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Nigerian superstar musicians, Wizkid and Tiwa Savage have been filmed having a great time with each other as they heat up the dating rumors. For quite sometime now Wizkid and Tiwa Savage have fueled speculations that they are an item as…

Cleveland’s LeBron James, known for bouncing back stronger from playoff losses, promises such heroics Sunday in the NBA Finals after what he calls one of the toughest defeats of his career. Defending champion Golden State opened the…

Lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District, Senator Ali Ndume, tells LEKE BAIYEWU about the insecurity in Nigeria, Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East and the crisis in the Senate T he Senate recently met with the…

Nigerians who rue President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure will not like to read this. But he might have the least challenging path to re-election for any incumbent in recent history. For a president who has polarized Nigeria more than any…

The new excise duty for alcoholic beverages and tobacco earlier approved by President Muhammadu Buhari will take effect from Monday, June 4, 2018, says the Federal Government. The News Agency of Nigeria recalls on Sunday that the…

The Director, Strategic Communications for President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 presidential campaign, Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), faults the Peoples Democratic Party’s allegation of Federal Government’s clampdown on the opposition, in this…

Former Appeal Court President and Pioneer chairman of the independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (lCPC) Justice Mustapha Akanbi who died early Sunday morning has been buried. The son of the late octogenarian,…

The Lagos State Pension Commission (LASPEC) said Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, has paid a total of N37, 546 billion to pensioners since 2015. According to a statement signed by the Director-General of LASPEC, Mrs Folashade…

An economist, Dr Chijioke Ekechukwu, says the naira will gain strength against the dollar when the Nigeria -China currency swap takes effect. Ekechukwu, a former Director-General, Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry,  expressed the…

Super Eagles’ Head Coach Gernot Rohr on Sunday in London released his final list of players for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, with minimal surprise. The squad, since being pruned to 30 last month and subsequently to 26 last…

Former Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Elder Godsday Orubebe is bidding his time to respond to the barb aimed at him last week by President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari, speaking at this year’s Democracy Day lecture in Abuja, said he…

A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Abia State and  Director-General of the Buhari Southeast Youth Movement (BUSEYM), Engr. Nwabueze Onwuneme, has declared support for Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s emergence as the…

Mrs Ibidapo, who did not want her real name used so as not to antagonize U.S. embassy officials, said her visa was abruptly revoked by the United States Embassy in Lagos, for no reason after she was invited to the embassy and told to…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the administration was on the right path in improving Nigeria’s business environment and diversifying the economy. Osinbajo made the submission in an interview with the Financial Timess,…

*Chief of Staff to Governor Ahmed, Personal Assistant, Arrested.The Police Force headquarters in Abuja has invited the President of the Senate and number 3 man in the country, Senator Bukola Saraki to answer questions relating to what…

On Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari, and a team of young Nigerians, led by Samson Itodo, made history, as the Not Too Young To Run bill was signed into law by the nation’s number one citizen. Young Nigerians, on and offline, went…

Three Nigerians have been discovered dead in their flat in Uttam Nagar area of New Delhi, India. Quoting India’s The Hindu newspaper, NAN reports that the Nigerians were found dead on Friday. The police were said to have recovered…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti says it has suspended its gubernatorial campaign earlier scheduled to kick off on Monday. The suspension came as the state police command released the report of Friday’s shooting incident…

Two Nigerian-born pharmacists have been indicted by a US court for being involved in the illegal distribution of addictive drugs. Enitan Sodiya-Ogundipe, 42, and Abiodun Fabode, 56, were said to have conspired with Amir Rafi, another…

Ahmed Kuru, managing director of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), says it will release the list of all the debtors in July. While addressing journalists on Friday, Kuru said 5,000 debtors have gone into hiding.…

President Muhammadu Buhari expressed fears yesterday that the opposition in the country has stupendous resources at its disposal in preparation for the 2019 elections which the ruling All Progressives Congress , APC, may not be able to…

 A Nigerian woman has lost her job a week after criticising Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, on Twitter. In the July 5, 2017 tweet, Bolouere Opukiri described then-Acting President Osinbajo…

Opeyemi Bamidele, the erstwhile federal lawmaker from Ekiti State who was shot on Friday, has undergone surgery and is now recuperating at a hospital in Ado Ekiti. Bamidele, a chieftain of the opposition All Progressives Congress…

Photos have emerged from the wedding of the late Dora Akunyili's daughter to her Canadian husband in Anambra. We reported earlier that Mrs Chidiogo Akunyili, the daughter of the late Dora Akunyili, was back in Nigeria to get married…