The Nigeria Union, South Africa (NUSA), says it has officially protested the alleged beating of five Nigerians, one day after the killing of Olamilekan Badmus, a...
Barely hours after Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s aide, Laolu Akande, appeared to confirm Osibanjo’s approval of the controversial contracts awarded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)...
Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El’Rufai, on Thursday, presented the Kaduna state 2018 budget to the State House of Assembly. El’Rufai during the presentation, stated that...
More than one week after the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, constituted a committee to probe the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Ibrahim Idris, on claims that...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo may have cleared the air over the worrying question about whether President Muhammadu Buhari signed the controversial Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)...
The Supreme Court in Thursday adjourned the hearing on the appeal filed by a former National Security Adviser (NSA) Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) to January 25,...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Raymond Dokpesi, has insisted that the National Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi was the...
George Oppong Weah, former footballer and the only African player to win Ballon d’Or is in the lead as vote counting continues across Liberia following that...
Embattled singer Davido has reacted to a police report which debunked his earlier claim that he had left Shisha Bar for DNA Night Club in Victoria...
At the inception of the Buhari-led government, economic indices were somewhat stable. Inflation was single digit, fuel price was below the N100 mark, consumer price index...
The Nigerian Army on Wednesday stated that its troops involved in counter-insurgency effort in the North-East killed 15 Boko Haram insurgents after repelling attack by the...
Twelve days after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested Ekiti State’s Commissioner for Finance, Toyin Ojo, and Accountant-General, Yemisi Owolabi, the commission Wednesday confirmed...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo Wednesday restated the commitment of the Federal Government towards securing the release of the remaining abducted Chibok girls. According to a statement by...
Reports have emerged that gunmen attacked Wereh Village in Barkin-Ladi, Plateau State Tuesday, killing a former Plateau State Head of Service, Moses Gwom, and two other...
The Senate on Wednesday considered and passed for second reading a Bill for an Act requiring regular publication of existing vacant positions in Federal Government offices...
As the world approaches the very final matches of the qualifying series, 23 countries are already assured of a place including hosts Russia at next year’s...
The Minister of State for Petroleum and Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has been accused of masterminding the leakage of the memo he wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari...
There is an on-going scramble in Anambra State as scores of parents are rushing to pick up their wards in schools after IPOB members alleged that...
Nollywood actress Shan George has threatened to expose her colleagues who engage in intellectual property theft by cloning the works of others and claiming credit for...
Scores of protesters in the opposition stronghold of Kisumu in Kenya were teargassed by police after most of them had refused to disperse moments after they...
ustice Abdulaziz Anka of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday ordered the permanent forfeiture of some houses purportedly owned by a former Minister of...
Following their qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Panama’s president president Juan Carlos Varela has declared a one-day national holiday to celebrate the historic moment....
Argentinian superstar, Lionel Messi found the back of the net thrice to ensure his country came from behind to win in Ecuador early Wednesday to qualify...
The unthinkable played out at a private hospital in the Osogbo metropolis area of Osun State when rapists, armed with axes and machetes, invaded the health...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, and Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, who recently disagreed on contracts awards, on...
In an obvious show of force over the continued missile activities of North Korea, led by Kim Jong Un, the US military has flown two strategic...
Russian hackers have been reportedly found using Kaspersky software and the discovery has led US officials to order federal agencies to remove the company’s products from...
Senator Isah Misau, who represents Bauchi Central senatorial district at the Senate, has been dragged to court over the N120 billion bribery and other allegations he...
The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has stated that there was no hope in the forseeable future for an Igbo man...
As pressure continues to mount for a halt to independence move, Catalonia’s leader, Carles Puigdemont stated Tuesday that although he accepted the “mandate of the people”...
Low-priced stocks, otherwise known as penny stocks, were the toast of investors on Tuesday at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) as they appeared to be increasingly...
About 21,780 out of 33,000 teachers have reportedly failed the Primary Four examination administered to assess their level of competence by the Kaduna State government. As...
United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, Tuesday called for an end to the “barbaric practice” of death penalty, stating that it had “no place in the 21st...
The autopsy report which circulated on Monday claiming that the actual cause of the death of Tagbo Umeike, a friend of popular singer Davido who was...
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, may have landed a heavy blow to some people from South-East, majorly the youths, agitating for the Independence of Biafra, after...
Service Chiefs, Minister of Defence, retired Brig. Mansur Dan-Ali and the National Security Adviser, retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, on Tuesday met behind closed-doors with President Muhammadu...
Amid fears of a possible coup as tension rises in Zimbabwe over the possible next leader to succeed President Robert Mugabe, the long serving despot has...
By Benjamin Ugbana …. After Super Eagles got the entire country lit with great happiness by securing Nigeria’s qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup with...
The Senate has raised the alarm over the consumption of over three million bottles of codeine syrup daily in Kano and Jigawa States. It has also...
By Reuben Abati The current NNPC debacle is probably the most embarrassing, even if mercifully, eye-opening crisis in the history of that nationally strategic institution since...
Cashew nuts are, strictly speaking, not nuts at all. Cashew nuts are the seeds of Nigeria in one minute the fruit of the cashew tree, which...
Super Eagles duo of Victor Moses and Shehu Abdullahi were included in the CAF squad for matchday 5 of the African FIFA 2018 World Cup qualifers....
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the National Assembly to approve two external loans put at $5.5 billion. This request is coming despite the fact that the...
Following Nigeria’s qualification for the 2018 World Cup, Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr, will continue in his office beyond 2018 as he has earned a...
China’s Hanson Robotics, producer of the celebrity humanoid robot Sophia, is partnering with United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) biggest telecom firm Etisalat for future sales of its...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, Monday admitted that his government had not lived up to its responsibility of meeting the wage entitlements of workers in the...
The threat of the monkeypox virus in Nigeria has risen further with the revelation of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that there were now...
Argentina and Barcelona forward, Lionel Messi, PSG and Brazilian striker, Neymar are among the nominees to compete for 2017 Ballon d’Or with current holder, Cristiano Ronaldo....
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote stated Monday at the ongoing Financial Times’ 4th annual Africa Summit at Claridges in London, that Nigeria could not afford to...
Unable to endure any longer, more than 2,000 Nigeria Police personnel in Kaduna State Command on Monday engaged in a protest to demand for the payment...