THE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday said Nigeria’s Terms of Trade (ToT) rose by 2.3 percent in the first quarter of 2019 (Q1’19). ToT...
A faction of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Tuesday, carpeted Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo over a statement credited to him on security challenges in southwest geopolitical...
A Beninoise, Sunday Anani, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an Igbosere High Court, Lagos, for killing his employer, Opeyemi Badamosi, the Chief Executive Officer...
The Nigeria Police and the military have come under another scathing criticism from Amnesty International, AI, over their continuous use of torture despite law forbidding the...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal did not deny him access to the controversial server of the Independent National Electoral...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has kicked against the establishment of the proposed Ruga settlements for Fulani herdsmen by the Federal Government in the state, insisting...
Two men are currently cooling their heels in the custody of the Anambra State Police Command for allegedly raping a 23-year-old woman suffering from mental illness....
The Anambra State Police Command has arrested a 28-year-old law graduate, Victor Ohale for stabbing his brother to death in Awka, the state capital. Victor, who...
Reacting to fresh sanctions imposed by the United States on Iran, President Hassan Rouhani has said “the White House is suffering from intellectual disability.” He also...
By Joseph Edgar… I have tried to contain myself and that is why I did not write this piece when the story broke. For those of...
Mukhtar Jibril, social media aide to the former Bauchi state Governor, Mohammed Abubakar, has stated that N1.2 billion was the actual amount spent by the Abubakar...
President of Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that contrary to popular view, no member of the National Assembly receives jumbo pay. Lawan further revealed that...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday deployed Police dogs to railway stations across the county to curtail kidnapping and other related criminal offence....
The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has warned of a looming bankruptcy consequent on some awful economic decisions made by President Muhammad Buhari. The former...
The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon have kicked off their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) campaign with a 2-0 victory over Guinea Bissau on Tuesday. Cameroon...
By Reuben Abati… Senator Ahmed Lawan is the incumbent Senate President of Nigeria, having won the election into that office, 79 -28, beating his rival, Senator...
Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, is hopeful that the ongoing row on bonuses and allowances will not affect his team’s preparation ahead of their game against...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday at the State House, Abuja, received the Report of the Presidential Implementation Committee on the Financial Autonomy of State Legislature and...
President Muhammadu Buhari and a faction of leaders of Afenifere group on Tuesday met in Abuja over the state of the nation. The meeting was believed...
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) sitting in Abuja on Tuesday said it was not going to accept the application the Federal Government sent for the...
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), has announced its partnership with the Federal Government to put an end to open defecation in the country. UNICEF Communication...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has reacted to an attack on his administration by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. He described Osinbajo as a “very base character, who...
Pensioners in Osun state, on Tuesday requested the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to commence an immediate probe of the immediate past governor of the...
The Supreme Court has on Tuesday dismissed the appeal filed by Abdulrafiu Baruwa which challenged the eligibility of Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun in contesting election...
Three members of suspected band of bandits have been arrested by the men of Nigerian Army, in Sokoto state. The army spokesman, Col. Sagir Musa, in...
False claims trail Tosin Odunfa, the young man who asked Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka to vacate the window seat for him on a commercial flight,...
“We are a nation in denial. Rising insecurity in Nigeria did not happen in a vacuum. The “indicators of conduciveness” were discernible. We compartmentalize security to...
Super Eagles winger, Samuel Kalu has been certified medically fit to play after he collapsed during training on Friday in Alexandria, Egypt. The Bordeaux of France...
Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) lost one of its men, Yakubu Shuaibu, to smugglers in an ambush at Akinrun village in Oja-Oda area of...
The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) on Monday reacted to calls by President Muhammadu Buhari to state governments to increase Value Added Tax (VAT) in order...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Foundation has declared about 75 corps members wanted over a loan running into N30million. The corps members according to the...
Super Eagles defender, Ola Aina has expressed his excitement after his backheel pass to Odion Ighalo sealed their 1-0 victory over Burundi. The Eagles started their...
The world football governing body, FIFA says it is currently looking into Cameroon’s behaviour during their World Cup last-16 defeat by England. The Indomitable Lioness put...
Unauthorised drone flying has prompted disruptions at Singapore’s Changi Airport for the second time in a week, the BBC reports. The country’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAAS)...
Governors across the South-west states will meet on Tuesday (today) at an emergency security summit. The meeting which is believed will proffer a permanent solution to...
The transition committee chairman in Zamfara State, Alhaji Ibrahim Wakkala, on Monday said the immediate past governor of the state, Abdulaziz Yari, left a debt profile...
The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, on June 18, 2019, appointed a renowned Ibadan based journalist and columnist, Festus Adedayo, as his Special Adviser on Media and...
The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday said it has recovered the sum of N131,801,242.61 and six vehicles from...
Herdsmen terrorizing towns and villages in the South West have been ordered to vacate the region with immediate effect. The order was issued by an umbrella...
The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports by Aljazeera that more than 300 children...
In an effort to set Ekiti state free from all forms of criminal activities, the state governor, Kayode Fayemi has declared his administration’s zero-tolerance for human...
Senator Ifeanyi Ubah has accused former Senator Andy Uba of using the back door to hinder judicial process in a pending Election Petition Tribunal matter between...
The Ekiti State Government has appointed the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the Chancellor of Ekiti State university, Ado Ekiti. The News Agency of...
Worried that some of its lawmakers did not vote according to its instruction during the election of the principal officers of the 9th National Assembly, the...
The ruling of the Presidential Election Tribunal, which rejected the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s request to inspect the Independent National...
The President, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, has called on the leadership of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, in...
An Ikeja Sexual and Domestic Violence Court has remanded a father, Chukwuma Eze, at the Kirikiri Prisons for allegedly defiling his teenage daughters. Eze, a resident...
A 30-year-old Methodist priest, Rev Peter Adegoke Adewuyi has been remanded in prison custody by an Ado-Ekiti Magistrate Court for allegedly faking his own kidnap to...
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has painted a gloomy picture of the finances of the state government and how he had to take a N7 billion...
The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina has admitted that the level of insecurity in the country had put...
