Nigeria

CBN Forex Policy Boost Nigeria’s Stock Market to Top 3 World Performers For 2017

The majority of the best performing stock markets in 2017 are located in the emerging markets, with the exception of the United States...

Media reports Kachikwu ‘sought to embarrass Buhari’s administration with alleged fuel shortage memo

On Wednesday, some oil industry news outlets reported that Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, was ready to embarrass the...

It’s a bleak Christmas for cash-strapped citizens, says PDP

Christmas is bleak this year across Nigeria, with many families struggling to provide even a small celebration for their children, says the Peoples...

Ndoma-Egba, Tinubu echoes call for compassion in Christmas message

Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Distinguished Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba , urged Nigerians to follow Jesus Christ’s example of charity and...

Fuel shortages, inflation and long lines have Nigerians grumbling

[dropcap]N[/dropcap]igeria, a nation rich in oil, is grappling with fuel shortage that has enveloped the entire country, including the capital, Abuja, and the...

Four Shell staff bag Society of Engineers fellowship

Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo), Bayo Ojulari, and three other senior engineers with Shell companies in Nigeria have...

Dancing Nigeria Policewoman Becomes a viral Sensation

By Victoria Ayuwei, Per Second News As tensions deepen in some parts of Nigeria about SARS, a police woman has shown that police...

Murder: Military Court Sentences Soldier To Death, Others To Jail Terms For Killing 5 Civilians

By Amos Dunia, Persecond News Abuja – The General Court Martial (GOC), sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State has sentenced an Army personnel, Lance Corporal...

Buhari: Over 12m Farmers Join Rice, Wheat Revolution

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared the Administration’s Anchors Borrowers’ Programme a huge success, saying 12.2 million farmers have joined the rice and wheat...

FG set to issue debut Green Bond in domestic market

The Debt Management Office (DMO) has announced that, as part of the preparations towards the Issuance of the first Sovereign Green Bond, it...

Transcorp Hilton Abuja Wins Double 2017 World Luxury Hotel Awards

Nigeria’s Landmark hotel, Transcorp Hilton Abuja, has emerged the winner of two 2017 World Luxury Hotel Awards in the Best Luxury Contemporary Hotel...

Senate set to probe SARS brutality allegations

The senate voted on Tuesday to launch an investigation into alleged acts of brutality by  Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The move follows a...

MRA Inducts Standards Organisation of Nigeria into ‘FOI Hall of Shame’

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) was today named by Media Rights Agenda (MRA) as this week’s inductee into its Freedom of Information...

The Day in Pictures: Nigeria’s Ambassador to the U.S Sylvanus Nsofor, Wife

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]mbassador Sylvanus Nsofor and his wife at a reception at the Embassy of Nigeria, Washington, after he presented his letter of credence to...

Nigeria’s kleptocrats have a toxic love affair with London’s expensive real estate

Corrupt Nigerian government officials are increasingly exploiting weaknesses in the international financial system to launder and conceal their ill-gotten gains, often via high-end...

Group Accuses former Bayelsa governor Sylva of sponsoring smear campaign against NDDC leadership

Former governor of Bayelsa state, Timbre Sylva, is behind an audacious plot to further impoverish the people of the Niger-Delta for his own...