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Apapa Gridlock: Why everyone should support ‘Eto’

  Niran Adedokun   Four weeks after the take off of Etó, the electronic truck call-up system introduced by the Nigerian Ports Authority(NPA), it...

Just in: Gunmen Attack Ex-CBN Gov. Soludo, two cops feared dead

  A former Central Bank Governor, Prof. Charles Soludo, on Wednesday escaped death by hairsbreadth as unknown gunmen attacked the technocrat-politician at his...

Niger Republic botched coup: Dissidents arrested, calm returns

  Following a botched attempt at seizing power in Niger Republic on Wednesday morning, report said some dissident soldiers have been arrested. After...

Mallam Garba Shehu, Snr Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity

Buhari’s London medical trip: Transmitting power to Vice-President unnecessary, says Presidency

Tongues have been wagging as to why President Muhammadu Buhari left the country yesterday on a 14-day medical vacation without transmitting power to...

BREAKING: Coup in Niger Republic ahead of President-elect’s inauguration on Friday

    Heavy gunfire has been reported near Niger Republic Presidential Palace on Wednesday morning, signalling another coup ahead of President-Elect Mohamed Bazoum’s...

Bala-Usman: Fixing the Apapa Gridlock With “Eto” By Reuben Abati

    The roads leading to the two Nigerian ports in Lagos have been for many years an abiding source of heartache and...

Late Arochukwu Monarch to be buried April 5

  Immediate past Traditional Ruler of Aro Kingdom and Eze Aro, His Royal Majesty, Mazi Ogbonnaya Okoro, will be buried on April 5,...

Odopetu of Ayede Ogbese, High chief Oladimeji Abitogun

Council chiefs begins indefinite boycott of Ondo palace

Members of the council of chiefs in Ayede Ogbese town, Akure North Local Government of Ondo State, on Monday began an indefinite boycott...

President Muhammadu Buhari with Service Chiefs' at the Villa

Buhari excited by service chiefs’ resolve to forge durable cooperation to rout out bandits

President Muhammadu Buhari says he is delighted that the newly appointed service chiefs have agreed to forge a durable relationship and cooperation in...

Again, NDLEA intercepts over N2bn worth of illicit drugs at Lagos airport

Hard drugs valued at N2billion have been seized at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency...

Buhari’s London medical vacation: President, VP, service chiefs, others in crucial meeting in Aso Rock

    Just before he jets out of the country for London on a 14-day medical checkup,President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday held a...

Nigerians are tired of austere measures, youths are angry, says Tinubu 

Nigerians are blowsy and fatigued by austerity measures and therefore require urgent stimulus package to jumpstart the economy, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has said....

Buhari off to London again, to see his doctor

. Barely two years after he went for medical attention in Britain, President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday (March 30) jet out of...

Social disconnect between government and youths, poverty cause of insecurity in Nigeria — Fayemi

Poverty, inequality, social disconnect between the leadership and the youth are causes of insecurity in the country,  the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Dr...

Overland Airways, with 6-airplane fleet, flies one of the oldest planes in Nigeria – Per Second News check

A local airlines, Overland Airways Ltd with a call sign “Overland“, operates one of the oldest fleet in Nigeria, contrary to claims that it...