Gunmen killed as many as 30 people in raids on five villages in northeastern Nigeria early Sunday said to be caused by tensions between local herdsmen and farmers in the area, according to a resident.
Nigerians watched a tipsy Olamide bring the Grammy awards of Nigeria (yimu) ‘The headies’ to ridicule as he disgustingly pulled “off” a Kanye West on stage because his YBNL ‘rookie’ Kesh (whose lewd songs are […]
A crisis is brewing in the All Progressives Congress over appointments into boards of federal agencies and parastatals. The PUNCH gathered in Abuja on Sunday that the dispute over the appointments was partly responsible for […]
NIGERIA plans to create a $25 billion fund with public and private financing to modernise infrastructure and avoid a recession.
Embattled PDP spokesman, Olisa Metuh who is standing trial for allegedly collecting N400 million from ex NSA, Dasuki’s office has been dealt with another blow in court today in Abuja.
IF the militants who sabotaged crude and gas pipelines in Delta State thought that by their action, they would succeed in brow-beating the Federal Government into bargaining amnesty with them and awarding them contracts for […]
Childhood obesity is reaching alarming proportions in many countries with 10.3 million African children under five years overweight or obese, according to a report by the World Health Organisation’s Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity.
Managing Director for Programme Development and Technical Cooperation Division of the United Nation International Development Organization (UNIDO), Philippe Scholtes has announced a $2.6 million support fund for rural electricity programme in Nigeria.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is due to arrive in Italy for the first leg of a European trip during which he is expected to sign major business deals.
A suspected drug addict arrested by the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Command has disclosed that he made over N300, 000 monthly from begging in Ikeja. Kehinde Olatubosun, 56, from Ibadan, Oyo State, […]
In a bid to generate revenue for deposit money banks, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced a maintenance fee on current account transactions. This was revealed in a circular signed by Kevin Amugo, […]
Before Nigeria became independent, the British colonial masters organised a series of conferences in Ibadan and London to enable the elites of the various regions and socio-cultural divides to negotiate and agree on the terms […]
I take the title of this essay from a passage in one of 20th century’s most controversial, if seminal, novels. Chinua Achebe called the author of Heart of Darkness “a thorough-going racist.” He might be […]
The Naira exchange rate has suffered severe battering in recent times and fallen from about N160 to the present N197=$; indeed, since our national experience defines a close correlation between deepening poverty and weakening Naira […]
I truly do not like it when I have to write about an issue in our country and I have this déjà vu feeling that I already wrote about it in the past. That has […]
Nigeria increased this year’s budget deficit forecast by 36 percent after oil prices fell below the $38 per barrel benchmark set by Africa’s top producer. The gap will increase to 3 trillion naira ($15.1 billion), or […]
The Federal Government said it had commenced the review of laws guiding the privatisation and concession of public assets in the country. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, stated this in […]
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to lift the foreign exchange restrictions it placed on 41 items, saying the measure was no longer necessary, […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed fresh 22 charges against an ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, and 12 others. The charges, which were filed on Friday at a […]
ABUJA — The Federal Government, weekend, hiked the price of Household Kerosene (HHK) to N83 per litre from N50 per litre, thereby, officially ending subsidy on the product. The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA , […]
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