A village that would provide access to the world’s most advanced information and communication technologies, education and health services to under-resourced areas, has been inaugurated in...
Johnnie Depp’s dogs, Boo and Pistol are on the run for their dear lives, or their celebrity owner is helping them run for their young lives...
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka seems to have difficulties describing what presently obtains in Nigeria’s political space today, although he gives credit to two individuals for...
Leader of the coup plotters in Burundi, Major General Godefroid Niyombare on Friday said they have decided to surrender in the face of the onslaught by...
President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari says he regrets that the outgoing administration of President Goodluck Jonathan has not been useful in providing any advice on how the incoming...
Nigeria is set to have a new policy regime on taxes across the country. Ripples can authoritatively report that the federal government has approved the harmonisation...
The fifth floor of the federal secretariat housing the Ministry of Education in Abuja was on Thursday engulfed by fire. Although no casualty was recorded in...
Members of the House of Representatives on Thursday approved a clause in the Petroleum Industry Bill to include the entire country as ‘host community’ of petroleum...
A group of aggrieved politicians in Adamawa State under the aegis of PDP Aggrieved Aspirants Forum say they want a refund of the money they paid...
There are fears that the outgoing federal government may not be able to redeem the N24.564 billion guarantee on housing which is expected to mature on...
About 28 children have reportedly died following a fresh outbreak of lead poisoning in Niger state bringing the number of deaths from lead poisoning in the...
Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and now Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II says contrary to the claim by the Petroleum Minister...
It is not a secret that many people are cowards when it comes to breaking up with someone. They wouldn’t want to call it dumping...
Following the Thursday failed attack on the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army same day announced...
Omotola showed she’s had it for youths who have embraced the new trend of trekking in support of our politicians. She chipped in an icy reprimand...
It seems president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, while yet to be inaugurated for a first term in office, is already laying the ground works for another shot at the presidency in...
The Lagos State government has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to tanker drivers parked within 300 meters of fuel depots in the state to relocate to safe...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Wednesday released the Consumer Price Index for the month of April, with the country’s inflation rate rising to a...
Juventus FC will now meet Barcelona in the Champions League final after Alvaro Morata scored against his former club to knock holders Real Madrid out. Real...
The governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole is reportedly set to remarry. The bride to be is Lara Fortes, a model. The marriage has been slated...
The PDP has called on the APC to put an end to its game of propaganda and lies, especially since the electioneering campaigns are over, and...
The Senate on Wednesday made a u-turn in its determination to go ahead with moves aimed at overriding President Goodluck Jonathan’s veto on the Fourth Alteration...
In the ongoing UEFA Champions League (UCL) competition, Argentine Lionel Messi inspired Barca to a 3-0 first-leg victory that Bayern could not overturn, despite a 3-2...
The Burundian army has declared it is taking control of Burundi in a radio announcement. The coup d’etat was announced on a private radio, with senior...
If you are one of those who feel their lives have been invaded by Kardashian news; Kardashian this, Kardashian that, then you are in luck. A...
Ex-football star, John Fashanu and his wife, Abigail Igwe have been at each other’s throat; washing their dirty linen in public, accusing each other of all...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the freezing of accounts belonging to Benue and Plateau states in Skye Bank, Zenith Bank, First Bank of...
North Korea’s Defence Minister, Hyon Yong-chol has been executed for showing disloyalty to Kim Jong-un. South Korea’s spy agency has told parliament that Mr Hyon was...
I was going to buy some grocery and I saw a shed where someone was operating grinding machine, and grinding tomatoes for customers. I was fascinated....
The Council of State on Tuesday endorsed the programme of both transition committees of the outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan government and that of the incoming administration...
Less than a month after he was appointed in acting capacity, Solomon Arase was on Tuesday confirmed as the substantive Inspector General of Police (IGP)...
The EFCC on Tuesday re-arraigned Mamman Ali, son of a former National Chairman of the PDP, Ahmadu Ali before a Lagos State High Court in...
Unlike the national publicity secretary of his party, APC, Lai Mohammed who said the guilty should clear their conscience before man and God, governor-elect of...
National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Ahmadu Mu’azu has called on party members to put behind them the defeat suffered by the party in the last...
Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) now Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has been appointed pro-chancellor of the University of Benin, Edo...
Unlike in the past, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) both attended the Council of State meeting chaired by President Goodluck Jonathan...
Son of late human rights and pro-democracy activist, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, and nephew to late Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Brigadier General Enitan Ransome-Kuti, and 29 other...
Senator-elect and chairman of Silverbird group, Ben Murray-Bruce can’t seem to wait to get into the chambers of the Senate to start implementing a lot of...
Mercenaries from South Africa have proved quietly decisive in helping the Nigerian military turn around its campaign against Boko Haram. With their roots in South Africa...
At a lab in Singapore, a researcher uses a joystick to control the movements of a giant beetle in flight. As the researcher moves his controller...
The fuel scarcity that has hit some parts of the country may not ease soon, as banks have reportedly withdrawn financing facilities to importers of the...
Less than three weeks after a serious earthquake hit Nepal killing more than 8,000 people and destroying hundreds of thousands of homes, another strong earthquake shook...
Finally, the reality is out: Nigeria is broke, seriously broke! To say the country is sagging under the weight of its growing internal and external debt...
The plot to sack national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu and other members National Working Committee (NWC) has hit a setback following the continued...
Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling last Thursday, for federal lawmakers to stay action on amendments to the country’s constitution, the National Assembly is bent on going...
Hell was literally let loose on Monday as members of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) threatened to go to war with...
Producer and singer, OJB has denied reports that his kidney has relapsed, or that he has been admitted into a hospital for the ailment. Read the...
Being famous doesn’t always provide immunity against loneliness. Superstar, Mariah Carey, says stardom could be magical and enjoyable but one could feel lonely in the midst...
Music producer and singer, Babatunde Okungbowa popularly known as OJB has reportedly had a relapse of his kidney ailment and is on admission at the General...
As its operations from limestone blasting and mining were beginning to constitute serious environmental hazards to the Oke-Oko Sekoni community in Ewekoro Local Government area of...
