The Lagos State Government has commended the distinguished Senator representing Lagos Central Constituency, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, for pushing the need for Lagos State to be recognized and rewarded with a Special Status and Grant into the forefront of national discourse even if the import of that request is lost on a number of her colleagues.

THE National Assembly has summoned President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before the Senate and House of Representatives.

Emerging Nollywood heartthrob, Chinemerem Emmanuel Ijesa, has countered insinuations in some quarters that his soaring profile in the film industry will certainly make him the desire of many Nollywood actresses.

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is set to become the next head of the United Nations after he emerged on Wednesday as the favoured candidate among UN Security Council members.

IT was a rumour within government circle until the Nigerian-richest-African; Aliko Dangote, made it public, to wit – selling of Nigeria’s national assets as the quickest and surest way of coming out of this economic national disaster called recession. Following the stand of Dangote on the sales of the nation’s vital assets, was the most […]

A US flight was evacuated prior to takeoff when a passenger’s Galaxy Note 7 — reportedly a replacement in Samsung’s global recall — caught fire, landing the company in new controversy.

Poland’s majority right-wing parliament on Thursday rejected a near-total abortion ban after women staged massive nationwide protests.

Fellow citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, sometime in a 1783 House of Commons Speech, William Pitt the Younger, stated albeit instructively and rightly that “necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”

As the U.S. presidential candidates lay out competing visions for the country, I have been thinking about a topic they have not yet discussed in detail: what political leadership can do to accelerate innovation. Innovation is the reason our lives have improved over the last century. From electricity and cars to medicine and planes, innovation […]

FIFA president Gianni Infantino confirmed in an exclusive interview with AFP on Thursday that he backs expanding the World Cup to 48 teams, giving “more of a chance to more teams”. Infantino believes “a fundamental point” for an expanded finals would be to have it co-hosted “by several countries”. He also declared himself “quite happy […]

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has admitted to being “extremely surprised” and “very sad” at the affair that ended Sam Allardyce’s brief reign as England manager.

US presidential candidate Donald Trump has pledged to bring long lost American manufacturing jobs back from China. But he may be too late — even for products that bear his family name.

The White House accused Israel of a betrayal of trust Wednesday, in an unusually sharp rebuke over its plans to build hundreds of new settlement homes deep in the West Bank.

Math, like religion, requires a lot of emotions; and since I discovered this, I have changed my tactics

ON the lips of many Nigerians across the country are lamentations and tales of woe as hardship occasioned by the prevailing wind of recession bites harder. Apart from feeding, a host of the citizenry, who spoke to Vanguard, said they are finding it difficult to meet other basic needs of life.