Aisha Isah, 14, is now telling the police all she knows after she allegedly killed her husband of five years when she hit him in the...
The Special Assistant to the President on Prosecutions, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, on Tuesday, alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices...
Poor capital base and dwindling economy have combined to set Africa’s aviation industry backwards, even as Nigeria is said to have suffered $209m loss in 2016...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), led by Godwin Emefiele, stood its ground Tuesday at the meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee(MPC), refusing to reduce Nigeria’s...
Charges filed against Joachim Iroko, a resident of Ogun State, for naming his dog ‘Buhari’, were Tuesday dismissed at a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Sango-Otta. In...
Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj and the divided country’s eastern commander Khalifa Haftar are set to agree to a conditional ceasefire and to work towards elections,...
Senator John McCain will return to the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to play what could be a crucial role in salvaging Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare...
In a bid to check the incidence of rampaging herdsmen killings across the state, Taraba State Governor Darius Ishaku has signed the state Open Grazing Prohibition...
The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo chaired the Bama Initiative, which held at the state house Abuja, yesterday. In attendance was Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, Minister...
US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, answered questions from senate investigators for hours behind closed doors on Monday, acknowledging four meetings with Russians during and...
by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Nigeria’s House of Representatives is presently considering what perhaps qualifies as the most dangerous piece of legislation to come before the National...
Convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF and Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency,...
Expectations by the people of Niger Delta that the on-going constitution review would address their demands for total resource control may have been dashed. Indications to...
Usher and his ongoing public scandal involving him allegedly spreading the herpes virus just got deeper. The 38-year-old “Confessions” singer, whose real name is Usher Raymond...
Nollywood actor, Chidi Mokeme has mocked the new photo of President Buhari and the APC delegates. The actor, who took to social media, described the gathering...
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the prosperity of Africa is in its human resources and not in extractive potentials as zero oil age is...
Suspected militants on Monday vandalised the Trans-Niger pipeline in Ogoniland in Rivers State of the Niger Delta, reducing the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)’s crude oil production by...
Guinness Nigeria Plc on Monday kick-started its new capital raising and started receiving applications from shareholders, in a bid to raise N39.7 billion in new equity...
The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Babatunde Fowler, has expressed confidence in the viability of the Voluntary Asset and Income Declaration...
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party are among six governors who are scheduled to leave Nigeria today to visit President Muhammadu Buhari...
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) wants Nigeria to keep its daily oil output at 1.8 million barrels which is 400,000 barrels less than the...
Nigerian equities set a new year-to-date high on Monday as investors scrambled for blue chips ahead of this week release of most half-year earnings reports. Benchmark...
Nigeria’s economy is expected to grow at a faster rate than South Africa’s in the 2018 fiscal year. This is based on International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
By Reuben Abati…. “What’s gwan inna wa cwantry?” “What language is that?” “English of course.” “Sounds like Creole to me. Why don’t you just talk straight?”...
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, Adamawa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed to mount pressure on former Vice President Atiku Abubakar...
Nigerians have been told to stop complaining about President Muhammadu Buhari’s style of doing things and accept him as he is since they willingly voted for...
23-time Olympic gold medallst, Michael Phelps, has called for a rematch after he lost his swimming contest against a great white shark. The USA star swimmer’s...
By Femi Fani Kayode…. The picture of a handful of APC Governors and President Muhammadu Buhari, which was purportedly taken in London yesterday, is old and...
By SOC Okenwa… Mazi Nnamdi Okwu Kanu, the controversial leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was born in the late 60s or early 70s....
The Minister of Women Affairs, Sen Aisha Alhassan, recently met with the 106 freed Chibok girls as they prepared to return to high school for their...
By Remi Oyeyemi… “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all...
What can be described as a severe cash crunch situation has started hitting Nigerian banks and may worsen unless the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) puts urgent...
Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers on Sunday carried out attacks on Dalori and Dalori (2) Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the outskirts of Maiduguri, the...
A clash between Uwheru and Unenurhe communities of Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State over the murder of a youth from Uwheru, weekend, reportedly...
What looked like an insight into the outcome of the 257th meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) caused some disagreement between a group of professionals...
The Deputy Director, Public Relations Theatre Command of Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, The Nigerian Army says it has moved has 43 Boko Haram insurgents...
In what appeared like counting his chicken before they are hatched, Governor Ayodele Fayose has predicted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will dominate the Ekiti...
The biggest evidence yet that President Muhammadu Buhari may not be bed-ridden as widely speculated and touted by some opposition politicians has emerged. A statement authored...
By Sonala Olumhense… His name: Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s President-Elect. The man who, in one week, would take control of the Africa’s most bewildering country. He was...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has called on the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to jettison his threat to sue the organization...
Authorities in the UK have now made it mandatory for drone owners to register and undergo tests to show they understand basic air safety rules before...
Nigerian equities sustained an all-week rally to extend the latest streak of gains to 12 consecutive days as investors maintained positive sentiment and optimism that the...
Dispute over N1.3m bill: Hospital seizes corpse of housewife for eight months Anambra State Police Command and the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, are trying to unravel...
The new 25 per cent hike in cost of acquiring data sevices has raised fresh concern over ability of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to regulate...
The West Bank region in the Middle East is boiling again after two Palestinian teens, aged 17 and 18, died in separate incidents during a clash...
The United States Congress has reached a deal to slam Russia, Iran and North Korea with sanctions. According to Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2...
The Chibok Secondary School girls released in May 2017 by Boko Haram terrorists have bemoaned the situation of several non-school girls in the captivity of the...
President Mohammadu Buhari’s repeated and now-protracted stay in London on medical vacation has generated much controversy among Nigerians mostly around issues of transparency and accountability. The...
A 19-year-old budding entrepreneur Adeola Sonoiki aka Faustino has succeeded in convincing established music acts like MI, Niniola, Burna Boy, Base One, Terry Apala and many...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has directed the Theatre Commander, Operation LAFIYA DOLE, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, to capture Abubakar Shekau, the...
