Wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has allegedly claimed that about $31.4 million dollars in some accounts frozen by the EFCC actually belong to her....
The Nigeria banking sector suffered more than 50 percent loss in its overnight interbank lending rate on Friday as a result of maturity of Central Bank...
When Stan Wawrinka won his first major title at the 2014 Australian Open against an injury hampered Rafael Nadal to become the oldest first-time grand slam...
By Gimba Kakanda… We do not know the exact starting date of this historic festival,nor are we in the know of its end date. I mean this...
Chief Raymond Dokpesi has said no matter the number of times the Edo governorship is postponed, that nothing will stop the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)...
THE caretaker Chairman of Gubio Local Government Area,LGA, of Borno State, Alhaji Zanna Modu has said that the degrading of the activities of Boko Haram insurgents...
The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, has said the governorship election in Edo State is a big challenge for him and security agencies in...
Wife of the Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode has advised women to go for regular cancer screening to know their latest status. She gave...
PZ Wilmar on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nigeria Institute of Oil Palm Research (NIFOR) to help develop Nigeria’s oil palm. The chairman,...
Rivers State Commissioner for Information, Dr Austin Tam-George, has described as false the claim that his state governor, Nyesom Wike mobilised to rig the Edo governorship...
The Situation Room, on Friday said the postponement of Edo governorship election raises more doubt on the direction of democracy under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. The...
An Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will spend the next five years in prison after an Iranian Revolutionary court passed judgment on her over charges that...
Senate President Bukola Saraki, has said that not only ordinary Nigerians but the leaders too, feel the pains of the hardship occasioned by economic crisis in...
Pandemonium struck in the village of Golgolfa, Godogodo Chiefdom, in Jema’a Local Government Area, LGA, of Kaduna state after suspected herdsmen attacked residents of the community....
French authorities have revealed that the three radicalised female militants arrested in Paris were directed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). That much...
No less than 10 lives were claimed when a garment factory located in the north of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, was engulfed by a deadly fire....
The baby recently birthed by the Federal Government through the minister of Information, Lai Mohammed is being contested by two Nigerian writers. The two writers, Akin...
The Federal Government, has, despite protests by aviation workers, kickstarted the process of concessing major airports in the country. The seriousness of government’s decision on the...
Team Nigeria athletes started their quest for glory at the ongoing Rio Paralympics on a brighter note winning two medals on Friday. Powerlifter Latifat Tijani won...
Nigeria economic meltdown has seen operators in its telecommunications sector losing more than 60 million lines at the end of second quarter of 2016, according to...
The Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, advocacy group has come under another scathing attack over the genuineness of their campaign for the freedom of the abducted...
The Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka has said human rights activist and lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN,...
The Women’s Wing of the Christian Council of Nigeria (WOWICCN), has said that the Chibok girls issue is a scam, and that no such students were...
Ijaw National Congress (INC), a socio-cultural organisation of the Ijaw ethnic nationalities, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari not to treat the Niger Delta people’s demands...
The Edo chapter of the APC, has aligned itself with the postponement of the governorship election scheduled originally to hold in the state on Saturday. The...
Tension seems to have gripped policy makers and other stakeholders over what might be the position of Nigeria in the next inspection visit of the aviation...
President Muhammadu Buhari was joined by Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Friday for the Jumaat Prayers at the State House, Abuja. Others were National Security Adviser...
Abundant rainfall in 2015, and early part of 2016, plus other inputs have soared cocoa production level of Ivory Coast over other countries in West Africa....
A leader of the Bring Back Our Girls (#BBOG) group, Oby Ezekwesili, has asked the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, to try and get...
There was tension in Okugbe, Okpella, Estako East Local Government Area (LGA) of Edo State Friday morning as supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP were...
Abandoned 9-month-old baby found crawling on road Residents of Shodipo Crescent in the Ikeja Government Reserved Area of Lagos State were shocked on Wednesday to find...
Serena Williams crashed out of the US Open early Friday mormón in her semi-final defeat to Karolina Pliskova costing her a shot at a 23rd Grand...
A driver, Mayowa Adenuga, has been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stealing his boss’ Automated Teller Machine card and withdrawing...
The statement credited to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, that the street protests being embarked upon by Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, advocacy group...
Reports in France reveal that three radicalised female militants have been arrested in connection with a car laden with gas cylinders found abandoned near Paris’s Notre...
Senator Ajayi Boroffice has called for a rerun and total cancelation of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ondo State governorship primary held last Saturday. The Senator...
Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari as lacking capacity “mentally, morally and intellectually” to lead a civilised society. The governor stated...
Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Folorunso Adewole The Federal Government has advised states to strengthen surveillance and response mechanism to polio, Lassa fever and other diseases...
President Muhammadu Buhari will join other Muslims for this year’s Eid-el-Kabir prayers in his native home, Daura, in Katsina State. Our correspondent learnt yesterday that President...
THE Police have rescued two Chinese Nationals – Shen Ximing and Wei Futang – from kidnappers in Ogun State. Shen and Wei, who were last week...
Hard stance President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte has described the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as a fool for bringing up the issue of...
Downstream oil major, Conoil Plc, on Thursday announced that it would be distributing N2.08 billion as cash dividends to shareholders for the 2015 business year, sending...
The modest recovery that started on Wednesday at the Nigerian stock market widened on Thursday as the release of audited report by oil major, Conoil, enlivened...
The government of North Korea is hailing the success of a “nuclear warhead explosion” it carried out recently which was roundly condemned by world leaders opposed...
A member of the Saint Patrick Catholic Church, Idumaigbo, in Lagos Island identified as Elochukwu Nnoruga, who stole the sum of N214, 000 from Church tithe...
A 22-year-old housekeeper, Tanko Abdulateef, who was arrested by the police in Lagos State for killing his employer in the Lekki area of the state, says...
The drama leading up to the final cancellation by INEC, of the Edo gubernatorial election, originally slated for Saturday, September 10, can best be described as...
The X-Squad unit of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested 20 policemen from different divisions in the state over alleged misconduct and corrupt practices. This...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has insisted that the Edo governorship election must be held on September 10, as earlier scheduled. It says the decision by the...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and his Delta State counterpart, Ifeanyi Okowa have been accused of importing militants into Edo State with the aim of disrupting...
