Carlos Alberto, who scored one of the greatest goals in World Cup history while captaining Brazil to glory in the 1970 final against Italy, has died...
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State on Tuesday called on the people of the state to be on alert and get ready to defend their land...
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the National Assembly to consent to his administration’s plan to make an external borrowing of $29.960bn. According to the President, the...
The chairman-designate of Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Professor Akintunde Akinwande, has rejected his nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari. The appointee’s absence at the Senate screening...
The Edo state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the state’s chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its members have...
By Joseph Edgar… AS soon as i read the rejection of Pauline Tallens’s rambassadorial appointment and reason, i laughed. These people are still playing games with...
The Commissioner of Police in charge of the Abia State Police Command, Adeleye Oyebade, on Monday paraded a suspected rapist, identified as Emeka Asibiriobwu, who was...
A newly inaugurated Sole Administrator of Buruku Local Government, David Yiman, has been placed on remand by Chief Magistrate Court 1, sitting in Makurdi, Benue State...
In what is his first public statement of the travails of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, former President Goodluck Jonathan has defended him, saying...
An international oil outfit, Baker Hughes, has noted that Nigeria has consistently shut down its offshore oil rigs from 12 to 8, recording four shutdowns between...
Detectives at the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Milverton, Ikoyi, Lagos, have arrested a 23-year-old suspected fraudster, who allegedly blackmails eminent personalities in the country through a...
Police detectives attached to the anti-kidnapping unit of Zone 2 Command Headquarters, Lagos, have arrested five suspects for conspiracy and stealing of pharmaceutical products worth about...
The Police on Tuesday arraigned a 70-year-old herbalist, Alidu Afolabi, in an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, for allegedly defrauding two brothers of...
The Plateau State Government has explained the reason behind the ban of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN. Speaking on the development in Jos on Monday,...
The Senate maybe toying with the idea of re-introducing the payment of tolls on federal highways around the country. The upper chamber, on Tuesday, instructed its...
The First Lady of Supreme Mavin Dynasty (SMD) and new Roc Nation signee Tiwa Savage sent tongues wagging when she sought marital advise from the pair...
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), claims its members had successfully carried out an attack in the early hours of Tuesday, destroying Chevron’s export pipelines to the...
Barring any last-minute change of plans, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to unveil a former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi as its substantive National...
Five days after the right leg of Tunde Alabi (one of the surviving cast members of the now rested TV series ‘Village Headmaster’) was amputated at...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has rated his administration high on the fight against corruption. The former President who spoke to the Oxford Union of the University...
31-year-old British banker Rurik Jutting has admitted to murdering two Indonesian women in his Hong Kong apartment two years ago. Jutting made the confession after the...
Barring any last-minute change of plans, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to unveil a former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi as its substantive National...
In what looks like a confirmation of speculations over the past weeks, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has admitted that the current market price of...
Tragedy struck again in the same area hit by al-Shabaab militants this month when a bomb blast ripped through a guesthouse in northeast Kenya killing at...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that despite the current drop in electricity generation capacity of the country, the targeted 7,000MW will be achieved by 2017....
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has left out the names of Ibrahim Jimoh, and Olusola Oke from the list of candidates for the Ondo governorship...
As it approaches its third quarter earnings release, Twitter is reportedly planning to announce extensive job cuts this week. The ailing social platform may cut approximately...
A hospital in the southern Malaysian state of Johor went up in flames killing at least six people and hundreds were also evacuated following the outbreak...
An attack at a Pakistan police training academy in the southwestern city of Quetta by gunmen wearing suicide vests claimed the lives of no less than...
Lagos lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, has insisted that judges arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS, should be suspended. Falana, in a statement on...
The current economic recession and delay in the release of funds, may have stalled the constitution review exercise in the Senate, checks by Ripples Nigeria have...
Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Bala Mohammed, was on Monday arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). While information in respect to his...
Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, is said to have slumped on Saturday while in custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The...
After losing N91 billion last week, Nigerian equities reopened on Monday on the downside as emerging third-quarter earnings failed to stir substantial investors’ appetite needed to...
Claims that the 2017 World Athletics Championships bidding process was corrupt will not be investigated further, the IAAF has said. London will stage the event but...
Chelsea forward Pedro has claimed that his side’s 4-0 thrashing of Manchester United on Sunday proves that they can challenge for the Premier League title this...
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are set to resume their annual battle for the Ballon d’Or after both were named in the list of 30 nominees...
Special Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Media, Dr. Reuben Abati has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). According to reports, he...
Ryan Giggs has criticised Manchester United players for “swapping shirts and laughing” after their 4-0 hammering by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. United legend Giggs...
ESPN FC’s Alejandro Moreno and Ross Dyer ponder where Renato Sanches’ career will go after winning the Golden Boy Award. Portugal midfielder Renato Sanches has won...
Zenith Bank Plc has just released its unaudited results for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2016 with profit before tax rising by 16.6 per cent...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has described as false the claim by Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim that its official asked him for $1million bribe. Ibrahim had...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors Forum, has admitted being responsible for the present woes in Nigeria but promised that it will soon be over. The...
Femi Falana… Two weeks ago, the Nigerian Bar Association had cause to condemn the nocturnal raid on the official quarters of seven judges including two members...
Findings have indicated that a former highly placed judge who retired from his position in 2013 is behind the recent raid on some judges by the...
A bricklayer, Adeleke Oyadara, has been tortured to death in Kujore, Iwelepe, in the Sagamu area of Ogun State, after he was accused of robbery. PUNCH...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has in its bid to bring sanity into Nigeria judiciary inaugurated a 10-man Judicial Ethics Committee. The committee which is headed...
Popular Nigerian music star, Yemi Alade made history at the 2016 MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA) 2016 staged in the South African city of Johannesburg by...
Nigeria and Africa female tennis star, Funke Oshonaike has carpeted the Nigeria Sports Ministry led by Barrister Solomon Dalung for neglecting the country’s team to the...
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has said the Federal Government has not kept its own side of the agreement it reached...
