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In Pictures: Highlights of the FIN Petroleum Industry Award

The biggest names in the Petroleum industry gathered recently for the FIN Petroleum Industry Awards in Abuja. Here’s our selection of some of...

Only fools would call Tradermoni vote buying – Osoba

Former governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba, has described those calling the Trader Moni programme being implemented by the Federal Government and the...

Rivers State APC: Supreme Court affirms judgement of lower court

The Supreme Court has affirmed the judgement of Justice Chiwendu Nworgu on the congress conducted by the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers...

Wole Soyinka endorses Kingsley Moghalu for President

Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP),  has received a huge boost in his quest for President from Prof. Wole...

Police arrest 6 for assaulting lady in Edo

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have arrested six male suspects allegedly involved in the assault of a young female, in a...

ASUU suspends strike

…lecturers ordered to resume Friday The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Thursday suspended their three months strike. The union suspended the...

IGP removes Imohimi as Lagos CP

…Makes news appointments, redeployments in 36 states ahead of elections  The Police Service Commission has approved the removal of Edgal Imohimi, as the...

Elections: Police to withdraw policemen from VIPs

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF), has said it would soon withdraw its Special Protection Unit (SPU) and Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) operatives attached...

PANDEF, NEF, Afenifere, Ohaneze, others endorse Atiku for President

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),  candidate for president Atiku Abubakar has received huge endorsements from Nigerian elders describing him as the president that the...

26 APC chairmen defect to PDP in Bauchi state

No fewer than 26 All progressives Congress ward chairmen and coordinators of late senator Ali Wakili, alongside 10,000 of their supporters have dumped...

Atiku is Headed For a Win, Says The Economist

Nobody knows for certain who will win on February, 16 presidential election — but the Economist Intelligence Unit, Africa, is pretty sure: Abubakar Atiku,...

Waya, Dangote, Bagudu, Others bag FIN Oil & Gas Award

The Foreign Investment Network (FIN), has rewarded some business leaders, trailblazers, policy makers and investors in the Oil and gas sectors in Africa...

60 Dead in Boko Haram Attack in Borno: Amnesty International

At least 60 people were killed when Boko Haram attacked a town in Rain, a border town in Borno state, on January 28, Amnesty...

Senatorial candidate Natasha Akpoti accuses Governor Yahaya Bello of ordering her murder

Senatorial candidate of the SDP in Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti accused Kogi governor Yahaya Bello of ordering his thugs to kill her and blame...

Atiku/Obi will elevate corruption to state craft – BMO

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has said that the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar has continued to show...

Hotel owner strangled to death by her own workers in Lagos

Police in Lagos opened an investigation into a suspicious death last week after receiving a call for an assault to a 56-year-old woman....