By Okechukwu Keshi Ukegbu… Corruption in Nigeria context has been a nagging issue. The phenomenon has defied any known definition.It is as recalcitrant as the character...
Senator representing Kaduna Central has described Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s “body bags” threat as a condemnable act that requires sanctions. He said the threats suggesting killing of...
By Omoshola Deji…. Nigerian is reminiscent of someone destined to be king, but becomes a slave in the king’s palace. The nation’s situation chronicles the life...
Nigeria has moved four steps from 148th to 144th in the Transparency International latest corruption perception index. While still maintaining a score of 27 in 2017,...
The trial of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Walter Onnoghen at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), and his subsequent suspension by President Muhammadu Buhari...
In what apparently seems a response to the Presidency over its undue interference in Nigeria’s internal affairs, the United States (US) has explained its position. The...
The Federal Government has disclosed that it is collaborating with other oil and gas producer in Africa under the umbrella of African Petroleum Producers Organisation, APPO,...
To deliberate the perceived clampdown on the judicial system in Nigeria, various judicial bodies have scheduled emergency meetings to address the suspension of the Chief Justice...
Since the return of democracy in 1999, three generals have principally been the architects of the secured path to Aso Rock. In their war room, they...
Three of Nigeria’s international customers who were supplied up to 300 megawatts (MW) of electricity in 2018, are still indebted to the country, a quarterly report...
The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Abhay Thakur, has said that Nigeria can explore $5 billion line of credit with low interest rate from India. Thakur,...
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as a through Nigerian, even though he said he (Obasanjo can be a thief). The...
The Nigerian government on Thursday disclosed that it would require a total sum of $1.1 billion loan to implement its Green imperative initiative. The Minister of...
A report from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown that Nigeria recorded crude oil export worth N11.5 trillion in nine months, from January to...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has declared that the Federal Government’s Advisory Committee has no relevance to the new National Minimum Wage agreement. Mr. Ayuba Wabba,...
The Federal Government and the Peoples Republic of China, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Chinese to support the Armed Forces of Nigeria...
After 50 years of the first case of Lassa fever in Nigeria, the country is set to host the first Lassa fever international conference. This was...
A report by the Secretary General of the United Nations on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, UNIWAS, has...
Nigeria literally threw N197 billion into the flames in the first nine months of 2018, representing the value of gas flared during the period. According to...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said India emerged Nigeria’s biggest trading partner in the third quarter of 2018. According to data released by the...
Forbes has rated Nigeria as 110th best place in the world to do business in 2019 out of 161 countries that were graded. The country also...
Militants in the Niger Delta, the oil rich region in Nigeria, has cancelled its ceasefire issued to the Federal Government and the Pan Niger Delta Elders...
UNICEF, an organ of the United Nations (UN) said on Friday, that the futures of millions of children living in countries affected by armed conflict are...
The Presidency has explained that the repatriated $322 million looted by the late Head of State, General Sanni Abacha, was used to make conditional cash transfer...
The United Nations Support for the Sahel has said Nigeria needs about $337 billion to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) from 2019 to 2022. According...
A total grid collapse on December 21 increased Nigeria’s total grid colapse in 2018 to 12, data from the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing has...
By Fredrick Nwabufo … In the past, I used to ask myself, “What has Nigeria done for me?” But these days, there is usually guilt when...
The World Bank, in a report, has listed Nigeria as the highest destination of remittances from the United Kingdom. According to the bank, Nigerians in the...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has said that Nigeria will exporting excess quantum of electricity that is unutilised in the country to other other West...
110 million Nigerians are expected to become extremely poor by 2030, according to a report. The report released by World Data Lab’s Poverty Ranking was published...
President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned another Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission to address prevailing security challenges in...
The federal government has filed a $1.1 billion suit against Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Eni and other companies over the much-publicised 2011 Malabu oil deal,arguing that...
A total of 71 out of the 360 members of the House of Representatives have sponsored a bill to return the country to the parliamentary system...
The quest by Nigeria to roll-out 5G network by 2020 can only materialise if certain infrastructural gaps are bridged, experts in the ICT industry have said.Technology...
The inflow of investment into Nigeria declined by $2.66 billion between the second and third quarter of this year, figures released by the National Bureau of...
No country in the world can survive the kind of looting that Nigeria has seen- Osinbajo Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says no country in the world...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has said the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) did not grant Nigeria further exemption in...
The presidential election, which is scheduled to hold on February 16, 2019, may take five days to collate and announce its result, Saturday PUNCH has learnt....
Coming behind war rattled Iraq and Afghanistan, the 2018 Global Terrorism index (GTI) has ranked Nigeria as the third country, most impacted by strife globally. Nigeria...
If delegates to Thursday’s meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have their way, Nigeria and Libya would join in proposed crude oil production...
By Daniel Ezeigwe … It is as worrisome as it is sad how the Nigeria’s pre-electoral hysterics of 2015 have been consciously or subconsciously forgotten. An...
The Super Falcons of Nigeria defeated the Banyana Banyana of South Africa on penalties to successfully defend their Africa Cup of Nations (AWCON) title in Ghana...
The Super Falcons of Nigeria will battle their South African counterparts in the final of the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations (AWCON) today (Saturday). Both...
For the first time ever, Nigeria recorded a rise on the 2018 Legatum Prosperity Index (LPI) of most prosperous countries in the world. Standing at 129,...
Over time, killings of Nigerians in different parts of the country seem to have become a recurring decimal, with government always mouthing promises of ending the...
By Tony Ogunlowo… The 2019 Nigerian Presidential elections are just around the corner and the electorate are going to be faced with the age-old problem of...
By Jerome Mario Utomi… Acting on the strength of an invitation forwarded to me by the Nzuko Umunna/Aka-Ikenga and Core Federalists Group, the organizers of a...
The Super Falcons of Nigeria will today (Saturday) face Equatorial Guinea in their final group match at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations (AWCON) in Cape...
By Gozie Irogboli… Nigeria is in an electoral season and once again the atmosphere is fired up with uncertainties. In contrast with what is obtainable in...
The Super Falcons of Nigeria bounced back from their defeat to South Africa with a big win over Zambia at the 2018 Africa Women’s Cup of...
