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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) deserves to be deregistered for utter failure both as ruling and opposition party. The Minister said this at a press briefing in Lagos where he gave an update and clarifications on the released...

Nigerian music star, Kiss Daniel and his girlfriend, upcoming singer and actress, Chidinma Ekile have finally decided to come out of the closet with their romance. READ MORE HERE

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has reacted to the statement credited to elder statesman and former Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen TY Danjuma, who called for self-defense against Fulani herdsmen. Danjuma, while speaking on Saturday at the maiden convocation ceremony of Taraba sSate...

A heated debate has been sparked online after a White man was allegedly hired to play the role of Jesus Christ for Palm Sunday celebration at Munyonyo Martyrs Shrine in Kampala, Uganda. Palm Sunday is the start of the Holy Week and the day Christians celebrate the triumphal entry of Jesus into...

Seven Libyan returnees at the weekend recounted their ordeal in Libya before their rescue. They spoke in Abeokuta, Ogun State, at a session with former President, Olusegun Obasanjo during the maiden Youth Migration Summit themed “Curbing Youth Irregular Migration.” One of the victims, Ubong...

A legal practitioner, Dr. Charles Mekwunye, has asked the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, to restrain a telecoms operator, MTN, from listing its shares on the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) pending the determination of a suit filed against the telecommunication outfit and four others over alleged...

The Arewa Consultative Forum, the Northern Elders’ Forum and 16 other leading groups in the northern region, on Saturday, passed a vote of no confidence in politicians of northern extraction, saying most of them had failed. The groups, in a communique, said politicians from the region had...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the call by former Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (retd), that Nigerians should defend themselves against killers, is yet another testimony of the tragic situation which the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress...

Mr Lawal Ayoola, the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Scandinavia, has urged the Federal Government to take comments made by former Defence Minister, retired Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, on the nation’s security as a wake-up call. Danjuma had on Saturday at the convocation of...

Alhaji Sule Lamido is a former governor of Jigawa State and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)presidential aspirant. He speaks to journalists during his visit to the Lagos State chapter of the party on the state of the nation, his aspiration for the 2019 general elections, among others. Read...

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia state, Okey Adiaso, has said that there is no alternative candidate to President Muhammadu Buhari for the 2019 presidential election. Adiaso reacting to statement made by a northern group led by Ango Abdullahi against the present...

Contrary to speculation in some quarters, last Wednesday’s decision by the United States’ Federal Reserves to hike interest rates will have no significant impact on an emerging market such as Nigeria due to the country’s healthy foreign exchange reserves, New Telegraph’s investigations have...

Jumia, the pan African online retailer present in 14 countries, maybe put up for sale. The company’s owner, Rocket Internet, is reportedly seeking an IPO for the business with a listing of shares to the value of €200m ($246m). Rocket Internet is reportedly seeking to release cash by exploring a...

Recall that former Minister of Defence, T. Y Danjuma yesterday accused the Military of colluding with armed bandits to attack Nigerians.

This is not the best of times for a man who was forced to exhume the remains of his late parents in Imo state. According to reports, the man had to exhume the remains of his late father and mother buried years ago - due to the expansion of a highway by Imo State Government along Wheathral Road...

A 35-year-old commercial driver, Waheed Yusuf, married to two wives, paraded by the Ondo State Police Command for raping an undergraduate, weekend, said he will harm anyone who rapes any of his daughters. Waheed Yusuf Waheed, who has three children, blamed the devil for his act of raping a...

When you invest in stocks, you do not invest in the market (despite what you think). You invest in the equity shares of a company. That makes you a shareholder; you now own a small part of that business without having to go to work there Read more via Leadership Nigeria Newspapers –...

Nigeria will hold this year’s edition of Africa Islamic Finance Forum (AIFF). The event will be jointly organised by the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group, a statement from the...

Minister of Communications, Alhaji Adebayo Shittu, in this interview by Deputy Editor, Saturday Tribune, DAPO FALADE, speaks on the allegations levelled against him by his former media aide, Mr Victor Oluwadamilare. Your former media aide, Mr Victor Oluwadamilare, went on the social media...

A Dubai court yesterday sentenced a 61-year-old British journalist to 10 years in jail followed by deportation for bludgeoning to death his wife with a hammer last summer, local media reported. The Dubai Court of First Instance modified the main charge against Francis Matthew from premeditated...