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Nigerians have been enjoined to gird their loins and embark on spiritual exercises to avert imminent danger ahead of the 2019 general elections. Renowned prophet and Founder, Evangelical Church of Yahweh Worldwide, Primate Theophilus…

I was walking down to the store on the ground floor at my new plaza in Garki II to get a bottle of water, and I saw this young girl hawking grand nut . She brought her tray down to sell. I walked pass her just when she was raising…

Paddy Adenuga, who is the son of billionaire businessman, Mike Adenuga, is in the news again. This time however, he is not posting thrilling and inspiring tales of his life’s journey so far, instead he is telling anybody that cares…

Libya national football team arrived Nigeria yesterday for Saturday’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Super Eagles. The game is scheduled to kick off 4pm Nigerian time, at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium.…

A lady who was sacked from work after a failed romance with a customer has called out the Nigerian housewife whose husband she failed to seduce. According to the sacked lady, the Nigerian housewife initiated her sack and her husband who…

Forbes Africa, a major global research firm, has rated Nigeria as the 2018 best economy in Africa, beating South Africa, Egypt and others. According to Forbes, Nigeria came top with…

President Muhammadu Buhari is expecting the resignation of the Minister of Communications, Alhaji Adebayo Shittu, over his failure to participate in the mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps scheme, Saturday PUNCH has…

About 20 senators and 252 members of the House of Representatives may not return to the National Assembly in 2019, investigations by Saturday PUNCH have revealed.Majority of the affected lawmakers are members of the ruling All…

Real Madrid yesterday said they are taking legal action against Correio da Manha after the newspaper in Portugal published a story alleging that the Spanish Primera Division club obligated Cristiano Ronaldo to pay off Kathryn Mayorga…

More than 1.5 million incidences of household crime recorded in South Africa in 2017/18 period, an increase of five per cent compared to the previous year, the Victims of Crime Survey (VOCS) said on Thursday. In the financial year…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed Lanre Issa-Onilu as its new national spokesperson. The appointment was made Friday evening by the National Working Committee of the APC in Abuja. Although a formal announcement is…

Jim  Yong Kim, World Bank President, has said the organisation was wrong to have advised Nigeria, and Africa as a whole, to focus on investing in hard infrastructure than in human capital. Speaking at the International Monetary Fund…

The Federal Government said yesterday  it is intensifying efforts and enlisting the support of international community and friendly governments to secure the release of Leah Sharibu and others in captivity. Information Minister Lai…

Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, on Friday said that he has been under intense pressure to defect from the All Progressives Congress (APC) with his supporters. Yari, who is the Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF)  spoke…

The Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property (SPIP) has  recovered over N4 billion and $7 million cash as well as physical assets believed to have been illegally acquired, its chairman, Mr Okoi Obono-Obla,…

Activist lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has said that it is the right of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to support any presidential candidate of his choice. Reacting to his recent endorsement of the presidential candidate of the…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo is lobbying US authorities to withdraw the entry ban reportedly placed on Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In 2017,…

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says he picked Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra state, as his running mate for 2019 elections, because he has a vast knowledge of the economy. In a…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has questioned Kola Ologbondiyan, the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over his change of assessment of Atiku Abubakar, noting that he had once indicted the 2019 PDP…

The Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Friday picked former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, as his running mate in the 2019 general elections. It was gathered that Mr Atiku made the choice…

Nigerian singer, Olawale Ashimi, popularly known as Brymo, has accused the North and the South-West of playing "ludo" with the Nigerian polity since 1960. He has also queried the zoning of the presidency to the North by some political…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday signed an executive order directing Nigerian taxpayers to voluntarily declare and pay tax on their offshore assets. The new executive order No. 8 is tagged Voluntary Offshore Assets…

President Muhammadu Buhari has promised that his administration must render accounts of what comes into the coffers of government as well as what goes out.President Buhari who stated this on Friday when he received the leadership of…

In what can be described as a response to the fourteen (14), posers raised by the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation, was on Friday disclosed to newsmen by the Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Bashir…