President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick has launched an inquiry to investigate the oversight that led to the fielding of an ineligle player...
World football governing body, FIFA has punished Nigeria for using an ineligible player in the final World Cup qualifier against Algeria in November. The clash which...
In an apparent U-turn from its earlier attack on the process leading to the emergence of the national chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...
Paris Saint-Germain Coach Unai Emery believes his side can beat Champions League title holders, Real Madrid after both teams were drawn for the round of 16....
Super Eagles and Chelsea forward, Victor Moses has thanked fans and well-wishers who sent in messages on his 27th birthday but added that his focus is...
The Minister of Transportation and former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi has been described as an accursed and associate of liars, looters, villains, thieves, and desperate...
More trouble looms for controversial US President Donald Trump after three women who in the past accused him of sexual misconduct are all demanding immediate congressional...
The federal government has salvaged more than N250 billion savings from the removal of ghost workers from the civil service payroll. This information was contained in...
Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Makanti Baru, yesterday visited the Presidential Villa for yet undisclosed reasons. The GMD was sighted...
Amidst recent upsurge in the importation of arms and ammunition into the country, the industry stakeholders are in tango over provision and usage of scanners at...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday, in Abuja, began a subtle move to douse tension generated among members of the Peoples Democratic Party over the outcome...
Goodluck Mark, a sergeant attached to Abia State Police Command has been arrested for his alleged involvement in child trafficking and for allegedly seizing the sum...
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have both warned the US that the decision to name Jerusalem as the new capital...
Nigerian equities again came under sell pressure on Monday as most investors opted to take profits from recent capital gains, tilting the demand-supply balance to the...
Acclaimed leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has cautioned that the party must be careful not to commit the mistake of promoting...
Nigeria’s largest brewer and second most capitalised quoted company, Nigerian Breweries Plc, has appointed Mr. Jordi Borrut Bel as its new managing director. Borrut Bel, whose...
By Gozie Irogboli… The most dominant topic in the political circles and among political commentators in Nigeria at present is the recent defection of Alhaji Atiku...
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose’s Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up to look into the financial transactions of the state under the administration of the former...
Former governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has dubbed the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration a failure. He said that all the All Progressives...
Tension has abated in Kenya after members of the opposition party reportedly postponed the swearing-in of an alternative president in the person of their leader Raila...
Controversial convener of the Free the Sheeple Movement, Daddy Freeze of Cool FM has replied a message by Leke Adeboye, the last son of Pastor Enoch...
Thirty-six states in the federation have submitted 108 names to President Muhammadu Buhari for appointment as ministers and board members, credible sources told Daily Trust yesterday....
Two weeks after he formally defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has indicated his interest to...
Full disclosure in the administration of crude sales remains an issue at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) despite current efforts at enthroning transparency in the...
The South-West lost the opportunity of producing the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, after Mr. Jimi Agbaje, who was the shoo-in candidate of...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a girl rights activist, Mrs. Adaobi Onyejike-Ananaba, for allegedly abusing an 11-year-old girl, Ekpere Ezewane. PUNCH Metro learnt that...
By Jerome- Mario Utomi… There was a veiled agreement among stakeholders at a recent gathering in Lagos that the governments in Nigeria at all levels are...
The divide among lawmakers in the Imo State House of Assembly seems to be growing wider as the Speaker, Acho Ihim, has said that the lawmakers...
The corruption trial against disgraced senior politician Sun Zhengcai, once considered a contender for top leadership has begun in China with prosecutors kick starting formal legal...
The Spanish beach soccer team emerged champions of the 2017 COPA Lagos Beach Soccer tournament after pipping Nigeria’s Super Sand Eagles on Sunday night. Both Spain...
La Liga leaders, Barcelona regained their five-point lead at the top of the table after they defeated Villarreal 2-0 in a matchday 15 clash on Sunday...
West Ham manager David Moyes says beating Premier League champions, Chelsea is a great achievement for his side and hopes the Hammers become as good as...
A lawmaker in the US has reportedly resigned from his post over sexual harassment allegations leveled against him. Reports say Arizona Republican Trent Franks repeatedly asked...
The ousting of former long serving leader Robert Mugabe has witnessed a change of some sort in the South African country of Zimbabwe with the new...
Senator Rashidi Ladoja, another key Southwest aspirant in the race for PDP chairmanship, has offered to step down. He joins Bode George, Jimi Agbaje and Gbenga...
Senator Buruji Kashamu has described his suspension by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as being an offence to the principle of “lis pendens” and therefore will...
A frontline contender for the chairmanship position of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the ongoing national convention of the party, Jimi Agbaje has stepped down....
Former midfielder Mutiu Adepoju has called on Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr, to open the door of his team for Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins. The...
The case of armed robbery brought before Damini Ogulu aka Burna Boy, his manager and 3 others by the Lagos State commissioner of Police has been...
Social media giants, Twitter is blaming a bug for accidentally banning a bunch of accounts by accident. In the past 24 hours, the company has “banned”...
The Federal Government has foiled an attempt by an unnamed country to donate ship load of poisonous rice for use by the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)...
The federal government has begun the aerial spray to combat Quelea birds and other pests in 17 local government areas of Bauchi State. THISDAY checks revealed...
An inferno yesterday occurred at Kpo Fire (illegal refinery camp) at Kolo Creek community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, resulting in the death...
The last may not have been heard about the mystery surrounding the abandoned 46-kilometre Sector C section of the Asaba-Ughelli dualisation road project, as the contractor,...
GUNMEN, yesterday, attacked a bullion van at the Koka Junction axis of the Benin-Onitsha expressway, Asaba, Delta State, carting away an undisclosed amount of money. Vanguard...
The United States and the United Kingdom have insisted that the risk of attacks by Boko Haram insurgents in the Federal Capital Territory and other states...
The United Nations through its secretary-general Antonio Guterres has condemned the killing of 14 UN peacekeepers and five Congolese air force members in an attack by...
Former Chairman of Senate Committee on Privatization, Senator Ayo Arise has been freed from the den of kidnappers six days after he was abducted while on...
The South East Geopolitical Zone, made of Igbo ethnic group, has been in the news for the wrong reasons since President Muhammadu Buhari stepped into power...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that he regretted disagreeing with ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo but said he did the right thing fighting to ensure his...
