Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare and president of Nigeria Basketball Federation NBBF, Engr Musa Kida have lauded D’Tigress qualification for the 2020 Olympics Qualifying...
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has stated that Nigeria will overcome the many challenges facing it when democratic and economic institutions are strengthened. Ortom...
Operations of one of Nigeria’s oldest banks, First Bank Nigeria may be disrupted from today (Thursday) if it goes ahead with an alleged plan to retrench...
The United Nations and the European Union have called on the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai to put an end to the spread...
You know when we were little kids they used to tell us about the Phoenix that would rise up from the flames of its demise. This...
The following piece which you are about to read was originally published November 9, 2019. Did we anticipate the global outrage around the issue of Nigerian...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you this Thursday morning, November 21, 2019. 1. Buhari signs Executive Order on open defecation into law...
Amnesty International has declared the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, his compatriot, Olawale Bakare and a journalist, Agba Jalingo as prisoners of conscience. It said...
The Divisional police officer (DPO) in charge of Mubi North Local Government Area of Adamawa state, Ahijo Mujeli has been kidnapped. The DPO was reportedly kidnapped...
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law an executive order 009 entitled, ‘The Open Defecation-Free Nigeria by 2025 and Other Related Matters Order’ into law. The...
Founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj Ji, Wednesday declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Bola Tinubu, was fit and suitable for presidency...
Only corrupt elites see no positive difference in the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s anti-graft crusade, the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof....
The Federal High Court, Abuja, will Friday rule on the application for bail variation filed by a Briton, James Nolan, who is standing trial for alleged...
Properties worth several millions of naira were on Wednesday destroyed by an inferno that razed the upper section of a shopping plaza in Akerele, Surulere local...
The Electoral Act Amendment Bill passed Wednesday scaled through its second reading at the Nigerian Senate. The bill which was read for the first time on...
For the second day running, the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) sustained its bullish run on Wednesday as market capitalisation reached N12.924 trillion at the close of business. The...
Justice A.A. Deemi-Ajayi of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin refused to grant an order restraining David Imuse from parading himself as chairman of the...
The nominees list for the 2020 edition of the Grammy Awards has been released with ‘Dangote’ crooner, Burna Boy appearing as one of the contenders for...
Emphatic Nigerian artist, Abe Odedina whose eye-catching paintings speak through a highly legible allegorical vernacular has described the growing attention now being paid to African arts...
A group, the Centre for Social Justice, Wednesday said there were about N150.07 billion expenditures that were frivolous, inappropriate, unclear and wasteful in the 2020 budget...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the post-election violence in Kogi State that led to the death of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) woman leader,...
The chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Yahaya Oloriegbe, on Wednesday, said that about 50 million Nigerians suffer some form of mental illness. He stated this...
Senator Dino Melaye has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the last Saturday’s Kogi West senatorial election. He made the call on...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said that former President Goodluck Jonathan’s legacy of humility and patriotism would continue to resonate and inspire generations to come. He...
Members of the Lagos House Assembly on Wednesday told the State High Court sitting in Ikeja that the suit filed by the immediate past governor of...
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has urged Governor Seriake Dickson to stop brooding over the loss of the Peoples Democratic Party at last Saturday’s governorship elections...
A bill intended to regulate social media use in the country, has passed second reading at the Nigerian Senate. The bill entitled, ‘Protection from Internet Falsehood...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, overruled a British national, James Nolan, on his application for adjournment of the trial over his counsel’s inability to...
The Governor of Zamfara State, Mohammed Matawalle, has again suspended the District Head of Gummi, Alhaji Abubakar Bala Gummi (Bunun Gummi), who is a senior district...
After missing four consecutive Federal Executive Council (FEC) meetings, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presided over the meeting in Abuja. Buhari’s long absence at FEC followed...
An investigation by the ZDNet has revealed that hackers commandeered Disney Plus user accounts: locking out owners, changing login credentials and, in many cases, selling them...
Social media giants, Twitter has accused British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ruling Conservative Party of misleading the public after repeated instances of name change stunts on...
The police in Botswana have arrested and charged a 19-year old girl to court for allegedly mimicking the First Lady, Leo Masisi, on her Facebook page,...
President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmed Lawan has said that the Senate will from the next budget circle increase funding for security agencies and anti-corruption bodies...
The outgoing governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson has appointed a new head for the state civil service and 32 new permanent secretaries. He said the...
ORide, OLeads, OList, OWealth, OFood, and now OCar –the Chinese bull and payment platform, Opay, has always been pushing its chest forward in the fierce battle...
Two artisans, Saminu Ahmed, 25 and Mohammed Isah, 23, have been sentenced to 10 strokes of the cane by an Upper Sharia Court in Kaduna for...
A medical doctor, Emmanuel Orhembe, who was kidnapped in Benue State has been rescued by men of the Benue State Police Command, three days after his...
The German government will provide €18million grant for the development of border communities in Nigeria. The Coordinator of the GIZ ECOWAS Cluster, Mr. Ludwig Kirchner, who...
The Appeal Court has sacked two Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the Kaduna State House of Assembly. The appellate court sitting in Kaduna, the state...
An early morning fire at the morgue of the Anatomy Department of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, burnt no fewer than twelve corpses in...
Former Chelsea manager, Jose Mourinho has made a return to North London as he replaces Mauricio Pochettino as manager of Tottenham Hotspur. Pochettino was on Tuesday...
The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Prof. Umar Dambatta has disclosed that the commission has begun moves to avail Nigerians with massive...
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, said on Tuesday, that the Commission has discovered inflation of...
Barring any change, the Nigerian Government will next year conduct a fresh round of licencing for untra-deepwater assets in the country. This was disclosed by the...
Nigerian Senators on Tuesday shot down a suggestion by Senator Francis Fadahunsi for a five year ban on the importation of generators into the country. Fadahunsi...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he would not refrain from speaking out when things are not right in Nigeria. He said at his age, he...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has decried indecent dressing in church and also warned against child marriage. The body, noted that the practice of forcing...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you this Wednesday morning, November 20, 2019. 1. 2023: What S’East govs, Senators, Rep members should do...
The House of Representatives has ordered another round of investigation into the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over allegations of spending without approval...