Despite arriving in Brazil few hours to the first game, Nigeria’s U-23 Eagles proved bookmakers wrong with a 5-4 thrilling win over Japan. An enterprising Sadiq...
The militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, says it is not intimidated by the recent bombardment of some militant camps by the Nigerian Air Force. The...
The spate of insecurity in the country has been raised a notch higher as the United States of America, USA, has raised a travel alert for...
Highly capitalised stocks in the equally influential oil and gas, consumer goods and industrial goods sectors on Thursday rallied the Nigerian stock market away from a...
A group of serving and former members of the House of Representatives have concluded plans to approach the courts for the interpretation of Section 80 (4)...
Last Friday blunder by Adamawa State commissioner of police, Mohammed Ghazzali, has heightened apprehensions over insecurity of lives under IGP, Ibrahim Idris. If there is anything...
United States Olympic Committee has concluded plans to reward American Olympians with bonus payouts for podium finishes. USOC pays athletes $25,000 for a gold medal, $15,000...
Ireland’s Olympic team has been thrown into turmoil on the eve of the Rio Games after it emerged that a boxer has failed a doping test....
China has sent a policeman to the Rio Olympics to help protect its sports delegation, journalists and traveling spectators, after a Chinese hurdler said he had...
The Slovenia Olympic Committee will send a plane-full of sports fans to the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics for cheering Slovenian athletes at the event live, local...
The CAF Organising Committee for Women’s Football has disqualified Equatorial Guinea from November’s Women African Cup of Nations in Cameroon after being found guilty of fraud,...
The 11 Russian boxers qualified for the Rio Olympics have been cleared to compete in the Games by an International Olympic Committee review panel, the International...
World number one Novak Djokovic was handed a blockbuster first round Olympics match on Thursday when he was drawn to face Juan Martin del Potro who...
Chaotic scenes marred the arrival of the Olympic torch in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday just as the opening ceremony of the event takes place later...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has finally intervened in the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), promising to do more to ensure a lasting solution. He...
The governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano has extended an olive branch to his predecessor, and benefactor, Mr Peter Obi. He called on Obi to forgive...
Abiodun Agbele, aide to Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose, has been granted bail by the Federal High Court Abuja, in the sum of N500 million for...
The new Boko Haram leader, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, has said that he is out to blow up churches and kill all Christians. Al-Barnawi, was reported as...
If you remember what it was like to be a teen, then you understand the pressure your young one is going through right now. Fitting in...
Governor of Oyo state, Abiola Ajimobi, has said that virtually every Nigerian is corrupt in one way or the other. He said this at the national...
James Faleke has again failed to unseat Governor Yahaya Bello at the Appeal Court, having earlier failed to do so at the Kogi state Governorship Election...
But for the timely intervention of the Presidency, Nigeria U-23 Eagles would have missed out of their first match of the Rio Olympics against Japan by...
A higher profit margin has compelled fuel marketers to now divert Jet A1, also known as aviation fuel, to domestic use as kerosene, so says a...
The expectation of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) revenue filling any gap caused by drop in price of crude oil may have been dashed, as monthly...
Aisha Buhari, has rubbished the claim by Governor Ayodele Fayose that she cannot travel to the United States (US), owing to her involvement in the Halliburton...
The face-off between Abdulmumin Jibrin and Yakubu Dogara has continued to worsen by the day, the latest is Jibrin describing the Speaker as a mad man....
Deputy Chief of Staff (DCoS) to Yakubu Dogara, C.I.D. Maduabum, has referred to Abdulmumin Jibrin as being so stupid not to know he is alone in...
A former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd), has thrown his weight behind calls for restructuring, provided it would be done within the context of...
Fulani Herdsmen reign of terror continued in Kaduna State, as no fewer than 11 persons were killed when they attacked two villages, near Godogodo town in...
A gas plant, OB-OB, belonging the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, was on Wednesday shut down by angry youths in Omoku, the headquarters of Ogba/Egema/Ndoni Local...
Super Eagles assistant captain and Leicester City record signing, Ahmed Musa, showed the English Premier League champions what to expect in the new season after scoring...
Former U-23 Eagles captain, Nwankwo Kanu and striker, Emmanuel Amuneke, have tipped the current squad to repeat the 1996 feat when Nigeria lifted the trophy in...
Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, has slammed the Ooni of Ife, Oba, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi for saying that Jesus is his father...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday, said it was his responsibility and that of traditional rulers from the Niger Delta to mediate in the face-off between militants...
A close ally of Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, Mr. Abiodun Agbele, has been ordered remanded at the Kuje Prison, Abuja by a Federal High...
The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) has said that “The restoration of the nation of Biafra is not subject to negotiation”, adding that the only other...
70-year-old Nicaraguan President, Daniel Ortega has surprisingly picked his wife to stand in as his running mate in elections scheduled to be staged in November this...
Italian police arrested a Syrian man in the northern city of Genoa on Wednesday on suspicion he was planning to travel to his home country to...
The sell-off at the Nigerian stock market worsened on Wednesday as average day-on-day decline grew from 0.04 per cent on Tuesday to 0.52 per cent on...
Former governor of Enugu Sullivan Chime state is to be probed by the state House of Assembly over alleged fraud in the utilisation of Internally Generated...
Adamawa state Commissioner of Police, has said that he did not deploy his men to Fulani herdsmen massacre of Kodomu community in Adamawa state, so that...
Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, Tuesday, said the country went into recession during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. He also disclosed that former Minister of...
Apparently jolted by his critics, President Muhammdu Buhari has at last succumbed to the pressure to allow experts lead the way to economic recovery of Nigeria. To this...
Club owner, Chris Giwa, has given reasons why he has taken a leadership tussle of the Nigeria Football Federation to the country’s apex court, the Supreme...
The current controversy surrounding the padding of the 2016 budget has received the official attention of the police, as the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris...
Bank customers operating savings accounts can now lodge cheques into their accounts as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has directed banks in the country to...
Motorists and passengers who got stuck in the Lagos-Ibadan expressway traffic hold-up on Tuesday saw hell when robbers dispossessed many of their monies and valuables. The...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has been told by the Federal High Court in Abuja that it did no wrong seizing Governor Ayodele Fayose’s properties....
The U-23 Eagles will launch Nigeria’s new Nike home and away kits featuring Dri-FIT technology when they battle Japan on Friday in the men football match...
The national U-23 team left Atlanta after about four weeks of training tour in preparation for the 31st Olympiad which opens on Friday in Rio, Brazil...