Nigeria’s dwindling earnings from oil export may have worsened as oil giant, Shell, has announced that it has shut down the Trans Niger Pipeline on Monday...
The Presidency on Monday said some of the photos depicting butchered victims going viral in social media were not from the recent attacks in Benue state....
Tragedy struck in the southern Italian city of Puglia when two trains collided head on, killing 10 people in the process and injuring dozens of passengers....
A white police detective in Detroit identified as Nate Weekley has been demoted for calling the Black Lives Matter movement “racists” and “terrorists”. That much was...
42-year-old Hamdi Alqudsi potentially faces a long spell behind bars after he was arraigned in the New South Wales state Supreme Court in Sydney, Australia on...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday received in farewell audience, the outgoing High Commissioner of Canada to Nigeria, Perry J. Calderwood as well as the outgoing Ambassador...
China’s censors have reacted to news that President Xi Jinping had a species of beetle named after him by erasing the discovery from the Internet. The...
Federal House of Representatives was thrown into a rowdy session on Tuesday over an attempt to amend section 308 of the Nigerian constitution. The alteration is...
The Nigeria Referees Association has issued a warning to boycott officiating Nigeria league matches following incessant attacks of their members. NRA president Tade Azeez stated this...
British heavyweight Anthony Joshua has said that Bermane Stiverne ‘fits the criteria’ of opponent that he is hoping to face in his next fight. Last month,...
Sprint king Usain Bolt was named to the Jamaican Olympic team in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m races despite an injury that kept him from qualifying...
Ondo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has imposed a N2 million development levy on its 50 governorship aspirants in the state. According to...
Niger Delta Avengers, on Monday, once again bombed another crude oil pipeline, this time, a pipeline operated by ExxonMobil. Spokesperson of the militant group, Brigadier General...
In order to get more evidence to nail a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, the EFCC, has summoned his former Aide-de-Camp, ADC,...
A policeman who allegedly pushed a motorist to his early death at a motor park in the Iddo area of Oyingbo in the Lagos metropolis has...
Reprieve came the way of businessman Jimoh Ibrahim on Monday, as a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos discharged an interim injunction empowering the Asset Management...
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has painted a further grim picture for the Nigerian economy, saying it will contract in 2016. This, the fund said is...
Days after heavy fighting broke out claiming the lives of over a hundred soldiers in the South Sudan capital of Juba, the leaders of the warring...
Quoted equities reopened on Monday in the negative as the sell-off in the stock market persisted. Most price changes ended in the negative with sectoral indices...
As Ondo State prepares for the 2016 governorship election, to replace the incumbent Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) may have settled...
English Premier League clubs Sunderland and West Ham have joined Turkish club, Bekistas, in the battle to seure the signing of Super Eagles midfielder Ogenyi Onazi....
There are indications that the outgoing United States of America Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, will on Thursday, present a video evidence that would nail the...
The embattled immediate past National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, may have to wait much longer to get justice, as a Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High...
Lagos state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday issued the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), a 21-day ultimatum over council polls in the state. It...
The Presidency on Monday told BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) group, that President Muhammadu Buhari will not make promises he will not fulfil. The presidency said this while reacting...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been accused of delaying the release of a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, after meeting the...
President of world football governing body, FIFA, Mr. Gianni Infantino and the Secretary General, Ms Fatma Samoura will arrive Nigeria in a fortnight on a two...
The Police Command in Nasarawa state on Monday deployed over 1,000 personnel to guard government facilities in the state. This was revealed in Lafia by the...
With a promise to unite the country and to create a “strong, new, positive vision for the future,” not just for the privileged few, but for...
Musiliu Yusuf, a 50-year-old teacher has told an Igando Customary Court sitting in Lagos the reasons he absconded from his matrimonial home. In a report by...
The Cross River state All Progressives Congress (APC), Monday called on the state House of Assembly to impeach Ben Ayade, the state governor. The state chairman...
The inability of the country’s insurance sector to live up to expectations costs the country at least 70, 000 jobs that would have been available every...
Leicester City record signing Ahmed Musa has declared that he is not under pressure to score goals and help the team as the new season approaches....
The pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere says it is disappointed at the position expressed by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo over the debate on restructuring Nigeria. The group...
France forward Antoine Griezmann has won the award for Euro 2016 Player of the Tournament. UEFA announced that the 25-year-old was voted as the winner by...
The 50th birthday anniversary of Akwa Ibom state Governor, Emmanuel Udom was remarkably celebrated with pensioners in the state protesting that he pays them their entitlements....
Nasarawa state workers’ strike continues today despite Governor Al-Makura’s threat to replace them with fresh graduates. Organised labour unions in the state, not minding the governor’s...
The perennial crisis in the Nigerian energy sector was again brought to the fore with the latest revelation that generator manufacturers and distributors brought into the...
The trial of Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, failed to hold today as court went on vacation. The case which is...
Ondo state All Progressives Congress (APC), has accused Governor Olusegun Mimiko of receiving N500 million from the arms deal money. The party in a statement released...
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has noted that airlines in the country are free to fix prices for their services and tickets, since the process...
Reprieve has come the way of Yunusa Dahiru, aka Yellow, after he was freed from detention after trial following his abduction and forced marriage of 14-year-old...
Owing to the cash crunch on states in the federation, arising from dwindling revenues from oil receipts, the states are looking inwards to generate the needed...
Gas flaring in the country has been reduced by about 45% from 65% to its current 20%, the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, has said, adding...
A former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore may be in for more troubles in the hands of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,...
At least six suspected Boko Haram members who confessed to be indigenes of Borno State and who disclosed that they fled Bama, Baga and Konduga local...
The Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, has said it is working behind the scenes to resolve the Abia State governorship impasse so as to ensure that there...
Thousands of hungry Venezuelans are reported to have crossed into Colombia to get food days after the border opened briefly for the first time in nearly...
Portugal overcame host France in the final of the European football championship thanks to their Guinea Bissau born striker Eder in the second half of extra...
The extra day holiday enjoyed by Muslims in particular, and Nigerians in general has not gone down well with a group of Christians in the country....
