Gold medalist of the 2nd Chika Chukwumerije Sports Foundation (CCSF) International Taekwondo Opens, Niger Republic’s Issoufou Alfaga Abdoulrazak, has followed up his 2013 exposure by winning...
[divider]A state-backed Chinese consortium are planning a multi-million pound bid for a stake in Liverpool, according to reports. China Everbright, a financial services conglomerate, are said...
Antoine Griezmann has admitted he would be tempted into seeking a move to the Premier League if he left Atletico Madrid. The forward suffered a double...
Britain’s Mo Farah is quitting the Olympics after clinching a glorious long-distance ‘double double’ with a thrilling victory in Rio. The 33-year-old has become the first...
Nigeria’s U-23 Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, and captain John Obi Mikel have dedicated the Olympic bronze medal the team won to Nigerian football fans across the...
Wema Bank Plc has sold its majority equity stake of 75 per cent in the 56 years old Great Nigeria Insurance (GNI) Plc to Insurance Resourcery and Consultancy...
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nigeria’s apex capital market regulator, has directed all capital market operators to register with their respective trade group or association on...
PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc will be taking retained earnings from its reserves to supplement earnings and pay dividends for the immediate past business, according to a...
The Sokoto State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the alleged murder of a 43-year-old woman, Yemisi Adio, by her husband, Taiwo Adio. This is contained in...
A coalition of Christians under the aegis of Patriotic Christian Youths of Nigeria has labelled as ‘enemies’ some persons who purportedly want to pull out of...
After two consecutive weeks of losses, Nigerian equities rallied on the back of bargain-hunting for highly capitalised stocks to record net capital gain of N138 billion...
By Remi Oyeyemi… I have just finished reading the statements of the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu in the PUNCH newspaper of August 20,...
Two weeks after the story of the female corps member Temitope Adedewe, who was battered and her two teeth removed with a hammer by a male...
Civil servants currently being owed salaries across the country have described as unfair, wicked and inhuman, situations whereby they continue to suffer with members of their...
Jolted by the outcry over slow implementation of the 2016 budget, Nigeria’s government is said to have intensified search for funds with which to executive a...
Luis Suarez scored a hat trick and Lionel Messi added two more goals as Barcelona made a superb start to its Spanish league title defence by...
Ahead of September 10, Edo state governorship election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), are arguing over alleged dishonest recruitment...
Nigeria beat Honduras 3-2 on Saturday to secure the bronze medal courtesy of two goals from Sadiq Umar and one from Aminu Umar at the Men’s...
A splinter Niger Delta ex-militants group, the Reformed Egbesu Avengers, REA, on Saturday vowed to go after those who have recently begun a smear campaign against...
The Jigawa State Police Command said over the last three weeks, it has charged 53 people to court over rape and sodomy highlighting the spate of...
The National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said that he is not sure of conducting conclusive elections in 2019....
For flouting the directive of the headquarters against mounting of roadblocks, the Bayelsa State Police Commissioner, Mr. Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, has ordered the arrest of two errant...
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), oil pipelines were blown up in the delta region on Friday in attacks alleged to have been carried out by the...
Jose Mourinho is only the first Manchester United manager in 79 years to win his first three games in charge of the club, following his team’s...
The Federal Government has stepped up vigilance within the drug supply chains in the country on the circulation of two confirmed falsified versions of Quinine Sulphate....
Despite expectations, solid minerals in Nigeria cannot easily displace oil as a dominant sector of its economy, investigation has revealed. It was projected that in five...
No fewer than 4,395 prospective couples wishing to participate in the Kano State Government’s mass wedding have so far registered for the programme. The state government...
The Ebonyi State Governor, Engr. David Umahi, has suspended the state’s Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters/Rural Development, Barr. Samuel Okoronkwo. Okoronkwo’s suspension is believed...
Two first-half Sergio Aguero goals has sent Manchester City on their way to a 4-1 victory at Stoke City in the Premier League as manager Pep...
By Dele Momodu… Fellow Nigerians, you must be wondering what this title is all about. Please, calm down, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, one of Nigeria’s iconic...
By Reno Omokri… I never believed that true life is stranger than fiction until I read the case of Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, the young man who...
Sapele is a tantalizingly unexplored slice of Delta State in Nigeria. Created as a trading village by the Europeans, the city today has grown to be...
At least five bodies of drowned migrants and 534 others were recovered from the Mediterranean Sea by Italian coastguards following a number of rescue operations carried...
United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, has been scheduled to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja next week. Kerry, who will also be meeting...
Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said, Speaker Yakubu Dogara, in his “foolishly” ways, can’t compel him to reveal more lawmakers and members of executive arm involved I the...
A tribunal has found 13 anti-slavery activists culpable of inciting illegal riots in Mauritania last June and has slammed each of them with a 15-year sentence....
A new technology which helps some Audi cars talk to traffic lights by counting down to a green light has been developed. The German car makers...
Three men are now in the custody of the Jigawa State Police Command for variously defiling three girls. According to reports, one of the suspects, 40-year-old...
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has stepped in to alleviate the plight of late Rashidi Yekini’s aged mother, Sikirat Olobi. Saraki, who on Friday sent a...
Usain Bolt ended his Olympic career by claiming an unprecedented ‘triple triple’ and his ninth gold as Jamaica won the 4x100m relay final in Rio. Bolt,...
A bubbly, happy Elena Isinbayeva, a picture of her pre-Russian-doping self, announced to media on Friday that she was putting an end to a pole vault...
By Tony Ogunlowo… As the budget padding controversy rages on members of the public wonder what’s next. When it comes to pilfering public funds Nigerian politicians...
The Governor of Bauchi State, Mohammed Abubakar, may have more than enough to contend with, as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on...
The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Friday, explained why he submitted himself to the police for investigation over allegations of...
There are indications that Federal Government may have started a probe of the N300bn allocated to the National Assembly in the 2014 and 2015 budgets. According...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed why he and three other eminent Nigerians brought President Muhammadu Buhari to help salvage the country. According to the former...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said it handed a better Nigeria to President Muhammadu Buhari than it meant it when the party took over in...
If the current effort by Nigerians living outside the shores of the land is sustained, naira, the local currency may soon regain some lost grounds against...
The Nigeria Football Federation has rejected insinuations by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung in a television interview that the issue of...
Japanese Businessman, Dr. Katsuya Takasu, has expressed his desire to watch and reward Nigeria’s U-23 Eagles in their quest to win the football bronze medal at...
