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China development bank, UBA sign letter of intent for $100 million loan deal to support SMEs Africa

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, a pan-African banking group and China Development Bank (CDB), the world’s largest development finance institution, on February...

Trump’s aide Hope Hicks resigns

Hope Hicks, one of Donald Trump’s longest-serving aides, is resigning as the US president’s communications director, the White House said Wednesday. “Hope is...

Nigeria reports record high Lassa fever cases with 317

Health authorities say a Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria has reached a record high and there are suspected cases in neighboring Benin as...

Ndoma-Egba on Elumelu: He’s a gift to Africa, an inspiration to the World

Chairman governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba Wednesday said Entrepreneur and business man Tony Elumelu is a...

Elumelu Receives 2017 Philanthropist of the Year Award

Chairman of Heirs Holdings Limited Mr Tony Elumelu received the Per Second News 2017 ‘Philanthropist of the Year’ award Wednesday at a breakfast...

SGF to board chairmen : Don’t interfere in day- to day operations of parastatals

  The Federal Government has read riot act to boards chairmen and members of parastatals under the Office of the Secretary to the...

FG sets up committee to probe abduction of Dapchi girls

The Federal Government has set up a 12-member committee to unravel the circumstances surrounding the abduction of 110 students of the Government Girls...

Paying lip service to graft fight ridicules exercise – Itse Sagay 

Chairman of PACAC, Prof. Itse Sagay Tuesday said paying lip service to the fight against corruption ridicules the whole exercise. “Fighting corruption cannot...

Dapchi 110: The tragedy of a nation By Reuben Abati 

Karma is a bitch. Poetic justice is a bastard. Both have combined to wrong-foot the incumbent Buhari administration to make it look like...

With fresh momentum, Buhari urges party members to work for victory in 2019

[dropcap]P[/dropcap]resident Muhammadu Buhari has said he is aware of criticism of his administration’s slow pace of work, particularly, the delay in appointments to...

Transfer us out of Maiduguri, freed UNIMAID lecturers plead

  President Muhamamdu Buhari Monday revealed why it took seven months for the three university of Maiduguri lecturers and  eight months for the...

110 students missing from Dapchi, says FG

The Federal Government has confirmed that 110 students of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, are so far unaccounted for, after...

Woman found dead inside well after Church deliverance

The lifeless body of a middle aged woman, Funke Ojo, was found in a well belonging to a church in Akure, where the...

Buhari not concerned about re-election – Presidency

  The Presidency says  President Muhammadu Buhari is not ready to announce if he’ll run for re-election next year. ‘If the president and...

Osun PDP: Why Reconciliation is a Must- Guber Aspirant

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Olawale Rasheed has expressed concerns over lingering crisis rocking Osun state chapter of the...

In Nigeria, Christian Students Forcibly Converted, Beaten With Whip, Mentally Tortured: New Report

A groundbreaking new report by watchdog group Christian Solidarity Worldwide has exposed the atrocities Christian children face at school in several countries, from...