There seems no end in sight to the impasse between the Edo State government and the state Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), over the autonomy...
Super Falcons player, Ngozi Okobi, says the Swedes were lucky to get away with a draw in their last group stage match, because her team made...
Opposition members of government in France have demanded that the country’s Prime Minister, Manuel Valls should pay for the cost of flying a government jet with...
Local Government workers in Edo State on Tuesday embarked on a protest to ask for the payment of their salaries, which they said they had not...
A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world’s largest shipping container line, says contracts to help build and upgrade ports in Badagry, Lagos, Nigeria and Kenya may...
Over ten thousand people employed under the Edo Youth Empowerment Scheme (YES) who were on Monday sacked by the state government on Tuesday stormed the Government...
Heiress to the Hilton Hotel chain, Paris Hilton was sighted on a yacht anchored off the coast of Formentera, Spain on Tuesday morning, while on holiday...
The River State government says security operatives in Rivers State have recovered 10 vehicles allegedly stolen by officials of the immediate past administration in the state....
Obviously pained by the outcome of the leadership election that took place on Tuesday at the National Assembly, the Lagos State chapter of the APC has...
Some domestic airlines in the country may be heading for another round of distress, as they groan under the weight of aviation fuel bills, which has...
US rapper Snoop Dogg is suing beer-maker Pabst Brewing, saying the firm owes him money from the sale of the company and its beer line last...
Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, has stated that he would appoint only 13 commissioners, as against the 24 appointed by the previous PDP government under...
President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC are not in agreement over the choice of lawmakers that emerged to lead the 8th Assembly. Senator Bukola Saraki was...
There was another major upset in the elections to the positions of those who will lead the 8th assembly, as Yakubu Dogara was elected as the...
Chiefs of defence staff from Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin met in Abuja on Tuesday to determine strategies for a new, African Union-backed regional force...
Officials in India say a law minister from an opposition anti-corruption party at the state level was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of forging his law...
Banking company HSBC says it is carrying out a global restructuring, that will see it withdrawing from Brazil and Turkey, and cutting off about 25,000 jobs,...
Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is one politician who understands the back and forth movement in politics. He was a member of the PDP...
Confusion and uncertain drama trailed the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly as a proclamation letter from President Muhammadu Buhari was read out by Clerk of...
Senator Ike ekweremadu has been elected to retain his position as deputy Senate president in the 8th Assembly. He has subsequently been sworn-in. He garnered 54...
Senator Ahmed Lawan, a strong contender for the position of the Senate president and 51 other Senators-elect were missing from the floor of the Red Chamber...
Senator Bukola Saraki has emerged the new Senate president. He was elected unopposed, and was sworn in accordingly. Saraki got the PDP lawmakers’ support when he...
Just in from his visit to Germany, President Muhammadu Buhari is holding a meeting with federal legislators elected on the platform of the APC, to resolve...
In efforts to avoid further loss of lives from the consumption of local gin, popularly known as kai-kai or ogogoro, the Federal Government has banned consumption...
President Buhari returned to the country in the early hours of Tuesday from Germany where he went to attend the G7 summit. As he returns, he...
Nigeria now needs to put on its thinking cap, and figure out ways to attract new buyers for its crude oil, as China, the second largest...
Super Eagles goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama, says he plans to retire from the nation’s national football team, the Super Eagles and give way to others, after the...
The leaders of the Group of Seven industrial nations met for a two-day summit in the Bavarian Alps with a heavy agenda including global terrorism, Ukraine...
Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mike Okiro has said that there was an attempt to blackmail him over an allegation that he defrauded the PSC...
Leaders of the APC are in a last meeting rush to avoid more crisis in the party over the choice of Senate president and House of...
The PDP has adopted Senator Bukola Saraki for the position of Senate President, and Yakubu Dogara for position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives....
Authorities say Oscar Pistorius is scheduled to be freed on parole August 21 after serving about 10 months in jail for the killing of his girlfriend,...
In line with the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari, military authorities have put in motion steps to move the control and command centre in the fight...
A six-propeller drone was deployed on Sunday to monitor students taking part in China’s university entrance exam. It was flown over two testing centres in Luoyang...
A heat wave bringing temperatures to about 46 degrees has hit Pakistan, and has already killed about 25 people, officials said on Monday. A rescue official,...
Olympic athlete Usain Bolt may be famous for his lightning sprints, but to fellow residents in his Kingston housing complex he is a nightmare neighbor, whose...
A Nigerian student, Ufot Ekong has solved a 30-year-old maths equation and achieved the highest grades at the Tokai University in Tokyo, Japan for 50 years....
Contrary to popular perception, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase says among public institutions in the country, the Nigerian Police has the least number...
An advocacy group, Friends in the Gap Initiative Advocacy, say that the last constitution amendment exercise embarked upon by the seventh Assembly which was not seen...
Top on the list of what President Muhammadu Buhari wants from the Group of Seven (G7), an informal bloc of industrialized countries of the world is...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Nigeria’s unemployment rate jumped to 7.5 per cent in the first quarter of the year (Q1 2015) compared to...
The deposed Deji of Akure, Prince Adesina Adepoju, has faulted the nomination a prince from the Osupa Ruling House in Akure, Ondo State, Prince Kole Aladetoyinbo,...
If the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) does not restore liquidity to foreign exchange market to allow foreign investors tracking the benchmark to transact with minimal...
National leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu has called on youths not to ever give up on their ideas “even if no one believes in you.”...
The crisis in the ruling APC over candidates for the leadership of the National Assembly may come out full blown on Tuesday as the legislature meets...
A major investigation is underway in the oil and gas sector as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and The Department of State Security (DSS)...
You may have heard the story a few months ago about an Atlanta-based minister who claimed he needed a $65 million private jet so he could...
President Muhammadu Buhari will today (Sunday) travel to Germany for the G7 summit scheduled to take place in Bavaria from June 7 to 8, 2015. Senior...
The APC on Saturday settled for Senator Ahmed Lawan as Senate president, and Senator George Akume as Deputy Senate President of the 8th Senate. This was...
Recently, US officials said hackers broke into US government personnel office stealing identity information of at least 4 million federal workers. This forced a call from...
