GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwoolu us facing a challenge to his bid to get re-elected as the Lagos State chief executive after Wale Oluwo an associate of former governor Akinwunmi Ambode submitted his nomination form.
Yesterday, Mr Oluwo submitted his N50m governorship form to the headquarters of the All Progressives Congress (APC)...
Ayo Akinfe
Given that there are 200m Nigerians with about 50% of them being 18 and over, we should have a 20-year plan to build 40m housing units over the next 20 years
Of these 40m, the federal government will build at least 5m housing units in Abuja and Lagos each
All 36 state and the 774 local...
SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has challenged Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State to facilitate the return of 500 youths arrested in by security services across the state and taken to Abuja.
According to Ipob, many of the arrested youths were nabbed for doing nothing other than being supporters of...
NIGERIA continues to reel from the effects of violent insecurity as armed bandits struck again yesterday attacking Abuja from the Suleija-Zuma axis in Niger Stare in a bloody attack that left six soldiers and two officers dead.
On Monday, armed bandits attacked an Abuja to Kaduna train, killing some passengers and abducting...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari slipped back into Abuja last night unnoticed after spending a two week medical vacation in the UK where he met with his doctors over an undisclosed health condition.
Earlier this month, President Buhari flew into London for what his spokesman Femi Adesina said would be routine medical checks that...
FORMER Imo State governor Senator Rochas Okorocha has had one of his Abuja properties seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after an Federal Capital Territory high court gave the agency interim forfeiture rights.
Earlier today, the court ordered the interim forfeiture of the property in response to an...
CHELSEA winger Callum Hudson-Odoi has agreed to play for Ghana when the Black Stars lock horns with Nigeria's Super Eagles in a World Cup play-off next month after former Brighton manager Chris Hughton convinced him to make the switch.
Hudson-Odoi, 21, has represented England three times at senior level but is eligible for a...
HUNDREDS of Muslims joined their Christian brethren in Kaduna for Christmas church services as part of a communal programme aimed at promoting peace and religious tolerance across northern Nigeria.
More than any other state in Nigeria, Kaduna is split 50:50 between Muslims and Christians but of late, has been the scene of...
NIGERIA and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have finally resolved their aviation dispute that has resulted in the federal government reinstating its approval for Emirates Airlines’ winter flight schedule consisting of 21 weekly passenger flights into the country.
Last year, Nigeria barred Emirates Airlines from operating in...
By Ayo Akinfe
Last year, Rotimi Amaechi was in China to look at the railway carriages being built. He will take delivery of 20 coaches but alas, this is nowhere near good enough. Nigeria cannot continue to be an eternal consumer. No economy has ever grown when it operates that way
Mr Amaechi needs to tell the Chinese that they...
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