The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, expressed optimism on Monday that Nigeria would exit recession soon, raising hopes that Africa’s biggest economy...
Nigeria’s COVID-19 tally increased to 66,228 on Saturday night after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 246 new confirmed cases in many parts of...
Social media users on Saturday were mostly concerned about the state of Nigeria’s economy under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Conversations around the shooting of unarmed...
Nigeria has slipped into its second recession in four years after the economy posted a second consecutive contraction in the third quarter of this year. The...
A presidential aide, Lauretta Onochie, on Friday expressed disappointment with the United States-based Cable News Network (CNN) over its report on the shooting of unarmed #EndSARS...
A group with the name Coalition Against Fake News said on Thursday the recently released Cable News Network (CNN) report on the shooting of #EndSARS protesters...
As the Nigerian government ponders over where to borrow its next loan, in few weeks, another round of external debt repayment for matured loans put at ...
The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) said on Saturday Nigeria and the United States would lead the global coalition against the Islamic State and...
Bigotry. We are big on it. To inflame passions and to smoke out the most reticent of Nigerians, flagellate the tempers of religion and ethnicity. Yes,...
The recent #ENDSARS protest by the youths threw up a number of issues in Nigeria. One of the issues on the front burner is that of...
The day is finally here when the Super Eagles of Nigeria will face the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone in an Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON)...
The National Inter-Faith and Religious Organization for Peace ( NIPROF), has warned youths in Nigeria not to allow themselves to be used as agents of destruction...
Leaders of the South-East geopolitical zone on Saturday pledged their commitment to an indivisible and united Nigeria built on love, fairness, equity and justice. The leaders...
The Chinese government on Thursday temporarily suspended entry into the Asian country by Nigerians and other nationals in Nigeria holding valid Chinese visas or residence permits...
Nigeria has dropped to 146th position in the latest Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. The CPI is an index published annually by Berlin-based Transparency International which...
Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (rtd.), on Tuesday said the rescue of an American held hostage in Nigeria by US Navy Seal did...
If any Nigerian was in doubt about the commitment of the United States government to protect the lives of its citizens anywhere in the world, such...
United States military forces on Friday night rescued the country’s national in Nigeria. The hostage, Phillip Walton, was abducted by gunmen on Monday in the south...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria must do everything within its power to avoid a second wave of COVID-19. He said the nation’s economy remained...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja appealed to Nigerians to desist from actions and comments that could jeopardise the unity of the country which was...
Nigeria received the sum of $26.94 billion as development assistance funds from international donors from 2015 to 2020, Minister of State for Budget and National Planning...
‘Bop Daddy’ crooner, Folarin Falana aka Falz turns 30 today (October 27) and the Nigerian rapper who is one of the front-liners of the #EndSARS protests...
The National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) has said that Nigeria was ripe to be renegotiated because the unjust and sectional political structure left behind by the...
The Nigerian government is mulling supplying electricity to Chad, its West African neighbour, after a recent request by the country. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN)...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has declared that Nigeria has not grown beyond the conquest subjugation orientation of colonial rule evident in police and...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday recorded 138 new cases and two more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, according to official...
At no one time have I witnessed so massive a protest against the government of Nigeria for any reason. I have always quoted Fela who said...
The Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, said on Sunday his colleagues are worried about the discontent, hunger, and anger in the country. Fayemi, who spoke...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, said on Thursday Nigeria had been struggling to survive in the last few years. The speaker, who...
The recent demonstrations that characterized the Nigeria’s 60th Independence day’s anniversary and the continuous persecution of Nigerians in some countries abroad show that the country needs...
One of the issues that took centre stage especially by the opposition and the southern political divide during the campaign for political power in the 2019...
Nigeria requires an outlay of $2 billion to provide electricity to 80 million people or roughly 39% of its population, who do not have access to power,...
Nigeria, Africa’s biggest country by population with more than 200 million people, now has the largest concentration of the most indigent people in sub-Saharan Africa at...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said it will begin issuance of Visas to Nigerians from Thursday, October 8, 2020. This was disclosed by Nigeria’s Minister...
Nigeria turns 60 today! Sixty years of flag independence from British colonial rule that spanned centuries. When the Union Jack was lowered in Lagos on the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said at N161 per liter for petrol pump price Nigeria sells at cheaper price than many oil producing countries. He said that...
Nigeria’s journey through the past six decades has been nothing short of traumatic. The euphoria that greeted the lowering of the Union Jack all but fizzled...
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has averred that at 60 Nigeria is better off than it was before. Tinubu...
‘Elegant stallion’, Onyeka Onwenu has revealed which part of the country she will prefer to return to if Nigeria breaks up as a country. The legendary...
Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) has declared that at 60 Nigeria still grapples with issues of social justice, equity, religious and inter-ethnic intolerance....
A House of Representatives member, Francis Waive, has said that Nigeria’s economy “is in coma and needs urgent resuscitation. Waiver is an All Progressives Congress (APC)...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has composed new technical crews for a number of National Teams, with Isah Ladan Bosso and Fatai Amoo landing top spots....
As the race for the exalted World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Director-General role hots-up, the Federal Government of Nigeria has moved to lobby for the vote of...
As part of its plans ahead of Nigeria’s 60th Independence celebration, the Ministry of Youth and Sports says it would celebrate 60 sporting icons in the...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that it would take Nigerians and not foreigners to put the country where it should be. He charged Nigerians to...
The Federal Government has included Emirates Airlines in the list of foreign carriers banned from operating in Nigeria as part of measures to curb the spread...
The Federal Government has said coronavirus vaccines would be available for use by 2021. Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health, made the revelation on Thursday while speaking...
The United States (US) has started re-evaluating the immigration visa ban President Donald Trump placed on Nigeria. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Mustapha...
Nigeria and other African countries might incur losses of between $7 billion and $15 billion annually as devastation from climate change worsens across the continent, the...
Nigerian government on Wednesday engaged in a meeting with the United States over the visa ban on some categories of Nigerians. The meeting at the Ministry...