The Iraqi government is currently facing serious pressure after at least 70 people were killed and over 100 people left injured following a series of bomb...
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seems to be sinking deeper into crisis, with its ranks splitting further by the day, as a faction within the...
The federal government has warned civil servants who may be tempted to join the Wednesday national strike called by the Ayuba Wabba faction of the Nigerian...
The federal government on Tuesday moved closer to decimating organized labour, particularly the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), as it foreclosed further parley with the Ayuba Wabba-led...
By Sonala Olumhense… British Prime Minister David Cameron last Tuesday did the world a massive favour, letting rip into an open microphone a description of Afghanistan...
By Abubakar D. Sani… For the following reasons, I believe that no attempt at ending the costly, unsustainable fuel subsidy programme in Nigeria will succeed unless...
By Abu Najakkudanbello… On February 3 this year, a shadowy group, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), announced its formation with the sole aim of “crippling (the...
Social media giants Twitter may soon remove photos and links from its 140-character limit. For years, Twitter users have complained about the fact that link and...
Reports emerging from the nation’s capital, Abuja, say that the office of the Attorney General of the Federation on Tuesday approached the National Industrial Court (NICN)...
By Joseph Edgar . . . It’s 24 hours to the NLC expected ‘war’ against the recent policy on the deregulation of the oil sector. But...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has stopped the election of a new National Chairman by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The court also stopped...
The Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has given the National Chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff, a two year extension...
The deal to bring Nigeria and Portland Timbers striker Fanendo Adi to Crystal Palace has hit the rock due to work permit. The 25 year-old who...
The Nigerian military seems to be going all out to capture dissidents in the oil rich Niger Delta area, and secure the region for oil exploration...
Super Eagles striker Kelechi Iheanacho has expressed disappointment at Manuel Pellegrini’s departure from Manchester City. Pellegrini will be officially replaced by Pep Guardiola on July 1...
Efforts by the Federal Government to ensure that the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, do not call their members out for...
Iranian authorities have arrested eight models for posing for fashion photos online without wearing hijabs in a crackdown against women posing nude. According to Khabar Online...
Highly capitalised stocks in the breweries, building materials and petroleum-marketing sectors rallied Nigerian equities to a strong start on Monday with a gain of N130 billion....
Manchester United have issued a five-point statement following the events on Sunday that saw their Premier League contest with Bournemouth abandoned. United’s final game of the...
Neymar is desperate to win Olympic gold in his home country this summer. The Brazilian striker might just have helped his club claim yet another La...
U-23 Eagles Coach Samson Siasia on Monday met with SuperEagles captain, Mikel Obi, and Watford striker, Odion Ighalo, in London ahead of the football event of...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Monday met with President Muhammadu Buhari behind closed-doors at the Presidential Villa. Wike’s meeting with the President lasted for...
The National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday that Nigeria’s inflation rate hit a six-year high in April, reaching 13%. The rates were put at 12.8%...
Police in New Jersey have launched a hunt for a woman suspected of robbing three banks in 24 hours. Pictures of the suspect have been released...
True to TMZ’s earlier report, Tyka Nelson and other family members of late singer Prince did not attend a memorial held in honour of the late...
There may be another round of back and forth between Davido and his babymama Ms. Sophie Momodu after she was reportedly ‘bounced’ from attending her daughter’s...
A Swedish citizen originally from Rwanda, who goes by the name of Claver Berinkindi has been sentenced to life imprisonment after he was convicted of genocide...
In a desperate move to avert the proposed strike by labour unions in the country over the new price of petrol, the federal government yesterday sent...
An incestuous father identified as Fatai Ogundele is now cooling his heels in police custody after he was arrested for allegedly raping and assaulting his 14-year-old...
A former governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau has stated that he would not be intimidated to make any refunds concerning the N950 million allegedly naira...
Modalities for resolving an outstanding N16.5 billion fuel subsidy claim may unsettle the fresh romance between the federal government and petroleum marketers, Ripples Nigeria has gathered....
A leading UK newspaper, the Daily Mail has published an article saying that despite the stance of President Muhammadu Buhari against corruption, his minister for Aviation,...
By Pat Utomi…The price of Petrol goes up and gloves go off. When gloves go off name calling and the mudslinging on motives become fair game....
By Pius Adesanmi… One argument being pushed by the Federal Government (via Osinbajo et al) and supporters of fuel subsidy removal (appropriate pricing, deregulation, downstreaming, market...
The call on Nigerian workers by the umbrella body of its unions, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), to shut down the...
By Joe Igbokwe… Unless senior citizens of the Niger Delta and patriots rise up now to talk sense into the empty heads of the people that...
By Anosike Wilson… Less than a year in office, the Buhari-led administration is telling us that campaigning in an election period does not matter. In fact,...
By Abdul Mahmud … In a few weeks, precisely on the 31st day of May, 2016, the writer and political activist, Chido Onumah, will present his...
By Jude Ndukwe … Nigeria has over time earned for herself the unenviable toga of being a corrupt nation. The determination of past administrations of the...
By Hakeem Babalola… They now say I am fantastically corrupt. Is this true or not? Fantastically corrupt! I know I am corrupt but am I fantastically...
By Reuben Abati … “We have got the leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain… Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries...
Lagos is a truly distinctive place which has become a haven to a lot of interesting individuals, and no matter how long you have lived in...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, again, stormed the residence of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Thursday and arrested a domestic...
Nigerian equities broke away from a two-day decline to a major rally on Thursday as investors scrambled for shares of downstream oil majors quoted on the...
Nigeria’s U-23 team, the Flying Eagles boys on Thursday defeated the country’s Olympic team, the U-23 Eagles 2-1 in a friendly match played in Abuja. The...
Just in case there are still some readers out there who don’t know what the above headline means, it is about the unbelievable achievement of Leicester...
The Niger Delta Avengers on Thursday made good its separatist intentions, warning northerners with interests in the oil region to quit in two weeks or face...
The execution of the leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami political party Motiur Rahman Nizami has sparked heavy protests in Bangladesh with the party issuing a strike call...
New militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, has again threatened oil firm, Chevron for daring to initiate repair work on its blown Okan Valve platform. It...
Investigations into how Mrs. Ronke Shonde died continue with the police expecting the results of the autopsy carried out on her corpse anytime soon. Mrs Shonde...