Barley seven months after Dr. Allwell Orji took his life by plunging himself into Lagos Lagoon, a yet-to-be identified man, on afternoon, jumped into the lagoon...
Police in Uganda have arrested opposition leader, Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) after blaming him for the death of two protesters during...
Two ex-presidents of the United States of America have both expressed fear and voiced concern over the current state of political affairs under the leadership of...
The Director-General of Debt Management Office, Patience Oniha, on Thursday explained how the Federal Government competes with the private sector for loans from the commercial banks....
An Abuja High Court was on Thursday told how a whooping sum of N1.4 billion security vote was spent on prayers following a directive from the...
A group, the Civil Society Network Against Corruption has decried the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC’s) slow action in probing the $20 million bribes allegedly...
Twitter this afternoon publicly posted its schedule for instituting fixes and changes to longstanding abuse and harassment issues that have plagued the social network for years....
A father of three children identified as David Charles, 27, pleaded not guilty to a one count charge of defilement after he was paraded at an...
The founder and majority shareholder of Intels Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s oil and gas logistics giant with operations in Onne, Rivers State, Warri, Delta State and Lagos,...
THE President of Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers Association, NATCA, Mr. Victor Eyaru, has raised alarm over the closure of Taxiway Bravo in the Murtala Muhammed Airport,...
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has fixed Tuesday, October 24, for its national executive committee meeting, The PUNCH learnt on Thursday. Authoritative...
Zenith Bank International Plc rode on the back of increased market share to grow its pre-tax profit by about 31 per cent to N152.5 billion in...
Protests have erupted in the streets of Uganda and the capital Kampala in particular with the death of a victim confirmed as police fired bullets and...
Nigeria’s former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, acted swiftly on Thursday to momentarily block a move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to seize two...
Hours after the expiration of a deadline handed to Catalonia leader Carles Puigdemont to drop a secession bid, authorities in Spain will enact Article 155 of...
It was almost a tit-for-tat at the Nigerian stock market on Thursday as investors appeared to pause momentarily to determine the next major directional change. With...
Crisis has broken out in the All Progressives Congress (APC), with 17 governors plotting to dump National Chairman John Odigie-Oyegun. The governors are said to be...
With an inmate population of 7,396 against existing prison capacity of 3,927, Lagos State has an alarming case of prison overcrowding. These figures were part of...
The Presidential Committee on the North-East Initiative (PCIN) has raised alarm over the rising cases of sexual violence against displaced persons in camps across the North-East,...
Former president Goodluck Jonathan has mocked the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola over his famous pre-election boast that any serious government would not...
Following Oando Plc’s suspension from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has also suspended trading in shares belonging to Oando Plc. According...
The Federal Government and state governments Thursday agreed to create a harmonized platform that will lead the renewed drive towards the industrialization of Nigeria. To this...
President Muhammadu on Thursday expressed shock with the support Nigerian insurgent group, Boko Haram is getting from ISIS. This came as Buhari who is in Turkey...
Two witnesses on Thursday narrated before the Federal High Court, Abuja how the founder of Daar Communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, through his Daar Investment and Holdings...
The trail of Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, known as Evans has taken a twist as the Lagos State Government on Thursday amended the charges it filed against the...
For alleging that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, took bribe amounting to N120 billion and other allegations, Senator Isah Misau, was Thursday arraigned before...
Baring any last minute change of plans, the Senate will next Tuesday, commence an investigation into how Paris Club refunds and other bail out funds given...
By Joseph Edgar… The bulk of this write-up if not carefully diagnosed could begin to sound like a journey into the minds of ardent conspiracy theorists....
The Peoples Democratic Party has said that it will not force former President Olusegun Obasanjo to return as its member. It said it would respect the...
Pressure is mounting on Catalonia’s leader Carles Puigdemont to drop a secession bid as final deadline looms with Spain waiting in the wings to impose full...
Healthy eating is hard, and anyone who says that it’s easy aren’t telling the truth. They might think they are – but they aren’t. You’re only...
The World Bank Group has said that it was misquoted by the media report which claimed that it disagreed with Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun,...
Organised labour in the country yesterday implored President Muhammadu Buhari not to release further bailout funds to governors of the 36 states of the federation until...
Japanese space agency JAXA have proposed a possible solution for human settlement on the Moon by developing naturally-occurring hollow lava tubes on the lunar surface as...
THERE is disquiet at the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti, over alleged underhand recruitment of workers and award of contracts without due process. Some workers accused...
Some members of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Community have alleged that the committee saddled with the shortlisting of candidates for the Vice Chancellorship position was...
Telecoms operators willing to sell their spectrum licences to a third party will lose 60 per cent of the proceeds made from such sales to the...
The military has denied the allegation of complicity in the reported killing of 29 persons, including women and children, in the Nkiedonwhro community of Plateau State....
A daredevil 21-year-old suspected rapist did the unthinkable in Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State, when he stormed the home of his victim, Mercy Godwin,...
Scores of several demonstrators and activists thronged the streets of Washington DC in the US to welcome the latest blocking of President Donald Trump’s proposed plan...
By Bayo Oluwasanmi…. Alexis de Tocqueville never met Bukola Saraki. Had he encountered the APC Senate President or President Muhammadu Buhari or House Speaker Yakubu Dogara,...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abukabar Malami, has assured that the Federal Government will soon make public names of all high...
Amidst controversies in the All Progressives Congress (APC) over President Muhammadu Buhari getting an automatic ticket as the presidential candidate of the party in 2019, the...
Wafula Chebukati, the chairman Kenyan Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has stated that he is not sure that the rescheduled presidential election slated for October...
Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) Plc, rode on the back of improvement in core banking operations to record a pre-tax profit of N150.03 billion by the end...
Nigerian equities closed in the negative for the second consecutive trading session as investors continued their sell down in a momentary period before the main inflow...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Wednesday confirmed that the amendments to the 1999 Constitution in the last review process had yet to...
The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has listed Nigeria as a top piracy hotspot, describing the nation’s waters as risky, owing to the high rate of attacks...
The outbreak of the monkeypox virus has grown worse, spreading to eleven states, with 74 suspected cases recorded, Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, has revealed....
Seventeen years after former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s presidential pardon, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the payment of pension to soldiers, policemen and paramilitary officers who fought...
