Friends and colleagues of former BBC journalist and U.N. official, Jacqueline Sutton who was found dead in a restroom at Istanbul Ataturk airport are calling for...
In from Nifemi Daniel . . . The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed disappointment after Federation Burkinabe de Foot-Ball, Burkina Faso’s football governing body, moved the...
In from Smart Ali . . . The House of Representatives on Tuesday hinted that it would investigate the revenue generated by the Nigerian National Petroleum...
In from Ali Smart . . . The House of Representatives has concluded plans to probe the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council (NIPC) over the N1.85trillion pioneer...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Tuesday denied any link with the failed bid by an Indian company, Oil and Natural Gas Corp-Mittal Energy Limited...
There is something about movies that makes you lose hope in reality. Indian films for example. You see a tough, badass guy who is so stern...
In from Success Allantee . . . Nigerian equities rode on the back of widespread positive sentiments to sustain a rally for the second consecutive day...
A number of people on Tuesday escaped death when the convoy of the Edo state Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, was...
President Muhammadu Buhari visited Cross River State where he attended the Ground Breaking Ceremony of a 260Km Super Highway Double Carrier Road from Calabar to the...
The Senate which had earlier suspended plenary abruptly on Tuesday without reason after it screened two ministerial nominees has announced that its plenary has been suspended...
Protesters, under the umbrella the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, stormed Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to protest the arrest and detention of the Director of Radio...
President Muhammadu Buhari has invariably brought to an end, the civil service career of the Head of Service of the Federation, Danladi Kifasi, as he has...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . Political expediency, desire for immediate impact and intricate needs for balancing influenced President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees, Ripples can...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . The band boys of Fuji musician Saheed Osupa can now heave a sigh of relief after embarking on an...
Reports reaching Ripples has it that the immediate past Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, has been invited and is being questioned by the Economic and Financial...
FIFA has confirmed the presidential election will go ahead as planned at an extraordinary congress on February 26. There had been calls for the election to...
According to a recent poll, Nigeria’s Port Harcourt International Airport is rated as the worst airport in the world. The African terminal received the unfortunate distinction...
In what is being viewed as a ploy to elongate the process of the screening of nominees for ministerial appointments, the Senate on Monday adjourned sitting...
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi again head the list of candidates for the player of the year award, which they have combined to win for the...
By George Amuna . . . These are interesting times. Pariahs of yore are being canonised as saints. The price is affordable. All that is needed...
By Aik Amaechi . . . . The recent arrest of the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu by the Nigerian Department of State Security Services...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . Fuji musician, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal popularly referred to as KWAM 1 failed to appear before the Ogun State...
Feelers from the Senate plenary have revealed that only three ministerial nominees are slated for screening during plenary today. According to the Senate order paper, only...
The influx of migrants into Europe, many of them from Syria has continued to spark protest to in Europe. Every Monday evening in Dresden, thousands gather...
The nine-year reign of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party came to a sudden and stunning end on Monday night at the hands of...
In what is seen as a historic attempt, several hundred mostly elderly South Koreans headed for North Korea Tuesday for a rare reunion with relatives they...
Double-amputee Olympian, Oscar Pistorius who had been held at Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre for fatally shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in 2013...
By Olumide Olaoluwa … A secret meeting took place on Monday between Speaker Yakubu Dogara and some of the ministerial nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari. The...
Shocked by the outcome of its investigation into the alleged abuse of rice waivers’ policy in the country, the Senate Ad hoc Committee on Rice Waivers...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . The power play and intrigue in the Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) could give way...
Military authorities on Monday in Abuja stated that troops battling the Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast part of the country are having to contend with...
In from Success Allantee . . . Nigerian equities got a major lift from Dangote Cement Plc as Nigeria’s most capitalised quoted company rallied on the...
Microfinance institutions in Nigeria on Monday said they have contributed a total of N185 billion into the country’s formal economy. President, Association of Non-Bank Microfinance Institutions...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . Barring any last minute change, the Senate will Tuesday, screen former Governor Rotimi Amaechi as a ministerial...
in from Nifemi Daniel . . . Super Eagles striker, Emmanuel Emenike, has toed the line of former captain, Vincent Enyeama, by quitting the nation’s national...
The importance of eating fruits cannot be overemphasised with a recent finding claiming that most cancer cases can be prevented by eating enough fruits. According to...
In from Nifemi Daniel . . . The trio of Brown Ideye, Nosa Igiebor, John Obi Mikel lead Nigeria football stars to action as the UEFA...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The immediate past governor of Kebbi State, Usman Dakingari has been reportedly arrested by the Economic and...
The Secretary, Oyo State Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Adeleke AbdulKareem, said in Ibadan on Monday that two of the 1,191 pilgrims from Oyo State who performed...
Humanity has had to cash in on its insurance policy earlier than expected. Deep in the side of a mountain in the Arctic archipelago is the...
Tensions are building among thousands of migrants heading north through Balkan states as their route to Western Europe is stalled by new controls. Croatia had asked...
Lamar Odom will survive his near death experience but it will be a long, hard road, doctors say … and we’ve learned Khloe will be with...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The All Progressives Congress (APC), in apparent reply to the scathing remarks by the Peoples Democratic Party...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . A former Chairman of Madagali Local Government Area, Maina Ularamu, Monday, confirmed that 12 persons were killed...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has called for corruption allegations surrounding Germany’s successful bid for the 2006 FIFA World Cup to be investigated quickly....
As Egyptians go to the polls in the first round of long-delayed elections to choose a new parliament, security has been tightened across the country with...
Five years ago, the first mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras (ILCs) were introduced with the hope that they could compete with larger, more expensive digital single-lens reflex cameras...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . The governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states and other legislative elections ordered by various election tribunals across the...
By Joseph Edgar . . . This Rotimi Amaechi’s Senate screening in my mind may be his albatross. All the rules of the Senate if followed...
The plan of a suspected female suicide bomber was yesterday thwarted in Maiduguri, Borno State, when soldiers shot at her and exploded the bomb she was...
