The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) is proposing a new e-voting device to replace the card reader presently in use. The proposal and...
The Federal High Court (FHC) in Lagos on Thursday removed the temporary reprieve that it granted Oando by declining jurisdiction on the case instituted by Oando...
Brazilian footballer Robinho has been sentenced to nine years in prison for taking part in the gang rape of a woman in Milan in 2013. An...
Former Super Eagles striker, Yakubu Aiyegbeni on Wednesday announced his retirement from professional football – a day that marked his 35th year on earth. The erstwhile...
By Joseph Edgar… Now, very little things confuse me when it comes to Nigeria’s politics. I pride myself of an astonishing clarity when it comes to...
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, former President Goodluck Jonathan who lost as incumbent to Nigeria’s current President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, has said that he...
THE leadership of the House of Representatives has urged the citizenry not to expect the final budget in less than three months. Chairman, House Committee on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has released a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, The PUNCH can confirm. The EFCC...
The hope of about 30 graduates to gain jobs at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Kano, has been dashed after they failed a mandatory drug test. The...
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has punctured the claim of Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha that President Muhammadu Buhari’s ticket...
Judge Alphons Orie of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has sentenced ex-Bosnian Serbian commander Ratko Mladic to life in prison for genocide....
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has described the face-off between Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials and those of the State Security Service, (SSS),...
Zimbabwe’s former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa who was sacked by former President Robert Mugabe is to be sworn in as President on Thursday. Sources told CNN...
Scores of Haitian immigrants who were offered Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, after an earthquake killed 300,000 people and ravaged their homes in January 2010 are...
The U.S. Treasury has announced sanctions against 13 Chinese and North Korean organisations for helping Pyongyang evade nuclear restrictions and helping the pariah nation to proliferate...
The Federal Government spends an average of N8.4 billion yearly to feed awaiting trial inmates and persons in juvenile institutions. The figure excludes 23,217 inmates already...
The Nigerian Prisons Service, yesterday, responded to the allegation by kidnap suspect, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans, that he was not being given enough food by prison...
Today’s meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) will hold at the office of the wife of the President, Daily Trust learnt yesterday. It was gathered...
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to visit Zamfara State in the wake of recent attacks and report back his findings....
The fate of the national convention of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) seems to be hanging in the balance. A number of aspirants going for...
There was a stand-off in a street on Asokoro area of Abuja on Tuesday, as operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) prevented operatives of...
The Lagos State Police Command have declared musician Damini Ogulu, aka Burna Boy wanted in connection to a robbery incident that happened at the EKO Hotel...
Former Chairman of the Presidential Pension Reform Team (PPRT) Abdurasheed Maina has challenges the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to an open debate on the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday stated that he is under serious pressure from many Nigerians to set up a national airline. The president however argued, that...
Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe has met with the Army generals over terms for his resignation. Sources within the government told CNN on Monday, that a letter has...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday warned that the full weight of the law would be visited on those hawking pre-registered SIM cards in spite of...
Failure by some state governors to access the Universal Basic Education Commission’s (UBEC) intervention fund is threatening the future of millions of Nigerian school children. The...
The scramble to acquire 9mobile, Nigeria’s fourth largest network operator, has advanced to the next stage, with 10 out of the 16 firms that submitted expressions...
THE Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, currently facing scrutiny from the Senate for allegedly spearheading the recall of wanted pension fraud...
Contrary to the claims by the Kogi State Government that Governor Yahaya Bello is healthy, investigations revealed that he has been admitted into a hospital in...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a truck driver, Ebenezer Oyeneye, 50, suspected to be behind several hacking of customers’ bank accounts...
A political crisis is brewing in Germany after German Chancellor Angela Merkel revealed that she had failed in her efforts to form a three-way coalition government....
Tragedy struck in the Moroccan town of Sidi Boulaalam in Essaouira province when no less than 15 people were feared dead in a stampede while food...
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alex Ekwueme, who was recently flown out of the country for medical treatment has died. He reportedly passed on at a...
Real Madrid forward, Cristiano Ronaldo has hit out at his critics who are suggesting that he is not playing well because of his lack of goals....
The home-based Super Eagles of Nigeria were drawn with Libya, Rwanda and Equatorial Guinea in Group C of 2018 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Morocco. The...
White House senior aide Jared Kushner has denied that he withheld emails about WikiLeaks and “a Russian backdoor overture” in 2016 as investigations continue into allegations...
If you’ve been trying to get the attention of a guy for a while, but with no success, don’t give up! When you’ve exhausted all the...
The immediate past governor of Ebonyi State, Martin Elechi, has given mis-governance by incumbent Governor Dave Umahi as one of the reasons he dumped the Peoples...
A newly-discovered world called “55 Cancri e” that might somehow have an atmosphere has been found by astronomers. The planet is covered in free-flowing lava on...
A total number of a 100 cultist have been paraded by men of the Lagos State Police Command after they were all arrested by cops attached...
Lagos State lawyer and human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, on Friday regretted that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration lacks the will to fight corruption in...
The death toll arising from a police attack on opposition supporters who were following a convoy carrying Raila Odinga from the airport to central Nairobi in...
The end seems near for embattled Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe after the military seized power in an apparent coup even as allies of the long serving...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami may have succeeded in convincing the Senate ad-hoc committee probing the return and reinstatement...
Fugitive former chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, will next week appear before the ad hoc committee of the House of...
There was palpable anxiety in Awka and other parts of Anambra State yesterday as time ticked for the governorship election in the state today. The fear...
The federal government has constituted a ministerial committee to unravel the circumstances which led to the death of 26 teenage Nigerian migrant girls in the Mediterranean...
The traffic gridlock on Apapa-Oshodi expressway has now turned into a haven for hoodlums who attacked people at night and dispossessed them of valuables. The long...
Documents obtained by Saturday PUNCH show that the military is not truthful in its denial of its intention to bar women cadets from being admitted into...