Though Nigerians have so far lost about N18bn by subscribing to the Ponzi scheme, popularly known as Mavrodi Mundial Movement (MMM), greater number are still patronising...
Justice A. R. Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, adjourned the trial of a former acting governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, to...
One of Africa’s biggest mobile phone operator, MTN Group, has suffered its first annual loss in revenue projections in two decades, due mainly to a fine...
The end has come for notorious kidnapper and armed robber, Henry Chibueze a.k.a Vampire, after he was shot dead by operatives under the Police IGP intelligence...
Spanish politicians are worried about the country’s falling birth rate and have named a ‘S*x Tsar’ to encourage people to get in more action. Authorities in...
Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC ) Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN) on Thursday, lamented that despite the anti-corruption fight of the Muhammadu Buhari...
A censorship court has ordered the imprisonment of Kano based singer, Sadiq Zazzabi for releasing his new song without the approval of the state censorship board....
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved a N701 billion payment guarantee assurance by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for power generating companies (Gencos)...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday engaged King Mohammed VI of Morocco in a telephone chat when the Moroccan monarch called him up. A Moroccan news website...
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday met with the service chiefs at the State House in Abuja. Those at the meeting were the Chief of Defence...
What looks like toxic waste has again been found dumped in Koko, a farming town in the Warri North local government council of Delta state. A...
Facebook’s product team—lead by Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer at Facebook— is in West Africa this week to hear how creatives, developers and entrepreneurs in the...
The acute viral haemorrhagic illness generally know as Lassa fever has reared its ugly head again in Borno State. It is transmitted to humans via consumption...
Nigeria is to witness introduction of an entirely new set of bonds in its financial instrument market from March 13 2017, which is to target low...
The Federal Government has approved the appointment of two new directors for the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) to replace some of those sacked recently. They are...
The Senate has said corrupt Nigerians are hiding stolen money in caskets and uncompleted buildings in remote villages in some parts of the country. The Senate...
A diplomatic row is now playing out over the death of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of President Kim Jong Un who died in Kuala...
A raging fire which engulfed an Oregon timber town claimed the lives of four kids and critically injured their mother, her husband and another siblings who...
As I was about writing this piece, I suddenly heard a rebuttal from Asiwaju’s media team on his possible run for the Presidency. Earlier in the...
The modestly positive underlying sentiment at the Nigerian stock market gave way to major selloff on Wednesday as investors appeared to be unexcited by the corporate...
The House Minority Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor, has said those supporting Sen. Modu Sheriff as the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party are “just noisemakers”. Ogor...
In its reply to claims by Malaysian authorities that Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of President Kim Jong Un who died after two female suspects...
Senators on the Foreign Affairs committee, were on Wednesday, left speechless during the screening of an 82 year old ambassadorial nominee whose name was recently forwarded...
Omron’s imposing bat-holding robot which was once unable to “even return a Ping-Pong ball” contraption has evidently come a long way over the last few years...
A Seattle based man identified as Paul Skinner has been sentenced to 30-days in jail by a Seattle Municipal Court for reckless endangerment after an incident...
By its ruling of Wednesday, the Federal High Court Abuja, presided over by Justice Binta Nyako, is now set to try Nnamdi Kanu, self-acclaimed leader of...
The consistent delay in the passage of budget by the National Assembly is slowing down growth, the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) has said. The agency’s report...
A syndicate involved in the production of counterfeit alcoholic beverages, water for injection and sales of suspected imitation of Peak Milk has been busted by officials...
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Justice Walter Onnoghen as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria. This brings to an end weeks of agitations and speculations over...
The leadership of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control (NAFDAC) and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) have committed their agencies to new...
DEPUTY Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, PDP, Enugu West is leading a seven- member delegation of the Senate to South Africa following the return of Xenophobic attacks...
Policy inconsistency, and lack of continuity from one administration to another cost Nigeria a whooping $6.3 billon annually. According to a report by the African Tropical...
The Supersand Eagles of Nigeria have been drawn alongside Mexico, Italy and a yet-to-be-ascertained Asian team for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Bahamas 2017 to...
Special prosecutors in South Korea have formally announced charges against the de-facto Samsung chief, Lee Jae-yong along with four other company executives of the smartphone making...
If there is anyone who feels that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is a serial failure in government, it is Ayodele Fayose, the incumbent governor of Ekiti...
Leaders of the opposition PDP have called on all party faithful to stop making statements that could further escalate the crisis in the party. They made...
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has decried what he termed monumental corruption in the Nigerian civil service. The nation, he said, was bleeding from a situation where...
The Nigerian Government says there are indications that the Nigerian economy is well on its way out of recession considering the 2016 overall and last quarter...
The Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) has sealed up some private owned firms in Kano, including Kabo Airlines, Monaco Ventures Limited and Paki International Motors. The...
President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has soft pedaled on his immigration stance after he told the American Congress that he was open...
While NIgeria is still trying to come to terms over xenophobic attacks on its citizens in South Africa, the latter on Tuesday night deported about 100...
A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared as false, media reports that he plans to contest the 2019 presidential...
The underlying sentiment at the Nigerian stock market was broadly positive on Tuesday but losses by a handful of highly capitalised stocks overshadowed the overall market...
Nigeria’s most capitalised company and the cash cow of Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Dangote Cement has announced that it would distribute N144.84 billion to...
A day after it announced that it would be paying N63.4 billion to shareholders as cash dividends for the 2016 business year, Zenith Bank on Tuesday...
Ag President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday hosted the Abia State governor, Okezie Ikpeazu who led a delegation during an MSME Follow up at the State House...
Kanu, the self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) on Tuesday played host to two prominent Nigerians who called for his immediate release from...
The Lagos State Government has come out to state its plans for the very ubiquitous yellow commercial buses popularly known as ‘Danfo’. The acting Commissioner for...
The Senate, on Tuesday, rejected a call by some lawmakers urging the Nigerian Government to reconsider its diplomatic ties with the South African Government. The call...
For the second year running, no African leader is deemed worthy enough by the Mo Ibrahim Prize Committee to be bestowed with its prestigious Ibrahim Prize...
