The Sokoto State House of Assembly has directed the state government to furnish it with details of the state’s finances and expenditure from January to August...
Famous Hong Kong actor and stunt artist, Chan Kong-sang, popularly known as Jackie Chan will visit Nigeria on September 4, 2015. Jackie Chan who is also...
Richard Branson’s Necker Island is an island paradise. The 74-acre Caribbean retreat has plenty of opportunities for fun. The recently remodeled Great House has a 1,500-square-foot...
By B. Gbede… There are two kinds of Nigerians, depending on how we feel about ‘Dr’ Babatunde Fowler, the new head honcho of the Federal Inland...
A serving judge in Osun State, Justice Folahanmi Oloyede, who in June petitioned the state House of Assembly to impeach the governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola for...
By Pat Utomi… Much of the routine criticisms of Nigeria politics has to do with the seeming of absence of ideas and ideology in organizing political...
By Charles O. Ebun-Amu… Scanning through today’s Nigerian Newspaper Headlines, I was not surprised to read about the EFCC and Senate ‘Katakata’. This time it is...
A suicide bomber has killed at least five people, injuring many more at a bus terminal in Damaturu, Yobe state on Tuesday morning. The suicide bomber...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … Lagos State has urged the federal government to repatriate the 199 illegal immigrants taking refuge at its Emergency Resettlement Centres (ERCs)...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … The federal government has directed the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to retrieve all valid diplomatic and official passports from people not...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, was prevented from meeting with the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) group by his Security Team....
Newly-appointed Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe-Ibas has stated, that half of the ships in the Nigerian Navy are in bad conditions and...
By Pius Adesanmi… Chapter one of the integrity story is easy to remember. We had become a society of zero consequences for actions injurious to the...
The judicial commission of inquiry set up by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, to probe some financial activities of his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi has revealed...
In from Nifemi Daniel … The Nigeria Table Tennis Federation has appointed a German coach, Martin Adomeit, as the technical adviser of the national table tennis...
In from Nifemi Daniel … Nigeria senior male basketball team, the D’ Tigers will battle Mozambique in the second round on Wednesday for a place in...
It’s never going to be easy cheating online again. Hackers calling themselves Impact Team are dumping the names of users of Ashley Madison site – a...
Governor Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi State has said that the federal government needs financial bailout as much as the states, and does not have the resources...
China stocks opened sharply lower on Tuesday, extending a selloff that has unnerved investors around the globe. The benchmark Shanghai Composite was about 5% lower in...
Need to stay connected? Don’t panic. There are several ways you can find free WiFi wherever you are. If you want a quick and easy way...
In from Nifemi Daniel … Nigerian queen of the track Blessing Okagbare has vowed to bounce back stronger after her dismal performance at the final of...
The Department of State Security Services (DSS) on Monday charged the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) to court for possession of...
The planned probe of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, by the Senate is causing another round of commotion...
Nollywood actress, Ini Edo has given an insight into how and why her marriage to Phillip Ehiagwina could not go all the way, and had to...
In from Success Allantee … Nigerian equities lost N228 billion in five hours of trading yesterday as the worsening crisis in the China stock market triggered...
Hundreds of Ogoni youths, under the aegis of the Ogoni Central Indigenous Authority, on Monday protested over the UNEP report claiming that the current administration of...
The United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, on Monday called for the unconditional release of the over 200 girls abducted in their school in Chibok, Borno...
In from Ali Smart … Eleven states are to pay 14.83% interest to service their debts, Ripples has learnt. Director General of the Debt Management Office...
Joe Biden is much more likely to enter the 2016 presidential race than to decide against a run, a Democratic source who’s been in touch with...
Suspended Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, David Paradang, and his state governor, Simon Lanlong of Plateau State on Monday visited Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, to...
Senators and House of Representatives members, as well as members of other legislative houses in the country who are lawyers, have lamented that it is an...
In spite of the an embargo placed by the Ife Traditional Council on princes to desist from publicly declaring interest for the royal stool of the...
By Joseph Edgar … Tunde Fowler is a nice man. I can attest to that as I have been the beneficiary of his famed generosity. He...
In from Nifemi Daniel … Host, Tunisia, proved too much for the D’Tigers of Nigeria in Sunday’s highly anticipated game of AfroBasket 2015 Group A as...
True to expectation, President, Muhammad Buhari, has ordered the National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd.) to commence investigation into the procurement of military hardware under...
In from Nifemi Daniel … Nigeria’s hope of a gold medal was dashed on Monday as sprint sensation Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce stormed to gold with Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor...
Three Americans and a Briton who foiled a suspected terror attack on a train have received France’s top honour from President Francois Hollande. Mr Hollande presented...
By manipulating its search results, Google could decide the next election. The world’s most-used search engine is so powerful and national elections are so tight, that...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says that energy companies in the country are indebted to commercial banks to the tune of about N3.673 trillion. This...
Following reports and allegations of alleged mismanagement of funds, and contract splitting in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) running into billions of Naira, President Muhammadu...
Members of the House of Representatives have thrown their weight behind the anti-corruption probe of the present administration but with a caveat, that it would take...
Instead of destroying local refineries tagged as illegal, Oil Producing Area Association of Nigeria (OPAAN) has appealed to the federal government to legalise such refineries, so...
The Bugatti as a car is a wonder on wheels itself, and when it was mentioned that there was going to be a plane of the...
The inability to restrict the attraction of the aroma of a soup being cooked by a woman for her family has sent a man to an...
Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-political group, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is behaving like a dictator in the way he is running the government advising him...
About 2,500 soldiers who were shown the way out of the Nigerian Army for various offences alleged to have been committed during the war against insurgency...
If the elders and youth of Biu community in Borno State have their way, the former chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina...
The current cash crunch and liquidity flow that has hit the country which has made many states unable to pay salaries, may yet worsen as international...
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Lamorde is to appear before the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions on Wednesday...
There are reports that singer Mariah Carey may be pregnant for her billionaire lover, James Packer. They already have five children between them from previous relationships,...
