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Tiger Woods has won a PGA Tour event for the first time in over five years after victory at the Tour Championship. The 14-time major winner’s triumph at Atlanta’s East Lake Golf Club was his 80th on the PGA Tour and his first since August 2013. Woods finished 11-under par for the weekend, two strokes […]

The US ambassador to the UN has urged Iran to “look in the mirror” for the causes of an attack on a military parade that killed 25 on Saturday. Nikki Haley said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had “oppressed his people for a long time”. She was responding to Mr Rouhani’s fierce criticism of the US, […]

Anthony Joshua, British boxer, has beaten his mandatory challenger, Russia’s Alexander Povetkin by a knockout in the seventh round, to keep hold of the WBA, (Super) IBF, WBO and IBO belts. Joshua born by Nigerian parents, beat the Russian at the Wembley Stadium on Saturday night, to hand the Russian, his first knockout defeat in […]

The British Deputy High Commissioner in Nigeria, Laure Beaufils, has, over the weekend, disclosed that the UK government will spend about 47. 4 million pounds on Deepening Democracy in Nigeria Programme Phase 2 (DDiN2), saying that the DDiNs is a programme funded under the Department for International Development (DFID), arm of the Commission and is geared towards […]

Nigeria’s foreign debt currently stands at $22.08 billion according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The bureau puts domestic debt at N3.48 billion. The NBS in the Nigerian Domestic and Foreign Debt Q2 2018 report released in Abuja shows that $10.88billion of the debt is multilateral and $274.98 million is bilateral. Multilateral debts are debts owed by developing countries […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday announced the takeover of Skye Bank by a bridge bank, Polaris. Here, Premium Times brings you 10 basic things to know about the entire process and future expectations: 1. Skye bank’s operating licence has been withdrawn The Central Bank of Nigeria has withdrawn the licence of the […]

A woman opened fire with a handgun on Thursday at the warehouse where she worked in the eastern US state of Maryland, killing three people and wounding another three in the country’s latest mass shooting, police said. The suspect — a 26-year-old who was not identified — died after shooting herself in the head, Harford […]

The Nigerian government on Wednesday announced immediate suspension of its widely publicised national carrier, two months after it was unveiled at an international air show. Hadi Sirika, Nigeria’s aviation minister, made the announcement shortly after the cabinet meeting on Wednesday afternoon. He later posted the announcement on Twitter. “I regret to announce that the Federal […]

A controversial new study has been published that claims that they have DATA to prove, that African American men are prone to cheat on their wives. In addition to gender and age, the study shows that the infidelity rate changes based on a number of other demographic and social factors. The study claims to find […]