Two days after it was reported that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was injured in an airstrike by the Nigerian military at Balla village inside Borno...
Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi is free to represent his country in their World Cup qualifiers after his four-match international ban was overturned on appeal. The 29-year-old...
Former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan on new media, Reno Omokri has taken a swipe at Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi who said he is...
A war of words seems to be brewing between the Osun state government under Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Lasun...
The Mandarari ward in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State was attacked after two female suicide bombers killed seven victims and injured six others to...
President Muhammadu Buhari was on Friday sighted at the Mosque, in the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock. He was joined at the prayer ground by the Minister...
Emerging reports indicate that a number of service chiefs in the early hours of Friday were at the Aso Rock, the seat of power. It is...
Governor Nasir El-rufai of Kaduna state on Thursday chaired the National Economic Council (NEC) Adhoc Committee meeting on the management of ecological fund account. Among those...
Nigeria is to push that the oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, should invest at least half of the proposed $25 billion, which it is planning for...
Lanre Gentry, the embattled husband of Mercy Aigbe who is being accused by his wife of battery and infidelity will appear in court today to answer...
Ohanaeze Ndigbo has mandated former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, and Ferdinand Agu to develop an economic blue-print for...
A seven-man kidnapping gang which specialise in abducting unsuspecting persons in the Goronyo Local Government Area of the state have been nabbed by men of the...
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has disclosed that the Federal Government will employ 47,000 people to fix federal roads across the country. To...
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has faulted the advice by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, that Nigerians should...
Eight men who were plotting to launch a series of bomb attacks during the last staged Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil have been served jail sentences...
Amid growing tension in the Korean peninsula, US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson has told Southeast Asian foreign ministers on Thursday to cut funding and minimise...
As Brazilian forward Neymar faces a fraud trial in Spain in connection with the value placed on his transfer from Santos to Barcelona in 2013, Spanish...
English Premier League side, Manchester United, are on the brink of reaching the UEFA Europa League final after Marcus Rashford converted a superb free-kick to put...
Nigerian equities sustained their rally for the fifth consecutive trading session on Thursday as investors upped demand for large-cap stocks in the banking sector. Benchmark indices...
Unlike most sports facilities in the state, the National Stadium, Surulere is as busy during night hours as it is in day time. While it serves...
The visit of President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Republic to President Muhammadu Buhari scheduled for Friday, May 5, 2017, has been pushed forward. According to Mr...
Clerk to the Senate, Mr Nelson Ayewoh, has moved against cameramen and photojournalists covering the Red Chamber. To this end, the National Assembly management has reduced...
Further hearing on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) case before the Supreme Court was on Thursday adjourned till May 25, 2017. The Supreme Court five-man panel...
Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Godwin Emefiele on Thursday said that President Muhammadu Buhari was delighted to hear that the forex market is now stabilising. Emefiele,...
Nigeria’s apex capital market regulator, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has dissolved the board of directors of Ikeja Hotels Plc. The Commission has appointed an interim...
Apparently following the growing agitation for a Biafran state from Nigeria, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has cautioned against repeating the same mistake that...
After four days of incarceration, a magistrate court sitting in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, on Thursday granted the state’s former governor, Sule Lamido, bail on...
Senate President Bukola Saraki on Thursday said he was going to file a no-case submission against the Federal Government in his trial at the Code of...
Apparently worried by loss of huge revenue from the aviation industry, Nigeria has concluded plans to regain some grounds by floating a national carrier before the...
Of the 32 licences issued to qualified investors to build refineries, only seven have been been able to meet the terms of the project. This is...
The Super Eagles of Nigeria have maintained their 40th position in the latest Coca-Cola/FIFA world rankings which was released on Thursday on the Fifa official website....
The Senate, has again, deferred the submission and passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill (budget). Although the submission of the report was included in the day’s...
After an early ouster from the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Super Sand Eagles striker, Abu Azeez, has stressed that Africa has failed to realise...
Nigeria Champions Enugu Rangers bounced back from their defeat to Sunshine as they piped league leaders Plateau United 1-0 in a rescheduled matchday 14 game at...
A disagreement over the sum of N8 million raised by Kate Henshaw and her friends towards the cause of Michael Alvez, a two-year-old boy born with...
A Benue State pressure group, Benue Concerned Citizens, has called on members of the National Assembly and the international community to interfere in the continued detention...
Pyongyang seems not to be relenting on its hounding of its enemies after another American citizen was arrested by authorities in North Korea for allegedly engaging...
The National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that a cabal is now ruling Nigeria. The party said the health challenge of President...
A 100 level female law student of the University of Ibadan identified as Miss Effiong Imarbong lost her life when she fell to her death during...
Uber’s long list of scandals that have hit the company in the past few months includes one problem that will not go away as fast or...
A former national commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has called on ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo to say what he really wants from the immediate past President...
A 61-year-old activist Desiree Ali-Fairooz and two others have been convicted by a Washington jury for laughing and being disruptive during the confirmation of US Attorney...
“If there is any evidence of Osun State All Progressives Congress (APC) being behind the death of former governor, Isiaka Adeleke, there was none, not at...
Italian giants Juventus closed in on a second UEFA Champions League final in three seasons as Gonzalo Higuain struck twice to beat Monaco in the semi-final...
Dutch giant, Ajax Amsterdam, boosted their chances of making it to the UEFA Europa League final by thrashing French side, Olympique Lyon, 4-1 in the first...
The uptrend at the Nigerian stock market continued on Wednesday as equities rallied additional gain of N52 billion to cross the N9 trillion mark, the highest...
By Joseph Edgar… The dark clouds have started circling again. The President was missing at Fridays Jumat Service, he has not attended the FEC’s meeting and...
The EFCC has said that no amount of scare-mongering will dissuade it from “vigorously enforcing its mandate to rid Nigeria of corruption”. The commission was responding...
A Staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Yisa Olarenwaju, was on Wednesday convicted by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos for sharing from...
The much-awaited report of the 2017 Appropriation Bill (budget), may be laid before the Senate in plenary on Thursday and possibly passed into law, Ripples Nigeria...
