Indian giant Tata Steel announced Monday the sale of a major British steel division employing 4,400 people, as it formally placed the rest of its steel assets in the country up for sale.

The former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col Muhammed Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) triumphed at the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) Court in the first leg of his court action challenging his alleged unlawful arrest and detention without trial since December last year by the federal government. Against the objection of government, the Sub-regional court […]

Pirates off the coast of Nigeria have attacked a Turkish cargo ship, kidnapping six crew members in a region which has seen increasing piracy in recent years, a Turkish maritime news agency reported Monday.

The Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Harry Purwanto, on Monday said that the involvement of some Nigerians in drug-related offences was the reason many others were not being issued
visas to Indonesia.

A 59-year-old physically challenged man, Mr Olaiya Adeagbo, has pleaded with an Igando Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his 23-year-old marriage, accusing his wife of infidelity.

The Federal Government on Sunday denied media reports that the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram is demanding 50 million dollars from it as ransom before releasing the abducted Chibok school girls.

THE separation of religion from statecraft is predicated on the time honoured principle of protecting the fundamental rights of the citizens to practise any religion of their choice without let or hindrance. The secular nature of a state is further strengthened on the score that no religion is adopted as state religion and the founding fathers of Nigeria were very much aware of this and so adopted this model in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

WITH a population of about 53 million people and a GDP of close to 350 billion US Dollars, South Africa is considered as a buoyant economy. Additionally, as an emerging economy with requisite technological know-how, South Africa will by all means represent a suitable partner with Nigeria in our quest for growth and national development

IT may not be possible for a government to build industries across the state and turn the economy around within a short time of eight years. There are however quick-wins that a serious government can undertake to achieve stunning results to the acclaim of a famished people. In other words, there are opportunities that a government can exploit immediately they present themselves to boost the living standards of the people

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has fixed April 13 to hear a suit seeking to annul a portion of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, ACJA, 2015, which requires a defendant to deposit money for bail.

The crisis in the Bayelsa state chapter of the All Progressives Congress APC took another twist Sunday as a faction of the state executive committee of the party announced that the state governor, Seriake Dickson is scheming to join the party.

A major controversy appears to have surrounded the official trip of President Mohammadu Buhari to China as the presidency and ministry of finance gave conflicting information on the agenda for the meetings between Nigerian government and Chinese officials currently going on in Beijing, China.

Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has said he will never shy away from investing in Nigeria economy as his company, yesterday, performed the $1 billion ground breaking of Dangote cement plants at Okpella, Edo State.

Enugu—The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Igbo Youths Movement, IYM and the Igbo Women Association, IWA, yesterday denied the claim by the Department of State Services, DSS, that five northerners were killed and buried in a forest in Abia State, saying that it was a ploy by the Federal Government to engineer another round of mass killing of Igbo in the north.