The White House was on Friday placed on a brief lockdown after secret service shot an armed man outside the building. The man brandished a weapon...
The first confirmation that an EgyptAir flight with 69 people aboard plunged into the Mediterranean Sea has come to light after Egyptian navy found human remains,...
Terrorist group ISIS has claimed responsibility for the killing of a village doctor who was hacked to death on his way to a weekly free clinic...
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has released a grim report on Nigeria’s economy, as its Q1 2016 report showed that the nation’s real Gross Domestic...
The Central Bankof Nigeria (CBN) has disbursed a total N55, 456, 161, 481 to the power sector in a bid to address the nation’s power problems....
A marriage usually means you’re not losing a son, daughter, sister, or brother – it means you’re gaining a brother, sister, or whatever. But what if...
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert, has been betrayed by its mirrors. This week, the world’s largest solar power plant experienced a...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Friday, insisted that the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will go on as planned today, Saturday, in...
The only surviving member and masterminder of the deadly Paris attacks staged last November, Salah Abdeslam invoked his right to silence when he appeared in a...
Last minute efforts by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff, to bring in aggrieved former governors and ex-ministers in the...
The Joe Ajaero-led faction of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) on Friday adduced reason for...
According to an Egyptian aviation website, smoke alarms were set off some minutes before the EgyptAir Flight MS804 plunged into the Mediterranean Sea located off Alexandria...
Controversy has continued to rage over the true identity of the second girl rescued by the Nigerian military, as the Bring Back Our Girls (#BBOG) advocacy...
President Muhammadu Buhari, has sent a strong message to Niger Delta militants, warning them not to confront his government but work with him to review the...
The end may not yet be in sight in the crisis rocking the downstream subsector of the oil industry, as oil marketers, on Friday in Abuja,...
Kidnappers, operating within Lokoja-Okene axis of Kogi State, struck again on Friday, when the Chairman and the Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara...
Since it lost the March 28, 2015 presidential election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) once dubbed the biggest political party in Africa has never been the...
President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the disengagement of Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, Mr. John Kennedy Opara from service. The president made the...
Parents of abducted Chibok school girls have denied that the second girl rescued by the Nigerian military is one of the girls abducted by Boko Haram...
The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that Governor Nyesom Wike of the state has received approval by the State’s House of...
Flying Eagles coach, Emmanuel Amuneke, has declared his team’s readiness to secure the maximum points when they battle the Young Swallows of Burundi in Saturday’s 2017...
Tomatoes is a favourite staple in Nigeria, and so, a large number of locals who cannot cope with the inflation in its price are hesitant to...
Reports say that the Escravos pipeline carrying gas to various parts of the country has been blown up by suspected militants, causing upsets in the supply...
Taiwan has sworn-in Tsai Ing-wen as the first female president of that country, with the new leader calling on Taipei and Beijing to “set aside the...
The League Management Company (lmc) has expelled Giwa FC from the Nigeria premier league after failing to honour a total of three matches. Giwa failed to...
Lekan Shonde, the alleged killer of his wife, has been ordered remanded in prison custody by an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrate Court for 30 days. Shonde, who...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, is presently in Equatorial Guinea representing Nigeria at the swearing-in ceremony of President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. The country’s presidential election held last...
National leader of the All Progressives Party (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday called on the Ayuba Wabba-led NLC to call off its on-going strike...
NFF President Amaju Pinnick and 2nd Vice President/LMC chairman Shehu Dikko on Thursday had a breakfast meeting with new FIFA Secretary General, Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Raymond Omatseye, to five years imprisonment....
When I saw the news report citing NLC’s resolve to continue the strike, I fell into a spasm of laughter. What strike, these old people are...
A top aide to the Governor Samuel Otom of Benue State, Mr Denen Igbana was in the early hours of Friday morning assassinated by unknown gunmen....
Breakdown of law and order was averted on Thursday during the protest march by the Ayuba Wabba led faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, as...
By Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba… There ought not to be any debate about the pollution in the four sister cities above or over their ranking. The places...
The prime suspect of the deadly attacks in Paris which took place in November last year, is set to appear in court today to answer questions...
By Leonard Karshima Shilgba… There has been a rash of proposals to resolve the menace of cattle herders’ invasion of Nigerian farmlands, who are killing unarmed...
A Harvard-turned-MIT researcher and his colleagues just dropped some pretty cool Spider-Man tech in the latest issue of Science magazine: surface clinging via “electrostatic adhesion.” It’s...
Leading Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has hit-out at Republican frontrunner Donald Trump saying he is dangerously unpredictable and not qualified to be president of the United...
By Churchill Obinna Okonkwo… A good starting point in this discourse on fuel crisis, our refineries and government’s policy direction is a quick look at our...
By Reuben Abati … This thing called democracy, particularly the Nigerian brand, never ceases to throw up new and intriguing lessons about the relationship between government...
By Okey Ndibe… Before the 2015 presidential election, Candidate Muhammadu Buhari essentially advertised himself as a magician. Even though oil prices were tumbling, Mr. Buhari promised...
Despite speculations in many quarters that controversial club owner, Chris Giwa, enjoys powerful support from the Sports Ministry, the Minister of Youth and sports, Solomon Dalung...
A massive search is currently underway to find the missing EgyptAir jet carrying at least 69 people from Paris to Cairo which according to reports plunged...
Following the release of autopsy results of his late better-half, Lekan Shonde, the suspected killer of his ex-banker wife, Ronke is set to have his day...
Two new generation banks are technically bankrupt, Ripples has learnt. Investigations showed that the Capital Adequacy Ratios (CARs) of these two commercial banks fell below regulatory...
Bargain-hunters upped the ante at the Nigerian stock market on Thursday as increased market orders pushed several stocks to higher prices. Against the background of average...
According to government officials in Ethiopia, over 100 people have been killed and at least 20,000 have been rendered homeless after floods and landslides swept through parts...
The Organised Private Sector, OPS, has threatened to sanction any worker in the private sector that fails to report for duty during the ongoing strike action...
The current economic woes confronting Nigeria may worsen as the country is estimated to be losing about N2.79 billion daily following the closure of Qua Iboe...
By Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu… To construct the right building sometimes means we have to tear down the wrong one standing in our way. Our economic...
