For peddling illicit drug at a motor park, a Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the remand at the Ikoyi prisons of a 21-year-old commercial vehicles ticket seller, Rilwan Olaleye. Justice John Tsoho ordered the remand of the accused, after he pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of drug trafficking preferred against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

SPECIAL Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Political Matters, Chief Charles Idahosa says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held the instrument of rigging elections in the country since 1999, saying therefore that the party’s persistent attack on the judiciary and the Presidency over tribunal rulings were uncalled for.

By Egufe Yafugborhi WARRI – NIGERIA should expect more hard times and the country will continue to get poorer as long as fuel subsidy persists and crude oil theft proving intractable. Babajide Soyode, an engineer came to this conclusion in a paper he presented at the 45th annual national conference of the Nigerian Society of […]

Head coach of the national under-23 male football team, Samson Siasia, has picked 26 home-based players for the pre-Africa U-23 Cup of Nations’ training camp in Morocco. According to a list released on Tuesday in Abuja by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the 26 players were picked from the 35 players earlier invited to camp.

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote typifies the new “African lions” whose business empires are winning a competitive edge over foreign multinationals because of their better grasp of local markets. “In emerging markets, there is no substitute for on-the-ground experience,” said a report released Tuesday by the US-based Boston Consulting Group, called “Dueling With Lions”.