Business mogul, Mr. Tony Elumelu, has expressed displeasure over the worsening state of the country.
He asked: How can a country so rich in natural resources have 90% of its citizens living in hardship and poverty?
Elumelu, in a string of...
Prof. Adebayo Bamire has emerged as the new Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State.
The appointment of Prof. Bamire was announced by the Chairman of OAU Governing Council, Owelle Udoji, on Thursday.
Udoji said that Bamire, a Professor of...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested Kelechi Vitalis Anozie, a suspect on the watch list of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Anozie is the Founder of Praying City Church located in Owerri, Imo State.
He was...
A gas tanker has exploded at the Ijora Badiya area of Lagos State.
It was gathered that the gas tanker exploded at about 1:30p.m. on Thursday at Ijora Pallete Junction beside Lagos State Homes Estate, Ijora Badiya, Lagos.
An eyewitness disclosed that...
An Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada, Abuja, on Thursday sentenced a 19-year-old student, Hillary Yunana to four months imprisonment for stealing spaghetti and indomie from a shop.
The convict, a resident of Bassa village, along airport road, Abuja, was charged...
The Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) efforts towards actualising $200 billion in Foreign Exchange (FX) repatriation from non-oil exports over the next five years have been given a major boost by Fidelity Bank Plc.
The leading financial institution recently held...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua, has described the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration as a “complete failure”.
Afegbua said President Buhari has over the last seven years of his administration thrown Nigerians...
Nigeria’s public debt as at December 2021 is N39.55 trillion, the Debt Management Office (DMO) has disclosed.
Patience Oniha, the Director-General of the DMO, said this on Thursday, while addressing newsmen on the country’s debt situation.
Oniha said that the amount...
For the third time, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has restructured the sub-committees for the March 26 National Convention.
Its returned chairman, Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State on Thursday dropped four governors, 10...
Russia, on Thursday, warned the U.S. that Moscow had the might to put the United States in its place and accused the West of stoking a wild Russophobic plot to tear the country apart.
Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president...
