WASHINGTON has recognised the victory of former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Professor Charles Soludo in the recently-concluded Anambra State elections calling his election credible.

NIGERIA'S finance minister Zainab Ahmed has asked for significant financial sector reforms that will enable the growth of Islamic finance in the economy as part of the search for investment capital required to develop infrastructure and boost manufacturing.

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has had his case postponed to January 19 next year after his lawyers boycotted today's hearing in protest over the fact that one of their foreign colleagues was not allowed into court.

NIGERIAN teenage sensation Tosin Olopade has agreed a two-and-a-half-year deal with English Premier League side Burnley putting paper to his first European professional football contract.

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NIGERIA'S National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) has set itself an ambitious target of vaccinating 40% of the country's  200m people before the end of 2021 and as many as 70% by the end of 2022.

WORLD Bank officials have lamented the fact that it costs more to move goods locally within Nigerian than to ship them around the US  as local shipment costs are some 5.3 times higher than they are in America.

NIGERIA has got the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to impose fresh sanctions against Guinea and  to maintain existing once against Mali over the decisions of their militaries to overthrow democratically-elected governments.

FORMER Emir of Kano and one time Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Alhaji Lamido Sanusi has returned to the classroom enrolling as a doctoral candidate in Islamic Law at the University of London in the United Kingdom.

SUPER Eagles goalkeeper Maduka Okoye is to become the next Nigerian international to feature in the English Premier League after Watford announced that it has reached an agreement with his Dutch club to purchase him during the January transfer window.