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Reason behind Air Afrique Airlines Failure

  The fact that Air Afrique airlines met an ignominious end is common knowledge. However, not a lot of people are familiar with...

Breaking: Tragedy: Ekweremadu slumps, dies

  A former Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, has lost his elder brother, Chief Mathias Ekweremadu, the Enugu State Commissioner for Transport....

Retired IG-P Adamu’s tenure elongation: An illegality, breach of Police Act, Constitution — Senior lawyers

  President Muhammadu Buhari’s elongation of the tenure of retired Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, for three months has received a swipe...

Breaking: Buhari rewards Buratai, Olonisakin, other ex-Service Chiefs with ambassadorial jobs

  Barely two weeks after their retirement, the five immediate past Service Chiefs have been nominated as non-career Ambassadors-designate. Well-meaning Nigerians, governors and...

Breaking: Retired IG-P Adamu gets 3-month tenure elongation

  Mr Mohammed Adamu, who attained retirement age on February 1, 2021, has been given three months tenure extension as the Inspector-General of...

Faisal, Maina’s son, jumps N60m bail, bolts to U.S.

  Faisal, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, who is standing trial alongside his father, for laundering pensioners’ money to the tune of billions, has...

FG approves licence for 20 new universities, pushing the number to 190

  The Federal Executive Council (FEC) in Abuja on Wednesday approved 20 new including nine private ones, pushing the number of universities in...

Insecurity: Gov. to FG: All citizens should be licensed to carry guns

  Overwhelmed and frustrated by the deteriorating security situation in the state, Taraba Governor Darius Ishaku has asked Federal Government to grant all...

A Peep into Air Peace New E-195 Aircraft

Nigeria’s airline Air Peace has taken delivery of its first Embraer E195-E2 this week. Registered 5N-BYF, the new E-195 provides a 2-2 seating configuration but...

Real Madrid FC President, Florentino Contracts COVID-19

  By Boye Ajayi   Real Madrid President, Florentino Pérez, has tested positive for COVID-19, reports Persecondnews. The club made the announcement in...

N7bn graft: Ex-Abia Gov. Orji Kalu back in court for case retrial

  A former Abia State Governor and Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu, who has been standing trial on a N7.1billion money laundering...

Pres. Buhari, Atiku, mourn, extol Tony Momoh

  “He was an avowed apostle of politics without bitterness.” -Atiku President Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar have reacted to the...

Tony Elumelu Foundation makes 3 key senior executive appointments

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced the appointments of three senior executives, effective from February 1, 2021. The new executives are Somachi...

Just in: Ex-Information Minister, Tony Momoh, passes on

  A veteran journalist, politician and former Minister of Information and Culture in the administration of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, is dead. Details shortly…..

Obasanjo deplores leadership deficit in Nigeria, says his generation has done a lot of “wrong things”

  “The old hands won’t voluntarily go out of the way. You have to make them go out of the way. Make it...

Breaking: Army seizes power, declares state of emergency in Myanmar

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday condemned the coup in Myanmar after the military seized power and imposed a state of emergency....