Nigerian on 18-year-old death row in Saudi Arabia: Family pleads for clemency
The family of Suleimon Olufemi, a Nigerian, who has been on death row in Saudi Arabia for 18 years for being part...
NFF budgets whopping N5.6bn for 2021 season
By Boye Ajayi The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) says it has budgeted N5. 62 billion for 2021 soccer season,...
Fidelity Bank announces sweeping directorate, executive management positions as incumbents retire
Fidelity Bank Plc has announced new Board appointments to replace outgoing Directors and executive management positions as it repositions for 2021. The...
Abducted in Ogun, Rescued in Kaduna: Two Kidnapped Teenage Girls For Libya Trafficking Ring Regain Freedom
By Boye Ajayi Two Teenage girls abducted by a woman in Ogun for trafficking to Libya have been rescued in Kaduna,...
Polaris Bank partners International Women’s Society on vocational skills
Polaris Bank has received kudos from a former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr Oluranti Adebule, for its commitment to skills acquisition...
As second wave of pandemic rages, Women Affairs Minister, Pauline Tallen, racked by COVID-19
By Boye Ajayi Following the second wave of Coronavirious in the country, Women Affairs Minister Pauline Tallen has tested positive for COVID-19,...
SERAP to Buhari, 36 governors: Be accountable, give details of your security votes for 2021
In furtherance of its quest to hold government accountable, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari and the 36...
Again, Buhari’s nepotism draws flack from reverred Christian cleric, Kukah
Months after ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and the former Kaduna State Governor, Lt.-Col Abubakar Umar, blasted President Muhammadu Buhari over nepotism, the Catholic...
FG to religious leaders: Stop stoking embers of hatred, disunity
Religious leaders in the country should refrain from stoking the embers of hatred and disunity, the Federal Government warned on Saturday. It...
COVID-19 new strains: PTF to governors: Don’t close down treatment centres
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has urged state governors not to close down their treatment centres even as the government...
Nigerians jab Garba Shehu over comment on three-year-old abductee of Boko Haram, Leah Sharibu
Nigerians have thrown jabs and invectives at Malam Garba Shehu, President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, for describing Leah Shuaibu, abducted by Boko Haram in 2018...
Public nuisance chases worshippers from church, faces trial
For harassing and preventing worshippers from entering or going out of the church, a man, Paul Alaba, is facing trial at...
Nigeria requires N400bn for COVID-19 vaccines for 70 per cent of Nigerians, says Health Minister
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says about N400 billion will be required to procure COVID-19 vaccines...
Nigeria teetering on the brink, nearly a failed state — London Financial Times
Nigeria is on the brink of becoming a failed state, according to an international daily newspaper, Financial Times. The highly reverred newspaper, taking a...
Breaking: At last, ASUU ends nine-month long shutting down of nation’s varsities
After nine months of grounding academic and commercial activities at the nation’s universities, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it...
Nigeria attains feat in waste-to wealth as Buhari inaugurates NPDC Integrated Gas Handling Facility in Edo
The inauguration of the 200 million standard cubic feet per day capacity integrated Gas Handling Facility (IGHF) and the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)...
