Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 21:45
NIGERIAN kidnappers have released six Russian sailors who were abducted near the border with the Republic of Benin in January during an attack on the container ship MSC Mandy on which they were travelling.
Last month, pirates attacked the ship when it was near Benin’s territorial waters in what is becoming an growing trend off the coast of Nigeria. On January 2 when the attack took place, there were 24 people on board the ship that was flying the Panamanian flag, most of them Russians.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 10:37
IMO State's Governor Rochas Okorocha has warned Ndigbo that they need to apply tact and wisdom in dealing with the rest of the country or they will continue to lose out politically as he effectively starts his 2023 presidential campaign.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 20:13
PRESIDENT Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has appointed his wife Mehriban to serve as his deputy tightening his grip on the country’s leadership amid claims that he is planning for her to succeed him in office.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 18:08
NIGERIA'S minister of budget and national planning Senator Udo Udoma has disagreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over its forecasts for the Nigerian economy this year saying he believes it will grow by about 3.01% during the course of 2019.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 17:49
BOLLYWOOD actress and Arsenal fan Esha Gupta has written an apology letter to Nigerian winger Alex Iwobi expressing her remorse for the tasteless remark she made on her Instagram page comparing him with a gorilla.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 17:07
NIGERIA'S Coalition of United Political Parties (Cupp) has alleged that the federal government plans to force the embattled chief judge of Nigeria Justice Walter Onnoghen to resign from office at gunpoint.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 16:47
MEMBERS of the National Association of Nigerian Prostitutes (NANP) have held a rally in Abuja in support of the candidacy of former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar promising to moblise massive support for him in the forthcoming elections.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 16:27
GOVERNOR Akinwunmi Ambode has finally presented the 2019 budget to the Lagos State House of Assembly as the recent face-off between the executive and legislature ended following the intervention of All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 15:20
NIGERIA'S 2019 budgetary projections have got a slight boost as global crude oil prices have remained firm at $62 barrel thanks to a combination of factors including the political turmoil in Venezuela and Organisation of Petroleum exporting Countries (Opec) cuts.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 14:56
ALL Progressives Congress (APC) Imo State gubernatorial aspirant Senator Hope Uzodinma got a big boost to his campaign over the weekend when traditional rulers from the ancestral area of his main opponent Uche Nwosu endorsed his candidacy.
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