Ahead of the November 18 Anambra governorship election, five of the leading candidates were Sunday engaged in an intense and substantive televised debate. The contenders were...
At least two persons were killed and many others feared injured as gunmen believed to be Boko Haram insurgents attacked Maikadiri village in Askira-Uba Local Government...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that he receives expressions of support and entreaties every day from people across the country asking him to contest the...
The Ministry of Mines and Steel Development appears to have backtracked from its earlier claim that its web portal to improve Ease of Doing Business in...
Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Farida Waziri, has alleged that her sack by former president Goodluck Jonathan was due to her...
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, Sunday contradicted claims by the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, that the whistleblower...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has said that there is no law that prevents him from marrying a serving female police officer. He challenged...
The Bayelsa State Government on Sunday reacted to a claim by the media office of a former governor of the state, Timipre Silva Media Office describing...
The upper legislative chamber, says it will file an appeal on Monday against the judgment of the Federal High Court, delivered on Friday against it in...
Claims by Hezbollah movement leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah that Saudi Arabia forced the resignation Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri and detained him in Riyadh seems to...
The staging of regional elections next month in Catalonia will help quash “separatist havoc” so says Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy while he was addressing a...
Former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, has revealed that he offered to resign three times as helsman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Red...
The failure of the Federal Government to implement all the agreements it entered with the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) since 2016 has unavoidably forced...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is set to get a new Director-General in the person of Prof. Moji Adeyeye, the...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has predicted that the country’s foreign external reserves, would hit $40bn by 2018. The nation’s FX reserve had faced challenges,...
The Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, has faulted an N11 million alleged fraud leveled against him by staff of the Energy Commission of Nigeria...
President Donald Trump of the United States of America has revealed that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un insulted him by calling him “old” stating that...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a 20-year-old housewife identified as Samsiya Hassan after she allegedly dumped her one-day-old baby in a...
Luxury phone makers Apple have announced the acquisition of a camera sensor company called InVisage Technologies. In a report from TechCrunch, they have “confirmed” that Apple...
The Federal Government on Saturday announced that the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, has commenced operations and is currently inviting job applications for academic staff. This...
The streets of Barcelona in Spain has been thronged by scores of Catalonia independence supporters demanding the release of separatist leaders arrested and detained for their...
Governor Nyesome Wike of Rivers State and his immediate predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi have once again taken their quest to assert control over the state to another...
There is palpable apprehension among operators of tank farms in Nigeria following federal government’s determination to end the importation of refined petroleum products in the country...
Officers of the Nigeria Prison Service undergoing a training programme at its institution in Kirikiri, Lagos, have accused officials of the school of extortion in the...
Worried by the intense intrigues over the choice of a new National Chairman of the party, the governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic...
CRISIS appears to be brewing in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the North-West, where the Chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the party, Senator Ahmed Makafi,...
A 56-year-Fulani herdsman, Mohammed Abdulkadire, jumped into River Benue in the Logo Local Government Area of Benue State, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. The National Coordinator of...
Experts have dampened the optimism that greeted President Muhammadu Buhari’s presentation of the 2018 budget at the National Assembly from some quarters, arguing that it did...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that both the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) were “wobbling parties” that required...
Michel Aoun, the President of Lebanon, has called on the government of Saudi Arabia to explain the whereabouts of Saad Hariri, the country’s ex- Prime Minister...
The Central African nation of Cameroon risks full-blown insurgency after no less than four security personnel were reportedly killed by separatists from the Anglophone region of...
Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State, has alleged an attempt on his life by men of the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) and soldiers of the Nigerian...
For moving a political motivated motion during plenary, a member representing Barkin Ladi/Riyom Federal Constituency in the House of Representative, Hon Istifanus Gyang, is in serious...
Despite being ranked as one of the worst in the world, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has described itself as one of the best globally. The...
An operative of the Department of State Service (DSS), Mr. Aminu Ndakpoto, on Friday narrated how Supreme Court Justice, Sylvester Ngwuta, during interrogation said that he...
Bombarded with accusations of lopsided appointments in his government, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he is currently looking into the issue in order to address...
Former Fifa president, Sepp Blatter has denied allegations on sexual assaul by USA goalkeeper, Hope Solo. The 36-year-old Solo had accused Blatter of sexually harassing her...
Apparently concerned with the number of inconclusive elections that trail the Professor Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission (EFCC), the Senate has warned against such in...
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Hezbollah movement has accused Saudi Arabia of stoking war in Lebanon by forcing the resignation of the country’s Prime...
Four states namely Ebonyi, Ondo, Abia, Imo and Ogun have reportedly put plans in motion seeking the passage of anti-open grazing law in their various domains...
Cops in France have nabbed a yet-to-be identified 28-year-old man after he rammed into a group of people outside a school near Toulouse in southern France...
The Nigerian government on Friday signed an agreement worth $5.79 billion with a consortium of three Chinese companies for the construction of the 3,050 megawatts Mambilla...
Judge Pablo Llarena of the Spanish Supreme Court has granted five Catalonia independence leaders bail including Carme Forcadell, a pro-independence activist and former speaker of the...
Concerned Nigerians can heave a temporary sigh of relief with the decision of the dreaded Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) to suspend its plan to renew attacks...
Farouk Martins Aresa… How, at what age do we explain abnormal sexual behavior to children? It is awkward enough discussing s*x. When we were growing up,...
By Jude Feranmi…. Every time I am caught in introspecting about Nigeria and meditating about the solutions to the many problems that we face as a...
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has been ranked worst in the world according to the 2016 World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI). The WISPI was...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) asked President Muhammadu Buhari why herdsmen allegedly carrying out killings in various communities across the country had yet to be...
Reactions have continued to trail news of the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development spending N700 million for a website, as Reno Omokri, former Special Assistant...
The police in Benue State said Friday that they had intercepted 1,427 cartridges of 5.56mm live ammunition along Makurdi-Lafia road. The police spokesman in the state,...
