The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday, re-arraigned former governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako‎, rtd, and his son, Senator Abdulaziz, before the Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged N40billion fraud.

Can Nigeria move to export-oriented agricultural production? Are there opportunities in agriculture? How can Agripreneurs move their business forward?   These are just some of the questions that will be discussed by the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh; Jason Drew, a farmer and eco-entrepreneur and Kola Masha, Managing Director, Doreo Partners, at the 2016 […]

PepsiCo Inc will announce today that by 2025 at least two thirds of its drinks will have 100 calories or fewer from added sugar per 12 oz serving, up from about 40 percent now.

A faction of Boko Haram which last week freed 21 of more than 219 Chibok girls kidnapped in April 2014 is willing to negotiate the release of 83 more of the girls, President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman said.

It’s an accusation common in Third World countries. But Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has borrowed it to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the U.S. election, saying on Twitter on Sunday that he believed the results were being “rigged” at many polling places.

James Turner, the 67-year-old Irish national based in Nigeria, has said he slept with no fewer than six other ladies. Turner is the man accused by his 31-year-old Nigerian girlfriend of deliberately infecting her with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV.

China launched its longest manned space mission on Monday, sending two astronauts into orbit to spend a month aboard an space laboratory.

WHEN the highly revered business tycoon, Aliko Dangote, suggested the sale of certain national assets as a precursor to economic resurgence, one had hoped that he was a lone wolf propagating a personal idea. Amazingly, nevertheless unsurprising, this proposal for the sale of national assets, particularly the government’s majority shares in NLNG, has received endorsements from the Senate president,

ABUJA—Apparently perturbed by the different shades of interpretations negatively trailing the recent press interviews by President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has said the public reaction was a joke taken too far.

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) says it will from next week, embark on a seven-day spiritual action over the country’s economic and social-political crises affecting the well-being of Nigeria.

Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, on Sunday, travelled to the United States to join 18 other northern state governors invited by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) for the Northern Nigeria Governors’ Symposium. According to a statement issued on Sunday by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communications to the governor, Dr. […]

In a move aimed at repositioning the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) to handle the insurance industry for better regulations, the Commission has reorganised its heads of Directorate.

BAYELSA State Government has expressed concern over the menace of oil spills and gas flaring perpetrated by multinational oil companies during exploration, saying that the state encountered over 1,000 oil spills in 2014.

The Federal Government has disclosed plans to raise a fund worth N1 trillion, in conjunction with private investors, to finance mortgages for low-income earners, under the social housing programme of the present administration.

AS preparations for the coronation of a new Oba of Benin intensify, the Crown Prince of Benin Kingdom, Eheneden Erediauwa, weekend, embarked on a symbolic wrestling bout with the Chief Priest of Okhuaihe shrine and the Ohen N’Ukoni Neyedo, Osarodion Usuanlele.