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SERAP demands frugality in FG spending, wants court to stop Buhari from spending N26bn on travels, meals, others

    In its bid to ensure frugality and budget discipline in public spending, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the...

Kamaru Usman Wins Brutal Battle vs Colby Covington

  Through two rounds, the UFC 268 main event rematch between welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington seemed ill-conceived. Kamaru Usman (20-1),...

Ikoyi skyscraper disaster: Death toll now 42 with 15 survivors

  …Gov. Sanwo-Olu in company of National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule, and...

Wale Bob Oseni – The Tragedy of a dream unfulfilled

By Femi Soneye I write this with great grief and sadness over the unimaginable loss of Wale Bob Oseni. l’m grief-stricken and aghast at...

Fuel explosion kills at least 90 people in Sierra Leone

  An oil tanker exploded near Sierra Leone’s capital, killing at least 90 people and severely injuring dozens of others after large crowds...

Federal medical center Biliri

Mayhem: Gombe Gov. Yahaya talks tough, vows to deal with perpetrators

Aftermath of bloody violence in the state capital on Friday, Gombe State Governor Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya has vowed to deal with “desperate politicians” who...

Ex-NAN Acting MD, Kwara Commissioner, Jide Adebayo, passes on

    A former Acting Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) and Kwara State Commissioner for Information, Chief Jide Adebayo,...

Linking Osinbajo directly or indirectly to  collapsed Ikoyi structure, spurious, mischievous, totally unfounded — Akinnola

“Some stories say the developer, Mr Femi Osibiona is a front for some big guns in Government, others directly say the land is...

Sale of collapsed Ikoyi skyscraper land to Vice-President Osinbajo outright falsehood, says  Ade-Ojo

  Chief Michael Ade- Ojo, the founder of Elizade Motors and Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, has debunked a media report that he...

Nigeria, Angola, other Oil exporting countries set to see large surpluses in 2022 as crude prices increase

  Oil exporting countries across the globe will have large surpluses in 2021 and 2022 as higher crude prices lead to more revenues...

Oronsaye report: FG set to merge, scrap, parastatal agencies

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh To address the challenge of rising cost of governance, the Federal Government is set to scrap some government...

Ikoyi 21-storey building collapse : Gov. Sanwo-Olu declares three-day mourning, flags to fly at half-mast

  Following Nov. 1 collapse of Ikoyi high-rise, Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared a three-day mourning. All flags are to be flown...

CTN multi-billion dollar contract scandal: Amaechi, hoodwinks Buhari, at daggers drawn with NSA, Chief of Staff, BPP – Persecondnews investigation

In perpetrating the “AmaechiGate”, the minister spurns National Security Adviser’s invite for meeting over security and economic implications of project   Per Second...

Plane tickets set to increase due to rising oil prices – IATA

  Plane tickets are set to become more expensive as a result of rising crude oil prices and labour costs, warned head of...

Ikoyi skyscraper collapse update : Death toll rises to 36, NEMA confirms

By Ajuma Edwina Ameh As ongoing operations to rescue those still trapped in the rubble of the collapsed 21-storey Ikoyi skyscraper building in...