Members of the Pan Yoruba Socio-cultural group, Afenifere, on Tuesday held a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun, over the 2019 polls.

The IOC confirmed Tuesday it would announce the host city of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Lausanne on June 23, 2019.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut the growth projections made for Nigeria to 1.9 percent from 2.1percent, saying the country’s economy is doing poorly.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Tuesay, said it has revoked the licence of Garu Microfinance Bank, a microfinance institution in Bauchi state.

One is a former UN official and deputy a governor of Nigeria’s central bank. The other is an ex-World Bank vice-president who now campaigns for the release of Boko Haram kidnap victims.

Nikki Haley abruptly resigned Tuesday as the US ambassador to the United Nations, in the latest departure from President Donald Trump’s often shifting national security team.

Google on Tuesday launched a new version of its connected speaker with a touchscreen display designed to be a hub for smart home devices but without a camera for privacy reasons.

Bottom-of-the-table Huesca sacked Argentinian coach Leo Franco on Tuesday in what was La Liga’s first managerial dismissal of the season.

Super Eagles and Enyimba International goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa has said that he is fit and will be part of the invited players in camp for the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) Qualification double header against Libya on October 13 and 16 despite growing concerns of the injury he picked up in his team’s Aiteo Cup quarter final loss to Kano Pillars last Sunday.

AFTER winning the women’s singles title of the Lagos Open Futures, Pranjala Yadlapalli has set her sights on claiming the top prize in the ongoing Futures 5 holding at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan.