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The President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, and the Chairman of Globacom, Dr Mike Adenuga, top Forbes’ Africa Billionaires List released on Wednesday. However, Dangote saw his wealth drop by $2bn from $12.2bn in January 2018 to $10bn in 2019. But Dangote retained his position as Africa’s richest man for the eighth consecutive time. […]

Stooges of former Libya leader, Muamar Gaddafi, constitute the terrorists perpetrating evil acts in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. The bandits, who escaped from Libya after the death of their leader in 2011 took to terrorism, the brunt of which Nigeria and some other African countries are currently bearing, Mr Buhari added. Mr Gaddafi, […]

Mohamed Salah has again emerged as the African Player of the Year 2018. While the Egyptian is keeping the coveted award for the second time in a row, Nigeria’s Asisat Oshoala has been dethroned as the best female player on the continent. Last year, Salah, 26 , became the first Egyptian player to win the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Nigerians not to re-elect governors who failed in their first terms, especially those who failed to pay civil servants salaries even after collecting bailouts from the federal government. Mr Buhari, who is also seeking reelection on the platform of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), said Nigerians’ votes should […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has taken a swipe at those criticising him for alleged marginalisation of the Igbo. Buhari said despite getting low votes from people in the region during the 2015 elections, he had been impartial in his appointments. He spoke during an interview aired on Arise TV on Monday which was monitored by Punch […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has raised the alarm that some politicians have been buying up Permanent Voter Cards or inducing voters financially to collect the Voter Identification Numbers. The chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, raised the alarm on Monday during its quarterly consultative meeting with political parties in Abuja, where he presented the […]

The Nigerian government has reached an agreement with striking university lecturers, raising the possibility of ending the teachers’ prolonged industrial action. The national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU), Biodun Ogunyemi, said the National Executive Committee of the union will review its decisions based on the new commitment by the federal government. He […]

Pakistan’s national airline is cracking down on what it terms the “excess weight” of some of its cabin crew. A memo distributed to approximately 1,800 cabin crew working for Pakistan International Airlines says they have six months to slim down to required limits or face being grounded. The order, issued January 1, 2019, by Aamir […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja called on Nigerian youths to prepare themselves for political leadership as his generation will eventually quit the scene for the younger ones to takeover. Receiving the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing led by the Acting National Leader, Kingsley Dozie Lawrence, President Buhari described Nigerian youths as very active and critically […]

Police in California on Saturday said three people were killed and four were injured in a shooting at a bowling alley near Los Angeles. Sergeant Ronald Harris of the Torrance Police Department confirmed to AFP that officers responded at 11:54pm on Friday to reports of gunfire at Gable House Bowl. He added all seven victims were male. […]

The vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Peter Obi, has described the next presidential election as a battle between darkness and light. Speaking at Agulu, during a lecture organised by African Community of Transformers with the theme, ‘South-East Political Culture: Peter Obi as Paradigm Shift’, Obi said Nigerians have the opportunity now […]

Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says the integrity of President Muhammadu Buhari is legendary. Mohammed said this on Friday at the inauguration of those who will canvass votes for the re-election of Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. The event held at the Buhari/Osinbajo Project 2019 Office in Ilorin, Kwara state. The minister said Buhari leveraged […]

The Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, whose Maitama Abuja home had been besieged by the police in the last eight days, has handed himself over to the authorities. The lawmaker who last week told journalists he was out of Abuja when the siege began was apparently in the house. He opened the door of the […]