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Nigeria’s foreign earnings drops 5% Q2 ’18 – NBS

By Ruth Olurounbi Nigeria’s earnings from foreign trade dropped 4.9 percent second quarter of the year, on decline in exports, the National Bureau...

Beijing declaration, action plan adopted at FOCAC summit

A declaration and an action plan were adopted Tuesday at the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in the...

In Photos: Buhari, wife and other leaders arriving ‘Great Hall’ for Chinese state banquet

      President Muhammadu Buhari and other foreign leaders and their spouses attending the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation...

John McCain was ‘a warrior, a statesman, a patriot’, says Obama

Former President Barack Obama remembered Sen. John McCain on Saturday as a feisty, irreverent and principled patriot who fought for his beliefs but always understood that...

China’s 52-km-long expressway open to traffic as leaders arrive for Forum on China-Africa Cooperation

A new highway Zhipu Expressway in Zhijin County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province opened to traffic as leaders of governments arrive the country for...

Buhari says illegal immigrants are risking their lives in chat with German leader Angela Merkel

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday reiterated his administration’s stance against illegal immigration, warning that those who continue to take the risk of going...

Buhari urges APC members to be shining examples

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting to ensure they show shinning...

CBN sanctions 4 banks for helping MTN illegally move $8.1bn from Nigeria

Four banks in Nigeria have been accused by the Central Bank of Nigeria of illegally helping MTN Nigeria repatriate a sum of $8.1...

” Nigeria is in the premiership league of corrupt countries’, says Former U.S Intelligence Chief

Tales of corruption in Nigeria are legion. And like many analysts of the country, Matthew Page, a former U.S State Department Intelligence Chief...

Uduaghan says more Deltans will join the APC soon

The immediate past governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan has formally announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to...

Prison decongestion: AGF Malami heads FG’s Committee on Prerogative of Mercy

The Federal Government has inaugurated the Presidential Advisory Committee on Prerogative of Mercy, chairman by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of...

87 million Nigerians are still poor, says British Prime Minister Theresa May

It is a distinction that no country wants: the place with the most people living in extreme poverty. For decades, India remained stubbornly...

APC will lose Oyo state if they don’t field me as governorship candidate – Buhari’s minister

APC members in Oyo state might be in deep trouble less than one year to the governorship elections. Adebayo Shittu, the Minister of...

Trump reviews meeting with Buhari, says ” I don’t want to meet a lifeless person like him again

President Donald Trump is giving Nigerians a glimpse of the fury raging inside him as he reviewed a meeting between him and President...

Bush, Obama to speak at Mccain’s funeral

Two former presidents are expected to speak at Sen. John McCain’s service and he will lie in state in both the nation’s capital...

Nigeria made N57bn non-oil  exports in 7 months – NCS boss

Agricultural commodities including  cashew nut, rubber, cocoa butter, sesame seeds, frozen shrimps as well as mineral resources and other products with Free on...