After months of negotiations, Arsenal have finally announced the signing of Nigerian wonderkid Kelechi Nwakali. The Gunners have been working on a complicated deal for the...
The League Management Company (LMC) has expressed appreciation to the Spanish Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Alfonso Barnuevo for the prompt attention they gave to visa...
By Olusegun Adeniyi… Because I know my readers very well, the expectation would most likely be that today, I will go after the PADDINGtons in the...
FIFA ethics prosecutors have cleared President Gianni Infantino in the case of alleged misconduct over use of private flights. Infantino was under investigation last month over...
A fire outbreak during a birthday celebration at a bar in the northern French city of Rouen has claimed the lives of at least 13 people...
Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has lamented that the state is in a mess, and has been held down by some individuals over the years....
By Olusegun Adeniyi… Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar last week restated his call for the restructuring of Nigeria, which he said had become inevitable. “I believe...
Chief Bode George has cautioned that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will only come back if by luck a right leadership, fair, just and committed emerge...
A 33-year-old ex-policeman, Emmanuel Audu who was paraded alongside five others including two other former policemen (Sgt.Ochigbo Gabriel and Sgt. Francis Onuh) for robbery has revealed...
The presidency has reacted to criticisms trailing the directive made by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to banks to sell dollar to intending hajj pilgrims...
Barring any last minutes change, the Nigeria Football Federation will on Monday in Abuja unveil German coach, Gernot Rohr as the new technical adviser of the...
Ill health will prevent Pele from participating in the Olympic opening ceremony, the football legend said just hours before the show was due to begin on...
Basking on the euphoria of Friday’s 5-4 win against Japan, Nigeria U-23 team’s Head Coach, Samson Siasia has charged his players to go for kill when...
By Azu Ishiekwene… After going on for months without being able to pay workers, it appears some governors are finally losing it. They are either genuinely...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state on Friday shamed political supporters who fight selves and cause havoc in the state, as he said there was no...
At least three soldiers and seven civilians died on Friday as soldiers and some residents of Kpaidna community in Niger state clashed. Ripples Nigeria gathered that...
Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu said on Friday that Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and his “puppet governorship candidate’’, Godwin Obaseki, have nothing to sell or offer...
A Niger Delta militant group, Forest Soldiers, aka Isaac Boro Last Born, had said it is going to do damages in the Niger Delta that the...
The four goal –hero in the 5-4 victory of the Nigeria U-23 team against Japan, Oghenekaro Etebo has said his target is to help the team...
President of the South-South Chiefs and Council of Elders (SSCE), Dr Abdulwahab Udosen, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw soldiers from the oil region if...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Friday, penalised Alex Otti for asking it to join him in the legal battle for the governorship seat of...
The decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to introduce discriminating exchange rate for importers and pilgrims has attracted criticism from importers. It would be...
The Nigerian currency, the naira, collapsed to an all-time low, exchanging for 400 per dollar at the parallel market on Friday. No official reason was adduced...
By Reuben Abati… If there was any hope that Donald Trump would change tactics and be more restrained after winning the Republican party Presidential nomination for...
New, Boko Haram leader, I have received your appointment with warmth and this is because I believe sincerely that Allah in his mercy is giving you...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said that he will not resign his position as speaker despite allegations of budget padding. A former...
President Muhammadu Buhari has acknowledged that it is not an easy thing fulfilling the change he promised Nigerians during his electioneering campaigns. He stated this while...
The hope of Chief Raymond Dokpesi of becoming the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), national chairman has been quashed as the party finally zoned its chairmanship to...
At least one person was reportedly killed after suspected armed robbers attacked Delta state government house annexe, Warri on Thursday. This was confirmed by the Chief...
There are strong indications that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has concluded plans to hand over the toxic loans of the distress-prone Skye Bank to...
The capital market will witness a massive return of the banks before the end of the third quarter of the year. It is believed to be...
Lagos state All Progressives Congress (APC), Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, has said that nothing good can ever come out of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but...
Despite widespread lamentations over the state of the Nigerian economy, the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Thursday insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari...
Despite arriving in Brazil few hours to the first game, Nigeria’s U-23 Eagles proved bookmakers wrong with a 5-4 thrilling win over Japan. An enterprising Sadiq...
The militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, says it is not intimidated by the recent bombardment of some militant camps by the Nigerian Air Force. The...
The spate of insecurity in the country has been raised a notch higher as the United States of America, USA, has raised a travel alert for...
Highly capitalised stocks in the equally influential oil and gas, consumer goods and industrial goods sectors on Thursday rallied the Nigerian stock market away from a...
A group of serving and former members of the House of Representatives have concluded plans to approach the courts for the interpretation of Section 80 (4)...
Last Friday blunder by Adamawa State commissioner of police, Mohammed Ghazzali, has heightened apprehensions over insecurity of lives under IGP, Ibrahim Idris. If there is anything...
United States Olympic Committee has concluded plans to reward American Olympians with bonus payouts for podium finishes. USOC pays athletes $25,000 for a gold medal, $15,000...
Ireland’s Olympic team has been thrown into turmoil on the eve of the Rio Games after it emerged that a boxer has failed a doping test....
China has sent a policeman to the Rio Olympics to help protect its sports delegation, journalists and traveling spectators, after a Chinese hurdler said he had...
The Slovenia Olympic Committee will send a plane-full of sports fans to the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics for cheering Slovenian athletes at the event live, local...
The CAF Organising Committee for Women’s Football has disqualified Equatorial Guinea from November’s Women African Cup of Nations in Cameroon after being found guilty of fraud,...
Uche Ogah who has been declared as the rightful governor of Abia State, by a Federal Court was in court on Thursday to answer for allegations...
The 11 Russian boxers qualified for the Rio Olympics have been cleared to compete in the Games by an International Olympic Committee review panel, the International...
World number one Novak Djokovic was handed a blockbuster first round Olympics match on Thursday when he was drawn to face Juan Martin del Potro who...
Stand-up comedian Basketmouth has slammed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for restricting hundreds of global remittance companies from operating in the country limiting customers to...
Chaotic scenes marred the arrival of the Olympic torch in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday just as the opening ceremony of the event takes place later...
The All Progressives Congress (APC), has issued a letter warning Abdulmumin Jibrin from making any further statement against Yakubu Dogara over his alleged budget padding. Lawal...
