The National Industrial Court, Abuja, has fixed Friday for ruling in a suit between the striking members of Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors ( NARD) and the Federal Government, as they agreed to negotiate. The judge, Justice Bashar Alkali fixed the date, after listening to the parties’ counsel make their submissions which bordered on court […]

Make no mistake about it, the Igbo nation is embroiled in a struggle for freedom…

Romelu Lukaku scored his first Champions League goal for Chelsea as the holders started their title defence with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Zenit. In Champions League history, the trophy holders have only lost their first game of the subsequent campaign on two of 27 previous occasions. Although Chelsea limited Zenit to little going the other […]

By Temisan Amoye The news of the ongoing strike by members of the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, over irregular payment of salaries is one of many industrial strike actions that has come to plague the Nigerian labour market. Yet, the common denominator for these strikes across the labour organisations is rarely one that […]

 Police in Adamawa have confirmed the killing of seven people over allegation of witchcraft at Dasin Bwate village in Fufore Local Government Area of the state.

By Temisan Amoye, Europe is littered with numerous youngsters who have the potential to blossom into superstar household names. Unfortunately in football, talent is merely enough to have a successful career. For every Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappe who transitioned from highly-rated teenagers to world-beaters, you have the likes of Mario Balotelli, Bojan Krkic, […]

The Corporate Affairs Commission ( CAC) says it has no intention of reducing the commission’s workforce

President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday sworn Agom Jarigbe as a replacement for Stephen Odey

By Henry Umoru – Abuja President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday sworn Agom Jarigbe as a replacement for Stephen Odey. Jarigbe of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been having a legal battle with Steven Odey on who is the true candidate of the party for Cross River North. Jarigbe took an oath […]

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said headline inflation dropped  to 17.01 percent in August

By Agbonkhese Oboh Segun Dada is a popular face in theatres and TV series. ‘Shuga’, ‘Jemeji’, I Go Blow are some of them. But as Jaygo, Segun Dada clings to his fist love— music. Recently, he dropped a rash of singles that could be taken as an album, but Jaygo says: “It’s not an album […]

Allen Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, has empowered three outstanding students that partook in its 4-day youth empowerment project titled, Equipping the African Child for the 21st Century Realities, with pastry-making start-up equipment.

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB),   has approved a 50-million-dollar Trade Finance Unfunded Risk Participation Agreement (RPA) facility between the AfDB and the Standard Chartered Bank

Two friends appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday for allegedly stealing men’s shoes and sandals worth N225,000

Niger State recorded 100 cholera deaths from April to date  in the 25 Local Governments Areas, Dr Muhammad Makusidi,  Commissioner for Health has said