Details have emerged on the reasons the National Assembly changed the sequence of elections ahead of the 2019 polls. Some lawmakers who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES in confidence said negotiations that preceded the passage ended in...
The Murtala Muhammed Airport command of the Nigeria Police has confirmed the arrest of one Kunle Oni, a suspected thief arrested on an Abuja – Lagos bound flight on Saturday. Oni was caught stealing aboard Air Peace...
Former Nigeria coach Sunday Oliseh has been sacked as head coach of Netherlands’ second tier side Fortuna Sittard for what the club calls “inadmissible actions”. ‘Several attempts by the club to encourage a change in...
The United Kingdom branch of Christ Embassy, owned by popular Nigerian televangelist, Chris Oyakhilome, is broke and has been declared insolvent by the Charity Commission, the agency that regulates charity organisations in the country. The ministry...
Whatsapp has introduced payments to its messaging app in India, making it the latest service to let users transfer money to one another with a text. After the pilot in India, this peer-to-peer payment,...
Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo visited former President Goodluck Jonathan at his Otuoke residence in Bayelsa state on Friday. Seriake Dickson, governor of Bayelsa invited Obasanjo to the state to inaugurate some projects. After the...
The Fulani, a nomadic ethnic group with livestock-rearing (mostly cattle) as its economic mainstay, is today one group of Nigerians currently evoking both negative and positive emotions in the country. I do not envy...
The Nigeria Football Federation has formally unveiled the Super Eagles’ World Cup jersey designed by Nike Wednesday at a ceremony in London, England. The sportswear manufacturer presented the kits to the NFF at a...
The Nigerian Army said on Wednesday it would begin a major deployment of troops to the troubled states of Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa, Kaduna, Kogi and Niger to restore peace and orderliness. The exercise is...
Five men were, yesterday, arraigned at the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court for allegedly using social media to “lure, kidnap and rape” two women in Lagos. Gabriel Obinna, 20; Nnadozie Akabueze, 21;...
