In continuation of an earlier investigative report on open sale and high abuse of narcotics in Abuja, Ripples Nigeria digs further to ascertain those behind the...
A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered that monies totaling about N34 billion and linked to former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, be forfeited to the...
The Wednesday London visit to President Muhammadu Buhari by the trio of Senate President Bukola Saraki, Speaker Yakubu Dogara, and Leader of Senate, Ahmed Lawan, may...
Any doubts regarding President Buhari’s intention to gun for the presidency in 2019 were cleared on Tuesday by Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF),...
Dateline, January 19, 2017: President Muhammadu Buhari left the shores of Nigeria for medical vacation in the UK. His absence left a vacuum which was filled...
The former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, on Sunday declared at a thanks-giving service in Oghara, his homeland, that he was no thief and cannot...
There is a cold war brewing between the Senate and the House of Representatives over 18 bills recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari and...
The circumstances surrounding the withdrawal of government-hired prosecutor, Charles Adeogun-Phillips, in the case involving Justice Sylvester Ngwuta is throwing up smelly details in the on-going anti-corruption...
The last may not have been heard of the mirage of voices against Nigeria’s planned closure of Abuja Airport for six weeks to enable repairs on...
Following orders by courts, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has temporarily confiscated 10 choice properties belonging to the former Minister of the Federal Capital...
Indications have emerged that some members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s kitchen cabinet, have initiated moves to lobby federal lawmakers to stay action against any possible gang...
Despite claims by Nigerian officials that the country’s $1bn Eurobond sale was oversubscribed, investors are still insisting that permanent peace be found in the oil producing...
Nigerian equities fell back into the negative trend on Thursday as investors sought to cash in on fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) stocks, many of which...
The much-awaited full investigative report on the Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North East which is also expected to probe the Secretary to Government of the...
Today, February 9, 2017 appears to be fortuitous in many more ways than one. Coincidentally, on this day, the country is contending with the health concerns...
That is the question on the lips of virtually every Nigerian at the moment, as President Muhammadu Buhari seems to have become incommunicado to a nation...
Barring any unforeseen development, Nigeria will stop importing refined petroleum products by 2019, so says the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu. Speaking...
Nigerians seeking a quick fix to the myriad of challenges confronting the country have been told again to wait a little longer. The Minister of Transport,...
Like in 2014, Nigeria has again been beaten by South Africa and Egypt in the banking sector rating of the World Bank for 2016. The country...
President Muhammadu Buhari has shelved his return to Nigeria, and it is official. The presidency, on Sunday said he was not yet done with his doctors,...
Various state governments, owed over N250 billion that they spent on Government Federal roads can only be refunded if the bonds to be floated in that...
In what seems an unprecedented move, four executive directors of Skye Bank have put in their resignation letters. The Directors who had served in Executive Management...
After three consecutive negative trading sessions, Nigerian equities recorded their first gain of the week on Thursday as bargain-hunting for value stocks halted the week-long decline...
Senator Dino Melaye, who chairs the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Thursday alleged that the Federal Government, through the FCT Administration, has...
Several investors on Wednesday narrated how they were allegedly swindled of more than N4.8 billion in investment schemes promoted by Partnership Investment Company Plc, owned by...
There is every indication that the much awaited international investment drive by Nigeria, also known as Eurobond, will kick-off before the end of February 2017, according...
Nigeria’s apex capital market regulator, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has slammed a life ban on Group Managing Director, BGL Group, Mr. Albert Okumagba and deputy...
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has taken his counterpart, Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, to the cleaners over his reaction to the claim that three South...
In an overwhelming ‘NO’ vote, Nigerians would rather that President Muhammadu Buhari stayed back in the country to enjoy his vacation and, perhaps, meet with his...
Abuja is regarded as one of the finest cities in Nigeria and also among the best in Africa. It is equally regarded as the fastest growing...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to handover the Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, to the Economic...
Nigeria’s total capital inflows, made up of foreign direct investments and loans, fell to all time low of 48.6% in 2016. According to a report by...
Governor Nyesom Wike has revealed that the two armoured helicopters the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) said it impounded following their illegal importation belong to Rivers State...
For the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government, goodwill is increasingly becoming a scarce commodity. The wave of disenchantment with public policy and governance is not...
The Abia State All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate in the 2015 general elections, Alex Oti, appears not ready to drop his ambition to govern...
The Senate, on Thursday, instructed its committee on Public Procurement to carry out a comprehensive investigation on alleged contracts racketeering and inflation to the tune of...
Ahmed Bola Tinubu, acclaimed National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is worried that his party may be running the Nigerian economy aground. He...
Piqued by the trial of some Supreme Court Justices, Nigeria’s legal community led by rights activist, Malcolm Omirhobo, is set to file for stoppage of the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the senate exonerating Acting Chairman of the Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, and Secretary to the Government of the...
The Senate, on Monday, failed to confirm or outrightly deny claims that President Muhammadu Buhari has re-forwarded the name of the acting chairman of the Economic...
Senator Ken Nnamani, Nigeria’s former Senate President, stirred the polity on Sunday with his high profile defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from the...
Fear that more than 50 manufacturing firms are on the verge of shutting their factories in Nigeria before the end of first quarter of 2017 has...
The political impasse in The Gambia may have come to an end as reports filtered in late Saturday that Yahya Jammeh had fled into exile. Jammeh,...
Nigeria’s three tiers of government got a slightly fatter pay packet in the month of January, 2017. Every month, the Federal Government, States and Local Government...
The newly-elected President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, has decried what he said is the present administration’s treatment of the eastern part of the...
Disgraced former President Yahya Jammeh has one more chance to prevent bloodshed and avoid a violent removal from office. With troops already on ground inside The...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been officially scheduled for a ten-day medical vacation abroad from Monday January, 23 to February 6th, 2017. This is according to the presidency. He...
Worried by persistent fall in value of the Nigerian currency, the naira, which lost more than 90 per cent value in 2016, the Presidency has given...
The stage seems set for the forceful sack of President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia by the combined forces of the ECOWAS region, led by Senegal...
Concluding part…. Anih who has been into the business of shoemaking for more than 18-years says the year 2016 was different, and that despite the fact...
