Lionel Messi scored his first goal of the season as Barcelona beat Sevilla 4-0 on Sunday to climb into second place in the La Liga standings behind Real Madrid. The Catalans, however, ended the game with nine men as Ousmane Dembele and debutant Ronald Araujo were sent off. The victory saw Barca leapfrog Atletico Madrid […]

….Files for detention extension By Soni Daniel, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed court papers to confiscate a number of properties traced to the embattled former Chairman of the Pension Reforms Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina. At the same time, the anti-graft agency has filed another motion to get an extended order to […]

Trade Union is established by law–Ugbaja By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA—-THE Organized Labour yesterday denied knowledge of any splitted group in the ranks of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, declaring that there is only one ASUU recognised by law. President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba said that there have been […]

AS preparations for the November 2019 off-cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states pick up, the vexed matter of prohibitive and non-refundable expression of interest and nomination fees in the major two political parties – the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP – come back into focus.

Professor Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, political economist and 2019 Presidential candidate of the Young People’s Party, YPP, In this interview, outlines the challenges of Nigeria after 59 years of independence, and charts the way forward for the country.