NIGERIA is pinning all her hopes of coming away with a medal at the ongoing International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) meeting in London on 100 metre hurdler Oluwatobiloba Amusan and the 4x400m women's relay team.
ACTING president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has reiterated that Nigeria is a country open to free enterprise and sent out a challenge to international investors warning them that if any of them are indeed serious about Africa they have to come to the country.
SENATORS working on Nigeria's railway network have expressed confidence that the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge railway line currently being constructed will create about 7,000 jobs and help stimulate the local economy.
MEMBERS of Nigeria's House of Representatives voted to pay out a sum of N6.1bn ($16.6m) for the purchase of brand new Peugeot 508 cars to be distributed to each of the 360 of them as part of their perks of office.
FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has warned that Nigeria is now facing the real threat of genocide similar to what happened in Rwanda in 1994 given the tense atmosphere created by the ultimatum given for Igbos to leave the north of the country.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's supporters have inaugurated the southwest office of his campaign organisation involving the appointment of six coordinators for each of the six states in the geo-political zone.
RESULTS from a recent DNA search into the ancestry of Igbos has debunked the myth that Ndigbo are Jewish in origin or are one of the 12 lost tribes of Israel as has been claimed by several nationalist groups.
POLITICAL leaders from across southern Nigeria have invited their northern counterparts to sit down and agree to negotiate a return to the 1963 republican constitution or risk seeing the country descend into irreversible chaos.
FORMER petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has forfeited a $37.5m Banana Island estate she bought in 2013 to the federal government after a Lagos high court ordered that the surrender it.
In a case brought against Ms Alison-Madueke by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the federal high court ruled that the estate was purchased with public funds. Vacation judge, Justice Chuka Obiozor, made the order today, ruling in favour of the EFCC motion.
HUNDREDS of Nigerians gathered to celebrate the first-ever D-Blaze Entertainment Awards (Dbema) in London over the weekend that saw the handing out of honours to 24 artists who have excelled in the UK diaspora community.
NIGERIA is pinning all her hopes of coming away with a medal at the ongoing International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) meeting in London on 100 metre hurdler Oluwatobiloba Amusan and the 4x400m women's relay team.
ACTING president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has reiterated that Nigeria is a country open to free enterprise and sent out a challenge to international investors warning them that if any of them are indeed serious about Africa they have to come to the country.
SENATORS working on Nigeria's railway network have expressed confidence that the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge railway line currently being constructed will create about 7,000 jobs and help stimulate the local economy.
MEMBERS of Nigeria's House of Representatives voted to pay out a sum of N6.1bn ($16.6m) for the purchase of brand new Peugeot 508 cars to be distributed to each of the 360 of them as part of their perks of office.
FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has warned that Nigeria is now facing the real threat of genocide similar to what happened in Rwanda in 1994 given the tense atmosphere created by the ultimatum given for Igbos to leave the north of the country.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's supporters have inaugurated the southwest office of his campaign organisation involving the appointment of six coordinators for each of the six states in the geo-political zone.
RESULTS from a recent DNA search into the ancestry of Igbos has debunked the myth that Ndigbo are Jewish in origin or are one of the 12 lost tribes of Israel as has been claimed by several nationalist groups.
POLITICAL leaders from across southern Nigeria have invited their northern counterparts to sit down and agree to negotiate a return to the 1963 republican constitution or risk seeing the country descend into irreversible chaos.
FORMER petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has forfeited a $37.5m Banana Island estate she bought in 2013 to the federal government after a Lagos high court ordered that the surrender it.
HUNDREDS of Nigerians gathered to celebrate the first-ever D-Blaze Entertainment Awards (Dbema) in London over the weekend that saw the handing out of honours to 24 artists who have excelled in the UK diaspora community.
