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Fresh $5.5bn loan: SERAP to Buhari: Stop the borrowing spree, demands spending details

    In relentless pursuit of transparent and accountable governance, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the President Muhammadu Buhari...

Threats to the Ocean: Commonwealth and Vulcan launch Coral mapping technology

    The Commonwealth Secretariat announced Sunday it is joining forces with Vulcan Inc. to help member countries manage their ocean spaces via...

At last, 286 stranded Nigerians in China Arrive in Abuja, quarantined

    After several weeks of sending a “Save-Our-Souls’’ to the Federal Government, the 286 Nigerians stranded in China as a result of...

Brendan Rogers says he had coronavirus

  Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers says he “had no strength” after contracting the coronavirus in March. “I could hardly walk and it...

Four years after, Pres. Buhari reconstitutes NNPC six-member board

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has got a new board following the expiration of the tenure of board members appointed...

Trump threatens protesters with ‘vicious dogs’ and ‘ominous weapons’

  Instead of quelling some of the outrage expressed by demonstrators near the White House who were protesting the killing of George Floyd,...

Revealed: Ex-NNPC GMD, Baru, died of COVID-19

  The late Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Kachalla Baru, may have died of COVID-19, Persecondnews has...

Grief: NNPC announces death of ex-GMD, Baru, at 60

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced the passing on of Dr Maikanti Kachalla Baru, its immediate past Group Managing Director. Aged...

Governance: Buhari to Nigerians: We are your servants, not masters

  “Elected officials are servants, not masters. They govern at your discretion. The authority is yours to grant – and it is yours...

President Donald Trump announces US will pull out of World Health Organization

  Speaking at a press conference Friday, President Donald Trump announced the United States will pull out of the World Health Organization. Trump...

Tambuwal says met Buhari to protect ‘Sokoto State’

  Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State said Friday his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari was driven by his responsibility to protect the state. Tambuwal...

Banditry poses threat to food production in Northwest, alerts  El-Rufai

      Kaduna State Gov. Nasir El-Rufai, says banditry in the Northwest area of the country poses a serious threat to food...

We must hand over to next generation, says founding pastor of UK church as he inaugurates successors

    A famed pastor of a growing Christian organisation in the United Kingdom, SPAC Nation, Nigerian-born Tobi Adegboyega, has stepped down from...

Fatal cutlass attack on boy: Judge to Pastor: You must die by hanging

  The Scriptural law of who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword is the fate of an enraged pastor,...

COVID-19 : CBN reduces MPR from 13.5% to 12.5%

  In a bid to stimulate the economy post-COVID-19, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’S Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has announced the reduction...