ABUJA—The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, yesterday, lamented that the judiciary has been greatly overburdened by political matters. Speaking at a Public Dialogue...
ABUJA — The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, reiterated its readiness for the forthcoming general elections even as strong pressures were brought on its National...
ABUJA- AHEAD of the February 14 Presidential election, Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, TAN yesterday said that the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, President...
LAGOS—A cemetery attendant, Bashir Junaid, has prayed a Federal High Court, Lagos, to grant an order of Mandamus ordering the Inspector General of Police to reopen...
Former Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC). Also declared wanted by the EFCC is...
The federal government has more than halved capital expenditure to less than 10 per cent of the 2015 Appropriation Bill, axing badly needed infrastructure investment due...
Ahead of the National Council of State meeting scheduled to take place today in Abuja, the bitter recriminations between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the...
In what appears to be a bandwagon effect, hundreds of non-indigenes residing in the commercial city of Kano and its environs have begun to stream out...
Nigerian banks are pulling back from internationally syndicated dollar loans as falling oil prices and new regulation introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) late...
The plot continued to thicken for a postponement of the elections on Tuesday, when 16 out of the 26 registered political parties endorsed calls for a...
PORT HARCOURT— Director-General, Buhari Presidential Campaign organisation, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, has accused some church leaders of taking N6 billion bribe from the Peoples...
The Guardian published an article on Saturday written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her battle with depression but pulled the article on Sunday, saying it had...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the service of court papers on the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)...
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammad Buhari (retd), on Monday said if elected on February 14, he would ban the importation of...
FirstBank of Nigeria Limited, Zenith Bank Plc, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank) and Access Bank Plc have been ranked number one banking brand in Nigeria among...
ABUJA — Following the promise by the Police High Command to ensure a hitch-free elections and checkmate all manner of violence, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, commissioned...
ABUJA — The presidential rally of the Peoples Democratic Party scheduled to hold in Damaturu, Yobe State has been cancelled. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the All...
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Sunday denied a newspaper’ s report that he would subject the military...
At their father’s burial ceremony over the weekend in Anambra State, the sensational twins, P-Square have released group photos of them and wives in same attaires....
The crisis within the Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seemed to have deepened days after President Goodluck Jonathan campaigned in the state...
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has called for the investigation of Africa Independent Television, AIT, for broadcasting what it called “fabricated and hate broadcast” against its...
Nigerians have been collecting Permanent Voter Cards on behalf of others contrary to the guidelines set by the Independent National Electoral Commission as adhoc workers have...
There are strong indications that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) might be headed for severe financial crisis owing to alleged mismanagement of its funds by...
The Federal Government officially reacted on Thursday to the war threat by ex- Niger Delta militants, saying it was reprehensible. The condemnation came barely a day...
President Goodluck Jonathan’s convoy was again stoned on Thursday by some aggrieved youths in Jalingo, Taraba State. Jonathan was in the city in continuation of the...
A Brigadier General, Enitan Ransome-Kuti, his Chief of Staff, Lieutenant Colonel G.A. Suru and some other senior officers have been arrested by the authorities of the...
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has advised the leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to allow the party’s presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, to...
A former Minister of Defence in the former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration, General Theophilus Danjuma, has called on the federal government to immediately order the arrest...
The federal government on Wednesday came down hard on a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, accusing him of “deliberately...
Ado Ekiti—Ekiti State governor, Mr Ayo Fayose has lamented that the state government needed the sum of N7.5 billion to settle arrears of entitlements of public...
With the suspension of the three-week-old industrial action embarked upon by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) and reopening of federal courts across the country,...
ABUJA—THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate for Ado/Opoku/Ogbadibo Federal Constituency in Benue State, Christian Adabah Abah, as winner...
I need to preface this article with a few clarifications. I have taken a long sabbatical leave from partisan politics, and it is real fun watching...
For those wondering where the veteran actor had been can now rest knowing he is currently on location. Edochie, looking fresh-faced as ever, was spotted in...
Nigerian soldiers on Sunday faced three separate and daring raids by Boko Haram insurgents on three major towns of Borno State and successfully repelled two of...
A strong Indication emerged last night in Lagos that a former governor of Lagos State and one of the leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC),...
Honda’s Detroit auto show stand had a little bit of everything this year—a quarter-scale model of its new North Carolina-built HondaJet, a 50-year-old racecar, and the...
Sahar, Maha, Hala and Jawaher Al Saud are daughters of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, they have been kept hostage and maltreated in their own father’s palace...
Oil prices jumped in early Asian trading on Friday as news of the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah added to uncertainty in energy markets already...
ABUJA — FEDERAL Government, yesterday, expressed the possibility of recalling soldiers in the country’s peace keeping mission abroad to enhance the operational capability of the military...
The National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki(retd.), has canvassed the postponement of next month’s elections to give the Independent National Electoral Commission time to distribute over...
The Lagos State Government yesterday directed a pro-President Goodluck Jonathan campaign group, Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), to remove the president’s campaign materials from the highways...
The Government College, Katsina (formerly Provincial Secondary School) on Wednesday released the credentials of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Copies...
The banking sector, while attractive with low valuations, would have to navigate a difficult operating environment in 2015, as regulatory actions amid economic challenges cap loan...
The Governor of Adamawa State, Mr. James Ngilari, has begged the Independent National Electoral Commission not to hold elections in his state in February. He asked...
Boko Haram has claimed a massive attack feared to be the worst in its six-year insurgency and threatened Nigeria’s neighbours, as talks began for a regional...
With the dust yet to settle over the procurement of seven gunboats by a private security firm belonging to ex-Niger Delta militant, Government Ekpemuplo, aka Tompolo,...
The Nigerian Army has said it is not in custody of the original certificates of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. The...
The Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has redeployed 14 Assistant Inspectors-General of Police to various departments, zonal commands and formations of the force. One of them...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Monday told President Goodluck Jonathan that he might not vote during the next month’s general elections because...
