The Federal Government has approved automatic employment in the Federal Civil Service of one graduate each from the families of the 10 corp members killed in 2011 post-election violence in Bauchi State. Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare disclosed this on Tuesday during the inauguration of the ...

  Leicester City hitman Jamie Vardy has joined the league of football club owners after investing in US-based team Rochester Rhinos according to the club. The 34-year old striker purchased a minority stake in the New York-based club, which has not played a competitive game for four years. The club ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has continued to come under attack since his statement that state governors should take re­sponsibility of security in their states. Responding to the president’s statement, governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, said it is unconstitutional for President Buhari to shift the power of securing lives and ...

  The Federal Government has said that Twitter rejected its demand to delete the account of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, made this known on “Politics Nationwide,’’ a Radio Nigeria call-in programme. He said it was unfair to ...

  Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, has said no president would tolerate what Nigerians are throwing at President Muhammadu Buhari. Ngige said Nigerians see Buhari as a “willing horse” to be ridden to death. Speaking on Channels Television, the Minister claimed that former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and ...

  The Oyo State Government on Tuesday said it has commenced evacuation of beggars in some parts of Ibadan, the state capital. The government noted that the evacuation of the beggars from the Jemibewon area to a resettlement facility in Akinyele started on Tuesday. Our correspondent learnt that beggars had ...

  Popular Nigerian playwright and renowned nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has warned President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigeria may not celebrates another Democracy Day, if the system of government is not decentralised by providing leadership that addresses the agitations and grievances of various groups of Nigerians. Soyinka who stated this ...

  During the commissioning of the 157 kilometers Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge railway for commercial operations at the Mobolaji Johnson Station in Ebute Metta and the Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure in Nigeria (also called the Deep Blue Project) at the ENL Terminal, Apapa Port, the National Leader of ...

  Former Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi has said no better youth to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari than Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. Mikel, who currently plies his trade with Stoke City, England made the remark during a courtesy call on the governor. The former Chelsea star said Nigeria ...

  Banky W says the youth in Nigeria can’t possibly protest all the problems in the country. In an interview with HipTV, the actor and musician spoke of the backlash that trailed the government’s Twitter ban. “It’s a shame that despite all the issues we’re facing as a nation, Twitter ...