DESPITE warnings by the Federal Government to sanction petrol stations selling above pump price, the product is still selling above N145 in Imo State. Vanguard went...
Detractors of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s anti-corruption effort may have found a new target in the Head of Service of the Federation (HoSF), Mrs Winifred...
The Federal Government appears to have discarded its plan to create thousands of jobs through the establishment of technology hubs. While representing President Muhammadu Buhari at...
Nigeria’s largest brewer–Nigerian Breweries Plc– will be distributing a final dividend of N25 billion for the 2017 business year, raising the total payout for the year...
Nigerian equities rallied net capital gain of N155 billion on Thursday as investors continued bargain-hunting for quoted shares ahead of the main earnings season for the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the formation of a new committee to look into the rebuilding of communities affected by the herdsmen-farmers violence in affected states...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Do you recall when desperate youths thought of land flowing with milk and honey or dear life? Kill youths dignity and self-esteem,...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has resigned, saying he hoped to end years of unrest and political upheaval, in a move many consider unexpected. In a...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, Thursday directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to end fuel queues in Abuja before Sunday. Kachikwu...
The Federal Capital Territory High Court, acceding to a plea by the defense, has suspended the trial of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, pending...
Young Nigerians are on the cusp of history as twenty-four of the thirty-six states in the country have reportedly passed the Not Too Young to Run bill, thereby...
A group of suspected armed bandits have reportedly killed at least 41 persons at Birane village in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The gunmen...
Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has stated that peace can only be attained where justice is allowed to thrive, noting that “justice is most needed...
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has urged Nigerians to remember Nigeria’s sad past marked by poor leadership before President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 emergence, stating that if...
The Federal Government, Thursday, set up of a nine-man administrative panel of enquiry into the finances of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF). Inaugurating the...
A group calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to seek reelection, on Thursday stormed Abuja in their hundreds. However, in what could be described as, against the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday reiterated his administration’s resolve to take Nigeria to the next level not minding the challenges that have continued to bedevil the...
The Nigerian Super Eagles have slipped from 51st place in the world to 52nd in the latest FIFA ranking released by the football governing body on...
Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected new South African president following the resignation of Jacob Zuma, who was forced to resign by his own party, the African...
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, like the Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has supported the formation of local militias to defend Nigerians against killer herdsmen as...
Ahead 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Thursday said that it will implement the electoral sequence as amended by the Senate should President...
There was panic on Thursday morning in the National Assembly, over a minor fire incident at the control room. The incident was caused by a power...
The Federal Government has been accused of delaying the trial of a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal...
Troops of 222 Battalion, Nigerian Army and operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) Rivers State Command have tracked and killed one of the late...
Ortom insists Benue killings due to Presidency, security agencies’ unresponsive attitude Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has insisted that failures of the Presidency and security agencies...
A strange and unidentified object has been spotted outside a military base near Area 51. Pictures of the weird object were first posted to Twitter by...
State governors on Wednesday evening met under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. The meeting started at about 9pm at the old Banquet Hall of...
The Anambra State House of Assembly is poised to pass the 2018 appropriation bill this week. This indication was given yesterday after the ministries finished their...
FOLLOWING the invasion of Akure South council secretariat in Ondo State by 30 herdsmen, workers yesterday failed to report for duty vowing not to resume till...
Civil society groups, industry experts and other Nigerians have condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s role as Minister of Petroleum Resources due to his alleged failure to proffer...
Tragedy struck at a local high school in Florida when a 19-year-old student who was expelled from the institution opened fire killing no less than 17...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says the country’s foreign reserves has hit $42.8 billion, attributing the steady growth to its policies targeting reduction in importation...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned Nuraini Adamu, son of former Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Adamu and one Felix Onyeabo Ojiako...
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has called on governors in all states affected by the herdsmen menace to protect their citizens against the rampaging killer herdsmen....
Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Asaba, Delta State, has convicted and sentenced a former Relationship Manager with the United Bank for Africa (UBA)...
By Churchill Okonkwo… No doubt, Bukola Saraki is “armed and dangerous”. It also is an open secret that under his leadership, corruption is entrenched in the...
Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, (CCT) Justice Danladi Umar is to be arraigned on March 16, 2018 before Justice Ishaq Bello of the FCT...
After losing about N1.05 trillion in seven days of consecutive depreciation, Nigerian equities regain their rally on Wednesday with a net capital gain of N166 billion...
South Africa’s embattled President Jacob Zuma has resigned from office with “immediate effect” after pressure became unbearable for the defiant South African leader. He made the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the advice by the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, to former president Olusegun Obasanjo and former head...
Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, on Wednesday, was in a closed door meeting with members of the joint Senate committee on Police and National Security....
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed a loan agreement with the African Development Fund (ADF) designed to provide an Official Development Assistance (ODA) loan...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has called on Swedish investors to invest in Nigeria to create job opportunities for its teeming population....
Ahead 2019 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seems to have passed a vote of no confidence on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The...
A national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday sympathised with his party for the challenges it has had to...
Ex-Super Eagles captain and coach Sunday Oliseh has been sacked by second tier Dutch side Fortuna Sittard after what they described as his poor working relationship...
The ongoing amendment of election sequence by the National Assembly, on Wednesday, caused an uproar on the floor of the Senate. Senators loyal to President Muhammadu...
Latest report released by the National Bureau of statistics, indicates that Nigeria’s inflation rate has dropped to 15.13 percent in January from the 15.37 percent recorded...
By Joseph Edgar… Those of us who were old enough to witness the politics of the second republic would remember Mr. Braithwaite very well. He busted...
Embattled South Africa leader, President Jacob Zuma is refusing not to go down without a fight after the top leadership of the ruling African National Congress...
