
Angry youths in Rivers state have embarked on a protests over the escape from police custody of a UNIPORT undergraduate, Ifeanyi Dike, who allegedly raped, murdered...
Ex-Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state on Wednesday in Abuja, caused chaos at the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) colloquium. When he alleged that those calling for...
By Reuben Abati “What’s that sound I am hearing?” “What sound?” “I thought I heard something like miaow, miaow…” “Oh my cats…oh yes…” “Are you now...
By Joseph Edgar… The economy is said to be on the path to recovery, with indices showing some sign of positive turnaround. Recently, like most watchers,...
Defiant North Korea led by headstrong leader Kim Jong UN has ordered the production of more solid-fuel rocket engines and rocket warhead tips in a move...
The pair of 51-year-old landlord, Ishola Idris, and his 35-year-old tenant, Linus Okonkwo were both dragged before the Lagos State Magistrate’s Court in Ikeja for raping...
The weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) that holds every Wednesday will not hold today following the order of President Muhammadu Buhari. The cancellation...
Giants Google and Walmart are teaming up to take on Amazon’s Prime shipping service. As of September, Google’s commerce platform Google Express will count America’s largest...
State universities in the country are growing in number, but the funds to run them only come in trickles. According to the budgets of 27 states...
Investors need to beware while seeking to buy or trade on shares of 49 quoted companies, a latest compliance assessment report by the Nigerian Stock Exchange...
Security operatives in the city of Phoenix, Arizona had a torrid time coping with a crowd of people following clashes as police fired tear gas and...
Nigerian equities traded on the tight balance of profit-taking and bargain-hunting on Tuesday but increased demand for the most influential stocks on the market tilted the balance to...
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has denied ever saying that he would commit suicide should President Muhammadu Buhari return to the country alive. APC supporters...
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari’s national broadcast on Monday and described it as a monumental anticlimax. The PDP said that the...
A United Nations sponsored Conference on Disarmament in Geneva turned out to be a platform for verbal threats as US and North Korean officials clashed over...
One of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ardent critics and a former Minister of Aviation, Femi-Fani-Kayode, has asked him to resign his office as president before he relapses....
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met with heads of security agencies in the country at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Those seen arriving for the meeting included...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Tuesday ordered the interim forfeiture of N2.6bn assets allegedly belonging to former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison...
Tennis star, Rafael Nadal thanked his fans for their support after officially replacing Sir Andy Murray as the world number one on Monday. In a video...
By Reuben Abati… “Baba don come oh. Baba o yo yo, Baba Bubu o yo yo” “What is that?” “Eh, o yo yo” “If you are...
Dr. Ernest Nmezuwuba, the father of the eight-year-old girl (Victory Chikamso) who was allegedly defiled, mutilated and killed by a 23-year-old man identified as Ifeanyi Chukwu...
Apple recently announced a plan to spend $1 billion on video content over the coming year, which has sent warning signals to Spotify and Netflix. According...