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Atiku says it’s fake news that he plans to leave the PDP

The campaign office of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused some social media sites of spreading fake news that he plans to...

Grammy Award Winner Seal Comes Back Home To Nigeria With Visit To Afrika Shrine

Grammy Award winner Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel, popularly known as Seal is presently in Nigeria. The  singer and songwriter paid a visit to the...

Naira weakens as banks suspend BDCs’ accounts on FIRS ‘directive’

ABCON kicks, says FIRS’ policy demanding BDCs pay taxes unacceptable   By Ruth Olurounbi   Nigerian currency on Thursday weakened against the dollar...

Akpabio and Akwa Ibom Governor Udom Exchange Strange Insults

The rhetoric between Governor of Akwa Ibom state, Udom Emmanuel and former senate minority leader Godswill Akpabio  turned into a volley of insults...

Darkness looms as Genco’s demands N213bn debt payment, others to prevent operational shutdown

Discos kick against N72bn proposed investment by FG IBEDC says it has invested N11.5bn in metering, networking in 6 months Nigeria’s economy may...

I leave it all in God’s hands, says Ayefele

Gospel artiste, Yinka Ayefele, has said that he has left everything in God’s hands after the Oyo state government early Sunday morning demolished...

NEC Constitutes Committee on Police Decentralisation 

  The National Economic Council (NEC) presided over  by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, has approved the constitution of a committee to be headed...

Anti-corruption fight must follow due process, says 36 governors 

Governors under the auspices of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), have called for the examination of the national income in the last 14...

Bimbo Daramola and the pursuit of a working society

By Femi Soneye [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he development trajectory of any nation is determined by the level of commitment and resolve by the leadership and the...

Journalists suffering corrosive effects of government surveillance

Jones Abiri, editor in chief of the Weekly Source newspaper was on Thursday released from detention in Nigeria, after over two years behind...

Governors in crucial meeting over minimum wage, NASS invasion, election timetable

Alarmed by the grim prospects of election-timetable change by the National Assembly and the contentious issue of minimum wage implementation, governors under the auspices of...

Nigeria Police Detain Journalist for Not Revealing Source

Samuel Ogundipe, an investigative reporter for Premium Times, was arrested and detained on Tuesday after officers of the notorious SARS said he refused...

National Assembly cannot reconvene – Saraki, Dogara

The Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Tuesday morning asked legislators to go about their...

Dauragate and the shame of a nation by Reuben Abati

The week that just passed will for long be remembered as perhaps the most momentous week in the history of the Muhammadu Buhari...

Nigeria at risk, as over 100 million electric vehicles hit global market by 2030

    As global demand for PMS, diesel drops As long as Nigeria fails to develop its gas sector as ‘transition’ fuel, it...

Adams Oshiomhole’s thug behaviour unseemly for a ruling party chairman

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has taking a dig at the controversial National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole,...