Forbes: Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett still top the world’s ultra rich
Jeff Bezos remains the world’s richest person, ahead of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, according to the latest Forbes list of the ultra-wealthy. But while things are largely stable up top in that ranking, Facebook…
Tribunal reserves ruling on Atiku Abubakar, PDP’s request to inspect election materials
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has reserved ruling on the ex parte motion by candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23, presidential election. Atiku Abubakar, and his party…
BREAKING: Amaechi backs AAC guber candidate in Rivers
The leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State and the South-south zone, Rotimi Amaechi has declared his support for the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Awara Biokpomabo.…
I will do more in second term, Buhari vows
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday pledged to work harder to consolidate on providing security, improving the economy, creating jobs, fighting corruption and upgrading infrastructure in the country. He spoke at the…
Lagos Governorship: How Igbos should vote – Ohaneze Ndigbo president
The president-general of the Igbo socio-political group, Ohaneze Ndigbo, John Nwodo, has distanced the body from the endorsement of the candidature of Babajide Sanwo-Olu as governor by the Lagos State chapter of the…
Anthony Joshua signs multi-fight deal with US network
IBF world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has signed a multi-fight deal with US network Showtime as he looks to make a name for himself across the Atlantic. Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn announced the news at a press…
Lagos… The Moment… The Man…
God in the moment makes things happen beyond ourselves. Progress is a road that forever extends itself the more we travel it. It never ends but continues to urge us forward. Genuine progress weds the finer aspects of…
37 political parties back Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in Kwara
Not less than 37 political parties in Kwara state on Wednesday openly declared support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in the March 9th governorship election.…
Atiku Abubakar faces uphill task at tribunal – Olisa Agbakoba
National Intervention Movement Co-chairman, Dr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), on Wednesday said Alhaji Atiku Abubakar faces an uphill battle to overturn Presidential Muhammadu Buhari’s victory at the Election Petition…
EFCC arrests Custom’s boss impersonator
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested one Azeez Yakubu Afolayan for impersonating the Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) and using his name to…
Atiku Abubakar unaware of GoFundMe accounts – Spokesman
Hours after several crowdfunding accounts were set up for the People’s Democratic Party’s presidential candidate for the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, his spokesman, Paul Ibe, has said he is unaware of the…
EFCC releases PDP chieftain Tanimu Turaki
Mr. Tanimu Turaki, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). A source in the anti-graft agency confirmed this on Tuesday.…
INEC to conduct rerun election in five federal constituencies in Lagos
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would conduct rerun elections in five local governments and six federal constituencies in Lagos State. Speaking at a parley with newsmen in Lagos, the…
South South APC lobbies President Buhari for Senate Presidency
The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-South zone has expressed its interest in producing the next senate president in the incoming National Assembly. In a statement issued Tuesday by…
OZEKHOME: Fanning The Embers Of Disunity And Subjugation Of The Igbo Race
On February 27, 2019, lawyer and activist, Mike Ozekhome, wrote a piece under the headline, 'Buhari's skewed view of the Igbo race.' On face value, the piece seemed to advocate the cause of the Igbo race, but a…
Ghosn leaves jail in workman’s disguise
The cameras had been massed outside a Tokyo detention centre for hours waiting for the shot, but when ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn finally emerged, he was in disguise and almost unrecognisable.The first hint that something was…
BREAKING: Court disqualifies Taraba APC governorship candidate
The Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo on Wednesday disqualified the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Taraba State, Alhaji Sani Abubakar Danladi, from participating in the election on…
Eight months after World Cup, stranded Nigerians, others face deportation from Russia
In a cramped apartment on the outskirts of Moscow, Lamin has little more than the clothes and the Bible he brought with him when he came to Russia on a temporary World Cup visa last summer.The 23-year-old Gambian shares the…
Military school attended by Trump conceals his grades — Report
A military academy that Donald Trump attended as a teenager concealed his academic records in 2011 in response to pressure from Trump allies, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.The New York Military Academy came under such…
Buhari will decide who becomes Senate President — Omo-Agege
The senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege says President Muhammadu Buhari will be actively involved in the process of selecting the next leader of the Senate.Speaking to the News Agency of…
Obesere, others defect to APC
Popular Fuji musician, Abass Akande, also known as Obesere on Tuesday defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State.Also, the candidate of the Democratic Party of Nigeria for the…
JUST IN: UK threatens visa ban on politicians who incite violence on social media
The British High Commission says those who incite electoral violence on social media could be denied access into the United Kingdom (UK). In its call for credible, peaceful elections on 9 March, the high…
Court remands prophetess for allegedly swindling company of N1 billion
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday, ordered that a prophetess, Linda Mabi-Praise, accused of swindling a company to the tune of N1 billion, be remanded in Kirikiri Female Prisons, pending when she perfects…
EFCC seeks forfeiture order on General Ozigi’s N426m
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has prayed the Federal High Court in Lagos to order Brig Gen John Ozigi to permanently forfeit to the Federal Government a total of N426.704,820.88 found in the accounts of a firm,…