Reaction of Nigeria’s Federal Government to Transparency International’s (TI) ranking of the country on its corruption index was not unexpected. TI had said the country dropped...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi…. Looking at the ripple reactions that greeted the hate speech bill currently before the Nigerian senate; one will but agree with the words...
By Reuben Abati… The second wave of democratization in Africa, beginning in the 80s, and the gradual establishment of democracy as the new normal in the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed the claim by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that it spends N24 billion monthly and N774 million per...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said that he had his own way of gathering information on killings in the country, even as he claimed that the...
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has been accused of ‘disastrously’ mismanaging the federal government’s intervention in the ongoing Malabu scandal trial in...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have spent the course of two days grilling a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation,...
Former Chelsea star, Nemanja Matic scored a stunning stoppage-time winner to help Manchester United go second in the Premier League table as they came from 2-0...
Nigerian equities market continued on the upward trend as bargain-hunting for dividend-paying stocks spurred a market-wide rally that left investors with net capital gain of N229...
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s claim that Christians and southerners are the greatest beneficiaries of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government...
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s eventual decision to visit Benue, Yobe and other states with records of different forms of...
Liberian President George Weah on Monday said he visited President Muhammadu Buhari because his country needs Nigeria’s help to jump-start its economy. Weah, who recently emerged...
The All Progressives Congress (APc) has taken its campaign for the restructuring of the country to the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Dr. Gani Adams. A...
Cheating on your partner, it would seem, has become an accepted part of having a relationship, but it shouldn’t be. Cheating hurts and it betrays a...
A former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a six-month state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe....
The United States embassy in Ankara, Turkey has issued a statement saying it would be closed to the public for the meantime as a result of...
A report from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its partner, the Global Alliance of Improved Nutrition (GAIN), has said that insufficient iodine during pregnancy...
The United States (US) government has said that its primary concern in the coming 2019 general elections in Nigeria will be how to ensure a peaceful...
A bizarre ‘UFO’ which crash landed on a British-owned island near Antarctica has been spotted by alien hunters. The strange object appears to have crash-landed into...
A top official of Kano state Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Alhaji Uba Muhammad has reportedly been kidnaped by yet-to-be identified gunmen who abducted him at...
The federal government and the Senate have again presented different narratives as to what is the cause of delay in the passage of the 2018 Appropriation...
The business educational development of Northern Nigeria took a new turn at the weekend when businessman, Aliko DANGOTE donated a N1.2 billion ultra-modern business school structure...
Former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, has blamed evils of lobbying, favouritism and godfatherism in the appointment of judicial officers for the...
If there is anyone who knows what the exact outcome of the 2019 presidential poll would be, it is Professor Tunde Adeniran who, over the weekend,...
The ongoing gun control debate in the United States of America may take a confrontational turn after Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut accused President Donald...
About 15 new private and commercial airlines have applied for operating permits as the demand for air travel steadily rises in the country. The spokesman of...
The frosty relationship between the Presidency and the National Assembly largely accounts for the delayed passage of this year’s budget, The Nation has learnt. Besides, there...
The raging labour dispute between the oil workers’ unions and Nigerian indigenous firms that have committed huge resources to develop local capacity and capability in line...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the weekend said its committee on underage voters in Kano State might have been quoted out of context. The...
The Peoples Democratic Party says the ruling All Progressives Congress is panicky ahead of 2019 general elections and is plotting to discredit the former ruling party....
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Anike Nwoga has dragged the National Assembly to a Federal High Court sitting in Enugu. He sued...
The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru, has claimed that the corporation is currently incurring an under recovery...
A fresh outbreak of ethnic violence on the Mambilla Plateau in Sardauna Local Government Area of Taraba State, has witnessed the killing of no less than...
Members of ISIS linked al-Qaeda, Sahel-based group Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) have released a video showing the killing of four US soldiers who were killed...
Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly (LRA) has said that Nigerians will weep should they truly know what President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress...
Prof. Kingsley Moghalu became one of the first Nigerians to openly declare his interest to contest for Nigeria’s presidency in 2019 when he addressed the media...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has attempted to put up a defence for President Muhammadu Buhari on his much-criticised decision to snub Nigerians in crisis-hit areas, while...
Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha on Sunday boasted that already his son-in-law’s ambition to succeed him as the next governor of the state had the backing...
African equities were the major contrarian stocks in global downtrend that dominated trading in the immediate past week with Nigerian equities riding above negative hangover to...
A coordinated attack on the army headquarters and French embassy in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso which left no less than 16 people dead including...
A video of riotous situation in a Catholic Church in Imo state has gone viral on social media. It is also on YouTube. Also, a voice...
All may not be well with the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as the party has suspended a vice chairman of the...
Lots of people struggle to shed weight because they’re under the impression that losing pounds is hard work and demands a LOT of effort from us....
A Nigerian father of three children Bayode Treasures-Olawunmi has set a new Guinness World Record for ”The Longest Reading Marathon (Read Aloud).” Bayode who began reading...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the Federal Government to explain why Nigerians have continued to drink water from contaminated sources with deadly...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is no longer in existence in the state. He was reacting to...
Nigeria’s highest-priced stock-Nestle Nigeria Plc will distribute its entire net profit of N33.7 billion in 2017 as cash dividend to shareholders. The board of directors of...
There were indications over the weekend that one of the Third Forces, The Nigerian Intervention Movement, (NIM) under the leadership of former president of the Nigeria...
Despite probes going on at both chambers of the National Assembly, there are indications that the Federal Government may go ahead with the concession of the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has emerged as the arrowhead of a plot to coalesce all opposition parties and groups for the purpose of dislodging the...
