President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said that the Federal Government has been using part of the stolen funds recovered from looters to finance the 2017 budget....
Ahead of the November 18 Anambra State governorship elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that it has deployed over 6,000 card reader machines...
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, may have landed a heavy blow to some people from South-East, majorly the youths, agitating for the Independence of Biafra, after...
Amid fears of a possible coup as tension rises in Zimbabwe over the possible next leader to succeed President Robert Mugabe, the long serving despot has...
By Benjamin Ugbana …. After Super Eagles got the entire country lit with great happiness by securing Nigeria’s qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup with...
The Senate has raised the alarm over the consumption of over three million bottles of codeine syrup daily in Kano and Jigawa States. It has also...
By Reuben Abati The current NNPC debacle is probably the most embarrassing, even if mercifully, eye-opening crisis in the history of that nationally strategic institution since...
Cashew nuts are, strictly speaking, not nuts at all. Cashew nuts are the seeds of Nigeria in one minute the fruit of the cashew tree, which...
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the National Assembly to approve two external loans put at $5.5 billion. This request is coming despite the fact that the...
China’s Hanson Robotics, producer of the celebrity humanoid robot Sophia, is partnering with United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) biggest telecom firm Etisalat for future sales of its...
Tears flowed freely after a 38-year-old widow identified as Mrs. Toyin Adelanke, a trader, died in Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State after a...
France and Germany have expressed support for Spain’s unity as pressure mounts on Catalonia’s secessionist leader to abandon plans to declare independence from Spain. Regional leader...
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Ibe Kachikwu’s future was hanging in the balance yesterday. President Muhammadu Buhari is said to be weighing options on Dr...
Despite the determination of the contractor to the deliver the project within the time frame, the relocation of gas pipelines and other facilities on the right-of-way...
Chairman, Association of South East Town Unions, ASETU, Chief Emeka Diwe, has said bad leadership has been the greatest problem inhibiting Nigeria from realising her full...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities and other workers unions at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, have rejected the plan by the school’s Governing...
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, Rivers State’s Governor Nyesom Wike has said that his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, would not mind going as far...
The tit-for-tat response by Ankara after Washington’s decision to suspend all non-immigrant visa applications has been described by the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan as...
Nigerian equities were overtly in a bullish mood on Monday as the stock market reopened to increase in bargain-hunting from investors taking positions ahead of the...
It is no longer news that the police station, located in the premises of the National Assembly, has been shut down on the orders of the...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, Monday admitted that his government had not lived up to its responsibility of meeting the wage entitlements of workers in the...
The threat of the monkeypox virus in Nigeria has risen further with the revelation of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that there were now...
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote stated Monday at the ongoing Financial Times’ 4th annual Africa Summit at Claridges in London, that Nigeria could not afford to...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Dr. Olisa Agbakoba has filed a suit at the Federal High Court, Abuja to challenge the non inclusion of the...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said that the idea of running for presidential position in Nigeria in 2019 has never crossed his mind and that...
Since Nigeria already confirmed their place in next year’s World Cup, MFM coach, Fidelis Ilechukwu, is of the opinion that the remaining qualifying match against Algeria...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday had a closed-door meeting, one after the other with three Northern governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The three governors who...
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights has revealed that no less than 37 Kenyan’s including a six-month old girl ‘clobbered’ by security agents have lost their...
Unable to endure any longer, more than 2,000 Nigeria Police personnel in Kaduna State Command on Monday engaged in a protest to demand for the payment...
The wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, has bemoaned the state of Aso Rock Clinic and wondered what would be happening in government owned hospitals across...
The League of Progressive Ambassadors of Nigeria has said that the bill currently before the National Assembly, which seeks to regulate Non-Governmental Organisations in the country...
Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Maikanti Baru has stated that no law mandates him to report to Ibe Kachikwu in his...
Convener of Arewa Research and Development Project, Usman Bugaje, has described the growing demands for Nigeria restructuring as full of incoherence and promised that the Northern...
We all wield the miniature computers in our pockets to shoot endless photos…but what about videos? While many of us do capture clips—spurred by improving camera...
Tragedy struck at Mgbosimiri, Agip axis of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, as unknown gunmen invaded the area killing no less than 10 people, including...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a drug seller in the Akala, Mushin area of Lagos State, who revealed after he was...
An estimated N37.8 billion is wasted annually by the ministries, agencies and departments (MDAs) of the Federal Government as 90 per cent of their Information Technology...
The push to get former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) and return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to enhance...
Ugochukwu Kenneth, an indigene of Abia State where the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu is from, has approached a Federal High Court...
Diplomatic tension between the US and Turkey is on the high after Ankara suspended non-immigrant visa services at all Turkish diplomatic facilities in the United States,...
A Cairo criminal court has sentenced 13 members of a disbanded militant group known as Ajnad Misr, to death after they were all convicted of launching...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… The sleepy political landscape of Delta State has very recently become a beehive of activities. This development, however, should not be a surprise...
By SOC Okenwa… Last Sunday, Nigeria marked 57 years as an ‘independent’ nation. Fifty-seven years of flag independence from the Great Britain. On October 1, 1960,...
Four months after the Presidency reluctantly assented to the 2017 budget based on what it called ‘significant distortions by the National Assembly’, another major conflict between...
The pan-northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, on Sunday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to expedite action on the report of the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s three-man presidential...
By Tony Ogunlowo… Again another psychotic madman strikes killing over 50 people and injuring more than 500 in the Land of the Free and Home of...
Civil society group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to pursue the legal process of designating “armed herdsmen” as...
Sources close to the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, have revealed the reasons the NNPC boss ignored the Minister of State for...
Imama Amapakabo has taken a coaching job with Nigeria Professional Football League club, El-Kanemi Warriors on a one-year deal on Sunday, the club confirms. The Maiduguri-based...
The Pharaohs of Egypt scored a 95th-minute penalty to secure a 2-1 win over Congo in Alexandria on Sunday night to pick up the second African...
