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Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter One of the missing Chibok girls has been reportedly found in Sambisa forest, a report has said. Amina Ali Nkek, who is the first missing girl to be rescued from Sambisa forest since their capture two years ago, was said to have been found by activists who spoke with […]

Annual inflation in Nigeria quickened to a near six-year high of 13.7 percent in April, in part due to rising petrol and electricity prices, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday, stoking expectations of another rate hike. Nigeria’s worst economic crisis in decades has been driven by a sharp drop in oil prices that […]

The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), Mr. Sam Saba, was abducted by unknown gunmen who were dressed in military uniforms along Kaduna- Abuja road on Monday night. A highly placed source told our source that Saba was flagged down by the kidnapers around 8p.m. and the bureau chairman stopped for them, thinking the […]

The chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, said Wednesday that he would go ahead with the trial until uncertainties over organised labour’s strike are resolved. Cross-examination of prosecution witness, Michael Wetkas, is continuing today with Paul Usoro, a counsel to Mr. Saraki, doing the questioning. Mr. Saraki is already at the tribunal […]

he Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court has ordered the federal government to justify the detention of  Sambo Dasuki,  former national security adviser (NSA), in one day. The court also ordered Dasuki to state his case against the government in one day. The presiding judge of the regional court, Friday Chijioke Nwoke, gave […]

One of the over 200 girls abducted by terrorist group, Boko Haram, from the Chibok Girls Secondary School in Borno state in April 2014  have been found and identified. The Chibok girl, presumably, was rescued by members of the Civilian JTF, a paramilitary force that assists the military in the fight against insurgency in the […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has  clarified why former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has not been repatriated to face the corruption allegation preferred against her. According to the anti-graft agency, it is waiting for the conclusion of the corruption case she is facing in the United Kingdom (UK), before she would […]

Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Joe Ajaero-led faction of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) that had planned to commence an industrial action, on Wednesday, to protest the liberalization of the petroleum downstream sector, which led to a new fuel pump price of N145 has been Commended for not going ahead with the earlier planned […]

Mr Joseph Anchor, The Nasarawa State Head of Service (HoS), has announced the State Government’ s plan  to reverse it’s decision to cut salaries of the state civil servants by 35 per cent. The HoS said that the decision for reversal was taken following a successful meeting with the organised labour in Lafia, on Wednesday. […]

Despite threats by the Nigerian government, the Nigeria Labour Congress has vowed to continue the strike it embarked on, Wednesday. The intent of the industrial action is to force the government to reverse its decision to increase Petrol pump price to N145 per litre. Nigerian Labour Congress, which made  its position known in a statement issued, Wednesday, […]Read More

Not long ago we pointed out that the second tech bubble had officially burst, and the extent of the layoffs is increasingly significant. It’s taken a few months, but the economic slowdown and downshift in the once bustling Silicon Valley jobs front has now worked its way into the real estate market. As Bloomberg reports, […]

The European Commission is looking to tax video streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime to fund the production of European movies and TV programs Politico is reporting. In addition to the tax, at least 20% of their catalogs must be European productions. On-demand-video streaming services would also have to ensure that at least […]