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Cristiano Ronaldo insisted again Wednesday that he did not rape a woman he met in a Las Vegas hotel in 2009 and that their sexual encounter was “completely consensual”, said his lawyer. “Ronaldo is forced to break his silence,” said the Juventus and Portuguese star’s lawyer Peter Christiansen in a statement released through Gestifute, the […]

The Muhammadu Buhari administration is stepping up the regulations on money laundering and tax evasion by releasing a new Executive Order tagged ‘Voluntary Offshore Assets Regularisation Scheme (VOARS).’ The new Executive Order (008) takes effect from October 8, the day it was signed by President Muhammadu Buhari. According to a spokesperson of Mr. Buhari, Garba […]

The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has begun earnest search for his running mate as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deadline for the submission of names of parties’ candidate expires on Monday. By the 1999 Constitution as amended and the Electoral Act 2010 as amended, no candidature is complete without […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that no part of the nation will be ignored under his watch. The president gave the assurance on Tuesday when he received a delegation from Cross Rivers State, led by Obol Ofem Ubana Eteng of Ugep, at the state house in Abuja. Also visiting him was a Muslim delegation led […]

Growth prospects in Africa are being held down by poor economic development in Nigeria, South Africa and Angola, the International Monetary Fund has said. The Breton Woods institution, which said this at the Annual General Meetings of the IMF/World Bank currently going in Bali, Indonesia, also revised downwards growth prospects for Nigeria in 2018 from […]

Oby Ezekwesili, presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), says former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar cannot orchestrate the change Nigeria needs to progress. Speaking during Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels Television, Ezekwesili said Abubakar,  who won the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not any better than the President Muhammadu Buhari. According […]

Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, says Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential election, is Nigeria’s incoming president. In a statement on Sunday, Uche Anichukwu, Ekweremadu’s special adviser on media, commended the party for the “transparent, free, fair, credible, and peaceful process”. He said the process that led to the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has defended his performance and that of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), since he rose to power in 2015. The President spoke about his performance in the early hours of Sunday at the national convention of the APC in Abuja after he was affirmed as the party’s presidential candidate. “We […]

China has confirmed it is holding the missing head of Interpol, Meng Hongwei. Beijing said he was under investigation by the country’s anti-corruption body for unspecified breaches of the law. Mr Meng, also a vice-minister of public security in China, was reported missing after travelling from the city of Lyon in France, where Interpol is […]

The Federal Government on Sunday said it would soon address the agitation for the upward review of the national minimum wage in a manner that will make workers and all Nigerians smile. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha, made the promise in his remarks at the 22nd Choir Anniversary of […]

Nigeria’s former minister of education and co-founder of the ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ movement, Oby Ezekwesili, has joined the growing number of candidates aiming to unseat President Muhammadu Buhari when Nigerians go to polls early 2019. Mrs Ezekwesili on Sunday emerged the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria. The party’s chairman, Ganiu […]

FIFA has suspended Sierra Leone from world football over claims of government interference. The suspension comes after FIFA sent a letter to the country’s Minister of Sports expressing “grave concern” about the removal of the football association president, Isha Johansen and the association’s General Secretary, Christopher Kamara. In a statement, FIFA said: “The Bureau of the […]

A former Vice President of the World Bank for Africa, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has formally declared her intention to run for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Ezekwesili made the declaration in a statement titled, ‘Why I am running for the Office of President’ and exclusively obtained by Punch on Saturday. She […]

The Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, on Friday said the Federal Government plans to spend huge sum of money on infrastructure upgrade at airports across the country. Sirika, who made this known during the opening of the Legend Hotel Lagos Airport Curio Collection by Hilton, at the Lagos airport, disclosed that the […]

The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, says Nigeria’s debt appears high because the country is currently facing a low revenue challenge. Mrs Ahmed, during a visit to the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Headquarters on Friday in Abuja, stressed the importance of improving revenue generation to enable Nigeria to achieve its economic objectives. “People have raised […]