PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) chairman Senator Iyorchia Ayu has dismissed suggestions from Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and other opponents calling for his resignation ahead of the 2023 general elections.

NIGERIAN manufacturing output fell by a whopping 33.12 percentage points during the second quarter of 2022 when compared with the previous year according to statistics just unveiled by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has joined other world leaders in paying tribute to former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev who passed away yesterday describing him as a courageous reformer who will be remembered for years to come.

ANGLO-Nigerian central defender Oludare Olufunwa played his first competitive game for Liverpool last night featuring for the Reds in the Papa John's Trophy clash against Salford City at The Peninsula Stadium.

ANGLO-Nigerian central defender Oludare Olufunwa played his first competitive game for Liverpool last night featuring for the Reds in the Papa John's Trophy clash against Salford City at The Peninsula Stadium.

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AS many as six in 10 Nigerian medical practitioners intent to leave the country for greener pastures soon according to recent findings just published by the Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors (Nard).

AMERICAN carrier Delta Airlines has announced plans to discontinue its services between New York’s JFK airport and Lagos as from October 4 as part of a general scaling back of its operations along non-profitable routes.

NIGERIAN students have become the third largest foreign group in the UK behind India and China after a seismic 686% increase in the number of enrolments over the last three years following the end of the coronavirus pandemic.

Home Office figures reveal 65,929 Nigerian nationals were granted a sponsored study visa in the year ending June 2022. This represents a rise of 57,545 compared with 2019, when 8,384 such visas were given.

NIGERIANS in Diaspora Commission (Nidcom) chair Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has praised the country's diasporans for their ongoing contributions to the economy after recently-released figures showed that remittances for the first quarter of the year rose by 20.3%.

According to data just released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), remittances for the first quarter of 2022 rose to $5.16bn from $ 4.29bn during the same period in 2021.