nigeria news 010418

There are strong indications that northern governors in the All Progressives Congress have withdrawn their support for the elongation of the tenure of the party’s National Working Committee. According to Sunday Punch it was gathered on Saturday that the party’s stakeholders were looking beyond...

The Presidency and the Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, have disagreed over what President Muhammadu Buhari went to do at the Eko Atlantic City during his two-day working visit to the state. Governor Ambode said in his official Twitter handle that the President went there to...

Miracle’s win might have been a reason to celebrate for him and his, but his counterparts couldn’t have been happy with his last minute victory. His sudden championing mimicked Lolu’s win last week. While everyone thought the game had ended and could have sworn Miracle had banked the Million...

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, has given the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, 48 hours to withdraw his statement against him or face litigation. According to the spokesperson for the PDP chairman, Mr. Ike Abonyi, who said...

Chief Justice of Nigeria [CJN] Justice Walter Onnoghen read the riot act to judicial officers when he declared recently that the National Judicial Council [NJC] under his watch would tackle corruption head-on and weed questionable characters from the Bench. Speaking at the opening ceremony of...

Paris Saint-Germain claimed their fifth consecutive French League Cup title as an Edinson Cavani double helped them ease to a 3-0 victory over Monaco in Saturday’s final at Bordeaux. The Uruguayan gave PSG an eighth-minute lead from the penalty spot after a lengthy delay for a video assistant...

Antonio Conte has stated that Alvaro Morata is ‘100 percent’ fit and ready to work hard for the remainder of the campaign, ahead of the Blues’ crucial Premier League showdown with Kane-less Tottenham. Chelsea are preparing to reignite their rivalry with Tottenham Hotspur today and Antonio Conte...

Still angered by the All Progressives Congress-led federal government’s labelling of it as a den of looters of the national treasury, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Saturday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to make public the accounts of his presidential campaigns in 2003, 2007, 2011 and...

Across the globe in modern democracies, face-off between the executive and legislative arms of government is not uncommon. Thus, it is not peculiar to Nigeria. In sane democracies across the world, the legislative and executive arms come into friction from time to time. But at the end of the...

Tragedy struck yesterday, in Agege area of Lagos , following a partial collapse of a story building at 9 Abeje Makaz street, which killed two persons. The deceased were 11 -year-old Sherifat Olalere and Toyin Ogundimu. Click here to read more

The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra on Saturday vowed to stop the Ohanaeze Ndigbo from holding its planned summit to discuss the restructuring of Nigeria. Describing the summit as “Fulani-sponsored Igbo summit”, the Biafra agitators said such a move was unacceptable. Click here to...