The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described a statement credited to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will take over...
If you’ve ever wondered why your family isn’t crazy about your boyfriend, science has an answer for you: natural selection. According to a new study published...
Investors showed increased appetite for quoted stocks on Wednesday as most stocks rode on the back of the increased bargain-hunting to close at higher prices. But...
FIFA said on Tuesday that the country that will host the 2026 World Cup will be chosen in May 2020, as it resumed the selection process...
Dinamo Bucharest will honour the memory of midfielder Patrick Ekeng by sending the Romanian Cup to his family in Cameroon if they win the trophy. Cameroon’s...
West Ham departed the Boleyn Ground in style, scoring twice in the final fifteen minutes to claim a 3-2 win over Manchester United. With the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in the United Kingdom to participate at an London Anti-corruption Summit being hosted by Prime Minister, Davis Cameron. he was welcomed...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki has given the Joint Senate Committee on Special Duties, Establishment and Public Service up till May 25, 2016 to complete work on...
Facts have emerged on the reason for the last week’s investigative visit of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to Sterling Bank, as the bank...
Apparently miffed by the insidious remarks by Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, which classified Nigeria and Afghanistan as ‘fantastically corrupt’ nations, the Presidency on Tuesday described...
A 75-year-old farmer Nurudeen Koleosho has been apprehended by the Ogun State Police for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl said to be suffering from Autism. Reports...
The Debt Management Office (DMO), which oversees Federal Government’s debt issuance programme, has estimated that Nigeria needs $25 billion, about N4.9 trillion, annually for the next...
Head of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami opposition party Motiur Rahman Nizami has been executed in Bangladesh after he was convicted of genocide, rape and massacres. Members of...
Financial services regulators have launched a concerted seize and forfeit hunt to recover a total of 2.5 billion ordinary shares which were allegedly illegally issued by...
Andy Murray confirmed on Tuesday that a failure to win a third Grand Slam title was among the factors which finally caused him and coach Amelie...
Argentina captain, Lionel Messi, admitted he would have liked play at the Olympic Games after he was left out of the squad in order to take...
The second round matches of the Dayak Tennis Championship holding at the National Tennis Centre, Abuja served off Wednesday with three Nigerians in action Tuesday saw...
U-23 Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, has invited six overseas-based professionals led by Liverpool loanee, Taiwo Awoniyi to beef up his squad for the invitational tournament in...
A Lagos-based lawyer, Ebun Olu Adegboruwa, has joined the list of people who have fallen into the snare of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on Wednesday arraign a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal M D Umar Dikko before a Federal...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… There is one Oba in Nigeria that most of the people have in common, that is Omo N’Oba of Benin. Most ethnic...
By Okey Ndibe… I was disturbed by a report in last Sunday’s edition of The Punch newspaper. It read, “Buhari orders military to crush new Niger...
By Churchill Obinna Okonkwo… With the amalgamation of Northern and Southern protectorate of Nigeria in 1914, a new entity with strangers in an unfamiliar society...
By Sonala Olumhense… The following article is intended to be read as an extension of, addendum to, Femi Falana’s “How Nigeria Can Raise U.S.$200 Billion From...
By Prince Charles Dickson… We grab a dog with the hands and it escapes; thereafter we beckon it with two fingers. (If both hands cannot detain...
Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton and mouthy Republican presumptive nominee, Donald Trump are both in a race described as close to call in three battleground states such...
A knife-wielding 27-year-old German attacked and killed one man and injured three others on Tuesday at the Grafing train station near Munich. German police are now...
Robot-fighting stuff of manga and anime is coming to a venue near you after Oakland, Calif. startup MegaBots Inc. raised $2.4 million in seed funding. According...
By Joseph Edgar . . . . That is exactly what is on my mind this morning. Can it get any worse? As the Boko Haram...
Nigerian equities opened on Monday with widespread positive sentiments as investors increased demand for banking and consumer goods stocks. Average gain at the Nigerian Stock Exchange...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has frozen the bank account of Marecco Nigeria Limited belonging to a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation,...
The Federal Government has concluded plans to privatize the nation’s refineries within the next 12 months, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, has been taken to task by a group, Campaign for Democracy, CD, over his promise that the National...
A boost is coming the way of local miners as the Federal Government has concluded plans to give intervention funds to the sector. Giving this hint...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has commenced investigation of deposit money banks over alleged malfeasance following manhunt of banks’ chief executives by the Economic and...
The use of unauthorised drones in the Nigerian airspace is now an offence according to a statement released by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA. The...
Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad RSS have arrested Lekan Shonde, the runaway killer of his banker-wife, Ronke Shonde. The hunt for Lekan who had been...
Lekan Shonde, the man who allegedly killed his banker-wife named Ronke has opened up on the reason he beat his wife up which resulted to her...
There is palpable tension in Edo State, as the police has taken over the embattled state House of Assembly complex. Ripples Nigeria gathered that as at...
Residents of 6, Adelaja street, off Afariogun Street, at the Charity area of Oshodi, Lagos were thrown into disarray when a man allegedly stabbed his elder...
The second Niger Bridge has been a long drawn out project inherited by a number of previous administrations, but remains largely on the drawing board. However,...
Saul Alvarez knocked out Great Britain’s Amir Khan in the sixth round to retain his WBC middleweight title in Las Vegas last night. Twenty-nine-year Khan, who...
The management of the over 11 electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) in Nigeria have set machinery in motion to carry out a nationwide disconnection of major government...
The Defense Headquarters, DHQ, has warned oil vandals and terrorists, cattle rustlers and others suspected to be behind attacks in different parts of the country, that...
Novak Djokovic saw off the challenge of Andy Murray to claim his first Madrid Open title since 2011. The Serbian was taken to three sets by...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has admitted that Nigerians were suffering and that the pains in the country were...
BBC correspondent, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has been detained by North Korean authorities over an inappropriate description of leader Kim Jong-un in his report. Media reports say the...
Governor Rochas Okorocha on Friday rallied scores of senior journalists, especially of Igbo descent, to Owerri on a tour of the state. The event comes against...
The La Liga title race will go to the final day after Barcelona and Real Madrid both won on Sunday, but Atletico Madrid’s challenge is over....
President Muhammadu Buhari was on Sunday hosted to Lunch by Emir of Daura HRH Alhaji Faruk Umar Faruk at the Emir’s Palace in Daura, Katsina State...