Rivers state government has started the process of creating 10,000 jobs for unemployed youths through the expansion of agriculture projects, Gov. Nyesom Wike, has said. Wike made the announcement in a statement issued by Mr Simeon Nwakaudu, his Special Assistant on Electronic Media made available to newsmen on Monday.

Former Bayelsa Governor, Timipre Sylva, has denied reports he has 48 houses in Abuja

I recently broke with my boyfriend of three years. A nice and generous man, he was very insecure and kept on asking if he satisfied me on the few times we made love.

Here is the 2016 Ibrahim Index of African Governance.

The index is now in its 10th year and has published this year’s table along with figures showing how countries have fared over the decade measured (2006-2015).

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has said that his absence at the launch of the book written in honour of President Mohamamdu Buhari was informed by late arrival of his formal invitation.

The Delta Police Command has confirmed the abduction of one Mrs Rukky Eneru by unknown gunmen in Uvwie Local Government Area.

AND, sadly, it came to pass. It is well predicted that most countries blessed with natural resources, even in the best of times, perform worse economically than countries not so endowed; and that, when times are tough, countries that are dependent on natural resources come to an assured grief. There is a popular name for this strange but common condition: resource curse.

WHENEVER I look back at the last thirty years of selling our national assets and privatisation, I see a litany of lies, cathedrals of falsehood, labyrinths of trickery, monuments of treachery, systematic asset-stripping and serial deception.

Are we really serious about looking inwards to get Nigeria out of the economic recession? How serious are we in achieving the much-touted diversification of the economy? What policies do we have binding all arms and departments of government to ensure that goods that can be manufactured in Nigeria are no longer imported from foreign […]

Book launch on Prtesident Buhari

Donal J Trump has declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, records obtained by The New York Times show.

THE police in Lagos State have arrested a 36-year-old man, who says he is a cook, for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl in Ijaye area of the state.

WARRI—FIRE, yesterday, razed property worth N50 million in Kolokolo Quarters of Enerhen, Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State.

By Henry Umoru & Joseph Erunke ABUJA – FOLLOWING the current hardship being experienced in the country occasioned by the ongoing economic recession, the National Assembly has said that a total of eight bills already passed were on hand to be forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari for presidential assent. Special Adviser to the Senate President, […]

Three Nigerians living in India were arrested at the weekend for various offences, with two of them remanded in prison after being charged with fraud.