British bank Standard Chartered was the first to roll out blind-friendly ATMs in 2012, but it was a far more limited roll out with only a handful of machines — and those have since been out of commission

The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Niger State has won all the 24 Local Government Areas Chairmanship positions in the election conducted on Saturday in the state.

The Committee for the Defence of Democracy (CDD) has raised alarm over an alleged plan by the federal government to arrest former President Goodluck Jonathan over allegations surrounding the purported $2.1 million arms deal.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, has condemned in strongest terms, the recent attacks on the oil and gas facilities across the state and called on all Deltans to cooperate with the security agencies to unmask the criminals behind the heinous crime.

Serena Williams Monday said she was stunned by the reaction to a Facebook post she made that went viral, comparing herself to Supergirl after chasing down a hapless telephone thief.

The Islamic State group may be losing ground in its strongholds of Iraq and Syria but as the attack in Indonesia this month showed, the jihadists are rallying other groups under their banner, analysts say. In most cases, these groups have no direct contact with the leadership of IS’s self-proclaimed caliphate, but the group is […]

The military, yesterday, invaded some Ijaw communities in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, with gunboats in search of militants, who carried out a three-day bombing of crude oil and gas pipelines in the state, from last Thursday.
This came as ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, wrote President Muhammadu Buhari, alleging that top members of his party, All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa and Delta states were responsible for the ongoing vandalization of crude oil and gas pipelines in the creeks of Delta state.

A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor Charles Soludo, has accused former President Goodluck Jonathan of running the apex bank during his presidency the way former Ugandan President, Idi Amin, ran his country.

LAGOS — Serving and former elected office holders on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, weekend, adopted resolutions to retool the former ruling party, including a decision to jettison the principle of zoning in the election of a new national chairman.

Lagos—The Alliance for Democracy, AD, has commended the anti-corruption programme of President Muhammadu Buhari noting that the pervasive influence of corruption has affected the political and economic development of the nation.

Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, weekend, in Benin, Edo State, reportedly arrested a leader of a gang of bank robbers, who usually disguised as a woman during operations.

ABUJA — Indications emerged last night that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has received some lead on how some of the indicted top serving and retired military officers looted the nation through fraudulent arms contract and direct diversion of funds meant for arms procurement.

Chief Mbazulike Amechi, Nigeria’s first minister of aviation popularly known as “The Boy is Good” etched his name in Nigeria political folklore when as a young political disciple of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe he used his body to stave off a knife attack on Azikiwe, Nigeria’s first indigenous governor-general and president. For his action, Azikiwe was said to have patted Amechi , saying in the hearing of all those around, ‘the Boy is Good,’ an epithet that subsequently stuck on Amechi.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has said that he may not reconcile his differences with the Esama of Benin, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, because the latter allegedly disrespected his office by seeing himself as bigger than the entire Edo State.

Political kingpins in Kogi State have gone back to the drawing board to reconfigure the state’s political positions following the final decision of the state’s Deputy Governor-elect, Hon. James Faleke to absent himself at next week’s inauguration ceremony.