One of Nigeria’s most anticipated tech start-ups, Paystack has just secured a $1.3 million Seed investment from both international and homegrown investors. The investors include Tencent,...
Segun Ogunlusi, a 33-year-old commercial motorcycle rider who was nabbed recently after killing his 60-year-old mother Abimbola Ogunlusi, at their home in Ogijo area of Ogun...
There is an actual need for civil servants in Nigeria, who make the majority of the country’s labour force, to travel once in a while for...
There are loud murmurings by the Staff of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC). Those who would be manning various federal highways nationwide this Christmas season...
South Korean investigators raided the National Pension Service over possible links to the scandal plaguing President Park Geun-hye after issuing a warrant of arrest for the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the World Food Programme, WFP, in respect of Internally Displaced Persons...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, has begun investigations into various allegations against some top Federal Government officials as...
A huge explosion caused by fireworks at a market place outside the Mexican capital, has left the once busy place charred, killing at least 29 people...
Football administrator and former FIFA executive committee member, Amos Adamu is to face another ban from football-related activities by the world football governing body, FIFA. The...
An online poll conducted by Ripples Nigeria has returned an unsavory verdict on President Muhammadu Buhari’s call for a united Nigeria. Insisting that the country’s unity...
In its renewed effort to ensure those involved in the shady $2.2bn Malabu oil deal do not go scot free, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
Frustrated by federal government’s refusal to set up a tripartite committee to negotiate a new minimum wage of N56,000, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened...
After the meeting with the Senate Leader, Ali Ndume on Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, met with Senate President Bukola Saraki at the presidential Villa,...
The leadership of the Senate has dissociated itself from recent comments associated with Leader of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume. This is coming barely twenty four...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday played host to the presdent -elect of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo and Mr Kenneth Ofori-Atta at the State House, Abuja. Read also:...
Republican President-elect Donald Trump has officially been confirmed as the 45th President of the United States of America after his victory was established by the required...
Workers of Arik Air on Monday staged a protest at the local wing of the Muritala Muhammed airport in Ikeja protesting non payment of their salaries...
Reports by Turkish media reveals that six people including the mother of the off-duty policeman who killed a Russian ambassador, his father, sister and two other...
Hours after launching a manhunt for a gunman who fired shots at worshipers at a Zurich Islamic centre before fleeing the scene, leaving several victims seriously...
The Federal Government, through the Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST), has authorised shutting down of some courier service providers in Nigeria. With the move, more than 20,000...
The minister of state for aviation, Hadi Sirika has announced the closure of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport for six weeks within February and March 2017....
A man with a shotgun caused a stir at the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey after he took out the weapon hid in his coat and...
By Reuben Abati… Cameroonians got their chance of introducing into the syllabus of Comedy and Other Comic Forms (a subject I taught in my other career),...
Police in Switzerland have launched a manhunt for a man who fired shots at worshipers at a Zurich Islamic centre before fleeing the scene, leaving several...
By Chido Onumah… There are very few moments in a nation’s history that can equate the infamy that took place at the Nigerian Senate on Thursday,...
By Sabella Abidde… The social media is agog with a picture purportedly showing Senator Bala Mohammed, Dr. Reuben Abati, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, and Messrs. Femi Fani-Kayode...
Daredevil Fulani herdsmen who kidnapped the parish priest of Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Issele-Azagba, Issele-Uku Diocese, Delta State, Rv. Fr Jude Onyebadi, have reduced...
By Jude Ndukwe… The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, recently wrote a letter to Mr Michel Forst, the UN Rapporteur on situation of human rights...
Swiss tennis star and former world No. 1 Roger Federer has described Andy Murray as ‘extraordinary’ after beating Novak Djokovic to the world No. 1 spot...
Russia and Turkey have stated that the killer, and of a Russian ambassador, Andrey Karlov in Turkey on Monday and his sponsors will feel the retribution...
A leadership crisis is brewing in Ohanaeze, the apex socio-cultural organization of the Igbos. Former Minister of Information, Dr. John Nnia Nwodo, has been touted as...
The Nigerian Development Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has expressed fears that a number of banks in the country may not survive the economic recession presently hitting the...
The Nigerian stock market reopened on Monday with a strong rush to capitalise and lock in gains made in recent trading sessions. With a whooping gain...
Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki yesterday presented appropriation bill of N150,011,831,079 billion for the year, 2017 to the state House of Assembly for consideration....
A 24-hour curfew has been imposed on Jema’a and Kaura local government areas (LGAs) of Kaduna State. This followed a protest in Kafanchan over killings and...
The Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, on Monday said he would appoint 6, 000 new aides and create 50, 000 jobs as from January...
Although Nigeria is yet to take steps to recover the $2 billion looted by the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, which the United States...
West African leaders resolved at the end of an ECOWAS leader’s summit in Abuja at the weekend to ensure to uphold Gambia’s vote results. They said...
Two female suicide bombers on Sunday blew themselves up in a failed mission In Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno state. The incident took place in...
U.S President-elect Donald Trump is expected to be rubber stamped as America’s 45th president on Monday in a usual routine selection via votes cast by the...
Hundreds of air travelers, who could not connect flights to their destinations have remained stranded at the various airports in Nigeria, following airlines’ inability to get...
Nigeria’s Youth and Sports Development Minister, Barr. Solomon Dalung, seems to be a man on the loose with serial blunders to his credit. The latest addition...
Apple’s so-called “spaceship” campus is in the final stages of development, with the company’s futuristic Cupertino headquarters set to open its doors to some 13,000 workers...
Esomchi Ojobo, an indigene of Enugu Ezike in Igbo Eze North local Government Area of Enugu state, has been arrested by men of the Enugu State...
Days after agreeing to return a seized drone, known as an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), belonging to the US, Chinese authorities have revealed that the drone...
The Federal Government has lost the bid to secure the services of senior lawyers to prosecute judges alleged of corruption, an impeccable source has told New...
Security forces in Venezuela made a huge haul of arrests after more than 300 people were nabbed and one reported dead following massive protests and looting...
The presidency has reached out to the Senate informing it of its intention to carry out a cabinet shake up that may affect no fewer than...
Nigeria lost 4-8 to Senegal on Sunday at the final showdown of the 2016 CAF Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations in Eko Atlantic Beach Lagos....
Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, is unimpressed by the poor revenue contribution of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to the National treasury, following the quarterly report...
