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Cholera kills 14 people in Borno

Fourteen people have died of cholera in Borno state, with most of the victims living in a camp for people displaced by...

NNPC Crashes Petrol, Cooking Gas Prices Nationwide

The sustained strategic intervention of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in the efficient supply and distribution petroleum products has led to...

Heritage Bank partners FG, LASG on Diaspora Return in Badagry

Heritage Bank Plc has partnered with the Office of the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Diaspora and Foreign Affairs and...

Alleged corruption: SERAP asks Buhari to seek ICC arrest warrant for Diezani Alison-Madueke

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently “seek from the International Criminal Court an arrest warrant...

Lightning strikes hurt 15 people at French music festival

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t least 15 people have been injured, two of them seriously, by lightning at a music festival in the north-east of France,...

Why suspended Babachir won’t return as SGF

[dropcap]P[/dropcap]resident Muhammadu Buhari is set to announce that the administration is pursuing disciplinary action against suspended  secretary to the federal government Babachir Lawal....

Obama did not wiretap Trump during 2016 campaign, says US Justice Department

The Justice Department confirmed in a court filing there is no evidence that Trump Tower was targeted for surveillance by the Obama...

Eccentric Fayose fires chief press secretary in latest purge

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has fired his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi,  over “dereliction of duty, according to a statement by...

Beyonce Congratulates Serena Williams on New Baby Via Instagram

Serena Williams has reportedly welcomed her first child, a girl, with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian Friday (Sept. 1), and Beyoncé was ready...

Malia Obama Confronts Woman Who Stalked Her Outside Harvard Square

Former President Obama’s daughter Malia Obama is trying her best to blend in after arriving at Harvard University, but it’s not working....

Child flu vaccine ‘key to protecting older people’

By Peter Russell The UK’s evolving programme of vaccinating children against flu is being hailed as a vital tool in protecting older, more...

Trump asks Congress for $7.9 billion for Hurricane Harvey relief

[dropcap]P[/dropcap]resident Trump has requested $7.9 billion in emergency spending to help Texas and Louisiana recover from Hurricane Harvey’s winds and floods. The...

Buhari says Nigerians have the constitutional right to live, work in any part of the country

[dropcap]P[/dropcap]resident Muhammadu Buhari Saturday in Daura, Katsina State, said Nigerians have the constitutional right to live, work and raise their families in...

Presidency reacts to killing of Kingsley Ikeri by police in South Africa

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he death of Kingsley Ikeri, the 27 year-old business man and Nigerian citizen who was  killed last week by South African police,...

Caging the Demagogues in Our Political Space

By Jerome-Mario Utomi They were voted to provide good and qualitative leadership; elected to bring the nation’s economy out of the wood...

Ngige to continue leading FG-ASUU negotiations

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he minister of Labor & Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige is to continue leading the federal government, ASUU negotiations, according to a statement from...