The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Thursday announced the formal commencement of the first phase of rehabilitation work to be carried out on the 210,000 barrels per day capacity Port...

The United States government has expressed  disappointment over the scale of irregularities which characterized the 2019 general elections in Nigeria. According to a statement reportedly sent to one...

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to correct the lapses he has encountered in his first tenure in office during his second term which begins on May 29.  Buhari gave the assurance on...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has fired back at the U.S. government over a report by the State Department criticising Nigeria’s anti-corruption efforts. The U.S. Bureau of Democracy,...

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that supplementary elections will be conducted in 18 states of the Federation on  March 23, 2019. This was revealed via INEC’s...

Mr Awal Yakassai, a retired director at the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, on Thursday, testified as  the second prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter...

James Harden on Tuesday night became the first player in NBA history to score 30+ points against all 29 opponents in a single season after he led the Houston Rockets to a 121-105 victory over the Atlanta...

According to data released on Tuesday by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the operating deficit recorded by the nation’s refineries rose by 39 per cent to ₦132.5 billion in 2018,...

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only man to lead the country since it emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s has resigned. In a televised address on Tuesday,...

The Lagos State Chapter of the People Democratic Party (PDP) has denied reports that its candidate in the just concluded governorship election in the state, Jimi Agbaje has dumped the party. According...

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Uguru Usani has said that but for the image of President Muhammadu Buhari, the ruling All Progressives Congress  would have since disintegrated. The minister stated...

The Coalition of United Political Parties has alleged that there are plans by some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to depose the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III and the Emir of...

A foremost traditional ruler in Kwara State, The Etsu Patigi, Alhaji Ibrahim Chatta Umar has died after a brief illness. The monarch, who died on Tuesday night in Abuja was buried on Wednesday by 2 pm...

The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says its candidate in the just concluded presidential election in Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar defeated incumbent president and candidate of the All...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dragged Justice Ekwo Inyang of the Federal High Court, Abuja to the National Judicial Council (NJC) for allegedly violating the country’s Constitution and Electoral...

The Nigerian Senate has just passed the new National Minimum Wage Act CAP N61 LFN (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill, 2019. The bill which was laid and presented by Senator Francis Alimikhena, sets the new...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission not to go ahead with its plan to collate, conclude and announce the results of the governorship election...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says despite the plans of violence and manipulations by the All Progressives Congress (APC), it will win all the governorship supplementary elections scheduled for March...

The United States-Nigeria Law Group, an election observer initiative has stated that most of the issues that troubled the 2019 general election were deliberately contrived to assist the ruling All Progressives...

No fewer than 100 people have died and hundreds of others are missing in Mozambique and neighbouring Zimbabwe after tropical cyclone Idai swept across the southern African nations with flash floods and...