The Super Falcons of Nigeria will now play against Equatorial Guinea instead of Kenya in the group stages of the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations...
The Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said he was speaking off the record following a video where he was seen saying the...
President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick has called on Nigerians to forgive Super Eagles coach Salisu Yusuf who is currently serving a one-year ban...
Authorities in California have said 11 people were wounded when a line gunman opened fire Wednesday inside a country dance bar crowded with hundreds of people...
Barcelona attacker Philippe Coutinho has joined Lionel Messi in the club’s injury list as it has been confirmed the Brazilian will be out for up to...
News has broken out that unknown gunmen have abducted the Ondo State Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ABC) Bisi Ogungbemi; senatorial candidate, Jide Ipinsagba; woman...
US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions has resigned his appointment in what appears a forced move. His resignation is coming after over a year of sustained blistering...
Henry Onyekuru has been handed a late call up to the Super Eagles squad for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier against South Africa billed...
Indications emerged yesterday that the Lagos State government may again fail to relocate Mile 12 traders to Imota new site as earlier promised by the administration....
Seven years after the launch of a replacement for Nigeria’s communications satellite, NigComSat -1R, the country’s satellite company is now set to take position in the...
The Department of State Services, DSS, has reportedly been dragged into the crisis in the All Progressives Congress, APC, leading to a stand-off between chairman of...
THE Lagos State Government, yesterday, seized no fewer than 30 cows and 10 rams found straying and grazing illegally on the road within Lekki axis, saying...
The Tin Can 11 container terminal, also known as Lilypond Terminal, is about to be advertised for public bidding, The PUNCH has learnt. Lilypond was concessioned...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Wednesday, defended the rising debt profile of the country, insisting that it is good debt...
Governor Nasir El-rufai of Kaduna State has asked the Federal Government to hands off the Value Added Tax (VAT) declaring that it was the business of...
Total tax collections by the 26 state governments in the country has increased astronomically in the last few years, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said its crude oil and gas export sale in August 2018 was $470 million, indicating an increase of about...
The heavy raining season this year has caused devastating damages to the over $4.5 billion refinery of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. Dangote, who is the...
The trial of the 19 suspects arraigned for the murder of former Director of Administration of the Nigerian Army, General Mohammed Alkali, promises to be an...
The FCT Police Command has paraded a dismissed banker, Emmanuel Onuma for allegedly raiding the ATM gallery of his former employers and stealing N14 million. Onuma,...
The disputes between MTN Nigeria and Nigerian authorities over $10 billion in repatriated funds and back taxes could increase risk in South Africa’s financial system depending...
The denial by the Federal Government that President Muhammadu Buhari was yet to approve N30,000 as new minimum wage has got Organised Labour fuming. The group...
English Premier League club, Manchester United stunned Juventus in their Champions League clash in Turin on Wednesday to end the Italian side’s unbeaten start to the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday accused President Muhammadu Buhari of concealing alleged bribery and corrupt practices involving the All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman, Adams...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be trusted to implement the minimum wage of...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says President Muhammadu Buhari will soon review the report of the minimum wage tripartite committee that was submitted...
Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has some soothing words for the embattled governor of Kano State, Abdulahi Ganduje. Sagay described videos...
President Muhammadu Buhari has again put the blame on the past administration as the reason for the perceived failures of his government to fulfill the change...
Months after signing the 2019 appropriation bill as accrued to different Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the Senate, Wednesday, approved that the budget of 30 MDAs...
Former deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s “desperation” to get him re-elected is...
Thomas Dennerby, head coach of the Super Falcons, has named a 21-woman final squad for the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations billed to hold in...
The Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr Mohammed Sani-Omolori has confirmed that the controversial Electoral (amendment) Bill has been transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari. “Yes, the...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of Labour Party (LP) has reeled out measures the 36 state governors in the country can adopt to be able to...
The Senate on Wednesday turned rowdy following allegations that the Social Intervention Programme of the Federal Government had been turned into a campaign tool. Making the...
The Federal Government has blamed the low prices of crude oil in the international market as the reason it has not been able to meet the...
Armed men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen have kidnapped four Reverend Fathers in Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State. Name of one of...
Nigeria’s ruling party may experience more turmoil as it’s national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole was reportedly quizzed by the Department for State Security (DSS) on Monday. The...
Chinese Super League side, Tianjin TEDA will miss the services of John Obi Mikel for the rest of the season as he suffered a muscle injury...
Four banks in Owerri, the Imo State capital, have been sealed over their failures to honour the order of the court against Governor Rochas Okorocha. The...
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has said he would release video footage of the attempted assassination on him and his family. There were reports of an...
The United States Institute of Peace has said reports that it predicted victory for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential elections are false. The Institute,...
A court in Kaduna on Wednesday denied bail to leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) also known as Shi’ites, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife....
By Tony Ogunlowo…. On the 19th of February this year more than a hundred girls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Science and Technology College, Dapchi...
By Reuben Abati… Many years ago, I was in Abuja to attend an international workshop on one of those human development issues that used to engage...
A new national minimum wage law is possible within two weeks if the presidency submits the bill this week to the National Assembly for passage, the...
The Presidency has frowned at the misinterpretation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s remarks when he received the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National...
As workers and their unions celebrate the N30,000 new minimum wage approved by President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, analysts have expressed fear that the fresh wage regime...
This came as President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, bowed to pressure from the labour movement in the country, promising to set machinery in motion to close the...
Power distribution companies in the country failed to remit a total of N158.98bn to the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc for the invoices given to them...
A registered agent with Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services, Oyebanjo Olufemi, has cried out that his life is being threatened by angry customers whom he owed various...
