There will be a change of guard in Italy pretty soon after the Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi was dealt a stinging defeat by voters on his...
The authorities of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have enlisted about 100 candidates into its service without the recruits undergoing paramilitary training, The PUNCH...
The Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in an effort to secure $29.9 billion loan facility from international financial institutions will from 2017 likely place a burden of several...
Disagreement between the Senate and the House of Representatives on harmonisation of certain aspects of the Code of Conduct Amendment Bill, recently passed by the two...
The crisis rocking the Kaduna State All Progressives Congress (APC) continues to worsen by the day as thugs allegedly loyal to Senator Shehu Sani, on Sunday...
By Charles Ogbu… There is something fundamentally criminal about an army which killed not less than 150 of her own unarmed citizens, burned their bodies in...
By Sonala Olumhense… As one who firmly believes that one Olusegun Obasanjo squandered the finest opportunity of any Nigerian leader since independence, I have often criticized...
Normalcy may soon return to the troubled Niger Delta region, as strong indications have emerged that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), currently before the Senate will...
Less than a week after, US opposition, Green Party called for election recount in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the party led by its leader Jill Stein...
A decade after issuing illegally obtained authentic visas, authorities in Ghana have busted a fake U.S. embassy in the capital of Accra which is run by...
The commercial city of Lagos will suffer longer hours of darkness as a result of reduced electricity supply from discos which is already crippling businesses. This...
Tragedy struck in the Oakland area of California when rave at a converted warehouse burst into flames with authorities preparing for the death toll to rise...
Scientists are offering several new scenarios to explain the formation of Pluto’s frozen heart-shaped feature, first spotted by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. Researchers have...
Nigerian business mogul, Adebayo Ogunlesi, has been named as one of those who will advise US President-elect Donald Trump on the American economy. The 63 year-old...
There is an ongoing battle of supremacy between the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and Olugbo of Ugbo, Oba Obateru Akinruntan, over which throne is...
The Nigeria Police Training College, which is located at Nowa-tia, an agrarian Ogoni community in Tia Local Government Area of Rivers State, is in a terrible...
There were indications on Saturday that the Federal Government is no longer interested in pursuing the case of forgery of the Senate Standing Orders, 2015, allegedly...
The Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said that local governments are under absolutely control and ambience of states, and that the only organ...
Kimono is a Japanese traditional garment. The word “kimono”, actually means a “thing to wear”. But in more recent years, the word has been used to...
In what seems like a movie scene, ten policemen including an inspector were disarmed and abducted by gunmen in Lagos. The Lagos Police command made the...
Distraught families and relations of ill-fated Flight MH370 carrying 239 passengers and crew, which disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8,...
The die is cast over the future of President Park Geun-hye after her impeachment was filed by parliament amid a historic mass protest with more than...
What began on Friday as an innocuous lecture in Abuja has turned into a full blown battle between Godwin Emefiele, current Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)...
Former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Mrs. Farida Waziri, has described as reckless and irresponsible the statement credited to Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, that she...
Search is now underway after a twin-engine Indonesian plane with 15 people aboard en route to the island of Batam, South of Singapore went missing. Police...
Rescue workers are having a tough time pulling out bodies from debris following a coal mine explosion in northern China which claimed the lives of no...
The Super Falcons of Nigeria have defeated the Lionesses of Cameroon one goal to nothing in the final showdown of the African Women Cup of Nations...
Former Manchester United captain, Ryan Giggs, has revealed that he considered retiring from football after his side lost to Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona at the 2009 Champions...
President Muhammed Buhari has approved the release of N522.74 billion to state governments as refunds for deductions. The release is sequel to a protest by states...
Leaders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State have sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged irregularities and lopsidedness in recent...
A court order has been obtained stopping a South African pastor, who sprays his congregants with insecticide to supposedly cure their ailments, to desist from the...
A police sergeant attached to the Elere Police Division of the Nigerian Police Force lost his life when he according to reports embarked on a fake...
The UK Embassy in Nigeria has adopted a new visa application process, the British High Commission said yesterday, in a statement. The spokesperson of the commission,...
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu believes that the fight against corruption, which has made possible, transparency in the use...
A bill to impeach corruption tainted South Korean President, Park Geun-hye has been moved by three opposition parties which initiated the move on Saturday for parliament...
Incoming reports suggests that, scores of supporters of President-elect Donald Trump have moved to the courts to stop election recount in three states namely Michigan, Pennsylvania...
The Minister of Fnance, Kemi Adeosun and about 33 government agencies and parastatals are presently on a war path over N450 billion said to have been...
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, has described President Buhari’s plan to inject $30 billion into the nation’s economy by way of...
By Reuben Abati… The recent Governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states threw up a number of issues about the politics of succession in Nigeria. In...
The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mallam Abba Kyari, is ill. A top government official confirmed this to our correspondent Friday night. The official,...
The corps member, Oladapo Ifedolapo who reportedly died at the Kano NYSC orientation camp was said to have given up the ghost as a result of...
The expectation that the European Union (EU) will assist Nigeria achieve faster diversification of its economy is hitting the rock, as some members have come up...
Just like Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria, reports say that Yahya Jammeh of Gambia is set to concede defeat to the opposition in the just concluded presidential...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki says that for as long as government spends money on road construction, power generation, railway and other infrastructural facilities which could be...
Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar of Bauchi State has effected a cabinet reshuffle redeploying commissioners from their ministries to others and approved the creation of a new...
Five senior lecturers and seven other workers at the Auchi Polytechnic have been sacked for offences bordering on sexual harassment and extortion of female students in...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Mr Robert Clarke recently made a call for the military to intervene in Nigeria’s political space. Read also: Nigeria is...
A 26-year-old man, Oluwasegun Ayoola, has lost the use of his two hands after he was allegedly tortured by a herbalist in the Oke-Aro area of...
Tragedy struck in the Chinese central province of Hubei after a passenger bus plunged into a lake killing 18 people while two others who are in...
Freedom has come the way of a 14-year-old girl identified as Onyeka John after she was chained by her parents for over a month for fear...
