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The home-based Super Eagles on Friday defeated their Libyan counterparts 1-0 in the ongoing African Nations Championship, keeping hopes of progressing to the next round alive. The Eagles got the winner in the 79th minute courtesy a Sunday Faleye’s goal. Nigeria temporarily move to the top of...

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has helped Partech Ventures launch a €100 million fund focused to largest venture-capital fund focused on digital-technology start-ups in sub-Saharan Africa. IFC’s €15 million equity investment makes it an anchor investor in the Partech Africa fund which...

Over the past few years Kenya and Nigeria have risen through the ranks in the technology space, booting South Africa out of its previously held. Innovations like Safaricom’s M-Pesa and Kenya’s Ushahidi and Nigeria’s fin-tech startup Interswitch, which is a few zeros away from unicorn status...

Samsung Electronics has said that one of the reasons for not establishing a manufacturing plant in Nigeria is because its market share in the country is not big enough. Sung Yoon, the Chief Executive Officer of Samsung Electronics Africa, made this known during an interactive session with …...

The Knights of Libya know that a point leads them closer to the round of 16 – but a point will make Nigeria’s Super Eagles desperate in their last group match against Equatorial Guinea. The equation is thus very simple – they need to beat Libya on … via Premium Times Nigeria –...

By Jacob Ajom Nigeria has been accredited to participate in 9 sports at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. This was disclosed by the President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, Engineer Hbu Gumel in an elaborate press conference held at the SWAN Secretariat, National Stadium...

Samsung Electronics has said that one of the reasons for not establishing a manufacturing plant in Nigeria is because its market share in the country is not big enough. Mr Sung Yoon, the Chief Executive Officer of Samsung Electronics Africa, made this known during an interactive session with...

Decries loss of dominance in regional blocs, seeks true federalism • Buhari congratulates former Commonwealth scribe at 85 Nigeria is now “more divided than it had ever been,” former Commonwealth Secretary General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has said in an exclusive … Emeka Anyaoku • via The...

THE federal government, 36 states and the 774 local government shared N6.2 trillion as statutory allocation funds in 2017. Money Vanguard analysis of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) monthly disbursement report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed that the...

National Chairman of the newly registered, National Interest Party (NIP), Eunice Atuejide, speaks in this interview on the party’s vision and the 2019 general elections, among other issues. FELIX NWANERI reports Now that your political association has been registered by the Independent National...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday came under attack for over his failure to attend the mass burial for the victims of the Benue herdsmen killings. President Buhari on Thursday shared a post on his official twitter page congratulating the winner of his 2017 greeting card competition. Buhari...

Worried by the continuous increasing influx of foreign retailers especially from Nigeria and China, Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has again called on its government to formulate stringent policies that will help promote local retailers’ businesses. The locals led by the Association...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has told President Mohammadu Buhari to declare Fulani herdsmen as terrorists. His position followed a series of killings of unarmed residents, mostly in rural communities, across the states in Nigeria by people suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. The...

Canvasses age limit for presidency By Emeka Mamah ONITSHA—CHAIRMAN of the Patriots, Prof Ben Nwabueze, SAN, has dismissed the war on corruption by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, saying it is a hidden plan to islamise Nigeria. Nwabueze said that the appointment of northerners...

From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja Before the beginning of the 2017, Nigerians at home and in Diaspora were full of expectations and optimism that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would fulfill many of the 2015 campaign promises it made to Nigerians after one and half year of excuses. They had … via...

The Nigeria Football Federation and the England FA have confirmed that the Super Eagles will play the Three Lions in a friendly at the Wembley Stadium in London on June 2. The match will be only the third between both countries at senior level. It will serve … via Premium Times Nigeria –...

Nigeria’s president on Tuesday blamed clashes between Muslim cattle herders and Christian farmers on the clamor for land in the face of a population rapidly approaching 200 million people. At least 83 people have been killed in the communal violence since Dec. 31. Muhammadu Buhari, … via...

Reacting to the incessant killing by Fulani herdsmen across the country, Comrade Mohammed Kudu Abubakar, Deputy National President of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum maintained that President Muhammadu Buhari should immediately pronounce herdsmen as a terrorist organization. Comrade Abubakar...

The Federal Government on Tuesday said that about N100bn had been discovered as tax revenue shortfalls by contractors between 2012 and 2017. The figure was given by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, in a statement issued by her Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Mr. … via...

Convertsial Blogger and daughter of one time governor , Kemi Olunloyo have been released from PortHarcourt max prison for the 3rd time in 12 months. The Journalist took to her Instagram page to share a video with caption saying… BREAKING I have been released from Port Harcourt maximum prison for...