The Senate, on Tuesday, said local contractors’ debt in the country is currently estimated to be N2 trillion. The debts, the Senate noted, are those owed...
How long more should Aminu Tambuwal remain as governor of Sokoto State? This and some other issues are what a Federal High Court sitting in a...
There seems no end yet to the power game playing out at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) as the Federal Government announced replacement of five...
A relief of sort seems to have come the way of Nigeria, as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), despite a relative rise in price...
Two women accused of killing Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean President Kim Jong Un will face murder charges for administering a nerve...
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has rationalized the current political structure in Nigeria and concluded that Ndigbo are too...
The Senate has fixed the confirmation hearing of Justice Walter Onnoghen as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) for tomorrow (Wednesday) The move comes one week...
Moroophat, the wife of a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, is to lose her property to the federal government. Justice Y. Halilu...
The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte has apologised for not being able to save the life of an elderly German man who was held hostage...
By David Iyofor… My dear Wendell aka Reno, I am not sure how to address you, whether to call you Reno Omokri or Wendell Smilin. This...
By Reno Omokri… It has been brought to my attention the attack on my person by the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, after I exposed his...
SpaceX has announced it plans to launch two paying passengers on a tourist trip around the moon next year. Two private citizens have paid money to...
An Ikole Ekiti Customary Court in Ekiti State listened to the prayers of a 30-year-old woman identified as Sola Bamisile who asked the court to dissolve...
A journalist working for Germany’s Die Welt newspaper has been jailed following the orders of a Turkish court for allegedly spreading ‘terrorist propaganda’ and inciting hatred....
A request to place on hold an appeal over a travel ban on people from seven majority-Muslim countries by President Donald Trump has been rejected by...
The presidency seems to be uncomfortable with recent developments in the polity where a number of Nigerians have attributed gains in the economy to Acting President...
The board of directors of Zenith Bank International Plc has recommended distribution of a total of N63.4 billion to shareholders of Nigeria’s second most capitalised bank...
Nigerian equities opened this week on a positive note as increased bargain-hunting spurred the market to a net capital gain of N42 billion. Investors showed improved...
Despite the CBN’s new policy said to have seen naira on a steady rise in value in the past one week, experts say the gain may...
Unemployed youth in Lagos have warned of a dare consequence if the state government goes ahead to crush more than 4,000 impounded commercial motorcycles from their...
Nigeria midfielder Wilfred Ndidi made five clearances, one interception and gained possession six times for Leicester City as the reigning English champions put up a superb...
The number of domestic airlines in the country has dropped from 150 to eight in the last 17 years, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has said....
Sacked National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi has asked the National Chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff...
Baring any last minute change, the National Assembly will soon announce plans to grant life pensions to the Senate President, his deputy, as well as the...
By Charles Dickson… “Our wife, our wife”: come midnight and we will know whose wife she really is. Did you hear…”Osinbajo is very presidential, he has...
Violent anti-immigrant demonstrations in the streets of South Africa continued overnight in Johannesburg with police confirming that no less than a 100 people ransacked shops and...
The Federal High court, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State has sacked the senator representing Akwa Ibom North East federal constituency, Bassey Albert Akpan. The court nullified the...
Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer at Facebook, is in Nigeria today, to speak at Social Media Week in Lagos about the future of media, and to...
A three man robbery gang terrorising residents in Delta State which reportedly dispossessed a man of his N250, 000 wedding ring have been arrested and paraded...
By Jude Ndukwe… The ongoing attack of Nigerians by South Africans in their country has, understandably, sparked widespread rage. Reports have it that over one hundred...
In a bid to fight the debilitating pangs of hunger, hundreds of thousands of wizened South Sudanese families have resorted to eating weeds and water lilies...
The death of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean President Kim Jong Un was organised by ministries in Pyongyang, South Korean intelligence says....
All is set for the trial of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, and four others in London for alleged corrupt practices. The...
As part of efforts to sustain its defense of the naira, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Thursday sold $221,371,218.04 to banks in its second...
Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Matters to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, has described as irresponsible, the response of South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister,...
A major crisis is returning to the assumed settled issues concerning take-over of Arik Airline by the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), as stakeholders bicker...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the rerun elections in Etche/Omuma Federal Constituency and Etche State Constituency...
Long-serving Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has said that he will not impose a successor as he will leave the choosing for his party members to decide...
This year’s edition of the annual Oscars awards which turned out to be the 89th edition has come and gone with the movie titled “Moonlight” taking...
Of the 597.207 million barrels of crude oil exported from Nigeria in 2016, India had the highest demand of 127.1 million barrels (35 per cent), beating...
For allegedly faking tyres, estimated at about N5.3 billon in Nigeria, two Chinese nationals, Taolung Shen and Xu Jing Yau have been arrested by the Standards...
Ali Modu Sheriff, who, on February 17, was declared the authentic chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has asked the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt,...
Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, over the weekend, gave hint of his future political plans, stating unequivocally that he would contest for an elective post in 2019...
In what may signal an attempt to create greater cohesion within a seemingly fractured Southeast geo-political zone, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, led by Nnia Nwodo, has rallied governors...
Former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswan, is currently telling operatives of the Department of state Security Services (DSS) how much he knows of an arms...
Three hundred and fifty thousand unemployed graduates stand a chance of being gainfully engaged if the Buhari-led administration implements its budgetary proposal of spending about N158billion...
More facts over the death of Kim Jong Nam the exiled half brother of Korean ruler Kim Jong Un are beginning to emerge with the Malaysia’s...
Scores of Egyptian Christians in the volatile northern part of the Sinai Peninsula are fleeing in droves for fear of attack by terrorist group ISIS. Reports...
Following the new policy in the foreign exchange market, which directed commercial banks to open forex kiosks at airports and known shopping malls, hard currency traffickers...
African equities largely played the contrarian stocks in a global stock market that traded mostly in negative last week as investors in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana...
