The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dragged Sule Yusuf Saulawa, a permanent secretary formally attached to the office of the Deputy Governor of Katsina...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to suspend 100 of its officials this month over various amounts of money they allegedly collected from the...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has revealed what its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has against Nigeria that he recently said will sink the country if he...
Men suspected to have links to rebels attacked a prison in the Philippines killing a guard and freeing no less than 150 prisoners. Reports say the...
The electoral commission chairman in Gambia, Alieu Momar Njai is now on the run after he fled the country following threats on his life. According to...
The Nigerian stock market reopened on Tuesday for the 2017 business year with a wide selloff amidst profit-taking transactions after the equities market rallied a massive...
Nigerian foam-manufacturing company, Vitafoam Nigeria Plc, on Tuesday announced that it would be paying a total of N125 million as cash dividends to shareholders despite posting...
Arsenal completed a dramatic comeback against Bournemouth on Tuesday as they scored three times in the final 20 minutes having fallen 3-0 behind. Bournemouth overwhelmed the...
Buhari did not remove the embattled Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, as chairman of the presidential committee on the reconstitution of...
As Nigerians await the cabinet reshuffle by President Muhammadu Buhari, the immediate past governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Tuesday visited the President at...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been dragged before the Federal High Court in Abuja, by Incorporated Trustees of Save Nigeria Group (SNG), over accusations of fighting a...
President Muhammadu Buhari has removed the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir David Lawan as chairman of the presidential committee on the reconstitution of...
Rafael Nadal’s desire to add to his 14 grand slams in 2017 received an early boost as the 30-year-old dismissed Alexandr Dolgopolov in straight sets at...
A planned attack by Boko Haram insurgents on Dar village in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa state was on Monday thwarted by men of the Nigerian Army. Lauding the efforts...
A court in China has ruled in favour of a transgender man identified as Mr. C who was born a woman but identifies and dresses as...
Two private radio stations in Gambia’s capital of Banjul have been ordered shut by security forces sent by Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh. That much information was...
A music video of Nigeria’s vice president, Yemi Osinbajo and other past leaders in a choir has gone viral on the internet. The past leaders in...
In its bid to ensure that dollar currency is made available to vital sectors of the economy, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has concluded plans...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Tuesday pledged that the Nigerian Senate, upon resumption, will look into the crises that have led to the wanton loss of...
The wind of impeachment of state House of Assembly Speakers which hit Abia on December 29 and Rivers on December 30 has now landed in Jigawa....
Unity of purpose continues to be illusive among leaders of Niger Delta region as the Itsekiri Leaders of Thought (ILoT) has punctured the position of Pan...
The rumoured move by President Muhammadu Buhari to recruit James Faleke, who lost out in the Kogi gubernatorial poll, as a Minister in his planned cabinet...
If news making the rounds are anything to go by, then Nollywood actress Ini Edo is gearing up to become a second wife after she was...
The American city of Alabama is currently reeling from a violent Tornado which touched down on Monday night killing at least four people. Alabama Governor, Robert...
Search engine giants, Google is teaming up with automaker Fiat Chrysler for in-car system tech, using Android as the base for a new infotainment and connect...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has uncovered fresh evidence against one Esther Oba, believed to be a cousin of Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of...
Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has called on the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and other Nigerian leaders to desist from making utterances capable of...
A 34-year-old man hoping to evade the attendant harsh economic conditions by trafficking in cocaine has been apprehended by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement...
The photo of the main suspect involved in the New Year’s Eve attack on a popular nightclub in Istanbul which claimed the lives of 39 people...
The Federal Government has not dropped the corruption charge it prepared against Supreme Court Justice, John Inyang Okoro, but was rather working to consolidate the charges...
The Nigerian community in South Africa and beyond were left in awe and anger after a cop attached to the Metropolitan Police in Cape Town suffocated...
By Reuben Abati … I thoroughly enjoyed reading Pius Adesanmi’s “A Nigerian, Library and Lawmakers” (Sahara Reporters, December 24). I will like to add a footnote...
Ahead 2019 presidential election, Jigawa State former Governor Alhaji Sule Lamido, has vowed that he would never allow himself to be cowed by those in power...
Even as President Muhammadu Buhari continues to remain silent on the killings of southern Kaduna indigenes by suspected Fulani herdsmen, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad...
The federal government (FG) says it has began the payment of N5, 000 monthly stipends to the poorest and the most vulnerable in the country through...
The names of the All Progressives Congress members in the South-East geopolitical zone are missing from the records of the party, THE PUNCH learnt on Monday....
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said, yesterday that the Federal Government has only paid N20 billion, out of the N500 billion budgeted as fuel price increase...
By the end of this year, the Federal Government would have spent, at least, N14.35 billion on the up-keep of former presidents, vice presidents and their...
Manchester City Manager Pep Guardiola has reiterated that his side are not in Premier League title race this season even after his side defeated Burnley FC...
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) doubts the sincerity of purpose behind the recent romance between former President Olusegun Obasanjo...
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has said his team couldn’t have played better than they did on Monday against Sunderland, having played against Manchester City only two...
Heavily armed policemen Monday stormed the Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Research and Training Mambayya House Kano and disrupted an event organized by Kwankwasiyya Foundation, Daily...
More tales of woes visited the Nigerian aviation sector in the month of December 2016 as fuel scarcity and turbulent harmatan haze led to disruption of...
Brazil’s overcrowded penitentiary system experienced serious blood letting when no less than 60 inmates were feared dead in riot sparked by a war between rival drug...
The National Pension Commission has said its management would not risk investing pension funds in any sector due to insincerity plaguing the system. This is in...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group has advised Biafran separatists both at home and in diaspora to be prepared for a referendum to decide whether...
Pregnant women are usallly at crossroads as to what to eat most times. It’s good news to be pregnant most times but it is usually better...
The House of Representatives moved into 2017 with a backlog of 499 bills still far from hitting the third reading mark, The PUNCH learnt on Sunday....
Just like Governor Nasir El-Rufai, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Kaduna State chapter, has attributed the killings in southern Kaduna on reprisal attacks...
Just as Nigerians, especially the people of North East celebrate the success so far recorded by the Nigerian Army in rooting out Boko Haram and its...
