By Okey Ndibe …I would not have traveled to China. Not at this time, no. In fact, I would tell my Chinese hosts today that I...
By Pius Adesanmi…I’ve been away from my preoccupations with the Nigerian tragedy for a little over a week. That is because the academic unit that I...
A mother, Mrs. Abigail Brown, has been arrested by the Rivers State Police Command for kidnapping her two children to get ransom from her husband. According...
World Human Rights group Amnesty International has told President Muhammadu Buhari not to cover the truth over the massacre of Shi’ites in Northern Nigeria. The group...
German comedian Jan Boehmermann has been slammed with a lawsuit by Turkey’s President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan after he read a satirical poem about the Turkish leader...
Mohammed Zahir al-Sharqat, the Syrian journalist and TV presenter who was shot in an attack in Turkish city of Gaziantep has died from wounds he sustained...
Security has been beefed up at the football secretariats and its environs as the board and Congress of the Nigeria Football Federation meets today to place...
Nigeria Table Tennis team finished second behind Egypt in the overall medal table at the 2016 ITTF African Junior & Cadet Championship which ended on Tuesday...
Factional President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Chris Giwa, has taken a swipe at world soccer ruling body, FIFA while maintaining that he is not ready...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday ordered the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, to appear before it to explain his...
A female gospel singer, and mother of one, Yvonne Omoarebokhae, has been found dead in a hotel in Benin, Edo State capital. She was reportedly lodged...
Kevin de Bruyne sent Manchester City into the Champions League semifinals for the first time Tuesday, securing a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Paris Saint-Germain to build on a...
ronaldoCristiano Ronaldo’s hat-trick inspired Real Madrid to a 3-0 comeback victory over VfL Wolfsburg on Tuesday that clinched a place in the Champions League semi-finals. The...
The crisis rocking the Kogi State House of Assembly continued on Tuesday, as nine members of the House loyal to factional speaker, Hon. Umar Imam, suspended...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr David Babachir Lawal, has revealed, that the federal government in efforts to meet its salary obligations...
Wife of the Governor of Lagos State, Mrs Bolanle Ambode on Tuesday commended Cadbury PLC for its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and called on companies in...
Defending champions, Super Falcons, on Tuesday qualified for this year’s African Women Cup of Nations after defeating the Terenga Lioness of Senegal 2-0 in Abuja. A...
The trial of a former member of the House of Representatives and Chairman of the House Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Scam, Farouk Lawan, continued on...
The rancour created by the executive and legislative arms of government over the 2016 budget deepened Tuesday as both arms of government maintained their stands, unwilling...
Ex-Basketballer Lamar Odom is back to his old ways again; the lanky estranged hubby of Khloe Kardashian was spotted on Monday night at the Achilles heel...
Scores of commuters and motorists around the Berliet bus stop along Oshodi Apapa expressway scampered for safety after a petrol tanker spilled its contents. Panic pervaded...
President Buhari’s visit to China is already yielding dividends as the country has offered Nigeria loan worth about $6bn. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama...
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Beijing called on the Nigerian and Chinese business communities to work harder to reduce the trade imbalance between both countries which...
Spain’s seventh seed, David Ferrer, withdrew on Tuesday from the Monte Carlo Masters, a day prior to his second-round match against German teenager, Alexander Zverev. ATP...
AC Milan sacked Coach Sinisa Mihajlovic on Tuesday and replaced him with youth team coach, Cristian Brocchi, who will take charge until the end of the...
Bayern Munich has a seven-point lead in the Bundesliga and is on course for an unprecedented fourth straight title. Benfica, after finding form in the final...
Barcelona can redress their stuttering domestic form by sealing their passage to the Champions League semi-finals when they visit Atletico Madrid on Wednesday. Last season’s treble...
Federal prosecutors in Belgium have charged two more men with terrorist offences after they were both linked to the rental of a property which was reported...
Africa’s richest man, Dangote, said Tuesday that he has secured a $2bn loan to fund two on-going cement plant projects in Nigeria. Aliko Dangote, told Reuters...
Oil reached a 2016 high, hitting 43 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, raising hope for funding of the 2016 budget which had been predicated on $38...
A prosecution witness called by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the ongoing trial former Chief of Defence Staff, retired Air Chief Marshall Alex...
Return Kogi vehicles in your possession or be dealt with, Gov Bello warns former appointees Kogi State givernor, Alhaji Yayaha Bello, has asked former political office...
In what is seen as a viable collaboration, Slidebox is bringing its photo-management app to Android. The new application called Slidebox aims to help Android users...
Spokesman for the Nigerian Navy, Chris Ezekobe, has confirmed that six Turkish members of a cargo ship’s crew have been kidnapped by suspected pirates off the...
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC) , the world’s biggest lender, and Nigeria’s central bank (CBN) on Tuesday signed an agreement on yuan transactions,...
Nigeria’s annual inflation rose to a near four year high of 12.8 percent in March from 11.4 percent in February, driven by a rise in food...
The menace of the marauding Fulani herdsmen has been witnessed again this time in Taraba State after heavily armed assailants suspected to be herdsmen attacked and...
President Muhammadu Buhari as part of his official visit to the Peoples Republic of China today attended the Official Opening Ceremony of the Business Forum on...
The data obtained from the corporation’s latest financials report showed that an average of N47.86 million was expended in the repair of each of the line...
The protest staged by students of the University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, turned violent on Monday leading to the death of two students, just as the...
The protest staged by students of the University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, turned violent on Monday leading to the death of two students, just as the...
A witness called by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, in his trial of alleged N400m fraud, told the court how former...
Tragedy struck at the Abaranje area of Ikotun, Lagos State, as a 40-year-old bricklayer, committed suicide over his inability to have a wife. The Bricklayer, simply...
President Dilma Rousseff reports say is saddened by plans by Brazil’s lower house to impeach her following allegations of breaking budget laws in favour of her...
The Nigerian stock market reopened on Monday with worsening price depreciation as increased sell orders overwhelmed bargain-hunting, throwing the market into a five-hour loss of N233...
The Kaduna State government has revealed how it buried 347 corpses in a mass grave last year after the deadly clash between members of the Shi’ites...
The decision by the factional President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Chris Giwa, who made appointments and dissolved the board of the federation, has been faulted...
Former CAF and FIFA executive member, Amos Adamu, has canvassed for restructuring of electoral process that will accommodate compensation mechanism for losers in the election into...
Diamond Bank Plc and Standard Chartered Bank Limited topped forex utilisation list for last week with combined $38.34 million disbursement to their customers. The two lenders, which respectively...
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is working out modalities that would enable it disburse estimated N2 trillion refunds expected from the five per cent cut in Cash...
