A Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja presided over by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba on Friday, turned down the application of Abba Moro, former interior minister,...
The Oil Prospecting Licence 245, otherwise known as Malabu oil deal, one of Nigeria’s richest oil blocks has been returned to Shell and ENI. This came...
About 12 days after the DPO in charge of C’ Division in Asaba, the Delta state capital, Valentine Mbalu, was kidnapped, his decomposing body has been...
Following the row surrounding the Nigeria Customs Service and its decision to raid warehouses and markets for alleged smuggled items, and also implement the customs duty...
One of the indicators that Nigeria may be winning the war against Boko Haram insurgency is the fact that schools, across Borno State—the center of the...
Namibians have been told to brace up for the worst flooding in history after authorities warned that this year’s wet season will bring significant submerging to...
Former Enugu State governor, Sullivan Chime, has reportedly joined the league of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwarts defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Others...
Preparatory to the 2017 gubernatorial poll in Anambra State, the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) says it has has re-jigged its national officers in an...
Two days after an attack by the insurgent group, Boko Haram on Magumeri town in Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno State, the Nigerian Army has...
English Premier League side Manchester United have been drawn to face Belgian side Anderlecht in the quarter-finals of the Europa League. United, who progressed to the...
Nigerian engineers under the auspices of Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) on Thursday came hard on the Okorocha administration blaming it for...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, said commencement of continuous voters’ registration (CVR) will begin by April 2017, till an undisclosed date....
It took police pleading and cajolling to avert what could have been a return to violence in Port Harcourt, the main oil community in Nigeria’s Niger...
The Supreme Court Chief Registrar, Ahmed Saleh, on Thursday testified before a Federal High Court in Abuja how a Justice of the apex court, Sylvester Ngwuta...
The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to remove the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim...
The Appeal Court sitting in Benin, the Edo State capital, has reserved judgement on an application by candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the...
Last minutes exchange of briefs between Etisalat and a consortium of banks, which lent it about $1.23 billion in 2013, has led to postponement of a...
Justice Lateefa Okunnu of an Ikeja High Court thursday sentenced another oil marketer, Rowaye Jubril, to 10 years imprisonment over a N963.7 million fuel subsidy fraud....
Two victims, a 49-year old-man, from Igbogbo, Ikorodu area who died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) penultimate Wednesday after admission and the second...
The United Nations has raised an alarm over the reduction of US contribution to the world body saying it could ‘undermine the impact of longer-term reform...
The League Management Company (LMC) of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) has fined Kano Pillars coach Kadiri Ikhana the sum of Two hundred thousand naira...
Nigerian equities continued on the uptrend on Thursday, rallying N41 billion in net capital gains as investors showed increased appetite for several stocks across many sectors....
In what the management of Aero Contractors of Nigeria Limited has described as a “business decision”, letters of redundancy are being served to about 3,000 out...
French police on Thursday arrested 17-year-old pupil armed with a rifle, two handguns and two grenades. Police sources revealed that the arrest came after a young...
The Federal Government has set up a probe panel into budgetary conducts of its Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, with a view to curtailing budget padding....
All is certainly not well with President Buhari’s kitchen cabinet as some key elements within the presidency have come for each other’s throats. Early indications of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday arraigned the former Chief Judge of Enugu State, Professor Innocent Azubike Umezulike at the Federal High Court...
Justice A.R Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday directed that Mr Andrew Yakubu, a former Group Managing Director (GMD) Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...
A committee set up by the outlawed Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has recommended for the expulsion of the legally recognised...
One female employee of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was injured on Thursday when a letter bomb exploded in her face while trying to open it,...
The football chief of Madagascar Ahmad Ahmad has dethroned Issa Hayatou of Cameroon at the ongoing CAF elections being staged in Adis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ahmad clinched...
Tony Ogunlowo… From the 8th of March the Nnamdi Azikwe International airport, in Abuja, Nigeria’s second busiest airport will close for approximately six weeks for repairs....
The Senate, on Thursday, walked out the Comptroller-General of Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali, over his refusal to be properly kitted in his service...
When the first rejection was announced, I had sent in a commentary and now I have been further vindicated. We put whoever is the Chairman of...
Some consumer advocacy groups in the country have threatened to institute a class-action suit against the Nigerian Bottling Company if it is established that an infraction...
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN has suspended plans to hold a Christian Day of Mourning this Sunday. A statement by the National Secretary of CAN,...
A tiger statue placed in front of a military base in West Java has been destroyed by the Indonesian army after it became a laughing stock...
You can blame the economy or competing devices such as tablets, but in recent years, many consumers just haven’t noticed a big enough difference between their...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) will not be participating in Anambra Central senatorial election, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ruled. This was as...
To curtail miscreant and terrorists activities in Kogi State, Governor Yahaya Bello, on Wednesday pulled down buildings suspected to be dens of kidnappers, Boko Haram and...
Fear that the parent company of Guinness Nigeria, Diageo, has concluded plans to reduce its share holding in the company became clearer on Wednesday as it...
The internally generated revenue (IGR) of Lagos State has maintained its lead over what the totality of 33 other states realise, haven risen by about N33...
A Federal High Court Judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, his wife Olubowale as well as Joe Agi (SAN), have prayed a High Court of the Federal Capital...
The US Justice Department is accusing two Russian spies of allegedly accessing millions of Yahoo user accounts through spam campaign. The two “criminal hackers” of Russia’s...
The Nigerian Army has reminded Nigerians, especially those in the north east part of the country that is “a grievous mistake and criminal offence to continue...
The Nigerian Army says it has set up a Board of Inquiry to investigate the circumstances that led six of its men to allegedly beat up...
Nigerian equities continued on the uptrend on Wednesday as investors sustained bargain-hunting amidst indications that several quoted companies may announce their earnings report and dividend recommendations...
The revised travel ban signed into law by controversial US President Donald Trump has been put on hold by a judge in Hawaii. Following the ruling...
The Central Bank of Nigeria says it’s new policy of re-introduction of charges on cash withdrawals is aimed at further reducing the volume of liquidity in...
There is controversy surrounding a suit filed at the Lagos High court for which judgment was recently delivered involving the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Limited, makers...
