The world may have long believed that Nigerian senators are the highest paid but there had been no internal confirmation until now. A Nigerian senator just bust the lid open on the amount he and his colleagues receive monthly in an effort to bring more transparency and accountability to...
Presidential aspirant Omoyele Sowore‘s campaign to raise $2million towards his ‘Take Back Nigeria Movement’suffered a setback on Wednesday.
GoFundMe has suspended his account.
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The federal government has said that the sack of Rex Tillerson by President Donald Trump of US from his position as secretary of state will not affect Nigeria’s relationship with US.
Tillerson visited Nigeria and met with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, March 12 before he was relieved of...
UK government ministers and members of the Royal Family will not attend the World Cup in Russia after a Russian-made nerve agent was used on an ex-spy. Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, are in a critical condition after the incident in Salisbury on March 4.
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Yobe State, said his administration’s prompt response to the abduction of 110 students of Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, was a clear departure from what he described as “the insensitivity of the past administration” that couldn’t do anything...
WORLD CUP 2018 Duro Ikhazuagbe Nigeria’s World Cup 2018 last Group D match against Argentina on June 26 in Saint Petersburg, Russia has been sold out. However, Super Eagles other two games against Croatia and Iceland did not receive such attention from fans going to be physically present in …...
Nigeria’s external debt rose to $18.91 billion (N5.787 trillion) as at the end of December 2017, while domestic debt rose to N15.937 trillion, bringing the total debt stock of the country to N21.725 trillion ($70.92 billion), data released wednesday by the Debt Management Office (DMO), has...
Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) Plc has recorded a net profit of N170.47 billion for the year ended December 31, 2017, sustaining a positive growth trajectory in spite of the tough macroeconomic and banking environment. The board of directors of the bank said it has recommended distribution of...
Investment A Chinese multinational company said it would invest over $100million in Nigeria and other African countries to boost the continent’s economy within the next three years. Making this known yesterday in Minna, Niger State, during the Longrich Minna Mega Business
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Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr, has listed national team players who will automatically make his team for the 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament in Russia.
They include captain John Obi Mikel, Victor Moses, Balogun and William Troost-Ekong.
“We have a few very experienced players, such as our...
Kebbi State governor, Atiku Bagudu has disclosed that rice production has risen from 5.7 to 17 million metric tonnes per annum in two and a half years. He made the disclosure to State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa.
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Smuggled rice Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, must by now have understood what it means to fight the rice mafia in Nigeria. For about a week now, he has been in the eye of the storm
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Stanbic IBTC Holdings has said its profit after tax for the year ended December 31, 2017 rose by 69.64 per cent. The Holdings Company’s result released on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), yesterday reviewed that on a year-on-year basis, Stanbic IBTC Holdings’ net profit witnessed a major...
UN investigators have said the use of Facebook played a "determining role" in stirring up hatred against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
One of the team probing allegations of genocide in Myanmar said Facebook had "turned into a beast."
About 700,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since...
Finland is the world’s happiest country, according to an annual survey issued on Wednesday that put Burundi at the bottom of the happiness index and found Americans were getting less happy even as their country became richer.
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Insecurity, prolonged cash call problems and the country risk among others may have made the ExxonMobil Corporation not to consider Nigeria for any of the 25 start up projects with which it intend to boost its production by
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President Rodrigo Duterte of Philiphines on Wednesday announced the withdrawal of the country’s ratification of the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“I therefore declare and forthwith give notice, as president of the Republic of the Philippines, that the...
Armed robbers have made away with over GH¢4000 after attacking a Mobile Money shop at Taifa, in Accra, Tuesday morning.
The terrified victim, Angela Adubea, told Joy News the robbers pulled out a gun and threatened to shoot her if she failed to give them all her money.
According to Adubea, she...
Noordin Mohamed Haji picked as new Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). [Photo: Courtesy] President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced more changes in his government by making key changes. Among the changes included naming of more Principal Secretaries, Chief Administrative Secretaries and...
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