Only one percent of Kenyan government spending can be properly accounted for, according to a report by the country’s auditor-general released just days after US President Barack Obama warned corruption was holding the country back.

Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Tuesday said that his administration would create enabling environment for the financial capital market to thrive.

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that the process of healing and reuniting will begin as the party scaled one of its major hurdles.

The Nigerian Army said the sporadic shooting heard around Damaturu metroplolis on Tuesday was due to an action of one of its soldiers.

FUEL is any material used to produce heat or power by combustion and that includes diesel, gas, premium motor spirit, otherwise called petrol or gasoline; fuel oil materials from atomic energy, aviation fuel and rocket fuel. In Nigerian parlance however, fuel is synonymous with petrol so this discourse will be limited to PMS. Fuel to Nigerians is petrol.

Former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Sir Shridath Ramphal, on Monday, described the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as promising.

SPEAKER Yakubu Dogara of the House of Representatives yesterday succumbed to pressures from his All Progressives Congress, APC, and named Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila House Majority Leader, and by that, drew the curtain on the lingering crisis that has trailed the chamber since its inauguration last June.

The question on everyones’ lips would be, why is she thinking about Mikel Obi. Surely, Mikel Obi’s girlfriend Olga’s eyes would pop out at the headline. Seriously, this is all about his dwindling career.

ABA—A middle-aged man, identified as Chucks from Imo State, has died after consuming 20 sachets of gin in a N500 bet with a woman.

Former Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, who is the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Elders Committee in his native Bayelsa State in this interview, reviews contemporary political developments in the state and affirms that the alliance between the North and Southwest will never benefit his Ijaw people. He also narrates how late President Umaru Yar’Adua saved his (Alamieyeseigha’s) life among other issues. Excerpts…

Shortly after the August 1983 military coup that brought a 40-year-old Muhammadu Buhari to power, he received a phone call from a top personnel in the United States Army. General Smith was the Commandant of the U.S. War College from which General Buhari graduated in 1980. The school’s 1979 set had graduated its first Nigerian, General Wushishi, who was the Chief of Defence in the just ousted Shehu government.

By Eric Ugbor ABA—Man, identified as Jacob Nwachukwu from Abala in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, has cut off his wife’s left hand over allegation of infidelity. The man’s wife, Mrs Nwadiokeonu Nwachukwu, is now at a hospital in Aba, while her severed hand had been taken to her husband’s village at Abala for […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, expressed regrets over the non-payment of teachers’ salaries by states, saying it was unfair.

After spending six years at Ikoyi Maximum Prison, Lagos, a 27-year-old man, Ogaga Feja, has been re-arrested by police in Lagos for robbing motorist at Mile 2.

FROM the central parts of Nigeria are gory tales of wanton killings that should elicit shock and urgent action from all Nigerians. Indeed a sizeable part of the area has for years remained a killing field where hundreds of lives have been wasted, no thanks to the frequent clashes between local farmers and nomadic Fulani herdsmen. In fact, no week passes without media reports of fresh attacks resulting in the killing of several innocent individuals, especially women and children.