Following the arrest of Premium Times publisher and a Correspondent with the online newspaper by the Nigerian Police, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and the...
Gambia’s long-time leader Yahya Jammeh has finally accepted to step down following last-ditch diplomatic efforts made by the leaders of Guinea and Mauritania who both arrived...
The wait is over as Republican President-elect, Donald Trump has been sworn-in as the 45th President of the United States of America amid a historic transfer...
At least 11 members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were reportedly shot dead on Friday, with many more injured. They were allegedly shot by...
More facts have emerged as to why Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, shut down his tomato paste plant in Kano, with about 900 jobs on the...
There is tight security in and around the streets of Washington DC and New York City as many await the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. Trump’s...
The new chairman of PDP Governors Forum and governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has one more headache to contend with. Some protesters under the aegis...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have sealed a relationship to fight fraud in Nigeria’s capital market. Both...
Two PREMIUM TIMES staff arrested but later released Thursday by the Nigerian police returned to the Abuja headquarters of the force early Friday, amid widespread outrage...
The Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammad Sanusi II, has told his subjects and other northerners to stop erecting new mosques when many of their daughters are...
A Police Corporal, Uche Odoemena, has been arrested for snatching a newborn baby at gunpoint from its mother and selling it for N600,000. Odoemena, who allegedly...
As operation to rescue eight persons abducted by gunmen on the premises of Nigerian-Turkish International Colleges intensifies, police operatives say they have laid low to give...
Uber has settled a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission for $20 million. The lawsuit alleged that the ride-hailing app recruited drivers by misleading them...
A leader of a robbery gang paraded by operatives of the Kwara State Police Command has confessed that his gang members robbed and killed a couple...
Detectives yesterday grilled a former Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Innocent Azubuike Umezulike, over the N632.2million allegedly traced to his account. But the ex-CJ, in...
Until Nigeria generates enough foreign exchange and finds solution to its over bloated head cost, the country will not cease going to international credit institutions for...
The trial of suspects, including the immediate-past Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, in connection with the $1.1bn Malabu oil...
Disgraced former President Yahya Jammeh has one more chance to prevent bloodshed and avoid a violent removal from office. With troops already on ground inside The...
For the third consecutive trading session, Nigerian equities on Thursday closed in the negative as continuing sell pressure in the consumer goods sector continued to shape...
Notorious drug lord El Chapo has been extradited by Mexico to the United States of America. He is to face drug trafficking offences and other charges...
A Russian man wanted by the United States of America for alleged hacking has been arrested by Spanish police operatives with deliberations underway to extradite the...
The jubilation and excitement that greeted the announcement of MMM return to business in Nigeria appears to be fading into another round of fears following the...
Gambia’s president-elect, Adama Barrow was on Thursday sworn in as Gambia’s president at the country’s embassy in Dakar, Senegal. The new president after his inauguration sent...
The Nigeria police have raided PREMIUM TIMES head office in Abuja, and arrested the newspaper’s publisher. The publisher, Dapo Olorunyomi, was arrested alongside the paper’s judiciary...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday departed Abuja for the United Kingdom for a 10-day vacation. According to the presidency, Buhari while on vacation will also take...
Manchester City Boss Pep Guardiola is one of the highest paid football managers in the world, and is known for his enviable collection of wristwatches that...
Scores of Gambians are beginning to leave the shores of their country in droves with fears on the rise that President Yahya Jammeh’s attempt to overturn...
Enugu State has appealed to the Federal Government to refund the N22.8 billion it spent to rehabilitate federal roads and other projects in the state. In...
A Florida man has been arrested by cops after he allegedly posted a message on his Twitter time-line threatening to kill President-elect Donald Trump. The man...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his Deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and chairman, Senate committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes, Chukwuka Utazi, on Thursday, clashed over the deployment...
Adama Barrow, acclaimed winner of The Gambian presidential poll, who was meant to be sworn-in Thursday but is hiding in Senegal on the advice of ECOWAS...
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator from Akwa Ibom State, Nelson Effiong, has defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The lawmaker who represents Akwa...
In less than two years since his inauguration on May 29, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari is seeking another medical vacation, The president on Tuesday wrote the...
The trial of Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court, continued on Wednesday with the first prosecution witness taking the stand. The witness, Mr. Nwamba Chukwuebuka...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday spoke on programmes and plans of the Federal Government to salvage the dire economic situation in Nigeria. According to Osinbajo,...
Three days after his arrest, Prophet Patrick Mugadza of Kariba town was dragged to court on Wednesday. The clergyman was arrested after he predicted that 92-year-old...
No fewer than 315 Federal agencies including the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) have failed to submit audited accounts to the Office...
Buffeted by a myriad of internal crisis, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has disclosed its intention to hold a second convention in April. The party...
The Nigeria police have moved a step closer to Resolving the kidnap of some pupils and staff of the Nigerian Turkish International College (NTIC). This is...
A 15-year-old Mexican student went berserk when he opened fire with a gun at a private school in northern Mexico city injuring his teacher and three...
Nigerian equities posted a negative performance again on Wednesday as the market remained under selling pressure from the fast moving consumer goods and oil and gas...
An application by Apple dubbed Ada now offers Nigeria and other African countries the opportunity to access and receive medical support. The custom-built Artificial Intelligence engine...
By Joseph Edgar… Nigerians in their enthusiasm are edging on our President to send troops. Everybody is feeling a sense of de ja vu, it will...
Former Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, yesterday, took a swipe at Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, saying that oil and gas would last for...
One of the Internally Displaced Persons in Rann, Borno State, who survived the accidental bombing of the camp on Tuesday, said the Nigerian Air Force fighter...
The police are holding 23 Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials for their roles in the Rivers State rerun elections. Besides, the Special Investigation Panel has...
Worried by persistent fall in value of the Nigerian currency, the naira, which lost more than 90 per cent value in 2016, the Presidency has given...
Four-time champions Cameroon opened winning in Group A as they fought back to deny debutants Guinea-Bissau a historic first win at the CAF Africa Cup of...
The stage seems set for the forceful sack of President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia by the combined forces of the ECOWAS region, led by Senegal...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday called off the weekly Federal Executive Council Meeting. He instead sent a team to Maiduguri on condolence visit, over the accidental...
