In a brazen display of disregard for constituted authority, truck and tanker drivers, took over the entire Oshodi/Apapa express way, denying other motorists access. The gridlock...
The nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy has sparked a contagious diplomatic row with the European Union now backing the United Kingdom in blaming...
In Lagos, there are lagoons, fresh and brackish water bodies everywhere that you would expect potable water to be plentiful for Lagosians. Nope! Instead, there is...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to keep his offer to tutor them on how to...
The North has been described as constituting all the problems and obstacles plaguing Nigeria’s development. These problems according to the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) range...
After six consecutive negative trading sessions, Nigerian equities staged a recovery on Thursday as investors stepped up bargain-hunting for mid and large-cap equities. Benchmark indices at...
Nigeria’s 4th largest telecom services provider, 9mobile, received a boost after new owners, Teleology Holdings paid the non-refundable $50million completion deposit, Wednesday afternoon, to the Trustee...
The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, Thursday fired two of his aides at the centre of a scandal surrounding allegations of breach of labour trust against...
Paul Arkwright, the United Kingdom High Commissioner to Nigeria, has told Premium Times that his country, or any other Western nation as far as he could...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has shifted ground on his order for the withdrawal of police officers attached to VIPs, political and public office...
Famous American billionaire businessman and philanthropist, Bill Gates has said the present economic plan of the Muhammadu Buhari administration cannot address the unique needs of Nigerians....
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Gusau, Zamfara State, directed security agencies to improve their strategies of intelligence gathering, surveillance and accuracy in deployments, and ensure that...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has urged the nation’s judiciary to adhere strictly to the principles of separation of powers as enshrined...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the family of Leah Sharibu that he is going to ensure their daughter is also freed by the Boko Haram terrorists....
Kelechi Iheanacho is set to handle the No.10 role usually played by team captain Mikel Obi as Nigeria’s Super Eagles battle Poland in an international friendly...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday revealed that the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) has recorded over three million members across the country. Obasanjo had proposed...
The Edo State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) say the Edo State government under Godwin Obaseki is finalizing plans to illegally sell off the...
Sounds of cries, sorrows and agonies again saturated the air in Branch Umenger in Guma Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State on Thursday, as suspected...
The United Kingdom Foreign Office has appointed its first black female career diplomat, NneNne Iwuji-Eme, British High Commissioner to the Republic of Mozambique. The development is...
Culled from The Guardian UK, March 22, 2018 If Britain hadn’t voted to leave the EU, and Trump hadn’t won the US election, it’s unlikely anyone...
Nigeria’s main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has alleged that the kidnap, release of 105 Dapchi is “a poorly crafted tragicomedy: a scam of no...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has said that it may have no option than to declare former Plateau State governor Senator...
The Senate on Thursday, rejected the nomination of Dr. Asheikh A. Maidugu as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of...
The Minister of Transport, and a former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi has called on the Igbo nation to engage with others and immerse itself...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has called on the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to either congratulate the Federal Government over the...
A former assistant director of the Federal Civil Service (FCS), Yakubu John Yusuf, who was earlier fined N750,000 for stealing N24 billion by a High Court...
We all know that too much salt is bad for our health and that many of us still do eat way too much of the stuff,...
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has expressed concerns over the impact of the African continental free trade area (AfCFTA), describing it as a delicate approach...
Let me acknowledge without any reservation whatsoever, that I am honored by the invitation to deliver this year’s convocation lecture from an outstanding institution named after...
Mr. Godwin Elewana, a retired former employee of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will die by hanging after he was found guilty of killing his...
Nobel Prize laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on the Nigerian Intervention Movement (NIM), which prides itself as a Third Force coalition to be vigilant and...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for a “major breach of trust” and admitted the social network made mistakes which led to an international data scandal....
By SOC Okenwa… When the former President Goodluck Jonathan was in the saddle in Aso Villa the Boko Haram (BH) armed rebellion cum terrorism was flourishing...
Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi has been handed an eighth-month jail term by authorities following her arrest after a video of her slapping and hitting two...
Two days after landing in police custody following an investigation into whether late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi helped finance his 2007 election campaign, former French President...
UNICEF reiterates that schools should be safe spaces, and protected at all times. Since the start of the insurgency in 2009, over 2,295 teachers have been...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the All Progressives Congress (APC) and some officials in the Presidency for allegedly staging the abduction of the schoolgirls...
A coalition of over 400 civil society organisations under the aegis of Transition Monitoring Group, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to...
Access Bank recorded mixed performance in 2017 as a 29 per cent growth in the top-line compressed into 11 per cent decline in the bottom-line. The...
Nigerian equities continued on the downtrend on Wednesday as investors showed preference for profit-taking than dividend yields. Equities dropped by 0.46 per cent on Wednesday, equivalent...
Leaders from 44 African countries on Wednesday sealed a historic agreement to create a $2.5 trillion continental free trade zone, with Nigeria and South Africa, the...
The 105 girls released by Boko Haram have been flown from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to Abuja. They were airlifted from the Maiduguri Air Force...
Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) held a meeting on Wednesday. APC Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, was at the...
By Reuben Abati… President Muhammadu Buhari’s 12th hour decision to snub the African Union Extra-ordinary summit on the endorsement of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed delight over the release of the abducted students of Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State by...
The United Nation High Commission For Refugees (UNHCR) has disclosed that about 20,000 English-speaking Cameroonians have taken refuge in Nigeria since October 2017 when crisis in...
Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has congratulated parents of the freed Dapchi schoolgirls and sympathized with parents of five of the girls that reportedly died....
Former Minister of Aviation and a chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Femi Fani-Kayode, has described the release of some Dapchi schoolgirls as the...
The recently sacked coordinator of Amnesty Programme and former Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Niger Delta, Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh, has refuted claims that...
A major data breach that has sent its shares plummeting by almost £50bn has forced Facebook investors to sue the social media giant over “significant losses...
