At least two soldiers and five policemen are reported dead after a gun battle with militants on Saturday night. The incident reportedly took place at Woodland...
The policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria restricting forex for 41 items has taken a negative toll on businesses in Nigeria’s maritime industry, particularly the...
The Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness, Muhammadu Sanusi II, is not new to controversies. In fact, he often courts them with candour. As such, his...
A red alert has been issued by the Ogun Command of the Nigeria Customs Service to Nigerian’s living in and around the communities of Idiroko, the...
The United States may be ready to flex muscles with Pyongyang after it agreed to deploy a Navy Strike group near the Korean peninsula as a...
The identity of the terrorist who plowed his truck into a busy street in Stockholm, Sweden filled with pedestrians has been revealed. Authorities say the arrested...
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has said the party is ready to call the bluff of its governors that...
Nigerian equities traded last week with widespread positive sentiments as investors appeared to show stronger appetite for quoted companies, most of which had just released their...
The cracks in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the Senate, may soon break open and widen, as strong indications have emerged that the...
Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie has lamented the face off between the executive and legislative arms of government. He also...
In line with the policy of the Federal Ministry of Finance to have mega insurance institutions in Nigeria, five big firms have gotten the nods of...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has shifted the deadline for registration and date of the United Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This was made known...
By Femi Fani Kayode… Four hundred people were killed by meningitis in our country in the last few days. Twenty two girls were abducted by Boko...
By Farooq A. Kperogi… President Muhammadu Buhari and Senate President Bukola Saraki are at loggerheads again, and Buhari apologists are erecting annoyingly false Manichean binaries between...
Goals from Dele Alli, Eric Dier and a brace from Son Heung-min helped Tottenham Hotspur secure a much deserved 4-0 win against Watford on Saturday, as...
With the relative stability in the Niger Delta and improved oil price in the international market, Nigeria’s loan requests with the World Bank and the African...
Associates and core supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari are advancing plans for a second term bid for the President through the installation of campaign structures outside...
A court in South Dakota has sentenced a 30-year-old man identified as John Abdo to seven-years in prison for biting off the nose of his girlfriend....
Nigeria may not exit its current economic recession soon if it is depending solely on the current rise in the price of crude oil, this is...
The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has vowed not to attend any reconciliation meeting with former President Goodluck Jonathan, stating...
Despite ethical and safety concerns, researchers are getting closer to building life from scratch. In fact, scientists are hoping to synthesize a human genome in the...
Kaduna State’s Governor Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, on Friday challenged each other to disclose their financial earnings. The governor said...
Tragedy struck in the Uzebba area of Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State, when a 36-year-old man Segun Odihiri chopped off the head of...
Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Gudu, Abuja, on Friday, convicted and sentenced one Jubril Rowaye, an oil...
A man hunt is currently underway in Winsconsin by the FBI for the search of an “extremely dangerous” suspect who they say robbed a gun store,...
Henrique Capriles, the opposition leader in Venezuela has been banned by authorities from running for Presidency for the next 15-years. However, Capriles has rejected the ruling...
Ekiti State governor and chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum, Ayodele Fayose, has described the party’s national chairman Ali Modu Sheriff as “an...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos zone, on Friday evening uncovered another large sum of cash to the tune of about N448,850,000 The discovery suspected...
A House of Representatives member representing Orumba North/South, Anambra Federal Constituency, Sopuluchukwu Ezeonwuka, has been sacked and ordered to be replaced by the Supreme Court. The...
Controversial and suspended House of Representatives member representing Kiru/Bebeji Federal constituency in Kano state, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to pardon him over...
Aide to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, has described Rtd General Ishaya Bamaiyi (rtd) as a liar with shifty recollections. Akande was responding to claims...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday expressed confidence that the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja will be reopened as scheduled on April 19. He stated this...
Just a day after Ripples Nigeria published a two-part investigative report on the human cost of Nigeria’s war against Boko Haram, the terrorist group has killed four...
Nigeria’s N1.12 trillion deficit in the 2016 budget, supposed to be largely financed through international credit agencies, including IMF, World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB),...
There is an ongoing meeting at Aso Villa, Abuja between Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and all heads of prosecuting agencies. The agencies are the Economic and...
A man in the city of Stockholm rammed a hijacked truck into pedestrians at a local department store killing three people and injuring many others in...
Following complaints from some ECOWAS-member countries that their citizens for intra border trades were being denied free entry, against free border entry protocol agreement, the organisation...
Governor Jibrilla Bindow of Adamawa State has warned that he, and the state may be forced to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) and join the...
There was palpable confusion along the Katsina-Daura road when suspected smugglers engaged in a scuffle with men of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) which led to...
A report by Russian cyber security firm, Kaspersky claims that a cyber security firm backed by the government of North Korea were targeting financial institutions in...
The United States has gotten itself directly involved in the ongoing civil war in Syria. In retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack on the rebel-held...
Communities in the Niger Delta region have taken the lead in efforts to take advantage of the federal government’s plan to develop modular refineries. Already at...
The hope of peace returning to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by political means may have been deferred again as the national chairman of the party,...
The continued ballistic missile tests by North Korea has forced Japan to extend unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang by two years. That much information was made available...
Social media giants Facebook has launched a tool to help its users spot fake news online. The recently launched resource will spot false news and misleading...
Dateline: January 10, 2017, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Edo September 28, 2016 governorship election opened his case at...
Apparently not happy with the Wednesday April 5, 2017 judgement of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, which nullified the corruption charges against Justice...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu… Not many had expected the judicial outcome of some of the cases brought against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), before courts,...
It was drama on Thursday at the Anambra State House of Assembly as Speaker, Mrs. Rita Maduagwu, surreptitiously vanished into thin air with the mace to...
Nigerian equities continued to ride on increasing demand for value stocks to sustain a second day of consecutive rally on Thursday. Considerable rallies within the large-cap...
