Two years after the Super Falcons defeated their Senegalese counterparts 2-0 to qualify for the 2016 edition of the Africa Women’s Cup of Nations in Cameroon,...
THERE were indications last night that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may apply for court order to detain Dr. Doyin Okupe, a former Senior...
Some real estate investors/developers and speculators are raising stake in land purchase in Ibeju-Lekki communities, home of Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ), Lagos, New Telegraph has...
Controversy is currently trailing the recent announcement of the collection of about N1.1 trillion by the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, as operators and stakeholders raise questions...
THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has disclosed plans to meet with all stakeholders including registered political parties to brainstorm on the controversies trailing the Electoral...
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has said it is embarking on an indefinite nationwide strike on Wednesday (today). The ASUP National President, Usman Dutse, confirmed...
International rating agency, Moody’s has said Nigeria’s credit rating is being constrained by the sovereign balance sheet’s continued exposure to shocks because the government has not...
The chief financial officer of Huawei, Meng Wanzhou has been released on bail by a court in Canada following her arrest about 10-days ago in Vancouver...
Digital payment in the country has witnessed a significant increase, jumping to 16 percent in 2018 from 12 percent achieved in 2016, a newly unveiled 2018...
The inflow of investment into Nigeria declined by $2.66 billion between the second and third quarter of this year, figures released by the National Bureau of...
French security forces have launched a manhunt for a gunman who opened fire near a Christmas market in Strasbourg where he killed three victims and wounded...
The continuous face-offs between the Ministry of Finance, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), State Governments and revenue generating organs of the Federal Government on the other...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained Mr. Tunde Ayeni, a former Chairman of Skye Bank Plc, now Polaris Bank, for alleged fraud. It...
The First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, David Lipton, Tuesday, warned that `storm clouds’ were gathering over the global economy. According to...
The Council of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has approved the full membership of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC)...
Nigerian film director, producer and screenwriter Charles Novia has fired back at comments earlier made by actor Kevin Ikeduba and comedian AY over the anomalies plaguing...
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) Tuesday, announced that it had pulled out of the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP. The party made the announcement through...
After years of scrambling to discover new antibiotic compounds that can go on living even when hit with the most potent drugs a team from MIT...
Former long-term leader of Gambia Yahya Jammeh and members of his immediate family have been blocked from entering the United States of America in announcement made...
Ace comedian cum movie producer Ayo Makun who goes by the stage name AY is of the opinion that rivalry and the urge to live a...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has declared that Nigerians will never have stable electricity except the distribution companies in the country recapitalize. According to the...
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Monday, removed fertilizer from products for which foreign exchange can be accessed for importation. The CBN, by the action, has...
The Federal Government can make over N3trillion yearly from the maritime sector, if it is well structured, a top Federal Ministry of Finance official has said....
Geometric Power, Nigeria’s foremost indigenous independent power company, has signed a new agreement with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Total...
As gladiators from different political parties begin to mount the rostrum to campaign either for themselves or for their favoured candidates for the 2019 governorship election...
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has suspended the planned disruption of services in Gombe, Kebbi and Bebi airports over a combined debt of N808.6m. The...
Six months after his conviction by a Federal Capital Territory High Court, Senator Joshua Dariye is still receiving the N750, 000 salary and N13.5m monthly running...
The second Federal Government N100 billion Ijarah Sukuk has been listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) by the Debt Management Office (DMO). The Director-General, DMO,...
Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, on Monday got a new appointment as a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Drug Abuse....
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has said that the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, grew to 1.81 percent (year-on-year) in real terms in the third...
Tragedy struck near the overhead bridge in Akinyele area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, when a truck rammed into a taxi with four victims feared...
The bail hearing of Meng Wanzhou, a top executive of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies, who was arrested on December 1 as she was changing planes...
Embattled soft-speaking French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a range of conciliatory measures in a bid to quell violent protests over a hike in diesel tax....
By SOC Okenwa…. In the process of knocking this piece into shape a couple of captions competed for attention as I sought to settle for the...
The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Obiageli Ezekwesili, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the amended Electoral Act, promising stiff...
The chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, says the fractious primaries conducted by the party proved the party is truly democratic. Oshiomhole said...
No country in the world can survive the kind of looting that Nigeria has seen- Osinbajo Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says no country in the world...
Your endorsement irrelevant, Atiku will be ‘roundly’ defeated, Presidency tells Obasanjo The presidency has responded to former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s reiteration of his support for Atiku...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied raiding the home of the son of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku...
The proposed arraignment of President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Paul Usoro (SAN) over an alleged N1.4 billion fraud has failed owing to the failure...
As the world marks the international Human Rights Day across the globe, Senator Shehu Sani, has said rather than celebrate that Nigeria should be mourning. The...
A federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State has nullified the case instituted by former Governor Segun Oni of Ekiti state against the incumbent governor,...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is concerned about the market power held by Google and Facebook, their impact on businesses and the extent to...
Despite his grievances with the conduct and outcome of the primary election of the APC in the state, Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state had reportedly...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has blamed the reported incidents of vote-buying during the governorship election that led to the emergence of...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… …The good news is; we have the overwhelming support of youth votes….The bad news is; the youth never bothers to vote–Anonymous As the...
It is no longer news that silver spoon pop singer David Adeleke popularly known in music circles as Davido has been dismissed from completing his one-year...
Former president of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has called on the National Assembly to override the presidential decline to assent to...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is under fire after posting tweets encouraging followers to visit Myanmar, without mentioning allegations of genocide and gang rape by its military...
The Media Office of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has confirmed that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
