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Obafemi & HID Awolowo: Their untold love story (Part 1)

Why did Chief Obafemi Awolowo describe HID, his wife, as a jewel of inestimable value? Here are the reasons By…

Christmas: Lagos crashes rice price, fixes N13,000 for a bag

The Lagos State Government on Thursday said it was ready to roll out Lake Rice on December 15 to Lagosians…

Unpaid Allowances: We didn’t know Falcons would win – FG

The Federal Government on Thursday gave a new insight into its inability to pay the allowances of the Super Falcons,…

Eid-el-Maulud: FG declares Monday public holiday

The Federal Government has declared Monday, Dec. 12, 2016 as public holiday to mark the Eid-El-Maulud celebration. The Minister of…

Jealous wife slashes husband’s lover’s breast with razor

A housewife, Taye Akinbolade, 28, has been charged before an Okitipupa Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State for allegedly slashing the…

Revealed! Looters cause recession by keeping money at home – Banker

A banker, Mr Sesi Adebiyi, on Thursday said Nigeria’s economic condition was a consequence of the activities of keeping money…

Ghana opposition calls on president to concede defeat

Ghana’s main opposition party on Thursday said it had a strong lead in elections and called on President John Mahama…

Breaking: Senate fails to screen Magu for EFCC chairmanship

The Nigerian Senate on Thursday failed to screen the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu.…

AWCON: SERAP drags FG, NFF to UN over unfair treatment of Falcons

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the UN Working Group on the issues of discrimination against women…

Gov el-Rufai sponsoring Fulani herdsmen to massacre Southern Kaduna natives – Senator

Senator Danjuma Tella Laah representing Kaduna South Senatorial Zone has accused Governor Nasir el Rufai of Kaduna State of sponsoring…

Breaking: MPs back government’s Brexit timetable

The British Member of Parliaments, MPs have voted to back the government’s plan to start formal talks on Brexit by…

Ogun govt marks Senator Adeola’s house for demolition

The politics of 2019 has begun to rear up in Ogun State as the State Government has marked the Ilaro…

43 passengers dead in Pakistan plane crash

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight with more than 40 people on board has crashed in the north of the…

Wike, PDP behind killings in Rivers State – Amaechi

With three days to the December 10 re-run elections in Rivers State, former governor of Rivers State and Minister of…
President Bola Tinubu, congratulates management and staff of THISDAY Newspapers on the 30th anniversary of the publication

THISDAY sacks 76 workers

*As staff demand payment of salary arrears After owing staff salaries ranging from 10 to 17 months, THISDAY Newspapers Limited…

Buhari swears in new INEC commissioners

President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in the newly-appointed Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The swearing-in was conducted…

BREAKING: Court dismisses Buhari’s suit against AIT

Justice John Tsoho of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday struck out a defamation suit filed last year…

Ghana votes in hotly contested presidential elections

Ghanaians started lining up at voting stations on Wednesday to elect a president and parliament, in polls dominated by a…

No mercy for Nigerian drug convict in Cambodia

A Nigerian drug convict in Cambodia, Precious Chineme Nwoko has had his hope for reprieve dashed. Nwoko, also known as…

Oyo sacks 662 workers for certificate forgery

The Oyo State Government has sacked 662 workers for certificate forgery and removed 2,021 fictitious names from its payroll. Soji…

Breaking: Nigeria Police releases names of new recruits

Names of successful applicants into the Nigeria Police Force in the just concluded recruitment exercise have been released by the…

Buhari presents 2017 budget to National Assembly nextweek

President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2017 budget proposal to the National Assembly on Dec. 14. This is contained in…

Police arrest kidnappers who murdered Dangote employee

The Nigerian police said they have arrested three of the kidnappers who murdered one of the employees of Dangote Group…

Female professor caught in exam malpractice suspended

The University of Jos (UNIJOS) has suspended one of its academic staff who was allegedly caught cheating while writing an…

Security man kills co-worker, cuts his body into pieces

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 28-year-old man, Haruna Abubakar who allegedly killed his colleague, cut him into…

Customs intercepts container of Jollof Rice, Yam Porridge, Egusi from India

The Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted a 20ft container of “READY TO EAT FOODS’’…
Patrick Akpobolokemi

How ex-NIMASA boss, Akpobolokemi converted N4.5bn to US dollars- Witness

A star witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Adamu Usman Yusuf, Monday told a Federal High Court…

FG bans importation of vehicles through land borders from 2017

The Federal Government has banned the importation of vehicles into the country through land borders. In a statement on Monday…

Jimmy Carter got me my Green Card, I never applied for it-Soyinka

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka on Monday disclosed that he never applied for an American Green Card and that it…

Dangote’s liaison with kidnappers murdered, body dumped in gutter

Istifanus Bello Gurama, a senior strategist with Dangote Industries Limited, who was reportedly kidnapped three weeks ago, has been murdered.…