New revelations have emerged on how the Nigerian Military is handling surrendering ex- Boko Haram combatants who waged over eight years war against the Nigerian state....
The benchmark index at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE)-the All Share Index (ASI), on Thursday crossed another threshold to 37,000 points as investors netted N175 billion...
The Ijaw Youth Congress (IYC) yesterday accused a northern ‘cabals’ in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari of frustrating efforts by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo...
In line with its aggressive foray into the foreign exchange (forex) market as well as to further enhance forex flow in the economy, the Central Bank...
32-year-old British hacker Lauri Love says he will rather commit suicide than end up with a long-term imprisonment in an American jail. Two years ago, Love...
A medical doctor with University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, identified as Dr Itoro Asanga, and a trader named Chief Johnson Obiokpo have been kidnapped in...
US President Donald Trump has replaced Reince Priebus with homeland security secretary John Kelly as chief of staff in a major White House shake-up of his...
Iran has been slammed with fresh sanctions by the US in response to its launch of a satellite-carrying rocket into space on Thursday. The US accused...
The national executive of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has overruled the suspension of its national legal adviser, Muiz Banire, by the party’s Mushin local government...
Vladimir Putin’s Russia has retaliated after US Congress approved additional sanctions on Moscow. Russia, which has been accused of meddling in the 2016 US election, reportedly...
Manager Herman Van Holsbeeck has said Anderlecht are so lucky to have Nigerian striker, Henry Onyekuru, in their team for the coming season. The coach said...
Grace Mugabe, 52, wife of 94-year-old Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, has for the first time publicly urged her husband to name his successor in order to...
The attempt by incumbent President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, to repeal the Affordable Care Act, widely tagged “Obamacare”, which was put in...
Asian giants, China has succeeded in creating the world’s fastest computer after developing the largest virtual universe on Sunway TaihuLight. Experts said that China was learning...
The Federal Government Thursday revealed that as early as October this year, it will be sending 2018 budget of about N7.9 trillion to the National Assembly....
Tough times lay ahead for North Korea led by headstrong leader Kim Jong Un after Japan joined in imposing new sanctions on Pyongyang for its continued...
The visit of the Chief Executive Officer, Google, Sundar Pitchai, has ushered in good tidings for budding tech geeks who want to broaden their horizon after...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Thursday said that neither the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, nor the Ohanaeze Ndigbo and other Igbo leaders,...
Former Jigawa State Governor, Ibrahim Saminu Turaki, was on Thursday released from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) where he had been...
One week after the Senate introduced a bill to make the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) an autonomous body was read for the first time, the...
The federal government on Thursday announced that it is suspending crude oil exploration work in the Lake Chad Basin until such a time when security is...
Three soldiers identified as Troopers Eric Nwokere, Macaulay Fortune, and Corporal Garba Saidu, have been slammed with various jail sentences for unlawful possession of arms. The...
The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday presided over the Federal Executive Council Meeting held at the State House Council Chamber in Abuja. The meeting had...
According to a new study by researchers, humans were formed from matter that flew billions of miles from another galaxy. Much of the stuff around us...
By Louis Odion…. Those tempted to view corruption only in materialist terms, overlooking the abstract subversion of norms and values, will perhaps be forced to have...
Following the widely circulated single image of President Buhari’s reported meeting with an APC delegation which raised authenticity doubts among some people, more pictures of Buhari...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that the Federal Government has prepared information officers whose duties are to identify and counter...
Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), on Wednesday advocated for stiff punishment for counsels, especially Senior Advocates, who obstruct and...
The government of Qatar opines that the 18 terrorist groups and individuals allegedly linked to Doha which was released by Saudi-led group has no basis, while...
There are worries that about 40 workers contracted by Integrated Data Services Limited (IDSL), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and some members...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has said Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not destroy humanity. The billionaire was asked his thoughts about claims from doomsayers like Elon Musk,...
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has stated that the three tiers of government would share N652.229 billion for the month of July 2017. It was...
SoftBank Group Corp is pushing to take a multi-billion dollar stake in Uber Technologies Inc., the Wall Street Journal reveals, citing people familiar with the matter....
Aisha Isah, 14, is now telling the police all she knows after she allegedly killed her husband of five years when she hit him in the...
The Special Assistant to the President on Prosecutions, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, on Tuesday, alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices...
Poor capital base and dwindling economy have combined to set Africa’s aviation industry backwards, even as Nigeria is said to have suffered $209m loss in 2016...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), led by Godwin Emefiele, stood its ground Tuesday at the meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee(MPC), refusing to reduce Nigeria’s...
Charges filed against Joachim Iroko, a resident of Ogun State, for naming his dog ‘Buhari’, were Tuesday dismissed at a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Sango-Otta. In...
Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj and the divided country’s eastern commander Khalifa Haftar are set to agree to a conditional ceasefire and to work towards elections,...
Senator John McCain will return to the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to play what could be a crucial role in salvaging Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare...
In a bid to check the incidence of rampaging herdsmen killings across the state, Taraba State Governor Darius Ishaku has signed the state Open Grazing Prohibition...
The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo chaired the Bama Initiative, which held at the state house Abuja, yesterday. In attendance was Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, Minister...
US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, answered questions from senate investigators for hours behind closed doors on Monday, acknowledging four meetings with Russians during and...
by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Nigeria’s House of Representatives is presently considering what perhaps qualifies as the most dangerous piece of legislation to come before the National...
Convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF and Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency,...
Expectations by the people of Niger Delta that the on-going constitution review would address their demands for total resource control may have been dashed. Indications to...
Usher and his ongoing public scandal involving him allegedly spreading the herpes virus just got deeper. The 38-year-old “Confessions” singer, whose real name is Usher Raymond...
Nollywood actor, Chidi Mokeme has mocked the new photo of President Buhari and the APC delegates. The actor, who took to social media, described the gathering...
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the prosperity of Africa is in its human resources and not in extractive potentials as zero oil age is...
Suspected militants on Monday vandalised the Trans-Niger pipeline in Ogoniland in Rivers State of the Niger Delta, reducing the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)’s crude oil production by...