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...
Nigeria will join other West African countries to establish a maritime development bank focused on transformation and expansion in the region in a bid to raise...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said that President Muhammadu Buhari prevented Nigeria from becoming a failed state when he assumed office in...
Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the country was fast drifting to a failed and badly divided state. Obasanjo, who blamed the situation on...
Nigeria will sell its majority shareholding and forfeit its controlling stake in all its four comatose oil refineries if the ongoing negotiation talks succeed, the Group...
In trying to justify Buhari’s latest callous hike in the price of petrol (amid a pandemic, no less), Buhari’s supporters increasingly sound like noisome idiots straining...
The Russian Government on Friday presented samples of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the country, to it’s Nigerian counterpart. The Russian Ambassador to Nigeria, Alexey Shebarshin,...
The High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, Commecial Court, England, in the United Kingdom, Presided over by Sir Ross Cranston on Friday granted Nigeria some...
One of the very features of democracy is the freedom to debate and, if you may, hold opinions. Debates are integral parts of the course to...
Nigeria intends to become a net exporter of gasoline and other petroleum products by 2022 as oil refinery projects spring up around the country, the Department...
Nigeria’s annual spending on importation of metals currently stands at $3.3 billion, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development. Olamilekan Adegbite, disclosed on Monday. He made...
The total value of inflow of foreign capital into the Nigerian economy in the second quarter of this year crumbled by 77.88% relative to the first...
Nigeria’s manufacturing Purchasing Manger Index (PMI), which measures the general direction of economic trends in the manufacturing sector of the economy, stood at 48.5 index points...
Nigeria provides between 60 to 70 per cent of products under the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Trade Liberalisation Scheme, the Nigerian government has...
Nigeria has scaled an all-time power generation peak of 5,420.30 Megawatts (MW), the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said on Thursday. The feat marks the second...
The Nigerian High Commission in Canada said on Tuesday Nigerians stranded in the North American nation would return to the country on Friday. The High Commission...
