NIGERIA imported 146.14m litres of gas representing 47% of total national consumption during the first three months of 2019 from the US and five other countries despite the nation having the world's ninth largest reserves.
NIGERIAN-born former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Oluwafemi Joshua has triggered his rematch clause with Mexican Andy Ruiz Jr to whom he lost his titled last weekend setting up a rematch in either November or December this year.
NIGERIA is expecting the authorities in the UK and US to release the $211m seized from a bank account owned by former military dictator General Sani Abacha in the Channel Island of Jersey yesterday to the federal government.
(1) I have always maintained that the first step towards making Nigeria a better place is to elevate the level of thinking of its people. So long as our immediate priorities are the accumulation of private wealth, going to heaven, building churches and mosques in each street corner, enjoying owambes, amassing SUVs, throwing lavish parties in Dubai and celebrating our ethnic differences, we will remain an impoverished people
MEN of the Niger State Police Command have arrested a 30 year old man and intend charging him to court for murder after he killed his wife for threatening to marry another husband after he died.
FORMER Zamfara State governor Abdulaziz Yari has been expelled from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the party goes through a blood-letting upheaval in response to its recent loss of all elective positions within the state.
SEVEN soldiers including a battalion commander have been reported missing after Boko Haram sacked two Nigerian Army bases in Borno State carting away combat equipment in a raid that is believed to have left one troop dead.
GOVERNOR Abdullahi Ganduje is contemplating appointing an acting emir of Kano to replace Lamido Sanusi Mohammed after the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission accused the monarch of misappropriating N3.5bn ($9.4m).
NIGERIA'S Flying Eagles have been knocked out of the ongoing U20 World Cup in Poland after suffering a 1-2 loss at the hands of Senegal last night despite dominating possession and having loads of scoring chances.
(1) As we celebrate Eid-al-Fitr, can we please pause for a second and actually think about the concept of heaven which underpins the doctrines of Islam and Christianity. Nigerian adherents to these two faiths are so passionate about going to heaven but appear not interested in replicating the idea of heaven on earth. I for one simply cannot get my head around that discrepancy
NIGERIA imported 146.14m litres of gas representing 47% of total national consumption during the first three months of 2019 from the US and five other countries despite the nation having the world's ninth largest reserves.
NIGERIAN-born former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Oluwafemi Joshua has triggered his rematch clause with Mexican Andy Ruiz Jr to whom he lost his titled last weekend setting up a rematch in either November or December this year.
NIGERIA is expecting the authorities in the UK and US to release the $211m seized from a bank account owned by former military dictator General Sani Abacha in the Channel Island of Jersey yesterday to the federal government.
MEN of the Niger State Police Command have arrested a 30 year old man and intend charging him to court for murder after he killed his wife for threatening to marry another husband after he died.
FORMER Zamfara State governor Abdulaziz Yari has been expelled from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the party goes through a blood-letting upheaval in response to its recent loss of all elective positions within the state.
SEVEN soldiers including a battalion commander have been reported missing after Boko Haram sacked two Nigerian Army bases in Borno State carting away combat equipment in a raid that is believed to have left one troop dead.
GOVERNOR Abdullahi Ganduje is contemplating appointing an acting emir of Kano to replace Lamido Sanusi Mohammed after the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission accused the monarch of misappropriating N3.5bn ($9.4m).
NIGERIA'S Flying Eagles have been knocked out of the ongoing U20 World Cup in Poland after suffering a 1-2 loss at the hands of Senegal last night despite dominating possession and having loads of scoring chances.
