Senators loyal to Senate President Bukola Saraki are using the 2016 Budget row to negotiate a soft-landing for the former Kwara State Governor, who is facing...
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung yesterday threw caution into the winds at the Extra Ordinary Session of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, when he assaulted a...
Super Falcons players were stunned on Tuesday when the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, paid them a paltry N10,000 each as bonuses after their 2-0 victory against the Terenga Lioness...
The Senior Special Assistant on Media to governor of Edo State, Curtis Ugbo, was reportedly picked up on Wednesday by security operatives of the Nigerian police...
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Wednesday said that it had restarted the Port Harcourt refinery, which has a capacity of 210,000 barrels a day....
By Taju Tijani…Nigerian politicians are becoming medieval warring kings, and like wild cats in the wild, they settle prehensile political feuds with chops, karate, kicks, kung-fu...
Hundreds of millions of pounds of British foreign aid given to Nigeria to help combat Boko Haram terrorists is instead being used to fund a witch-hunt...
Brazilian President Dilma Roussef who is fighting tooth and nail to salvage her presidency has branded her vice-president a coup plotter and a traitor using impeachment...
Right now may be the right time to meet someone new if you are single after the debaucherous fun and festivities of Christmas and New Years...
Facebook has announced the launch of a 17-lens 3D VR camera thus inventing its own virtual reality camera from scratch and open sourcing it so people...
Levi Obijiofor…It was bizarre to read a tribute written and signed by the convicted former Governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori, who is currently serving...
By Ogaga Ifowodo…What would it take for a politically exposed Nigerian politician to resign from office in protest of his or her averred honour? If...
By Okey Ndibe …I would not have traveled to China. Not at this time, no. In fact, I would tell my Chinese hosts today that I...
By Pius Adesanmi…I’ve been away from my preoccupations with the Nigerian tragedy for a little over a week. That is because the academic unit that I...
World Human Rights group Amnesty International has told President Muhammadu Buhari not to cover the truth over the massacre of Shi’ites in Northern Nigeria. The group...
A female gospel singer, and mother of one, Yvonne Omoarebokhae, has been found dead in a hotel in Benin, Edo State capital. She was reportedly lodged...
Kevin de Bruyne sent Manchester City into the Champions League semifinals for the first time Tuesday, securing a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Paris Saint-Germain to build on a...
President Buhari’s visit to China is already yielding dividends as the country has offered Nigeria loan worth about $6bn. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama...
Federal prosecutors in Belgium have charged two more men with terrorist offences after they were both linked to the rental of a property which was reported...
Africa’s richest man, Dangote, said Tuesday that he has secured a $2bn loan to fund two on-going cement plant projects in Nigeria. Aliko Dangote, told Reuters...
Oil reached a 2016 high, hitting 43 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, raising hope for funding of the 2016 budget which had been predicated on $38...
In what is seen as a viable collaboration, Slidebox is bringing its photo-management app to Android. The new application called Slidebox aims to help Android users...
Spokesman for the Nigerian Navy, Chris Ezekobe, has confirmed that six Turkish members of a cargo ship’s crew have been kidnapped by suspected pirates off the...
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC) , the world’s biggest lender, and Nigeria’s central bank (CBN) on Tuesday signed an agreement on yuan transactions,...
Nigeria’s annual inflation rose to a near four year high of 12.8 percent in March from 11.4 percent in February, driven by a rise in food...
The menace of the marauding Fulani herdsmen has been witnessed again this time in Taraba State after heavily armed assailants suspected to be herdsmen attacked and...
The data obtained from the corporation’s latest financials report showed that an average of N47.86 million was expended in the repair of each of the line...
The protest staged by students of the University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, turned violent on Monday leading to the death of two students, just as the...
A witness called by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, in his trial of alleged N400m fraud, told the court how former...
Tragedy struck at the Abaranje area of Ikotun, Lagos State, as a 40-year-old bricklayer, committed suicide over his inability to have a wife. The Bricklayer, simply...
President Dilma Rousseff reports say is saddened by plans by Brazil’s lower house to impeach her following allegations of breaking budget laws in favour of her...
The Kaduna State government has revealed how it buried 347 corpses in a mass grave last year after the deadly clash between members of the Shi’ites...
Pregnancy can be hard enough without unexpected things going wrong and there are foods to avoid when you are pregnant and such things as a hot...
There are various reasons why shaming your kids is actually a bad idea. If you remember being a kid at all, chances are your memories are...
Salah El Din Mahmoud Helal, Egypt’s former agriculture minister and his office manager have both been handed 10 year prison sentences each for corruption by a...
By Chido Onumah …In a country where the value of human life is not worth more than that of a fly at a butcher’s shop; where...
Reality TV star Khloe Kardashian seems to be done with her ex Lamar Odom with sources saying she has thrown in the towel in her relationship...
Pop star Madonna and her ex-husband Guy Ritchie have both struck a custody deal for their son so it seems as Guy was seen dropping Rocco...
Very soon, you may be able to touch to buy — literally using you fingerprints as currency in Japan. Capitalizing upon its status as one of...
Prince Charles Dickson…I am a member of the generation whose roads were rough and tough according to Tai Solarin, I am part of that generation that...
Russia’s shooting for the moon again, and if successful, this will be the first time Russia has returned to the moon since it first beat the...
Femi Fani-Kayode..;.The Department of State Security (DSS) have claimed that five Fulani herdsmen were abducted, killed and buried in a mass grave by members of IPOB...
Portuguese Culture Minister Joao Soares has stepped down after a deluge of calls for him to resign, a day after threatening to slap critics who dared to...
By Joseph Rotimi…A couple of decades ago I was sitting somewhere minding my business when a middle-aged man who had been poring over a newspaper article...
By Remi Oyeyemi…President Mohammadu Buhari, has shown that he enjoys sycophancy. He appears to revel in it. He swims in it. He eats and drinks it....
By Tunde Fagbenle…It would be no exaggeration to define Bakare as one of the few credible voices left in Nigeria’s socio-political firmament. Fearlessly outspoken and scourge...
By Jude Ndukwe…The recent press release by the Directorate of State Services (DSS), Nigeria’s secret police, to the effect that they discovered some fifty shallow graves,...
Oil rich Dubai is set to beat its own record by constructing the world’s tallest tower with the developer Emaar revealing that the tower will be...
Embattled Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has decided to throw in the towel after his coalition partners backed out of forming a new government. Yatsenyuk...
Enyimba of Aba, on Sunday took a step closer to the group stage of the CAF Champions League after handing a 3-0 thrashing to Etoile du...