President Muhammadu Buhari in his Sallah message to Nigerians has reiterated that the present hardship in Nigeria is not his administration’s making but mistakes of the...
Moments after describing proposals by former president Nicolas Sarkozy to boost security as not the right way to deal with terrorist threats, French Prime Minister Manuel...
On Wednesday August 31, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released official Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for the second quarter of 2016, confirming that the...
Watford of England striker Odion Ighalo led the goal rush of Nigerian players as they paint Europe with goals at the weekend. Ighalo gave the Watford...
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has revealed that he has learnt to be cautious of Jose Mourinho’s counter attacking teams. Guardiola’s City executed a series of...
Diego Costa scored his second goal of the game from an overhead kick to earn Chelsea a 2-2 draw at Swansea on Sunday, which ended the...
ANGELIQUE Kerber climaxed a dream season at the US Open early Sunday morning, performing as the champion she has become through hard work, patience and a...
Nigeria’s Power lifter, Paul Kehinde, increased the country’s medal haul to four at the weekend after winning a second gold medal at the on-going Rio 2016...
President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Sunday advocated for teacher’s salaries to become an item in the capital expenditure in the budget of state...
Nigerians may be in for worse times in the months to come, as the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, Saturday,...
The Federal Government has said it would be setting aside another N500bn for its social intervention programs for 2017 budget. The move by the federal government,...
Ever since Dele Momodu forced himself unto national consciousness, his has been a long journey of self adulation, forceful entrenchment of his position and wanton stature...
Even if other stakeholders accept government planned concession of its airports, workers of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) have vowed to sustain their resistance of the move. The federal government had at the weekend inaugurated the committee to fine...
By Sonala Olumhense… Change Begins With Me,” launched last week by President Muhammadu Buhari as a national re-orientation campaign, may be a confession: a government confessing...
John Hinckley, the man who hugged headlines in the US when he attempted to assassinate then American President, Ronald Reagan outside a hotel in Washington on...
The push for sanctions by the US government led by Barack Obama against North Korea after it carried out a success “nuclear warhead explosion” has been described as...
Physicists in India have created a battery-free generator out of fish scales. The clear, flexible generator can harvest the energy from small movements such as body...
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, Saturday, boasted that his controversial nature has been responsible for his good leadership and developmental strides in the state. Fayose, stated...
Barcelona were stunned by minnows Alaves at Camp Nou as they stumbled to an embarrassing first defeat of the season. Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Andres...
Luck has run out for seven illegal crude oil bunkerers in the Niger Delta area, as they have been arrested by the Nigerian Navy. The suspected...
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris, has said the Nigerian Police has not banned public protests and processions any where in the country. The IGP,...
Martha Nwokoye, wife of 73-year-old Pa Emmanuel Nwokoye, a renowned palm wine tapper, is seeking justice after her husband was found dead on August 4th in his...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has assured that Edo governorship election will be conclusive. He however said that a conclusive election...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), claims it has traced to Patience Jonathan’s Skye Bank account, an additional $5m. Earlier, wife of former President Goodluck...
A United Kingdom-based newspaper, The Evening Standard of London, reports that the governing style of President Muhammadu Buhari is delaying the return of $85 million loot...
No less than 11 people were killed and over a hundred others injured when a 5.7 magnitude earthquake rocked northern Tanzania. Findings carried out by the...
Super Eagles skipper John Mikel Obi has rated his Rio Olympics football bronze medal same as winning the 2013 AFCON and UEFA Champions League with Chelsea...
Cristiano Ronaldo made a goalscoring return to the Real Madrid line-up as they ran riot in a 5-2 battering of Osasuna at the Santiago Bernabeu on...
Jose Mourinho believes that Manchester United were denied two penalties against Manchester City. Mourinho slipped to his first ;defeat as United manager on Saturday as City...
By Reuben Abati… There have been interesting arguments over Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun’s observation that “recession is just a word”, and NAN MD, Bayo Onanuga claiming that...
Super Eagles striker, Kelechi Iheanacho is in cloud nine after helping his club, Manchester City defeat Manchester United in the Manchester derby on Saturday. City dominated...
A Major-General in the Nigerian Army, Patrick Falola has been demoted to Brigadier-General by Army Special Court Martial over misconduct. He was said to have admitted...
Nigerian Government has said that it is no longer possible under the present economic reality to implement the N500 billion poverty alleviation fund as earlier promised.....
A new rocket plane from the New Mexico-based arm of the Virgin Group marks a return to near-space. The new introduction is coming after a tragedy...
Wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has allegedly claimed that about $31.4 million dollars in some accounts frozen by the EFCC actually belong to her....
The Nigeria banking sector suffered more than 50 percent loss in its overnight interbank lending rate on Friday as a result of maturity of Central Bank...
When Stan Wawrinka won his first major title at the 2014 Australian Open against an injury hampered Rafael Nadal to become the oldest first-time grand slam...
By Gimba Kakanda… We do not know the exact starting date of this historic festival,nor are we in the know of its end date. I mean this...
Chief Raymond Dokpesi has said no matter the number of times the Edo governorship is postponed, that nothing will stop the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)...
THE caretaker Chairman of Gubio Local Government Area,LGA, of Borno State, Alhaji Zanna Modu has said that the degrading of the activities of Boko Haram insurgents...
The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, has said the governorship election in Edo State is a big challenge for him and security agencies in...
Wife of the Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode has advised women to go for regular cancer screening to know their latest status. She gave...
PZ Wilmar on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nigeria Institute of Oil Palm Research (NIFOR) to help develop Nigeria’s oil palm. The chairman,...
Rivers State Commissioner for Information, Dr Austin Tam-George, has described as false the claim that his state governor, Nyesom Wike mobilised to rig the Edo governorship...
The Situation Room, on Friday said the postponement of Edo governorship election raises more doubt on the direction of democracy under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. The...
An Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will spend the next five years in prison after an Iranian Revolutionary court passed judgment on her over charges that...
Senate President Bukola Saraki, has said that not only ordinary Nigerians but the leaders too, feel the pains of the hardship occasioned by economic crisis in...
Pandemonium struck in the village of Golgolfa, Godogodo Chiefdom, in Jema’a Local Government Area, LGA, of Kaduna state after suspected herdsmen attacked residents of the community....
French authorities have revealed that the three radicalised female militants arrested in Paris were directed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). That much...
No less than 10 lives were claimed when a garment factory located in the north of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, was engulfed by a deadly fire....
