President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday failed to honour the much anticipated visit to Ogoni land, and the oil rich Niger Delta area. The visit was to...
Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, asking him to immediately order an investigation into the sources of the...
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, has said that 2% of Nigerians own 90% of total deposits in Nigerian banks, indicating the widespread inbalance in wealth...
A 32-year-old fake Assistant Superintendent of Police, Abdulrasak Sani was arrested recently by men of the Lagos State Police Command. The arrested suspect also had in...
The board of directors of GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria (GSK) Plc has accepted a binding offer from a Japanese firm, Suntory Beverage & Food Nigeria Limited, a...
After losing N425 billion in opening trades on Tuesday, Nigerian equities suffered further steep losses on Wednesday as widespread sell pressure shaved off N259 billion from...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Wednesday, said it was putting finishing touches to a comprehensive proposal for constitutional and legal amendments to the Electoral Act....
A murder-suicide scenario played out at the University of California, Los Angeles when a man shot and killed a university professor and then himself. The shooting...
Time was when the insurance sector was considered a hard sell. But today, it is becoming a big attraction for local and foreign investors who are...
A prosecution witness called by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Michael Wetkas, has told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, how the...
The Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has temporarily assumed the leadership of the party pending the resolution of the leadership crisis...
Apparently to fulfill his promise to return to Nigeria after his foreign shuttle, former President Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday, returned to the country after a month’s trip...
The Nigerian Army, Wednesday, announced the arrest of 77 Boko Haram terrorists and the rescue of 247 captives in Borno State. This was disclosed in a...
The governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, may have soft pedaled his hard stance on the ongoing strikes action embarked upon by workers in the...
For daring to dump their former party, the PDP for the ruling party, APC, the two House of Representatives members who announced their defection today may...
There is tension in some parts of the Niger Delta, and south east regions as some militants have taken sides with the agitators for a Biafran...
By Ikechukwu Amaechi… Voting on March 28, 2015 for the then presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, was almost a badge of...
By Levi Obijiofor… This past weekend has been one of celebrations — celebrations of a government that promised so much but found reasons to explain why...
By Ahmed Boulor Hip hop artiste Skales and his manager Osagie Osarenkhoe both cooled their heels earlier today in police custody over allegations of fraud leveled...
The current economic downturn in the country may be worse than what most Nigerians think, as the governor of Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Bello, Wednesday, said...
Incoming reports inform that at least three people have been killed and some hostages taken after a bomb blast at a hotel in the Somali capital...
The Federal Government (FG) hopes to commit the sum of N40bn for the provision of affordable housing for all, President Muhammadu Buhari has assured. The President...
The Federal Government is set to review the existing pension scheme in line with the provisions of the enabling law, the Minister of Labour and Employment,...
Staffers at the headquarters of the National Economic Reconstruction Fund, NERFUND, paralyzed business activities on Wednesday, as they accused the agency of mismanagement and embezzlement of...
By Nkem Ndem . . . . The Internet is eternally evolving and so are the trends that stem from it. Even if you use it...
A French ship has claimed it has picked up signals presumed to be from black boxes of the ill-fated EgyptAir 804 flight which crashed into the...
The current strike action embarked upon by labour unions in France is currently biting harder as rail workers joined the standoff thereby halting about half of...
Simone Gbagbo, the former first lady of Ivory Coast has told all those who care to listen that her trial for war crimes is politically motivated....
Five Premier League referees failed the FIFA fitness test conducted for candidates from nineteen northern states of the federation. According to the Nigeria Referee Association NRA...
By.Abiodun Komolafe… “He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics...
The trial of Senate President, Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, suffered another setback on Wednesday, as the Tribunal has adjourned indefinitely. The...
Facebook’s artificial intelligence systems now report more offensive photos than humans do, marking a major milestone in the social network’s battle against abuse, the company says....
Second seed Agnieszka Radwanska and 2014 finalist Simona Halep were both in control when their matches were suspended on Sunday evening. But, when play was finally...
Jose Mourinho will not let his personal duel with Pep Guardiola escalate in Manchester next season as he fears that would hand the initiative to one...
Steph Curry scored 36 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 96-88 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder and into the NBA Finals. The...
There may not be an end in sight yet in the ongoing action by Niger Delta Avengers despite heavy presence of the military in the oil...
By Kolade Gbolagade… “Had long sought a separate state not because they loved power but because their conditions were peculiar and the authorities did not understand...
The rise of ethnic militants in the country in my mind’s eye is now tied to who occupies the presidency, when Jonathan was in charge, the...
A court in Turkey has slammed model Merve Buyuksarac with a 14-month suspended prison sentence for insulting President Tayyip Erdogan through a poem posted on her...
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tuesday, warned President Muhammadu Buhari against plunging the nation into another round of civil war by...
For the first time in the last seven years, Nigeria recorded a decline of N793.5bn in the first quarter merchandise trade to close at N2.72tn from...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar seems to have finally struck a chord with some regional socio-cultural groups with his call for the restructuring of the country’s...
The Nigerian Army said it had to resort to shooting members of MASSOB and IPOB on Monday in defence of the strategic River Niger Bridge. It...
Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has taken a look at the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, and averred that a revolution may...
Pandemonium struck at Church Street on Lagos Island when a family of three were found dead in their mini flat after reports say they inhaled a...
The crisis rocking the Kogi State House of Assembly took another dimension on Tuesday, as soldiers stormed the assembly complex and prevented members of the House...
Shooting Stars of Ibadan Chief Coach, Friday Christopher has resigned. This is coming weeks after the resignation of the team’s technical Adviser, Kadri Ikhana! Coach Christopher...
The Nigeria U-23 team, Dream Team, on Tuesday evening arrived in Suwon, Korea Republic, venue of 4 -nation invitational tournament in which the team will be...
After gathering N613 billion in capital gains last week, Nigerian equities opened this week to a massive profit-taking, which turned the stock market into an extreme...
President Muhammadu Buhari had some weeks ago hinted he was going to name those who had looted the nation’s treasury on Democracy day. This was to...
