Abuja – Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation (N-Power scheme), says the scheme has successfully verified 175,000 applicants as at April. Imoukhuede said this at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja. He said the N-power portal was blocked initially due to cases of fraud ranging […]

Police in Amsterdam are on high alert after the Manchester attack with large crowds set to gather outdoors to watch Wednesday’s Europa League final between Ajax and Manchester United.

Abuja – Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation (N-Power Scheme), has advised N-Power volunteers to be more productive to build the confidence of state governments to gain permanent employments. Imoukhuede gave the advice in Abuja. The scheme is meant to recruit graduates as teaching assistants, agriculture extension and primary […]

LAGOS—Fake and substandard products worth over N450 million were, yesterday, destroyed by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, at its dumpsite in Epe, Lagos State.

At a private party recently, I sat behind a table with two women who were having a loud and indiscreet conversation about a friend of theirs who was having an affair with a married man. They mentioned the man by name, as well as several details about his life. Suddenly, it dawned on me that I knew him – he is married to one of my closest friends.

Three important documents released in the past week – respectively from Nigeria’s federal government and two by respected international NGOs, Chatham House and OXFAM – separately offer important insights into why the present effort to fight corruption in the country is stuck in a mire. Together, they offer a more coherent synthesis of how fighting […]

THE Lagos State Government has justified the continued delay in the commencement of National Home Grown School Feeding Programme in the State, seven months after the Federal Government kicked off the programme in other listed states.

China’s Tianjin Quanjin appear to have shut the door on a rumoured megamoney swoop for Chelsea’s Diego Costa or any other “excessive” spending, amid a government crackdown on high-priced foreign imports.

The Labour Party, LP,has said the Chibok schoolgirls were not kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents, but were used to dent the image of former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, saying the wrath of God will visit those who manipulated Nigerians with the incident.

Barely 10 days after the release of ‘For Life’ a song currently topping charts across the African continent, Runtown has decided to bless his fans with the official video of the song.