Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has directed financial institutions not to honour any withdrawal instruction by cheques or transfers written in the name of the state...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has applauded the judgement of the Court of Appeal which ruled that its Osun State governorship candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, was...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that the traffic problem in Apapa and its environs was multi-faceted and required the joint effort of the Federal...
By Patrick Egwu…. I grew up in the slums of Northern and South Eastern Nigeria reading books about the Biafran War (July 6, 1967 – January...
Nigeria’s Flying Eagles have advanced to the knockout stages of the FIFA U-20 World Cup despite drawing with Ukraine to finish third in group D on...
By Joseph Edgar… Some of us grew up with the adventures of Asterix and his friend Obelix. They had a third who was the Bard and...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on Friday arraign a controversial official of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Philomina Chishe and five...
There are indications that there might be crisis within the All Progressives Congress (APC). This is as elected members of the APC National Executive Committee (NEC)...
Local Government (LGAs) and Local Council Development Authorities (LCDAs) chairmen under the aegis of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Oyo state chapter have opposed...
The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has distanced itself from a group known as Edo Peoples Movement, describing it as alien to...
Liverpool defender, Virgil van Dijk says Tottenham will be a hard nut to crack in the final of this season’s Uefa Champions League, but also warned...
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared a state of emergency on environmental sanitation and traffic management in Lagos state. The governor made this known while signing his...
The Lagos state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday appointed a former Head of Service, Mrs Folashade Jaji as the new Secretary to the State Government, SSG....
The Nigerian Senate has kicked against the move by President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to downgrade the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu from its international status to...
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State on Thursday demanded the construction of a 330 KV substation by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to boost power...
A senator from Anambra State, Victor Umeh, has said that payment of fuel subsidy and all the problems associated with it will never end in Nigeria....
Embattled fast-rising rapper Naira Marley has been granted bail by the Federal High Court in Lagos, on Thursday over alleged cybercrime offence. The presiding judge, Justice...
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) in Lagos on Thursday ordered executive and non-executive members of the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Union of...
Nigerian Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, on Thursday claimed that Boko Haram, which has been terrorizing the North East of the country, has...
National Industrial Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered the immediate reinstatement of the suspended Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mounir Gwarzo. Former Minister...
The Thursday, May 30, sit -at -home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) recorded different compliance levels in different areas in South East...
Justice Musa Abubakar Sadiq has been confirmed as the President of the Federal Capital Territory Division of the Customary Court of Appeal. The Senate gave the...
Reports of arrest of former Imo State governor, Rocha Okorocha and his wife, Nkechi, have been refuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes and Commission (EFCC)....
Justice Sanusi Kado of the National Industrial Court, Abuja has threatened to strike out a suit filed by the former Chief Judge of Abia State, Justice...
Seven South Korean tourists have died and another 21 people are missing after a boat sank on the Danube river in Hungary’s capital, Budapest during a...
Israeli legislators have voted to dissolve parliament and set the country on the path to a second election. This came within months, after right-wing Prime Minister...
In the high spirit of patriotism, an injured soldier among the injured troops at the Nigerian Army 44 Reference Hospital Kaduna has demanded for immediate release...
As the race to fill positions in the Ninth Assembly heats up, the Delta State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has pushed for...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday set aside the ruling by a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court that disqualified Ademola Adeleke as the...
South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa has brought the number of women appointed in his new cabinet up to 50 percent, a first for Africa’s second-biggest economy....
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday dismissed a Federal High Court judgement that sacked Senator Peter Nwaoboshi as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic...
A 36-year-old woman identified as Chizoba Ogbonna has been arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team IRT, in Abriba-Ohafia, Abia...
Immediate past governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has been described as a man who is finished, politically. The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate...
A child identified as Mmerichukwu, who was stolen at the age of seven in 2012 has been recovered by the Police in Anambra and reunited with...
Human rights activist and Nigerian lawyer, Femi Falana along with some other human rights activists on Wednesday held a protest at the Gani Fawehinimi Freedom Park,...
A Nigerian, Adili Ejike has narrowly escaped a death sentence issued by Singapore’s Supreme Court after being convicted for alleged possession of illicit drugs. The convict...
Stand-up comedian I Go Dye has taken a swipe at the import of democracy in Nigeria after 20-years of practice, saying the political process has created...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday jokingly told Senate President Bukola Saraki that he was happy he did not do anything funny by removing President Muhammadu...
The Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group (NDEBUMOG) and Oxfam International have accused the federal and state governments of protecting the rich who evade taxes while the...
An international team of astronomers led by the University of Warwick has found a “forbidden” planet orbiting the “Neptunian Desert” of another star. Located 920 light...
One person was confirmed injured and five vehicles were engulfed in flames on Wednesday after two tankers collided at the Fidiwo end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway....
The Nigerian Army said it has got information that some stakeholders in Nigeria’s North East have been assisting the Boko Haram terrorist group, hence sabotaging the...
Senate President Bukola Saraki on Wednesday urged Nigerians to imbibe the culture of holding their leaders accountable in the cause of governing them. Saraki in a...
Following their inauguration into elected offices, President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors have been warned against undue interference in the activities of judges engaged in the...
Senator Ali Ndume, a contestant in the race for the position of president of the Senate of the Ninth National Assembly, has declared that his party,...
Nigeria’s Flying Eagles will decide their continuity at the ongoing FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland when they face Ukraine today (Thursday). The Paul Aigbogun lads...
Aminu Makko, the North East Zonal Organising Secretary of the APC Youth Caucus is backing the candidature of Senator Danjuma Goje to emerge as the next...
An Appeal Court in Abuja will on Thursday (today) rule on the eligibility of the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last governorship...
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has been warned to stop denigrating Yoruba leaders following his allegations that they worked against his re-election during the last governorship...
The decomposing corpse of a Lagos businessman, Oluwaseyi Ishmael, has been found in his apartment at the Magodo Phase 2 area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro...
