The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Olu Falae has announced his retirement from active politics. The elder statesman made the announcement on...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… Really, it was reckless of Nasir el-Rufai, Kaduna state governor, to have unabashedly promised a festival of blood-letting for foreigners who may want...
By Ifeanyichukwu Afuba… You do not do the same thing over and over and expect a different result. This eternal truth rings home especially for Nigerians...
By Churchill Okonkwo Dear Atiku, I intentionally approach my writings on Igbo affairs as a philosopher. Writing philosophically is my vocation, a deep calling, and a...
In what appears as a shake off of tensions around the general election, investors in Nigeria’s stock market on Thursday gained N228.1 billion as market capitalisation...
To boost power transmission across the country, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said it had generated total sum of $1.623 billion. This was disclosed on...
Despite billions of dollars being lost to the unending gridlock in Apapa Lagos, the Nigeria Customs Service, Apapa Area 1 command said it generated N404 billion...
Acting chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has said that over N527 billion, $53 million and £122,880 has been recovered through whistle-blowing...
Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) has said it may have no other option than to drag its former presidential candidate, Oby Ezekwesili, to court if...
The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Donald Duke, has reacted to his party’s adoption of President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress...
Nobel Leaureate, Professor Wole Soyinka through the CITIZEN FORUM, a group conveyed by him, has announced the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Young Progressive...
Chairman of the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), Tony Okoroji can now heave a sigh of relief after the Federal High Court Lagos ordered the re-opening...
Authorities in Germany have prohibited Facebook from combining user data from different sources. This decision is not yet final, and Facebook has one month to appeal...
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of an estate developer in the Mowe area of the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of...
Private sector operators under the aegis of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce (NACC), have described the need for improved governance to aid improvement in the standard...
Customs agents in the country have advocated for a total review of the Auto policy to address the shortfall inherent in the implementation of the policy...
Indications have emerged that hundreds of officers and soldiers of Nigerian Army and other services who have served the mandatory 35 years in service or attained...
The race to transform Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (NAHCO) has begun, as the new Group Managing Director of the company, Mrs. Olatokunbo Fagbemi, has unveiled...
Police said yesterday that they had apprehended six men who stripped a 24-year-old lady and rubbed pepper into her private parts for allegedly stealing a phone....
The senatorial candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Southeast zone have been urged not to allow the Senate president position elude them. A...
The prayer by Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) for the governorship election in the state to be postponed has been dashed by the Independent National...
The European Union and a group of Latin American governments which kept a moderate line following the political crisis which has engulfed Venezuela have called for...
The murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was carried out by Saudi Arabia officials, so says United Nations Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard. According to Callamard,...
A couple earlier reported to have ended their marriage over the wife’s insistence on voting for President Muhammadu Buhari over the husband’s choice of Atiku Abubakar,...
Retired General Alani Akinrinade, a former chief of army staff, says ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo belongs to the “waste bin of history”. Akinrinade said this in an...
As the war against the Islamic group in the North East, Boko Haram, continues unending, the Federal Government has launched a “National Campaign in Support of...
Director, public relations of the Nigerian Army, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, has announced his retirement from the Nigerian Army. Usman announced his sudden retirement in a statement...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone elections in the state. Tonye Princewill, director of...
The Nigerian Army on Thursday said 95 percent of its men would be deployed across the country during the 2019 general elections. A statement by the...
The federal government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have finally reached an agreement and signed a deal to end a...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Dr Olisa Agbakoba has filed an application before a Federal High Court in Lagos seeking the nullification of the procedure...
Justice Mojisola Olatoregun, who is presiding over the N2.2 billion fraud trial of the former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has threatened to imprison former...
The number of deaths recorded during rallies of President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) may have increased again today (Thursday). This came as...
The Office of the Attorney- General of the Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami has filed four processes at the National Industrial Court, Abuja, in respect to a...
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...
Ahead of the February and March general elections in Nigeria, a former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd), has sued for peace among politicians. He...
As reactions continue to trail Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s ‘body in bags’ comment, the Presidency has said it saw nothing wrong with the comment. It...
President Muhammadu Buhari has announced that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will soon commence drilling for a deeper search for oil and gas in the...
The Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Boundary/Ayetoro unit in Lagos identified as Saheed Arogundade will die by hanging for killing a...
Instagram has introduced new measures to reduce suicide and self-injury content being accessed by users, following pressure from parents of suicide victims who say it contributed...
A freak incident in a remote village in the South Wollo Zone in Amhara region, north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia has left a groom and his best...
NATIONAL Chairman of Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, the umbrella body of traditional rulers, leaders and stakeholders of the coastal states of Niger Delta, Air Commodore Idongesit...
The new revenue template for revenue-generating agencies of government that came into existence last November may have exposed the alleged tardiness in accountability at the Nigerian...
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has said that the Federal Government recorded fiscal deficit of N910.41 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018. The CBN...
Nigerian bankers have called on the Federal Government to evolve a new strategy for the handling of economic activities in the country. The bankers also called...
AREWA Consultative Forum (ACF) Secretary-General Chief Anthony Sani has described the last Sunday’s endorsement of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as an exercise that may not...
A cumulative of 154,827 micro, small and medium scale enterprises (MSMEs) have used movable assets valued at N1.561 trillion to obtain loans from financial institutions since...
Leader of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and a former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Ango Abdullahi, has reiterated their support for the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to extend the collection of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) by...
The former president of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade has called for a postponement of the forthcoming elections in his country over politically motivated trials of opposition leaders....
