Skye Bank Plc had discussed with key shareholders and strategic investors and has started the process to raise new additional capital by this quarter to bolster...
The consideration of the 2016 budget submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari took off on a controversial note on Wednesday, as Senators elected on the platform of...
Nifemi Daniel English Premier League giants, West Ham United, have offered erstwhile Super Eagles striker, Emmanuel Emenike, an opportunity to play top flight football again as...
Nifemi Daniel Watford striker, Odion Ighalo, has revealed that the success of Leicester City has helped his club to excel in the English Premier League this...
Nifemi Daniel It was a ding dong affair Wednesday evening as Nigeria Football Federation President, Amaju Pinnick, and club owner, Chris Giwa turned the Youth and...
There is a groundswell of opposition to the newly introduced N50 stamp duty on deposits from N1000 and above by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN,...
The botched arms deal may soon take a fiery turn as other dramatis personnel so far fingered in the sleaze are to be declared wanted by...
Outspoken Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has again tackled the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari on the ongoing war against corruption, challenging the Minister...
In a move viewed as unheard of in some quarters, the beards of 13,000 grown up men in Tajikistan have been shaved in a bid to...
The impact of the renewed hostilities by Niger Delta militants may have started taking its toll on the nation’s oil and gas industry, as the Nigerian...
Lionel Messi’s tax fraud trial in Spain has been set for May 31-June 3, conflicting with the start of the centennial Copa America in the United...
Serena Williams and Roger Federer made swift progress as the leading names were untroubled in the third day session of the Australian Open. Women’s top seed,...
The Federal Government, on Wednesday, failed to produce a former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, when his money laundering and illegal possession of firearms case...
A momentary relief came the way of detained Director of Radio Biafra and founder of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, as a Federal...
Hey style lovers, welcome to 2016! Although 2015 was an amazing year are so many things we could have done to elevate our persona through our...
In what his organisation referred to as an “apparent forced confession” Peter Jasper Sahlin, a Swedish human rights advocate docked in China appeared on state television...
At least nineteen people have been reported dead after a gun attack on a university in Charsadda, north-west of Pakistan. Read also: Unruly air passengers to...
Amidst growing anxiety, the Federal Government on Tuesday, confirmed that the outbreak of Lassa Fever is currently ravaging 64 local government areas in the country. According...
Astronomers have discovered the Eta Carinae “twins” in other galaxies using the Hubble telescope in a move which will help scientists better understand the brief phase...
Thousands of protesters who thronged the streets of Kasserine province in Tunisia demanding jobs were met with tear gas from local police who tried to disperse...
Nigerian quoted equities showed signs of recovery at the Tuesday trading session at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). Widespread buying sentiments narrowed down the supply gap...
Nifemi Daniel Tunisia national team coach, Hatem Missaoui, has warned his players to brace up for a tougher challenge when they confront Nigeria in their second...
By Stanley Azuakola . . . The smartest ones among the supporters of Pres. Muhammadu Buhari are keeping their mouths shut right now. There are some,...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, added his voice to the faceoff between telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria Limited and the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, when in a...
The world’s oldest man, Yasutaro Koide, has kicked the bucket. The Japanese national died at the age of 112 at a hospital in the central Japanese...
There is ongoing outrage in Pakistan by activists who are demanding the resignation of its Islamic council chief. The outrage sparked after the chief of the...
Punishment for unruly air passengers has been increased in South Korea in an effort to increase aviation safety and prevent dangerous passenger behaviours. The announcement was...
In a decision that may be interpreted as taking back through the back door what he allegedly took, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Tuesday...
The agitation for the State of Biafra may have assumed another dimension, as the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has concluded plans to drag President Muhammadu...
After weeks of uncertainty and buck passing, all is now set for the consideration of the 2016 budget, as President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday, sent an amended...
By Seyi Olu Awofeso . . . . Nigeria is today in a funk and a panic mode. A local newspaper said Sunday that the country’s...
Nifemi Daniel Niger coach, Francois Zahoui, has rated the Super Eagles as the best in the on-going 2016 Africa Nations Championship while admitting that the Sunday...
Rafael Nadal lost to Fernando Verdasco in the first round of the Australian Open, an unprecedentedly early exit at Melbourne Park for the 14-time Grand Slam...
Two of America’s leading movie personalities, in the persons of filmmaker, Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, have both informed via separate messages posted on social...
Over the last few years, mobile telcos have continued to make virtual reality the major focus of their business considering it’s futuristic value. Struggling smartphone maker,...
By Prince Charles Dickson So, I went last week to buy a “reliable” made in China Casio calculator, it even had the benefit of also...
Joseph Rotimi The current political leadership of Nigeria campaigned with an air of feigned respectability, change and a somewhat arrogant sense of inevitability. Before the elections,...
Unlike most 15 year-old French girls who spend their time on social media chatting with friends about schoolmates, listening to music and watching movies online, it...
The Senate, on Monday, explained why it rejected the 2016 Budget, saying the version submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters,...
About 10 Syrian refugees have been welcomed with open arms by residents of the Isle of Bute who believe the refugee families will have a positive...
Nigerian equities opened another week with their steepest decline so far this year as panic overwhelmed market sentiments and dampened appetite for quoted equities. With more...
A report by human rights organisation, Amnesty International, into Cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo reveals that children as young as seven were working...
By Ali Smart When the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele addressed the last Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in the last quarter...
Defending women’s champion, Serena Williams, reached the second round of the Australian Open with a tense 6-4 7-5 win over Italian Camila Giorgi in her first...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is the target of a campaign tagged “Zuckerberg don’t kill us” by an Israeli NGO which is hoping to raise funds to...
The Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, has thrown its weight behind the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to stop selling forex to Bureaux De...
A report released in London by Oxfam reveals that the wealthiest 62 people on earth own as much as half of the world’s population. The revelation...
Nifemi Daniel Nigeria Premier League champions, Enyimba of Aba, were attacked by dare-devil armed robbers in Okene, Kogi State on their way to Kaduna for the...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, in Abu Dhabi, said his administration has succeeded in pushing the Boko Haram insurgents into ‘fall back positions’, adding that the...
Nifemi Daniel Super sub Chison Chikatara emerged as Nigeria’s hero following the Super Eagles’ 4-1 demolition of the Menas of Niger in the second game of...
