Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Audi Ogbeh, recently granted Punch Newspaper an interview. Here is an excerpt. Question: With respect to government’s plan of making Nigeria self...
Former Ghanaian foreign minister Akufo-Addo, who was making his third bid for the top job has emerged President-elect of Ghana after defeating President John Mahama in...
In what is seen in some quarters as a move which may spark civil strife, Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh has surprisingly rejected the outcome of the...
The Supreme Court on Friday proscribed a law that empowers governors to sack democratically elected local government (LG) chairmen in their states and replacing them with...
Even as the terrorist group, Boko Haram killed 30 people on Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari insists that the group is facing annihilation. Buhari who was reacting...
At least 30 people have been confirmed killed in twin explosions that hit Madagali Market in Adamawa State on Friday. The explosion said to have been...
Against the position of some leaders of his party, APC, President Muhammadu Buhari has called for peaceful and orderly conduct in the federal and state legislative...
The case of Mr. Joe Agi (SAN), who has traverse different courts in the land seeking for the dismissal of Cross River State’s Governor Ben Ayade,...
As a sign of respect to the victims of the Colombia plane crash, Spanish side Barcelona have paid their tributes by asking Chapecoense to be their...
Real Madrid manager, Zinedine Zidane, has said his side’s current six-point lead over Barcelona in the Spanish league doesn’t make much of a difference as there...
Die hard users of the Galaxy Note 7 who have decided to ignore the recall because their love for the handset is greater than the fear...
Twenty five-year-old Odinaka Ali who was caught by police operatives in Enugu following a tip-off while allegedly attempting to sell her three kids, claims that she...
Two white men charged with assault and kidnapping have both been denied bail by a South African court after a video showed both of them forcing...
If Nigerian Senators have their way, 20 per cent of the country’s annual budget will be set aside for the execution of constituency projects in their...
The Bayelsa State governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has presented the 2017 appropriation bill with an estimated budget of N221 billion to the State House of Assembly...
A rally within the highly capitalised stocks group on Thursday counterbalanced equally wide losses among several other stocks to sustain the Nigerian stock market on the...
A diplomatic war is playing out between two of Europe’s power houses after Germany accused Russia of “aggressive espionage”. Germany says the move by Russia is...
A serving commissioner in the Kano State Ministry of Land and Physical Planning, Alhaji Faruk Bibi Faruk; as well as the permanent secretary and director respectively...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted leave to a group, Kingdom Human Rights Foundation, to initiate proceeding for an order to arrest the Minister...
The Coalition of Human Rights Organizations, SBCHROs is kicking against what it termed numerous road blocks mounted on the highways by the police in the South...
A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on Thursday varied the conditions attached to the bail granted Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia and Chief Godwin Obla (SAN), who...
By Joseph Edgar… What mega party? That is my state of mind this morning, a gross lack of respect for this generation of politicians. Their selfishness...
For failure to return passengers’ luggage from its London flights, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Agency (NCAA) has slammed a total fine of $1.5 million on Arik...
Policy makers have remained upbeat on their expectations of naira rise in value as Nigerians abroad plan to repatriate about $1.5 billion into the country, between...
Veteran comedian Ali Baba came under scrutiny by a fan on Instagram who claimed the ace comedian is not a generous giver. The fan on Instagram...
The Senate, today, shifted the planned confirmation hearing of the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu. The acting chairman...
The Upper Legislative Chamber, on Thursday, received the status report of its Constitution Review Committee, chaired by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu....
Worried over the death of three members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), the Senate, on Thursday, called for the complete overhaul of the scheme....
Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and a number of governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday stormed Rivers State ahead of...
Apparently worried by signs that most investors targeted by its $1 billion Eurobond sale are foot dragging, the Nigerian government has agreed to appoint Citigroup, Standard...
The move by Green Party candidate Jill Stein ordering a recount of votes in the just concluded U.S elections is making headway after Michigan concluded a...
On this day, December 8, 1997, reports filtered in that Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, a prominent actor in Nigeria’s political space, had died. He died while being...
Apparently disturbed by the way and manner Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State is dealing with the issue of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), also called...
Nigerians generally have a love for blackberry phones and accessories, but it’s time to face facts. The BlackBerry is on its last legs and now is...
Sotonye Martin, boyfriend to a murdered female staff of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Miss Sophia Phillips Horsefall and two others, Innocent Oluche and Wachukwu Ugochukwu...
A pre-dawn operation by the British police saw the arrest of three suspects involved in the running of an organised slavery ring in the southern county...
Relevant authorities in Pakistan are probing the remote and immediate cause of a plane crash which claimed the lives of no less than 47 people including...
A Federal High Court Lagos presided over by Justice Mohammed Idris has further adjourned hearing in a suit by former President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Patience, till...
Nigeria’s first generation bank, Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN) Plc, on Wednesday secured the approval of its shareholders to float a supplementary rights issue to raise...
Even as the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government is championing a war against corruption, it is seemingly killing one of the country’s oldest anti-corruption agency, the...
Aggrieved Osun pensioners staged another protest yesterday over non-payment of their pension by the state government and stalled the probe of the state’s N34.5 billion bailout...
Anxiety has enveloped the political space in Cross River State following the expected judgment by the Supreme Court scheduled for December 9, 2016 in a pre-election...
Chairman of the Police Service Commission, PSC, Mr. Mike Okiro has blamed the federal character principle for the dearth of South East Police officers in the top...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday summoned its suspended Appropriation Committee chairman, Abdulmumin Jibrin to appear to answer to petitions against him. He was therefore permitted...
By Okey Ndibe… I have said this before: one of the hardest tasks is to predict how Nigerians would react in any given situation. We are...
President Muhammadu Buahri has taken interest in the case of a youth corps member, Ifedolapo Oladepo who died in the Kano camp of the NYSC reportedly...
By Joseph Edgar… It was a very friendly conversation with a tinge of humor, serious banter and a lot of prayers wishing his successor well. This...
Reacting to recent bombings in the Niger Delta area of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari had stated that the country’s unity is not negotiable. He also...
Foremost Nigerian celebrity blogger, Linda Ikeji acquired a brand new 2016 Range Rover Autobiography worth about 70 million. Controversial and outspoken radio personality Freeze of Cool...
As the Nigerian economy continues to crawl deep into her biggest recession in recent decades, small businesses and large corporations are looking for ways to trim...
