With the continental finals of Africa, South America, and North, Central America and the Caribbean reaching a crescendo in the past month, the latest edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking has seen a number of significant changes. Unsurprisingly, the regional kings are some of the primary beneficiaries in the July update.

ABUJA—ON a day  the Senate made a U-turn on its vow to ensure thorough screening of all ministerial nominees, including former senators, there was an uproar in the upper chamber over the exclusion of an indigene of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja in President Muhammadu Buhari’s 43-man list.

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) says the exoneration of the present administration in the U.S visa restriction order imposed on a category of Nigerian politicians is an indication of President Muhammadu Buhari’s popularity in the comity of nations.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed, on Wednesday described the nation’s judiciary as one of the best in Africa. This came as there are reports that the CJN in an affidavit circulating on the social media said that termites destroyed his primary school certificate when his home in Bauchi was invaded in […]

With President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of 43 ministerial nominees, Nigerians have taken to their various social media platforms to air their views on the appointment and characters of those that made the list.

By Chinonso Alozie Owerri – The Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday continued the sealing off landed properties allegedly acquired by the immediate past governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorochas. Vanguard gathered in Owerri, that so far the properties were said to have allegedly acquired within his eight years in office. Some of which […]

THE Senate will today begin screening of the 43 ministerial nominees forwarded to it, yesterday, by President Muhammadu Buhari for confirmation.

The United States (U.S.) Department has imposed visa restrictions on Nigerians who were involved in trying to or undermined democracy in the concluded 2019 presidential and parliamentary elections.

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Tuesday made a wake-up call to the Yorubas, saying that Fulani Jihadist are seriously working to take over Yoruba land.

The Returning Officer (RO) for Essien Udim local government in the Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial district election, Dr William Olosunde, says he did not announce 61,329 votes for the APC as claimed by Senator Godswill Akpabio.

POLITICS of 2020 and 2023 played out, last week, in Akure, the Ondo State capital between two gladiators of the All Progressive Congress, APC.

Benue State tribal leaders, weekend described as reprehensible the directive by the National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, MAKH, Alhaji Saleh Alhassan, that herdsmen should defend themselves in any part of the county,  warning that it was an open declaration of war on Nigerians.

As the battle for supremacy between the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the governor of his home state, Edo, Mr Godwin Obaseki rages, immediate past National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has asked the party leader to stop disgracing the APC and the people of the state.

Leading Public Administration scholar, Prof Ladipo Adamolekun, in this interview on the state of the nation, identifies the relationship between poverty, insecurity, education deficit, leadership failure, weak economic growth, and population explosion. The former public sector management specialist at the World Bank, among other issues, proffers solutions to the herders/farmers conflict.

The African cup of Nations 2019 has come and gone but the circumstances that surround the victory of Algeria as the winner has emerged.