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Breaking: World Bank grants Nigeria’s $1.5bn loan

  After several months of application, the World Bank has finally approved Nigeria’s $1.5 billion loan. The facility was prepared jointly with the...

Breaking: Trump’s Attorney-General, Barr, quits

  Less than a month to the end of Trump administration, U.S. Attorney-General William Barr has jumped the ship. He said he is...

Insurgency, Banditry in Nigeria: We are fed up, says Sultan

  Peeved with violent extremism and insurgency, the Sultan of Sokoto and Co-Chairman of National Council of Traditional Rulers, Sa’ad Abubakar, says they...

Amnesty International applauds ICC’s probe of Nigerian military for alleged war crimes

    Amnesty International says the International Criminal Court’s decision to launch a probe into the alleged war crimes records of the Nigerian...

600 Kastina school children abduction: Nigeria is a nation at war, says Soyinka

600 Kastina school children abduction: Nigeria is a nation at war, says Soyinka     Nigeria is at war and at war within...

Kastina students abduction: UN scribe, Guterres, condemns act, demands their immediate release

  The United Nation’s Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has strongly condemned the 11 December attack on a secondary school in Katsina State, Nigeria, and...

Late Amaka Ndoma-Egba, wife of ex-Senate Leader, Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba, interred amid encomiums

  A former Senate Leader,  Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN) at the weekend eulogized his late wife, Amaka Lauretta, as a woman who was...

Buhari celebrates Nigerian boxer, Anthony Joshua, for pummelling Bulgarian Kubrat

  A congratulatory message has come from President Muhammadu Buhari to Nigerian boxer, Anthony Joshua, saying retaining his IBF, WBA, and WBO titles has given...

Aiyetoro community to Nigerian Army : Gen. Irefin did not die of COVID-19

  Contrary to claims by the military authorities that Major General Olubunmi Irefin, died of COVID-19-related complications, his kinsmen in Aiyetoro-Gbede in Kogi State said...

WOMANIFESTO: ex-Minister, varsity don, Ekiti First Lady Fayemi want women to synergize, compete for socio-political space

  Ahead of 2023 polls, women leaders have sent a wake-up call to Nigerian women to forge a common front to compete for socio-political...

Lagos billionaire, Adekunle Ojora, loses another son, Dapo 

  An end of the year tragedy has hit the family of Lagos billionaire, Otunba Adekunle Ojora as his eldest surviving son, Dapo, died...

Nigeria’s Ambassador to U.S., 85-year-old Nsofor, may have died of COVID-19 — Investigation

    Fresh facts have emerged about the possible cause of the death of Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, retired Justice Sylvanus Adiewere...

Breaking: Nigeria’s Ambassador to U.S., Justice Nsofor, is dead

  Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, retired Justice S. Nsofor has passed on in a Maryland hospital in the country. Persecondnews reports...

Reduce Lagos-Ibadan rail fares, passengers tell FG

  By Boye Ajayi Nigerians and train passengers have reacted to the fares fixed by the Federal Government for the new Lagos-Ibadan standard...

Alleged rigging of NBA election: Two lawyers hauled up in court

    Two lawyers — Sarah Ajibola and John Demide — who were alleged to have conspired to rig the 2018 Nigerian Bar...

Two women roasted in Osun over botched child kidnapping

  Two suspected female kidnappers were on Thursday sent to the Great Beyond by a mob at Ojude Oba area of Iwo in...